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Basic Trope: Some is severely underdressed for the occasion.

  • Straight: Alice is about to receive the Medal of Honor from the President for her heroics. She’s in a singlet and sweatpants.
  • Exaggerated: Alice receives the Medal of Honor from the President fully nude and spends the rest of the ceremony and banquet that way.
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice is dressed in a very cheap suit.
    • Alice is dressed in a plain long-sleeved shirt and jeans.
  • Justified:
    • Alice saved the President while in her outfit (or naked) and they find it fitting that she attends it.
    • Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl and the President happens to be a proponent of nudism, so he accepts her request to be nude on the condition media networks censor her.
    • Alice is wearing a Flag Bikini to show off her patriotism.
  • Inverted:
    • Alice attends her niece’s birthday party in a tuxedo.
    • Alice attends her niece’s birthday party naked, possibly accidentally.
    • Alice attends a nudist beach party dressed in a tuxedo.
  • Subverted:
    • Alice was just struck by The Nudifier.
    • Initially dressed casually, Alice activates a device that changes her outfit to a formal suit or dress.
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice proceeds with the ceremony anyway.
    • The device malfunctions and strips her naked.
    • Her new outfit is a skimy Flag Bikini.
  • Parodied: Alice’s outfit has an insulting cartoon of the President on it.
  • Averted: Alice dresses formally.
  • Defied:???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited:
  • Played for Laughs:
  • Played for Drama:
    • Alice is the Sex Slave of Emperor Evulz. He forces her to attend a formal party naked to symbolise his ownership over her. Guests and socialites taunt and grope her, and one socialite turns out to be a Psycho Lesbian who attempts to rape her.
    • Alice had nude photos and videos of herself leaked before she became a hero and saved the President. She attends the ceremony nude and gives a speech condemning her bullies and abusers and how she still keeps her pride.
  • Played for Horror:
  • Implied:
    • Alice is a known Shameless Fanservice Girl. She’s only seen from the neck up as she arrives at the award ceremony, but the audience is seen gasping and murmuring.
    • Alice is a known Shameless Fanservice Girl. She fondly recalls meeting the President and flustering him somehow.
    • A photo of Alice casually dressed next to the President is seen.
  • Unparodied: The President is enraged by the insult and refuses to award Alice and even attempts to attack her.
  • Untwisted: ???
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???

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