History PlayingWith / BatheHerAndBringHerToMe

* '''Played For Laughs''': The villain has SuperOCD, and can't stand to be in the same room as the heroine until she's extra squeaky clean, and thus keeps sending her back to the bath, over and over.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** The bathing has an alternate motive, such as helping the prisoner relax via the scrubbing, or the shampoo having a {{brainwash|ed}}ing [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible cranium rinse.]]
** Having Holly bathed and brought to his chambers is Dirk's (admittedly twisted) idea of "romance."

** He merely wishes to inform her of [[IDidWhatIHadToDo the necessity behind capturing her]].[[note]]he could even turn out to be GoodAllAlong[[/note]]
** A ''hero'' or an AffablyEvil villain asks his or her henchmen to bathe the damsel, but because she has been on a long journey/hopeless flight from {{Mooks}} and must be uncomfortably dirty.

* '''Enforced''': "We want Holly to be the show's MsFanservice without her [[MadonnaWhoreComplex coming off as a whore]]. I know, we'll have Dirk's servants forcably strip and bathe her and then bring her to his bed chamber."

* '''Defied''': "I already have a beautiful and loyal kept woman, why would I want to have a female prisoner cleaned up and brought to my bed chamber?"

* '''Gender Inverted''': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Princess Olga]]’s personal guard capture Hans and she orders him to be cleaned and taken to her quarters.

** Princess Holly is kidnapped by a barbarian tribe, and is dirtied up so she can be passed off as a commener.

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* '''Enforced''': "We want Holly to be the show's MsFanservice without her coming off as a whore. I know, we'll have Dirk's servants forcably strip and bathe her and then bring her to his bed chamber."

* '''Invoked''':
** "Guards, take her to my maidservants. [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Have them clean her up and put her in my quarters.]]"
** Holly's fed up with constant adventures and lack of proper grooming, so she seducing Dick in hope for good bath.

** "Clean every molecule off her! I want her sterile when she enters my chambers!"

** Dirk bathes Holly himself.

** Every other damsel is subjected to this treatment.

** Holly is subjected to ultraviolet sterilization, disinfectant baths, [[Literature/TheAndromedaStrain an ultraflash apparatus]], total submersion in bleach and disinfectant, numerous injections of antibiotics and sulphanilamides, vigorous dental cleaning, emetic tablets, high-pressure water hosing, exposure to various wavelengths of radiation, hosing down with silver nitrate solution, baths in soap and shampoo, [[UpToEleven forced donning of an oxygen mask and exposure for 10 minutes to an atmosphere in which the air has been replaced by perfume]], a broad spectrum of medical tests, a psychiatric evaluation, oral, nasal, aural, and ocular cleansing, gastric lavage, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking manicures and pedicures]], and overall stricter sterilization procedures than a NASA cleanroom.

* '''Double Subverted''': The villain order the damsel to be bathed to see is she is a water-allergic shapechanger. A minion compliments the villain for his cleverness, but objects that just a little drop would have done the business. "I like both naked women and scented soap" replies the villain "Now leave the room. No visitors for ten minutes."

** Holly is subjected to ultraviolet sterilization, disinfectant baths, [[Literature/TheAndromedaStrain an ultraflash apparatus]], total submersion in bleach and disinfectant, numerous injections of antibiotics and sulphanilamides, vigorous dental cleaning, emetic tablets, high-pressure water hosing, exposure to various wavelengths of radiation, hosing down with silver nitrate solution, baths in soap and shampoo, [[UpToEleven forced donning of an oxygen mask and exposure for 10 minutes to an atmosphere in which the air has been replaced by perfume]], a broad spectrum of medical tests, a psychiatric evaluation, oral, nasal, aural, and ocular cleansing, gastric lavage, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking manicures and pedicures]], and overall stricter sterilization procedures then a NASA cleanroom.