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Basic Trope: A character's first appearance onscreen is without a stitch of clothing.

  • Straight: Alice is naked in her debut episode.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Alice begins every episode she's in nude.
    • Alice first appears naked and stays naked for several episodes until she's finally shown getting dressed.
    • Alice is completely nude for the entire duration of the series.
  • Downplayed: Alice first appears while getting dressed.
    • Alternatively Alice first appeared in her underwear.
  • Justified:
    • Alice is a nudist.
    • Alice was just born this moment - she's a baby.
    • Alice is being cloned. Her clones are naked because her clothes aren't part of her.
    • Alice's species doesn't wear clothes and haven't had prior contact with Earth to know clothes are expected there.
    • Alice's debut episode has her as an already-there background character in the sauna and has no interaction with Clarice, the focus character, outside the sauna itself.
  • Inverted: Alice has no nudity taboo, and her first appearance is a rare case of her wearing clothes (presumably because it's kind of cold outside).
  • Subverted: Alice first appears as a Sexy Silhouette. She appears naked, but she's actually just wearing skintight clothing.
  • Double Subverted: ...But she takes it off and is naked coming out of the silhouette.
  • Parodied: Charly and Bob sneak into Alice's home and find her au naturel. "Hey, nice outfit Alice!". But she responds: "This lame suit? I cannot stand it any longer, so I'll just get rid of it". Then she gets rips her "skin" to reveal a giant alien monster! "HOLY COW!"
  • Zig Zagged: Alice first appears as a nude silhouette. She's wearing skintight clothing, but takes it off and is naked coming out of the silhouette... but she's still "wearing" Body Paint.
  • Averted: All characters are fully clothed on their introduction.
  • Enforced: "This scene was suggested as a way to attract the Periphery Demographic. It's also a bit too long, but that's because there's nothing like it on the rest of the series."
  • Lampshaded: "As if you haven't seen yourself with this look before. Yeesh! Just throw me a jacket or something, shall you?"
  • Invoked: Alice has Medium Awareness and wants to be remembered.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Alice has Medium Awareness, and when the camera turns to her shower, she says "Nuh-uh! You are not meeting me this way!"
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "The problem with first impressions is that you only can have one." "Say what you want about it bro, but that's a hell of a first impression!"
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Played For Laughs: Alice is introduced this way because Naked People Are Funny.
  • Played For Drama: Alice is introduced staring at herself in the mirror, disgusted by her body.

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