History Main / DefeatByModesty

* ''Literature/KonoSuba'' has the protagonist Kazuma lead an adventuring party. One of the first skills he learns is "Steal," which lets him magically abscond any one item from an adversary. Kazuma tends to encounter female acolytes and defeats them by using Steal to attain their lingerie. Being girls, this feat greatly unnerves them. Two such acolytes, knowing what Kazuma can do, flee in dread from him while Kazuma merely wiggles his fingers. A sampling of this talent in action is viewable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFYKJY1L2sQ here]].

* Defied in ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' unpublished comic book story "[[https://archive.org/details/unpublishedppgcomic Powerbuff Girl]] (illustrated by Christopher Cook), where Bubbles goes through a nudist phase and her sisters Blossom and Buttercup are forced to take on the Mean Streaks naked because of moths eating the clothes of everyone in Townsville. Before confronting the Mean Streaks, Buttercup covers herself using Blossom's bow and Blossom covers up using her long hair. The Mean Streaks manage to use Buttercup and Blossom's modesty against them when Les Playdoctor uses a knife to slash off Blossom's bow and Buffy the Wardrobe Slayer forcibly ties Blossom's hair up with chains, but the two end up deciding that stopping the criminals is more important than covering up their nudity after seeing Bubbles fight the crooks nude without any concern of being uncovered and proceed to stop hiding and start fighting back against the Mean Streaks.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Make 'Em Laugh", [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] falls out of the sky. Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} catches him with his grappling hook, but Joker ends up with his pants around his ankles, making all the bystanders laugh at him as he's dragged away by the police. Humiliated, he puts the trophy he stole over his head.

* Male (mostly) example: in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda: The Secrets of Furious Five'', we learn that the Monkey's preferred tactic was to take the opponents' pants. "But [Master] Oogway wore no pants..."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'': In "Mother Mae Eye" while See-More is fighting [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]], See-More reveals he had "see-through" vision and then gazes intently at Starfire, which prompts her to cover herself up while blushing. This allows her to be an easy target from See-More's next attack.

* Done in Lee Kang Woo's Korean manhwa ''Manhwa/{{Rebirth}}'', to prove a point. Shy priestess Millenear is sparring with vampire anti-hero love interest Deshwitat to prove to him that she is strong enough to help him save the world. Desh tears her clothes apart, making her drop to her knees to cover herself and yell at him for being a brute -- whereupon he calmly puts his hand to her throat and tells her "you're dead".

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' episode "The Boys Are Back In Town", near the end Blossom manages to defeat her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]], Brick, by pulling his pants down. This results in him [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything literally shrinking in size.]] Before that, she deduced that the Puffs' counterparts' new weakness was that "whenever their masculinity is threatened, they shrink in size." Masculinity threatened, indeed.

* ''Manga/DragonHalf'', where breaking [[TheHero Mink]]'s [[ChainmailBikini platemail bikini top]] turns out to be a ''{{b|erserkButton}}ig'' mistake for [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Doug/Dug]] Fin, when she immediately punches him out of the ring while covering herself with one arm. In the OVA it's played with further, when Mink gets a little overexcited at the sight of her friends cheering at the victory, causing her to throw her arms into the air and show her assets to the crowd.

* ''Manga/TimeStopBrave'':

** Swordmaster Leafa Colby slashed the shirt off a man who was harrassing her with her sword to embarrass him into retreating.

A character incapacitates his or her opponent by stealing or [[ClothingDamage damaging]] their clothes in a way that threatens to expose them if they continue to fight. This trope has [[AlwaysFemale many more female examples than male]] for [[MaleGaze some reason]].