Basic Trope: A game of poker where the loser strips.
- Straight: Alice plays strip poker, is stripped naked and stays like that for the rest of the night.
- Exaggerated:
- After losing, Alice:
- has to have sex with all her opponents.
- is kicked out of the apartment naked.
- is forced to go permanently to school naked.
- is forced to spend the rest of the year naked.
- has to pose for photos and videos.
- is spanked.
- Alice is always the only one to lose her clothes in strip poker.
- Alice, Bob, Charles, Diana and Ed all lose their clothes in strip poker.
- After losing, Alice:
- Downplayed:
- After letting her friends get an eyeful, Alice gets to put her clothes back on.
- Alice is stripped down to her underwear before she has to quit.
- The stripping is optional.
- The choice is given between stripping or giving up money.
- Justified:
- The game is foreplay to an orgy.
- Alice is broke and can only play with her clothes.
- Inverted:
- All the players start naked and put their clothes on as they win.
- All the players start naked and put their clothes on as they lose.
- Subverted:
- Alice is told that it is a game of regular poker.
- Vegas Strip style poker. (Do they still play it there?)
- Double Subverted:
- She loses all her money and insists on betting her clothes.
- Vegas Strip style Strip Poker.
- Parodied:
- The boys tells the girls that strip poker is just like regular poker, but all the girls have to play naked (or vice versa).
- Alice is playing poker at a casino, but another player tricks her into thinking it's strip poker. She strips naked right in the casino, and continues playing until casino security throw her out naked.
- Alice has no idea how to play and:
- is convinced to strip naked at the beginning and play regular poker with her clothed competitors.
- is convinced to strip when she both loses and wins.
- tries to forcibly strip her opponent Brittany when Alice loses.
- brings bacon strips and eats them as she loses.
- brings her favourite comic strips and reads them as she loses.
- Zig-Zagged: Players get to put on and remove clothes throughout the game, whatever the absolute or relative value of their hand.
- Averted:
- People's clothes are never used as collateral in gambling.
- Nobody gets naked for any reason.
- The story has no mention of gambling.
- Enforced: Fanservice.
- Lampshaded: "Why do losers strip instead of losing money, you ask? I figure having your dignity on the line would be more interesting than the risk of winding up broke."
- Invoked: Bob starts a poker game at A Party, Also Known as an Orgy.
- Exploited:
- Alice deliberately loses to attract boys with her sexy bod.
- Alice searches through her opponents' clothes for valuables to steal.
- Alice's opponents rig the game so only she strips.
- Bob steals the poker players' clothes.
- Defied: Alice declines to play strip poker.
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "Oh, they're playing the kind of poker where losing means they have to undress. What a ratings stunt!"
- Implied: Alice and her friends are seen playing poker. She is seen later naked.
- Deconstructed: Alice is uncomfortable with stripping.
- Reconstructed: Alice's opponents allow her to remain clothed, with her stripping being metaphorical.
- Played for Laughs: Alice's classmates lies about the rules so she loses every round.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice's classmates pressure her into the game and rape her when she loses all her clothes.
- Alice is beyond broke and is forced to bet everything, including her clothes, to survive.
- Played for Horror: Alice is broke and can only play with her clothes. After losing a hand after losing all her clothes, Alice will:
- be killed.
- be raped.
- be sold as a Sex Slave.
- be flayed.
- have to her limbs cut off.
- be kicked out to freeze to death.
- forced to give up her firstborn child.
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