Basic Trope: A female character spreads their legs while sitting down and exposes their genitals as a tribute to Basic Instinct.
- Straight: Alice spreads her legs to reveal she’s Going Commando.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice drapes her legs over the sides of the chair.
- Alice is already fully nude, making both her breasts and genitals visible.
- Alice masturbates and brings herself to orgasm.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is wearing underwear under her skirt.
- Alice is wearing yoga pants.
- Justified:
- Alice is doing this to entice her boyfriend Bob into sex.
- Alice wants to unnerve the detective interrogating her.
- Inverted: Embarrassed over her nudity, Alice squeezes her legs together as she sits on a chair.
- Gender-Inverted: Bob, wearing a kilt or towel, spreads his legs so his dick is visible.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied:
- When Alice realises she's bottomless, she shrieks and stands up. The dress snags on the chair and strips her nude.
- Sharon Stone arrives, shoves Alice off the chair and and continues the scene in her place.
- Averted: Alice looks like she's going to do this, but instead swings her leg back the way it came without opening her legs.
- Defied:
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice's weak spot happens to be in her crotch, and Bob somehow goads her into the film reference.
- Played for Laughs: Alice is wearing Goofy Print Underwear.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is stripped naked and forced into a chair by her kidnappers. They set up a camera to broadcast a hostage video worldwide and force her to open her legs.
- Alice is doing this to seduce little Billy, who she intends to molest.
- Played for Horror:.
- Implied: Alice is seen sitting on a chair smirking. The interrogators are seen looking away flustered at one point while she is off-screen.
- Unparodied: ???
- Untwisted: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
