He doesn't need a shirt to be the One-Winged Angel.
- When Capcom released Ace Attorney snapshots, one of them featured shirtless Edgeworth
◊. - Gage/Trak from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin constantly goes shirtless. Under a leather jacket. He also has blue hair, is aloof and near-mute, and looks attractive.
- Mr Freeze's introduction in Batman: Arkham City has him shirtless. Rather disservice-y, thanks to the guy's altered body, what he's had to do to stay alive, the fact that he's just come out from apparent torture-via-heat-lamp, and the resulting Jack Bauer interrogation that Batman immediately puts him through.
- Well, temporarily in Brain Dead 13: If Lance can't make a choice of either a shave, manicure or facial quick enough, Vivi will quickly hold his head to her side and pull down both his spider web barber cloth and his shirt, exposing not just his neck, but also his bare chest and his nipples, before taking a bite and draining him of blood!
- The developers of the PC series Dark Tales announced in advance that in the fifth game, Mr. Fanservice Auguste Dupin would have a shirtless scene. The fangirls rejoiced. Unfortunately, what they didn't announce was that said shirtless scene would come at the cost of Dupin being shot in the chest, and the player character has to cut away the shirt in order to tend the wound. He does get better, though, and he's got what looks like a nice build under his Victorian fashion sense.
- Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening begins with Dante shirtless and just coming out of the shower. He remains shirtless for the first mission, and you can later unlock an alternate costume that lets you play the entire game with this character model.
- In the reboot, DmC: Devil May Cry, Dante one-ups 3 by being completely nude at the beginning, though we only see from his hips up and his calves in any detail. And say what you wish about his personality, but his body is very nice.
- Besides sex scenes, Dragon Age: Origins has a few shirtless scenes. Some examples include the Player Character waking up after Ostagar, though you don't see much, them being imprisoned in Fort Drakon, and another scene in the Gauntlet. In all three cases, the women are in bra and panties and the men are in undies... though Oghren in his underoos is Fan Disservice.
- Averted in the sequel, unless you strip your male Hawke. Merrill also goes shirtless with nothing but a corset if you romance her.
- In Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, the very first look the player gets of Kian the Apostle is in a Shirtless Scene pitting him against other burly shirtless men. Note that only the playable male character is introduced this way. Zoe is in her underpants, though.
- The Elder Scrolls:
- Throughout the series, clothing is optional, meaning that this is possible for the Player Character, though Human and Elf females downplay it due to having a bra attached to their model. You can merrily punch out Physical Gods in nothing more than your undies if you so choose.
- Morrowind:
- Big Bad Dagoth Ur, one of those aforementioned physical gods, is shirtless. In fact, he only wears his golden Cool Mask, with a third eye slot, and a loincloth.
- Spymaster of the Blades, Cool Old Guy extraordinaire, and initial main quest Quest Giver Caius Cosades is under cover as an old Skooma addict. He is shirtless, lives in a small hovel, and wears only tattered looking "common" pants.
- Final Fantasy:
- Sephiroth, the Big Bad of Final Fantasy VII, goes shirtless for the game's final showdown, a one-on-one duel with his nemesis Cloud.
- Sephiroth appears "naked but obscured by something weird from the waist down" in the cutscene where he gains the Black Materia.
- The Square Enix store in Japan has a life size statue of Sephiroth frozen in materia set into the floor, with his abs exposed.◊
- In the prequel Crisis Core, a member of Sephiroth's fanclub mentions how much she'd like to see him "stripped to the waist."
- One of Sephiroth's alternate costumes in Dissidia Final Fantasy is the exact-same shirtless attire he is seen as the Post-Final Boss of FFVII.
- Sephiroth goes shirtless in his alt costume in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring. Rendered better than in FFVII, but obviously not as good as Dissidia Final Fantasy.
- Final Fantasy XII:
- The first time we see Basch after the two-year timeskip, he is stripped down to his pants, and stays in this state for a half of the Barheim Passage level.
- Vayne takes his shirt off when he enters the "Vayne Novus" mode.
- Crisis Core has Zack Fair's shirtless beach scene, complete with invisible armour and materia slots.
- Snow Villiers from Final Fantasy XIII after suffering a bad injury. Who gets hyper-detailed rendering and has random freckles, moles, little bumps on his aerolas and erect nipples. It can also happen in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. If you battle his + version, he'll vaporize his shirt halfway through the fight when he uses Depths of Despair. Battle his ++ version, and it's gone before the fight even starts.
- You can make male player characters in Final Fantasy XIV walk around with no shirt. Thanks to the glamour system, it's possible to have your chest armor glamoured to look like something more revealing or nothing at all without sacrificing your stats for it. Some NPCs also appear with no shirt.
- Sephiroth, the Big Bad of Final Fantasy VII, goes shirtless for the game's final showdown, a one-on-one duel with his nemesis Cloud.
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn:
- There's one scene during a flashback sequence from one of the last characters one would have expected to get one. The Black Knight a.k.a. Zelgius, who also surprisingly turns out to be attractive under all of that armor.
- Volug◊, due to having static portraits, is shirtless throughout the entire game. The fact that he's a mysterious loner and a wolf-man makes it easy to see why the series' female fans swoon over him.
- The royalty of Ayuthay in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, justified since it's an oasis kingdom and near the blistering-hot Lamakan Desert. Amiti puts on a shirt at the party's request when he joins the crew, and later takes offense when Eoleo makes a smart remark about someone from Ayuthay "actually wearing clothes".
- Grand Theft Auto:
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas gives players the option to dress CJ however they wish... that includes stripping him to his underpants for a nearly completely nude shootout with cops and rival gangsters!
- Similarly, Brucie in Grand Theft Auto IV spends about half of his scenes with no shirt on.
- In Infinite Space, Lord Roth first appears on-screen while wearing nothing but his underwear.
- The Final Boss of Kingdom Hearts goes shirtless after he somehow merged with a gargantuan Heartless battleship for the final battle of the game.
- Both he and Sephiroth wear trenchcoats with no shirt underneath (though Sephiroth wears what looks like a leather daddy harness), making every scene a shirtless scene for them. Their final boss forms just take it a step farther.
- On the side of good, Sora does as the natives do when in Atlantica and loses the shirt along with his legs when he becomes a merman. It's the one redeeming point of said level.
- Ventus is shirtless in his Awakening. It becomes disturbing because Master Xehanort is the one who probably undressed him, and he was about eleven.
- The Legend of Zelda:
- Link in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess strips down to his skivvies during his sumo training. He's ripped under that tunic. His opponent, however, is not.
- Technically, this can happen at any time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by simply removing Link's clothes. If left idle without a shirt on, Link will eventually take a moment to flex and admire his biceps. Additionally, talking to Impa's granddaughter Paya in this state will leave her flustered.
- In the Like a Dragon series, it's common for the pre-Final Boss cutscenes to involve Kiryu or the protagonist du jour dramatically ripping off the top half of their wardrobe to expose their tattoos. It's often played with, however: characters who aren't yakuza and therefore lack tattoos, such as Akiyama or Yagami, generally refrain from doing this, and a major source of drama in Yakuza 6 is the lack of tattoos on high-ranking Tojo associate Takumi Someya, showing his disdain for the old ways that characters like Kiryu and Majima hold on to.
- In Love & Pies, Joe sometimes accidentally loses his shirt, exposing his toned pecs.
- On Day 7, he somehow ends up burning his shirt by thinking back to his date night. Luckily, he always brings a spare one in case that happens.
- When Amelia's Great Aunt Esme crashes into the back of the café, Joe rescues her from her van, getting his shirt ripped in the process.
- Mass Effect 2: Major male characters get one at some point, such as Jacob Taylor. Kaidan after both his Mass Effect and Mass Effect 3 sex scenes, James in the "Citadel" DLC, Male Shepard himself in every romance...
- Metal Gear:
- The start of Metal Gear Solid had a beautiful briefing scene with Snake perched on a bed, naked, genitals obscured only by a convenient shadow. The Video Game Remake upped the ante significantly — the scene is redone in glorious fully-animated polygons and the player is given the option to control the camera angle freely, and, while Snake is now wearing underwear, it's a pair of really skintight black shorts that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination. He spends the scene going from one "sexy" pose to another, randomly parading his body around like a male stripper for no reason. He then inexplicably rests his forearms and chest on the edge of the bed while standing at the side of it, keeping his legs straight, thus thrusting his barely-clad buttocks in the air for no reason beyond fanservice, while he is asking pertinent questions about the story.
- At the end, Liquid — who spends most of the game wandering around, outside, without a shirt, in the middle of Alaska — removes Solid Snake's shirt. This is because Snake's padded sneaking suit functions as armor, maybe not so much to bullets but certainly against hands and feet.
- Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty goes far beyond shirtless with his full on nude scene, Scenery Censored all the while, near the end of the game. Then there are the standard torture scenes of that feature shirtless men.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater gives the player the option to take Naked Snake's shirt off at any time for no reason at allnote . The player does get a funny line or two about it when Snake puts in a call on his radio while half-naked.
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops had Big Boss do like Raiden and get stripped completely naked by his captors. Unfortunately, thanks to the sketchy art style of the cutscenes, you can't make out much.
- He also has shirtless scenes with pants on in the beginning and ending.
- The final boss battle of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an old men's fistfight with a shirtless Liquid Ocelot, although he is ripped. Also, Snake does a Fan Disservice Shirtless Scene for Naomi. (Un)fortunately, even wrinkled skin, liver spots, ugly pants, unflattering lighting, sad music and Naomi being moved to tears by his ugliness did not counter the fact that he still has a killer figure.
- The highlight of the trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is Big Boss taking off his shirt. While training his men. On the beach. In the rain. WITH A SNAKE-SHAPED SCAR! IN SLOW-MO!
- Senator Armstrong spends the second half of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's final battle shirtless, though it's less about fanservice and more about showing off the power of his nanomachines, son!
- The start of Metal Gear Solid had a beautiful briefing scene with Snake perched on a bed, naked, genitals obscured only by a convenient shadow. The Video Game Remake upped the ante significantly — the scene is redone in glorious fully-animated polygons and the player is given the option to control the camera angle freely, and, while Snake is now wearing underwear, it's a pair of really skintight black shorts that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination. He spends the scene going from one "sexy" pose to another, randomly parading his body around like a male stripper for no reason. He then inexplicably rests his forearms and chest on the edge of the bed while standing at the side of it, keeping his legs straight, thus thrusting his barely-clad buttocks in the air for no reason beyond fanservice, while he is asking pertinent questions about the story.
- Mortal Kombat might be known for its stripperiffic ladies, but there's plenty of fanservice for those who prefer outies. Sub-Zero, for example, exposes his abs in Mortal Kombat 3. There's also Reptile's alternate costume in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, called "Jungle Man". He wears little more than a loincloth and a skull-shaped chest plate.
- No More Heroes gives you the option to have Travis shirtless, and you can unlock shirtless with tattoo after beating the game. Strangely, you don't have the option to go around with no jacket. No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle allows you to unlock the option to go jacketless, but the closest you get to shirtless is a T-shirt with a shirtless chest printed on it.
- In Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Stranger gets one when he is captured and his clothes are cut off, exposing him as the Steef.
- John in the beginning scene of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties goes shirtless right up until he gets on his motorcycle.
- In Potion Permit, Osman remembers the time when he accidentally spilled root beer on his uniform, so Cassandra had to take him home so she could wash it. He was "shocked" when she told him to take his shirt off, but going by his smug expression and her embarrassment in the present, Osman actually enjoyed showing himself off that day.
- The title character from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time begins the game fully dressed and apparently wearing some sort of leather armour. As the game progresses, his clothing is torn off or used for bandages bit by bit until he is just wearing his pants. Additionally, the bulk of The Two Thrones is one long shirtless scene.
- Resident Evil:
- The Krauser boss fight in Resident Evil 4. At the start of the battle, he is wearing only a bandoliernote , and as the fight progresses, he ends up losing the bandolier for no reason as well.
- In Resident Evil 5, there is also a brief gratuitous shirtless Wesker scene in towards the end of the game, in the last boss battle against him, albeit his bare chest is overcome by the gross tendrils of the Uroboros virus a few seconds thereafter.
- In Roots of Pacha, Jelrod removes his shirt at the beach in his second hangout event to show off his toned pecs. He says that he was just getting some reps in after setting up the hangout spot so quickly. However, the protagonist ignores the fanservice, either because they don't think he needed to show off, or they find a random bird more interesting.
- Garcia begins Shadows of the Damned shirtless, grabbing his leather jacket just before he jumps into the portal to Hell.
- Soul Series: This can happen to some of the male characters from Soulcalibur IV onwards, thanks to the implementation of the Clothing Damage system. A notable example is Patroklos from Soulcalibur V, who has two versions (the normal one that wields the sword and shield, and α Patroklos, who utilizes Setsuka's fighting style). Normal Patroklos only loses his shoulder armor by the clothing damage, and he stays fully clothed throughout. α Patroklos, on the other hand, doesn't wear the shoulder armor from the beginning, so clothing damage tears off his entire shirt.
- T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger is a PS1 game where the main character is a shirtless male kung-fu tiger. Most of the characters in the game are shirtless males, some more built than others.
- It is possible, in Tales of Symphonia, to complete a mini-quest that gives you swimsuit outfits for four members of the party. Involving no shirts for the guys, of course.
- Also worth noting that all Tales Series games after Symphonia have optional swimsuit costumes. In fact, when Richard from Tales of Graces doesn't get a swimsuit, it's lampshaded by the resident Troll who explains that Richard swims in his royal regalia.
- Shiki Tohno in the sequel/fandisc of Tsukihime is shirtless in one possible evening scene at the mansion. He addresses the three female occupants of the house while toweling off his hair, and they are all appropriately stunned by the almighty Tohno Gland. Akiha even apologizes for something in her daze.
- Ramsus, a white-haired villain from Xenogears, apparently sleeps in speedos, with a naked Miang in the bed behind him.
