Basic Trope: A character secretly spies on another character engaged in undressing or something else explicit.
- Straight: Bob peers into Alice's window from the hedges outside, as Alice undresses to take a shower.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob has it worked out when Alice takes her showers, and never misses a show with timed alerts on his calendar.
- Bob watches every attractive woman in his neighborhood undress, before their respective shower times.
- Bob watches Alice and several of her colleagues, all attractive bikini models, change their outfits in preparation for a photo shoot.
- Bob and six of his friends watch Alice undress.
- Downplayed: Bob secretly watches Alice let her hair down.
- Justified:
- Alice has a secret code tattooed somewhere on her body, that Bob needs to disarm a bomb.
- Alice has explicitly instructed Bob to do this; she has a fetish for being watched by an unseen voyeur.
- Bob is a cat burglar casing Alice's house for entry points, and accidentally happens to be looking inside when Alice is undressing.
- Inverted: Bob secretly watches Alice put on additional layers of clothes, as she prepares to go outside in cold weather.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice watches Bob undress to take a shower.
- Subverted:
- Alice closes all of her curtains.
- Alice lives high up, in a skyscraper apartment building.
- Alice lives in a gated mansion, at the center of a sprawling estate.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob just moves to the next house on the street, and watches Lucia undress instead.
- Bob has a job as a window washer.
- Bob purchases an incredibly powerful telescope.
- Parodied: We only see Bob watching from the hedges at first, whispering lustily to Alice to "take it all off," then to "soap them up," and finally to "towel them off, just like that." Eventually, the camera pans to Alice's window, and it's revealed that she's merely unboxing, washing, and subsequently drying a new set of dishware.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice detects motion in the bushes, and closes her blinds. Bob moves from one outdoor scenery element to the next to regain his view, while Alice continues to close every curtain in the house until all of the windows are obscured. Bob dusts himself off, goes back into his house, boots up his computer, and turns on the stream of the camera that he has secretly installed in Alice's shower.
- Averted: Alice is about to start undressing, but then someone rings her doorbell, and she stops to go see who it is.
- Enforced: "We need more fanservice, but don't want Alice to look like a slut. Easy, we'll just have another character watch her undress from afar!"
- Lampshaded: "It's pretty creepy of you to do this, Bob, I gotta say. Wow, look at the size of those! Pass the binoculars."
- Invoked: Bob realizes Alice showers every day, after she gets home from work. He plans his evening accordingly.
- Exploited: A private investigator needs pictures of secret documents from inside Alice's house, and discovers her neighbor Bob watches her secretly. He tells Bob he'll pay him, if Bob can get photos of those documents.
- Defied: A friend of Bob's tells him he knows when Alice takes her showers, next door. Bob says that's too sleazy, and decides they'll watch a TV show instead.
- Discussed: "Alice is getting ready for her shower. Hedge time."
- Conversed: "So now they've got Bob peeping on Alice while she undresses." "Anything for ratings."
- Implied: Alice arrives at her house from work, and says to herself she plans on taking a nice long shower. Bob sees her going inside, and tells his friend on the phone that he has to run, then grabs some binoculars before heading outside.
- Deconstructed:
- A police officer driving by spies Bob in the hedges, and decides to arrest him for invasion of privacy.
- Reconstructed:
- Just as the police officer is about to read Bob his rights, Bob turns to the police officer, shooshes him, and then gestures towards Alice's window. The police officer looks up irritably, but then his eyes go wide open. He kneels down beside Bob, and pulls out his own binoculars to watch.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob maintains a blog of voyeur reviews for all the different women in the neighborhood, with 1 to 5 star ratings, birthmarks to watch out for, and suggestions for the best times and locations to peep.
- The hedges outside Alice's house are a tourist attraction, with places to sit, binocular stations, beverages, and souvenirs for sale.
- Alice sees Bob in the hedges, and quickly wraps a Modesty Towel around herself so she can go outside and give him a piece of her mind. Just as she gets outside and is about to yell, the front door closes on the edge of her towel, yanking it off of her and locking her outside completely naked, just as the local parade is coming down the street.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob's voyeuristic tendencies distort his views of women, and make it difficult for him to form meaningful relationships with them.
- After catching Bob on more than one occasion, Alice feels unsafe in her own home, and keeps all curtains closed and blinds drawn whenever she's inside.
- While spying on Alice, Bob discovers she's having an affair.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is planning to murder Alice, and watching her undress is preamble to his terrible crime.
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