Shameful Strip / Live-Action TV

• In 24 season 2, Jack escorts his traitorous former ally Nina to an undercover assignment. She tries to go to the bathroom to change but he forces her to change in front of him where he can see her.
• Big Sky: Jerrie is forced to undress and wash by Ronald, which she's quite unhappy with, but uses this as an opportunity to show her body, in hopes he'll set her free, being transgender (he hadn't known this, wanting to traffic only cis women apparently).
• Invoked in an episode of Burn Notice when it's implied that Gilroy forces Michael to meet him in a public pool both because of the difficulty in concealing bugs and because Gilroy enjoys making Michael squirm a little showing the body Gilroy so clearly, shall we say, admires.
• Criminal Minds
  • In the episode "Psychodrama", the Unsub is a bank robber who takes everyone at a random bank hostage and forces them to strip to their underwear. He then pairs an unusual couple- for example, a young man with an old lady- and forces them into sex acts. He did it mainly for control, but also because it simulated therapy that he was receiving.
  • In "I Love You, Tommy Brown," the unsub forces one of her victims to strip down to her slip before killing her. In this case, it's simply because she likes the victim's dress and doesn't want to get blood or bullet holes in it before taking it for herself. The victim definitely considers it a straight example of the trope and admits she'd been raped before, where the same thing presumably happened.
• Subverted in the first season of the rebooted Dallas. Ann Ewing goes to her ex-husband Harris' office and offers herself to him so that he won't blackmail Sue Ellen during the Texan governor's race. She shamefully begins to unbutton her top as Harris looks on gleefully...and then it's revealed that she was wearing a wire under her blouse, and just recorded Harris confessing to his corrupt activities.
• Firefly. The episode "Trash" had YoSaffBridge order Mal to get naked and ditched him in the desert. Her interest wasn't prurient; it was out of revenge and spite. Of course she seemed to enjoy it a lot, so revenge and spite might be the same thing as prurient for her.Subverted in that it was All According to Plan, and Mal is the only one (besides Kaylee) utterly unfazed by his nudity at the end of the episode. ^note Although admittedly while 'losing' was part of the plan, Mal didn't seem to expect the strip itself. Not that it bothered him.
• Game of Thrones:
  • A would-be assassin is stripped and forced to walk behind a horse until he drops.
  • In Season 2, King Joffrey has Sansa stripped and beaten in public, in revenge for her brother defeating Lannister forces in a battle. Doesn't wind up going quite as far as in the books due to the fact that Sansa's actress was underage at the time and her dress is only halfway off, but it's implied it would have gone further had Tyrion not intervened.
  • In Season 5, the High Septon, a man who had taken a vow of celibacy, is caught being serviced in a brothel. He is punished by being marched through the streets naked and is whipped every time he tries to cover himself.
  • As in the books, happens to Cersei Lannister in Season 5, with her hair being cut off as well. She has guards around her to prevent anyone from directly attacking her, but the experience and the jeers from the crowd are still obviously traumatic.
  • The widows of the Dosh Khaleen get their rocks off by giving Dany's pride yet another kicking, forcibly relieving Dany of her tattered queenly raiment and adornment. She still takes it better than Cersei does in the books though, settling for a Death Glare to all present and not fighting them tooth and nail to preserve her modesty. After a few seconds, they give her one of their outfits.
• In the early-'90s, a General Hospital storyline has good girl Karen becoming a stripper after recalling having been sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend and beginning to believe that she was a tramp who didn't deserve anything better. The pressures of maintaining a double life (she continued to attend college and work as a waitress) got to her until she finally broke down in the middle of one of her performances, having finally realized how degrading it was. Several years later, as she was about to begin her medical residency on the GH-Spin-Off Port Charles, she and the other doctors were held hostage by a deranged former student incensed that she had taken his place in the program. To that end, he took particular pleasure in humiliating her by revealing her nefarious past as well as forcing her to perform a striptease in front of everyone.
• An unusual comic version in Gimme a Break! occurs when Samantha annoys her sisters a little *too* much, reminding them gleefully of the insults they hurled at each other while fighting over a boy. In response, they drag Sam behind the couch and rip off her clothes so they can throw her out in the street naked. Her dad and Nell calmly drink coffee in the next room while this is going on, pointedly ignoring the chaos.
• In the pilot episode of Hawaii Five-0, Kono (Grace Park) is forced to strip to her underwear by a Hawaiian gangster to prove she's not wearing a wire. He then takes her picture while she's still undressed, an act that seems like gratuitous sleaze until he later sends the picture to a mole inside the police department to doublecheck her identity.)
• Xena's origin series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, had Salmoneus stripped naked by a group of 50 beautiful princesses in revenge for misleading them about Hercules' location in "Eye of the Beholder".
• In the mini-series Holocaust, those about to be shot or gassed are stripped naked. A Minion with an F in Evil objects, saying the women should at least be allowed to die with dignity instead of having SS guards leering at them. The suggestion is ignored, of course.
• Intergalactic: Ash is uncomfortably undressed and cleaned during processing for the prison transport.
• In the Dark: Josiah orders Murphy to strip as proof she's not wired. This means naked, rather than just to her underwear. Felix however just gets a pat-down. Murphy does it unhappily.
• In Kamen Rider OOO, when a Greeed is stripped of its Core Medals it is also stripped of the clothes and armor they are wearing.
• In the Level 9 episode "Digital Babylon", Sosh is forced to perform a striptease for the perp of the week. She bashes the guy's head in at the first opportunity.
• Life on Mars. Happens to Sam Tyler after he's slipped a mickey by a prostitute in a frame-up. He wakes up tied to a bed with Gene Hunt kicking down the door accompanied by WPC Anne Cartwright. Considering Annie's embarrassment and Gene's quip of "it's not all golf and badminton in Hyde, eh?", it's fairly safe to say Sam was naked.
• Loki (2021): While being processed by the TVA, Loki is shoved into a chamber with a robot that burns away his Asgardian clothing and leaves him completely naked save for the prison collar placed on him. He's visibly uncomfortable being so exposed even though there's nobody around to see him. After a few seconds, he's dumped through a trapdoor that dresses him in a jumpsuit giving him back some dignity.
• In the seventh season of Melrose Place, Eve knocks out Lexi and leaves her Bound and Gagged in her underwear in the bathtub. While taking Lexi's clothing doesn't keep her from trying to escape when an opportunity comes, it does allow Eve to frame Lexi for the attempted murder of Peter and Amanda.
• Hilariously inverted in a sketch from Mr. Show where a streaker throws clothes at a rival and forces him to put them on, jeering and catcalling while he sobs and gets dressed.
• The Nanny: Double-subverted in "The Nanny Napper". After being arrested for allegedly kidnapping an infant, Fran hears that she will be strip-searched, she protests most vehemently... until she sees a handsome police officer approaching her. He leads her into a side room... and then steps aside, allowing a large woman to enter and perform the strip search.
• NUMB3RS: In an undercover assignment, to spot bugs. Blatant Fanservice, what with the promos advertising the strip and the random lingerie she just happened to be wearing. The shame bit's still there, though.
• In an episode of Police Woman, a serial killer forces his victims to strip to music, and then proceeds to rape and kill them.
• Queen for Seven Days: Lee Yung cuts off Myeong-hye's outer clothes and threatens to do the same to her underwear unless she betrays the Snail Brides.
• Rome
  • The Gallic leader Vercingetorix, when defeated and captured, was forced to strip and kiss Caesar's golden standard, as was the custom. He was apparently naked for years until Caesar had him dressed up for his own execution.
  • Servilia of the Junii is knocked from her litter and beaten, stripped naked in public, and has her hair cut with a dagger as an act of revenge by her rival Atia. The entire experience is clearly very traumatizing to her, and she spends several days recovering.
• In the Bad Future episode of Sanctuary, Magnus is stripped and hosed down by Future!Will's soldiers. This scene was very much Fan Disservice.
• In The Shift a homeowner stripped a young punk he caught breaking into his house in order to humiliate him, a bit of frontier justice that backfired spectacularly when the punk returned with a gun and killed him.
• Inverted in an episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, "More Than Human". The Lizardmen assign a female slave to Roxton, and she is happy to strip for him. However, when he becomes bothered with the situation and lifts her dress back up, this is what causes her to become ashamed, as she believes he thinks she's ugly and doesn't want to be with her.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation:
  • "Chain of Command", which deals with torture, uses this. The Captor even states coldly, as he uses a knife to peel away Captain Picard's clothing, "From this point on, you will experience no privilege of rank, no privileges of person. From now on, I will refer to you only as human. You have no other identity." Picard is then hung up by his arms, stark naked, and left there overnight. He's later given a barely concealing garment to wear, both because a later scene featured a child, and also because it would have been difficult to show body language without showing, well, his body.
  • "Ménage à Troi" has Troi and her mother kidnapped by Ferengi, who use the transporter to beam them out of their clothing. We later learn that the Ferengi, being an extreme patriarchy, find the idea of women wearing clothing to be offensive, so this could be an either/or example. It would have been more effective on a species that wasn't so comfortable with nudity that all weddings are conducted in the nude, but Troi and Lwaxana are very annoyed by the whole thing. Lwaxana convinces the Ferengi to give them clothes by pointing out that it's cold.
• Late in the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah and Cameron go undercover at a nuclear plant. Sarah gets caught at a restricted area and is presumed contaminated and given a thorough scrub down and her clothes are destroyed but it's implied they just don't like that she's being snoopy.
• In The 2001 NBC miniseries Uprising, about the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto during World War 2: As she is going to work from her home in the Warsaw ghetto Tosia is randomly taken to a shack to be strip-searched (we later learn that women taken to this shack are generally never seen alive again). The Nazi officer in charge traces a riding crop down her bare back, threatening to beat her with it, while compelling her to strip down to one shoe - which she resists removing, because it's her hiding place for a map to the Treblinka death camp, which she is smuggling out of the ghetto so it can be taken to Winston Churchill.
• In The Walking Dead (2010), after Maggie is captured by the Governor, he interrogates her by first politely asking where her group's camp is so he can return her and Glenn peacefully before switching on the creepy and quietly demanding that she take off her shirt and bra, on threat that he'll chop off Glenn's hand. She later confirms to Glenn that he didn't "do anything" after he automatically assumes the worst, but it's still quite a moment of Fan Disservice.
• The Wheel of Time (2021): Egwene is stripped naked, scrubbed and washed before being dressed by male Whitecloaks to her obvious discomfort after they capture her.
• Xena was stripped by Ares a few times during the course of Xena: Warrior Princess (the most notable example being "The Bitter Suite"). Also happened to her in Adventures in Sin where she ambushed the Amazon Queen Cyanae (Victoria Pratt) while she's basically naked but for a loincloth while getting a massage, only for the blonde warrior to steal all of Xena's clothes right off of her and then dressing herself in them, leaving Xena herself basically naked but for a leather thong underwear, causing an angry Xena to wrap herself up in a Modesty Towel (or modesty rug at least) before fleeing in shame and anger. Defeat by Modesty indeed.

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