Basic Trope: A character has reservations about undressing in a place such as a locker room, where it would be normal to do so.
- Straight: Bob feels uncomfortable showering in the nude after gym class, and showers in his swim trunks.
- Exaggerated: Bob showers in his gym clothes, before changing into his regular school clothes.
- Downplayed: Everyone else in the locker room openly changes clothes, but Bob prefers to use the changing area or a bathroom stall.
- Justified:
- Bob is in his awkward teen years, and self-conscious about his body.
- Bob's religious beliefs frown upon nudity, even in a completely non-sexual context.
- Bob is a Heteronormative Crusader, afraid of gay or bisexual peers in the locker room ogling him.
- Bob is simply very shy and introverted.
- Bob is secretly a girl (e.g. through Sweet Polly Oliver or through being a closeted trans girl).
- Bob is gay and either not a pervert (and/or fears gay-bashing); showering around other guys his age is at best distracting and frustrating; at worst it's dangerous.
- Bob is a transgender boy and is anxious about his male classmates finding out.
- Inverted: Bob is comfortable being naked in the locker room; it's everyone else that's embarrassed.
- Subverted:
- Bob has no qualms about showering in the locker room.
- The reason Bob doesn't want to shower is not embarrassment, but the fact that the showers tend to be dirty.
- Double Subverted:
- But he wears a bathrobe until he gets into the shower, instead of a towel like everyone else, and he gets dressed in private.
- But he's embarrassed about his outie belly-button, so the gross shower stalls give him an excuse to keep it covered.
- Parodied: Bob is fully-clothed, and puts on a Censor Box over his pants before getting into the shower.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob has no problems with showering or changing in the locker room.
- Bob does not enter a locker room/sauna/hot spring/etc. in-story.
- Enforced: The actor playing Bob IS Shower Shy. The director couldn't convince him to the scene naked, so they decide to just roll with it.
- Lampshaded: "Oh, crap! Everyone's gonna know I have an outie!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alex, the resident Jerk Jock, takes the opportunity to humiliate Bob by pulling back the shower curtain in front of everyone.
- Defied: Bob gets in the shower and does not worry about what others may or may not be thinking.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Drama:
- Bob is a Cutter, and doesn't want his friends to find out, because he doesn't want them to be worried.
- Bob was sexually assaulted in the past. He's terrified that it would happen again.
- Bob is being sexually abused by his coach, who rapes him whenever he’s in the showers.
- Bob is afraid of the potential of either accidentally staring at another guy's dick and being accused of being gay, or another guy staring at his dick for similar reasons. Ironically, it's this fear that gets Bob accused of being uncomfortable in his sexuality (and his peers believe that anyone who is uncomfortable in their sexuality is gay), the very thing he was trying to avoid.
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