Playing With / The Nudifier

Basic Trope: A weapon, magic spell, or other Applied Phlebotinum that is specifically designed to remove clothing.

• Straight:
  • An evil witch blasts Alice with a spell that causes her clothes to fall off.
  • Emperor Evulz unveils his new secret weapon: a disintegrating ray effective only against fabrics.
• Exaggerated:
  • The witch's spell causes the clothes of every person in the world to come off.
  • The witch puts a curse on Alice that makes her incapable of putting on clothes without having them disappear instantly.
  • The spell also transports Alice naked to the middle of the city or in front of a nearby news broadcast.
  • The spell also transports Alice to a middle school classroom.
  • The spell also forces Alice to dance naked uncontrollably for an hour.
  • The spell also forces Alice to masturbate.
  • The spell also makes Alice loudly orgasm for a minute.
  • The spell also makes Alice lose control of her bowels.
  • The spell also paralyses Alice for an hour.
  • The spell also takes high quality resolution photos of Alice naked and uploads them online.
  • The spell also makes those who see Alice naked fall madly in love with her.
  • The spell also tattoos something obscene on Alice’s butt.
  • The spell also makes Alice naked in every picture, photo and video taken of her, both those taken of her before and those taken of her after the fight.
  • Evulz builds an anti-fabric ray big enough to use on the entire kingdom at once.
• Downplayed:
  • The witch blasts Alice with a spell that makes her hairpin fall out.
  • The witch blasts Alice with a spell that disintegrates her coat.
  • The witch blasts Alice with a spell that briefly set her clothes on fire.
  • Evulz demonstrates his new secret weapon that disintegrates Alice’s shoelaces.
  • The weapon or spell only destroys most garments, leaving the victim’s underwear intact.
  • The spell strips Alice to her underwear.
  • The spell makes Alice’s clothes translucent.
  • The spell makes Alice's clothes turn invisible for a couple seconds.
  • The spell turns Alice’s clothes into a skimpy bikini.
  • The spell turns Alice’s clothes into a hula dress and coconut bra.
  • The spell turns Alice’s clothes into a T-shirt with something vulgar on it and booty shorts.
  • The spell turns Alice’s skirt into a diaper.
  • The spell strips Alice off her underwear, but leaves her shirt and skirt intact.
  • The spell removes Alice's leggings or Modesty Shorts under her skirt, thus leaving her risk of Panty Shot.
• Justified:
  • Our heroes all rely on powers that come from their costumes.
  • The witch is an Actual Pacifist, so she goes for Defeat by Modesty instead of a violent alternative.
  • The weapon or spell is a heat ray that can burn off fabric but only does superficial damage to skin.
  • Evulz's intended purpose for the fabric-disintegrating ray was to destroy a fashion brand's merchandise.
  • Most people would be embarrassed at being naked in public, and the quicker one can get rid of someone's clothes, the more undignified it will be for the victim.
  • Alice has Super-Toughness. The attack would have turned a regular human to dust, but only affected her clothes.
  • The attack was supposed to disintegrate Alice into dust. “Luckily”, it malfunctioned and only destroyed her clothes.
  • Alice had a MacGuffin in her pocket, which freely falls to the floor afterwards.
• Inverted:
  • The witch’s spell puts Alice in an immensely frilly straitjacket.
  • The spell puts Alice in a burka.
  • The spell renders Alice unable to remove her clothes.
  • Alice’s costume is literally sprayed-on: it’s an aerosolized adhesive that quickly hardens into latex, producing a comic book-style skintight catsuit on demand.
  • The spell burns every part of Alice that is not covered.
  • The spell clothes a naked Alice.
  • The spell causes everyone within a few metres of Alice to suddenly lose their clothes, except herself.
  • The spell strips its caster of their clothes.
• Subverted:
  • Alice has enchanted her clothes to be immune to the spell, so she simply laughs as the witch blasts her with it.
  • The spell completely dissolves Alice’s clothes first. Then, it starts on her skin...
• Double Subverted:
  • Alice has protected her clothes from the spell... but not her underwear.
  • Alice reflects the beam... back to Evulz, stripping him naked instead.
  • The beam still leaves Alice in her underwear... until Evulz simply fires it at her again.
• Parodied:
  • Alice and Charlotte engage in a magical duel that consists entirely of slinging anti-clothing spells at each other until one of them gives in.
  • Emperor Evulz defeats one would-be hero after another with his secret weapon … until he’s attacked by an extremely unattractive and obese hero and immediately surrenders.
  • While the Queen is giving a big speech, Evulz threatens to use his anti-clothing ray on her unless the heroes surrender.
  • Bob disintegrates his own clothes to stop the witch from disintegrating them first. The witch is as confused as we are.
  • The anti-clothing device/spell/whatever malfunctions, resulting in the person using it disrobing themselves by mistake.
  • The witch gets so used to dealing with her enemies by getting rid of their clothes that she doesn't know what to do when she finds herself attacked by nudists or people who don't give a darn about losing their clothes.
• Zig Zagged: The spell is intended to disintegrate Alice’s clothes, but instead just turns them into tissue paper. Alice relaxes, until she remembers that they happen to be fighting in the rain.
• Averted: No clothing-specific magic or other Phlebotinum is ever seen or mentioned.
• Enforced: Alice is in an Ecchi anime or sex comedy, and it clearly has a Fanservice quota to meet.
• Lampshaded:
  • Alice’s teammate Bob immediately declares, “I knew fighting witches would pay off eventually!” Alice slaps him.
  • After Evulz is defeated, his Dragon points out that it was a pretty silly idea for a super-weapon after all.
• Invoked: Later, upon discovering that the Evil Queen Evisceratrix gets all her power from a magic corset, Alice tracks down the witch again to ask for her help.
• Exploited:
  • While they are attending a public convention, the witch tells Alice that if she doesn't help her with something, she will cast a spell that would strip her naked in public.
  • After hearing what happened to Alice, Brenda finds the witch and challenges her to a fight in order to get rid of her cursed gloves of fumbling.
  • After defeating the witch, Alice uses the Nudifier to strip a suicide bomber of his bomb so he can be brought in easily.
  • Alice the hitwoman uses the Nudifier to get rid of her bloodstained clothes.
• Defied: After hearing rumors about the witch’s fearsome anti-clothing magic, Alice enchants all her equipment to be immune to the effect.
• Discussed: After dispatching the witch, Alice puts her clothes back on while asking Bob what kind of pervert would come up with a spell like that.
• Conversed: “Oh hey, that witch is back. Is it Sweeps week again already?”
• Implied: One of the heroes go into the battle fully dressed, and afterwards are in their birthday suit but otherwise unscathed.
• Deconstructed:
  • The witch quickly finds out that Alice doesn’t actually need her clothes to fight.
  • Evulz tries to carry out his threat, and gets shot with live ammunition by the Queen's royal guards.
  • The ability to dismantle any inorganic matter immediately makes the witch a supremely dangerous opponent, as a naked, disarmed knight is no match for a fully armed, fireball-packing witch.
• Reconstructed:
  • Alice’s teammate Catherine, however, is completely incapacitated by the spell.
  • It was a body double of Evulz that was shot, and the man himself immediately activates the nude ray to humiliating effect … plus the benefit of rendering the guards mostly defenseless, as above.
  • Of course, said power would be more useful if the witch actually knew more spells and wasn’t as frail as gasoline-soaked toilet paper …
• Played for Laughs: After being defeated and imprisoned, the witch happily watches Alice and Catherine leave and adds two tally marks on her staff.
• Played for Drama:
  • Being stripped naked traumatises Catherine who was previously sexually assaulted.
  • The witch is a molester who uses her magic to rape others.
  • A victim has her Tragic Keepsake vaporized with the rest of her clothes.
• Played for Horror: The spell gruesomely burns Alice herself along with her clothes, leaving her a charred corpse or severely disfigured.

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