Basic Trope: A character is naked or gets naked after losing their sanity.
- Straight: Evil Emily, after her defeat in the first movie, suffers a Villainous Breakdown. She is next seen running around naked, laughing like a madwoman.
- Exaggerated:
- Every character who is even slightly odd is naked.
- Emily lashes out violently when anyone suggests she puts clothes on.
- Downplayed:
- Emily wears only a pair of shorts or is in her underwear or a small bikini.
- Emily has a panic attack about something being in her clothes that leads her to strip naked, but she's still somewhat lucid.
- Justified:
- Emily is so insane that she no longer cares about modesty.
- Emily hallucinates that her clothes have bugs or slime or whatever in them and takes them off.
- Emily thinks the government hid wiretaps in her clothes.
- Emily felt that she was overheating and takes her clothes off to cool herself down.
- Emily was taking a bath or naked for another reason when she had her mental breakdown.
- Inverted:
- Emily was a Shameless Fanservice Girl. Her wearing clothes is a sign something's really not right.
- Emily always wears clothes, even in the shower, because she believes that she is being watched even when all alone.
- Emily had been insane, but after she regains full sanity, she decides to live in the nude.
- Subverted:
- Emily runs into a clothing store and steals a dress to wear.
- Emily seems oblivious to her nudity because she's insane, but when somebody points it out to her, she has a Naked Freak-Out.
- Double Subverted:
- In the very next scene, she strips nude again.
- Her Freak Out was about something unrelated to her nudity.
- Parodied:
- Emily literally thinks she's a nut.
- Emily strips naked when she can't even tell if everything she thinks she knows is true.
- The crazier someone is, the more skin they show. Alice, the Only Sane Man, initially wears a biker suit with a helmet, but after slight Sanity Slippage, she's ditched the helmet and even showed some cleavage.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Between each of her scenes, Emily alternates between naked and clothed and between sane and insane.
- Emily lost her sanity and stopped wearing clothes, whereas Alice stopped wearing clothes while keeping her sanity and Brenda lost her sanity but kept her clothes.
- Averted:
- Emily doesn't get nude.
- Emily doesn't suffer Sanity Slippage.
- Emily suffers Sanity Slippage and gets nude, but these events have nothing to do with each other.
- Enforced: "This arc with Emily losing it is great, but we need more Fanservice this season." "There's an easy solution for that."
- Lampshaded: "Sheesh, Evil Emily really has lost it! No sane person would run around without clothes on."
- Invoked:
- Emily is Obfuscating Insanity and decides to run around stark naked as part of the illusion.
- Knowing that Emily is on the brink, Alice hints that she might have poisoned Emily's clothes in hopes she'll lose it and run around naked.
- Exploited:
- Someone steals Emily's clothes, knowing nobody will listen to her because she's known to be insane.
- A pervert drives Emily to insanity so she will strip.
- Defied:
- The authorities capture and clothe Emily.
- Emily leaves notes around her house saying "Keep your clothes on!" just in case she has a need to do this.
- Emily is a nudist who does various intellectual activities and, when needed, takes her medication to keep herself from going insane.
- Discussed: "I don't think you can get much crazier than 'Running Down Main Street Nude'."
- Conversed: "You know, I feel sorry for her. She might have been a villain, but nobody deserves to be driven so insane that they run around naked."
- Deconstructed:
- The heroic characters feel pity for Emily. She might have been their enemy, but now that she's in this state, they feel like they should have just killed her or put her in prison.
- Emily was providing for her children Amy and Ben. Now that she's naked and crazy, Amy and Ben are liable to go without necessities or comforts.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice and Bob help Emily regain her sanity and reform until she becomes a hero … though she stays naked.
- Alice and Bob provide for Amy and Ben when Emily loses everything.
- Played for Laughs: Naked People Are Funny.
- Played for Drama: Emily is raped while in that state, and nobody believes her because they think either she's making it up or she deserved it.
- Played for Horror:
- Emily was an inmate at an asylum who was locked nude in a padded room. She escapes and goes on a killing spree, not bothering with clothes.
- Emily, nude and insane, runs directly into the mouth of a monster, which swallows her whole and alive.
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