Basic Trope: Someone's swimsuit falls off after they jump into the water.
- Straight: Alice jumps in the pool, and her swimsuit falls off.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice didn't even jump in the pool, she just lowered herself in and somehow lost her swimsuit anyway.
- Everyone loses their swimsuits.
- Alice's swimsuit completely disappears into thin air/water.
- Alice falls into the pool wearing a suit and ends up naked.
- Alice’s swimsuit comes off as she is swimming in the Olympic Games. Nobody notices; she wins first place and receives her gold medal on the podium. She has a Naked Freak-Out when she finds out she did it all naked.
- Alice's unexpected, unwanted bout of Skinny Dipping goes viral.
- Alice is wearing multiple swimsuits, all of which disappear as soon as she gets into the water.
- Downplayed: Alice's swimsuit doesn't fall off entirely, but does end up exposing more of her than she wanted.
- Justified:
- Alice wasn't wearing a very tight swimsuit.
- The swimsuit was pulled off somehow, either by someone else or by the water's currents.
- The swimsuit suffered Critical Existence Failure from that last jump.
- Inverted: Alice was Skinny Dipping, but when she jumped into the water she somehow put on a swimsuit.
- Subverted:
- Alice jumps into the water and sees a swimsuit that looks like hers floating, but it's revealed that it was just Carol's.
- For whatever reason, Alice actually meant to take off her swimsuit.
- Double Subverted: And then Alice goes into a whirlpool and gets her swimsuit caught in the machine that makes the bubbles — she couldn't have prepared for that.
- Parodied: Alice was wearing a tight, one-piece swimsuit, and yet somehow the entire thing falls off seconds after she lowers herself into the water.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Multiple characters jump in the pool. Some lose their swimsuits, and some don't.
- For whatever reason, Alice's swimsuit goes off and on her.
- Averted:
- Alice's swimsuit stays on.
- Alice doesn't go swimming.
- Enforced:
- To add Fanservice and/or Naked People Are Funny.
- Alice is the Butt-Monkey, and there needed to be a way to humiliate her at a Beach Episode.
- Lampshaded: "Did her swimsuit just fall off?"
- Invoked:
- Bob pulls Alice's swimsuit off after she jumps in, either to humiliate her or because he's a pervert.
- Bob makes or buys a special dissolving swimsuit for Alice.
- Bob spikes Alice's drink with a shrinking serum just before she jumps in or zaps her with a Shrink Ray just after, and she shrinks out of her swimsuit.
- Alice is secretly a Shameless Fanservice Girl, but in this prudish community, she must Make It Look Like an Accident that she got stripped.
- Exploited: Alice has repeated bad luck with her swimsuit coming off whenever she jumps into the pool. When a magical swimsuit clings onto her, she jumps into a pool to get it off.Alice: YES! I never thought I'd be so happy to be stripped naked in public!
- Defied:
- Alice wears a tight swimsuit or holds onto it as she jumps in the pool.
- Alice avoids jumping in the pool.
- Alice strips down to her birthday suit on her own initiative before she gets in the pool.
- Discussed: "This is the fifth swimsuit that's fallen off me this month. What is wrong?"
- Conversed: "A hot girl loses her swimsuit — that never gets old!"
- Implied:
- Alice jumps in the pool, and seconds later is seen appearing nervous and lowering herself back into the water.
- An offscreen splash prompts bystanders to rush to cover children's eyes.
- Played for Laughs: Naked People Are Funny combined with Cringe Comedy.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is embarrassed due to being naked in the pool.
- Alice gets in trouble due to public nudity.
- Bob thinks Alice is coming on to him and he doesn't take it well when she corrects him.
- Played for Horror: The pool is filled with caustic acid. First Alice's swimsuit dissolves, next her skin...
- Deconstructed:
- Alice is running out of money with which to buy swimsuits.
- Alice can't go to that pool or beach anymore.
- Reconstructed: She solves both problems at a stroke by going to a nude-friendly pool or beach and embracing the world's habit of getting her nude.
Back to Slippery Swimsuit... uh, Please Put Some Clothes On.
