Tropes about the removal or damaging of clothing, either voluntary or involuntary.
See also Theiss Titillation Theory, Stripperiffic (which, despite the name, doesn't require removing clothes).
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Tropes:
- Action Dress Rip: An Action Girl rips her dress before leaping into action.
- All Cloth Unravels: Anything made of cloth can unravel into a single thread.
- Battle Strip: Taking some clothes off before a fight.
- Chippendales Dancers: Male strippers.
- Clothing Damage: Somebody's clothing gets damaged.
- The Coats Are Off: Taking off your coat/jacket in a dramatic way before the action.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: Somebody's underwear is shown.
- Defeat by Modesty: A character defeats another one by stealing or damaging their clothes.
- Defiant Strip: Stripping as an act of defiance or protest.
- Dress Hits Floor: A female character takes her dress off and we see it hit the floor.
- Empty Piles of Clothing: A pile of empty clothes is found, without knowing what happened to the owner.
- Family-Friendly Stripper: A character whose outfit is thought of as "sexy" but covers everything up.
- Final Battle-Induced Shirt Loss: The protagonist's shirt gets torn off by the antagonist's attacks during an important or final battle.
- Flung Clothing: Tossing your disguise away in one motion.
- From Dress to Dressing: Makeshift bandages made of clothing.
- Getting Hot in Here: Characters take their clothes off because of the heat.
- Giving Them the Strip: Stripping to escape.
- Hanging Our Clothes to Dry: A group of characters get wet and hang the clothes out to dry.
- Instant Cosplay Surprise: Someone doesn't react to clothing they have been made to wear until it is completely on.
- Jumping Out of a Cake: A giant cake with a person jumping out of it, often a stripper.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: A struggle causes someone to lose a piece of clothing, but nothing rude is shown or implied.
- Mugged for Disguise: A character mugs another character of their clothing so they can disguise themselves.
- "No Peeking!" Request: A character requests another to turn away or not to look while they undress.
- The Nudifier: People end up naked because a device, magic spell, substance, or whatever is designed to destroy clothing is used on them.
- Nudity Equals Honesty: Naked characters can be trusted.
- Open Shirt Taunt: A character takes their shirt off to dare another one to attack them.
- Outfit-Rip Sex Check: A character is made to reveal their sex in a non-consensual matter such as ripping off their clothing.
- Pants-Pulling Prank: A common practical joke of pulling pants down unexpectedly.
- Posthuman Nudism: A character strips off their clothes after they undergo a change that nullifies the need for them.
- Right Out of My Clothes: A character jumps out of their clothes.
- Rip Tailoring: Ripping a piece of clothing to make it better.
- Sex Dressed: Characters dressed up in a hasty way after sex.
- Sexy Coat Flashing: Someone reveals a stripperific outfit under their clothes.
- Shameful Strip: Stripping to highlight vulnerability.
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: When you shapeshift, your clothes don't.
- Showing Off the New Body: A villain possesses someone and shows their new body off.
- Slip into Something More Comfortable: Stripperific clothes are comfortable.
- Slippery Swimsuit: A character loses their swimsuit in the water.
- Spit Out a Shoe: Something or someone eats a character and spits out a shoe or other article of clothing, often implying death.
- Stripper/Cop Confusion: Strippers mistaken for police officers or vice versa.
- Stripping Snag: Accidental stripping due to clothing getting snagged by some object.
- Stripping the Scarecrow: Naked People Trapped Outside use a scarecrow's clothing.
- Strip Poker: A stripping-related game.
- Take Off Your Clothes: A non-sexual example of a person asking another one to take their clothes off.
- Undressing the Unconscious: A character has their clothes removed or changed after being rendered unconscious.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Losing one's clothes.
- Wardrobe Wound: Characters act like they have been wounded when their clothes get dirty or damaged.
- Watching the Reflection Undress: A character asks another character to turn around while they undress, but the second character watches their reflection.
- You Can Leave Your Hat On: A striptease.
