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Basic Trope: A character panics after being stripped naked.

  • Straight: Alice screams and runs away when she is stripped naked.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice covers herself up and starts hyperventilating.
    • Alice freaks out after being stripped to her underwear.
  • Justified: Alice was stripped naked in front of a large group of people.
  • Inverted: Alice, a Shameless Fanservice Girl, freaks out when found she finds that she’s suddenly been clothed and immediately strips off.
  • Subverted: Alice is stripped naked. She looks down and acts like nothing’s wrong.
  • Double Subverted:
    • She has a Double Take and freaks out.
    • A Circle of Shame then forms around Alcid and onlookers laugh at her, call her names and take photos of her, causing her resolve to break.
  • Parodied:
    • Alice is seemingly a Shameless Fanservice Girl who spends the entire work naked in public. As she is being interviewed on TV, the host asks her about her exhibitionism. Alice learns that she is naked and freaks out.
    • Alice performs a dramatic song or monologue about her nudity.
    • Alice performs an elaborate Broadway-sequel song about how she hates getting stripped naked in public, which includes backup dancers, a full orchestra and her parading down the street and singing into a microphone. After the song ends, the backup dancers and orchestra laugh at Alice, who covers herself up.
    • Alice performs a Piss-Take Rap about how she hates getting stripped naked in public.
    • Alice is The Bore and when she finds that she’s naked, “freaks out” in a monotone. Everyone keeps ignoring her.
    • Alice freaks out, but she is actually a Shameless Fanservice Girl and was really just mad that she lost her designer clothes.
    • Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl who “freaks out” in a unconvincing way in order to avoid public nudity charges.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice is stripped naked various times during the work. Depending on who sees her and how many people see her naked, how she was stripped or the situation she is in, she either panics, ignores her nudity or takes pride in showing off her body.
  • Averted: Alice is never stripped naked.
  • Enforced: Fanservice
  • Lampshaded: "Alice, calm down. Here's a coat."
  • Invoked: Alice, usually a Shameless Fanservice Girl, feigns embarrassment at her nudity to attract Bob to rescue her.
  • Exploited:
    • Brittany strips Alice naked to make her lose focus in the fight.
    • Brittany strips Alice naked to make her humiliate herself in public.
  • Defied: Despite being embarrassed, Alice keeps herself calm to avoid humiliating herself further and so she can concentrate on escaping or finding clothes.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "!"
  • Deconstructed:
    • Alice’s panic leads her run away, only to find another crowd or walk into danger.
    • Alice’s reaction to her nudity is found humorous the onlookers.
  • Reconstructed:
    • The onlookers feel bad for Alice after seeing her distressed and help her get clothed.
  • Played For Laughs: Naked People Are Funny
  • Played for Drama:
  • Played for Horror:
    • Alice is freaking out because she is about to be gang-raped in public.
    • Alice turns Ax-Crazy and starts attacking random people.
    • The distress activated Alice’s supernatural powers and she goes Carrie on the onlookers.

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