History Main / NakedOnRevival

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': This happens to Kikyō for her resurrection, since her bones had been used to essentially create a golem. By the time they track down her {{Reincarnation}} Kagome to put her soul into the new body she's acquired a set.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': This happens to Kikyō for her resurrection.

** Shinji gets absorbed into his Eva which leaves his plugsuit behind. Later on, the Eva's core spits him back out naked.

* Happened to Clare from {{Claymore}} when she was brought back from her fusion with the Destroyer (where she existed as a consciousness only while her original body was dissolved), when she was brought back to perfectly recreated original body she was not only [[FanService missing her clothes]] but also the [[FanDisservice stitches that were keeping shut the wound across the entire front of her body]]

* When Rogue fell into the Siege Perilous, she was wearing Ms. Marvel's costume. When she was reborn in ''Uncanny ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' #269, she was naked (in the sequence of panels she first appeared as a skeletion, then grew muscles, then skin).

* When Rogue fell into the Siege Perilous, she was wearing Ms. Marvel's costume. When she was reborn in ''Uncanny {{X-Men}}'' #269, she was naked (in the sequence of panels she first appeared as a skeletion, then grew muscles, then skin).

* ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Voldemort's first words upon stepping out of the cauldron he was resurrected in were, "Robe me."

* This is what happened to the title character of ''JohnDoe'', [[spoiler:after PHOENIX successfully yo-yoed him into Heaven and back again]].

* ''{{Series/Stargate SG-1}}''

* Jackie Chan's character in ''The Medallion'' is brought back to life by said magic medallion when he was already at the morgue, his clothes removed from the autopsy. Averted a while later in the movie, when he does the same thing to bring back his love interest shortly after she died (still clothed), his partner even protests saying right away: "But when he came back, he was NAKED!"

* In {{Star Trek Voyager}}, when the Doctor is building a holographic body for the (female) Vidiian doctor, the reconstruction shows the skeleton being constructed, then travels up the body as the musculature is added (looking like a text-book diagram), to finally settle on her face as the skin layer is finally added.

* When Rogue fell into the Siege Perilous, she was wearing Ms. Marvel's costume. When she was reborn in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #269, she was naked (in the sequence of panels she first appeared as a skeletion, then grew muscles, then skin).

* In a non-post-death example, in the novelisation of ''Alien'' the crew of the ''Nostromo'' comes out of hypersleep in this state of undress.

* In [[Star Trek Voyager]], when the Doctor is building a holographic body for the (female) Vidiian doctor, the reconstruction shows the skeleton being constructed, then travels up the body as the musculature is added (looking like a text-book diagram), to finally settle on her face as the skin layer is finally added.

* PhilipJoseFarmer's ''{{Riverworld}}'' series of books, the entire population of Planet Earth from all times and eras is resurected for a surprise Afterlife on the Riverworld. On the Day of Awakening, everyone is reborn naked. This causes a lot of ''Angst'' for those from the Victorian and other prudish eras.

* ''Manga/Dragonball'' Averted by Shenlong when he revives Krillin after Namek and throws some clothes on him "as a bonus."

* ''{{Anime/Yu-Gi-Oh}}'': Yami Yugi's FetalPositionRebirth during the Doma saga. Of course, it got cut by the North American dub.

* ''Anime/InuYasha'': This happens to Kikyô for her resurrection.

* Jackie Chan's character in ''The Medallion'' is brought back to life by said magic medallion when he was already at the morgue, his clothes removed from the autopsy. Averted a while later in the movie, when he does the same thing to bring back his love interest shortly after she died (Still clothed), his partner even protests saying right away: "But when he came back, he was NAKED!"

* Gandalf in ''TheLordOfTheRings''. WordOfGod clarified that when Gandalf said, "Naked I was sent back," he wasn't speaking figuratively.

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''

* Claire in ''{{Heroes}},'' because her [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue clothes had been removed for autopsy]]. When the branch lodged in the "no HealingFactor if this gets screwed with" part of her brain was removed, she woke up and gave everyone a good scare. However, she's still covered with a cloth at the time - sorry, no {{Fanservice}}.

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[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* ''VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'' gave us the Vampire Carmilla, reviving herself out of pure blood, naked in a casket.
* Not immediately apparent, but the hero of ''{{Guyver}}'' is killed when his control metal is ripped out of his head and his body consumes itself. A new body later forms from the control metal itself, but when the Guyver armor recedes, he's naturally without clothing.
* ''YuGiOh'': Yami Yugi's FetalPositionRebirth during the Doma saga. Of course, it got cut by the North American dub.
* [[spoiler: [[FullmetalAlchemist Alphonse Elric]]]] at the end of the manga. They were nice enough to throw a blanket over the severely-malnourished body though.
* Shinji in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' gets absorbed into his Eva which leaves his plugsuit behind. Later on, the Eva's core spits him back out naked.

* ''FushigiYuugi'' [[spoiler: After summoning the spirit of [[TheFourGods Suzaku]], Miaka's first wish was to return Yui, who had been absorbed by Seriyuu a few epsiodes ago. As her brother and his friend were headed to her location, they see a light and from there was Yui, who was without clothes.]]
* ''{{InuYasha}}'': This happened to Kikyou.

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[[AC:Film]]
* Leeloo in ''TheFifthElement'' is reconstructed FromASingleCell, and naturally clothing doesn't come with that, though the machine puts bandage-clothing on her shortly afterward.

* [[spoiler: Ella]] in ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''.

[[AC:Literature]]

* [[HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Voldemort's]] first words upon stepping out of the cauldron he was resurrected in were, "Robe me."
* {{Philip Jose Farmer}}'s ''{{Riverworld}}'' series of books, the entire population of Planet Earth from all times and eras is ressurected for a surprise Afterlife on the Riverworld. On the Day of Awakening, everyone is reborn naked. This causes a lot of ''Angst'' for those from the Victorian and other prudish eras.

[[AC:Live Action TV]]

* Cylon Ressurrection works this way in ''BattlestarGalactica'', since the Cylons are basically ArtificialHuman clones.
* When Daniel comes back from AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence in ''StargateSG1'', this trope is in full force. When Daniel later gets the chance to discuss this with another ascended being, she mentions being brought back to life was entirely his idea, but when he protests she admits that the naked part wasn't, so apparently that's just how it works.
** He does it twice, and the second time it's played for laughs, with O'Neil lampshading that he always comes back that way.

* ''{{Angel}}'': When Wolfram & Hart resurrected Angel's dam, Darla, she came back nude.
** As did Angel himself in the third season of BuffyTheVampireSlayer. Technically, he came back from a hell dimension, not actual death, but it was used in the same way.
* [[spoiler:Desmond]] in the ''{{Lost}}'' season 3 premiere is an arguable example. Arguable because we still have [[TheyJustDidntCare no freaking clue as to what really happened there]]. He probably didn't die, but he did have a near-death experience that ''should'' [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat have resulted in his death]], and [[PlotHole he woke up without his clothes anyway]].

[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''MortalKombat9'', Sindel is revived from a skeleton; we see the muscles and blood vessels forming on her bones, but the camera sticks above the chestline once she has skin.
* In ''ChronoCross'', Serge is very much naked after the flame switches his body back to normal.

[[AC:Webcomics]]
* In ''{{Narbonic}}'', when Caliban and Mell are respectively kicked out of the afterlife onto Earth, they're both starkers.
* ''OrderOfTheStick'': When [[spoiler:Roy, the leader of ''OrderOfTheStick'',]] is brought back to life, he's totally nude and covered only by a blurry section near his crotch. Roy says to Belkar that if he could spend some time being dead, they could tolerate a little full frontal.
** After Vaarsuvius is polymorphed into a lizard, Durkon casts a Remove Curse and V hides behind a dragon to put xir clothes on.
* This trope was ''fully'' exploited in ''Crushed: The Doomed Kitty'', a now-defunct webcomic by the ''{{Supermegatopia}}'' brothers. Crushed was a female adventurer, and every time she died (which was often), she'd resurrect at the Temple of Infinite Lives, without all her equipment and clothing. She'd have to go back to her previous body to get it all back, just like in ''{{Diablo}}''. This also applied to every other adventurer in the comic, and total party wipes were quite common, resulting in a small horde of naked people popping into existence at the temple.

* When Daniel comes back from AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence in ''StargateSG1'', this trope is in full force.
** He does it twice, and the second time it's played for laughs, with O'Neil lampshading that he always comes back that way

* When Roy, the leader of ''OrderOfTheStick'', is brought back to life, he's totally nude and covered only by a blurry section near his crotch. Roy says to Belkar that if he could spend some time being dead, they could tolerate a little full frontal.

* When Daniel comes back from AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence in ''StargateSG1'', this trope is in full force.