Clothing Damage/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's clothes gets damaged, often played for Fan Service.
 * Straight: Bob gets into a fight and has his shirt ripped off.
 * Exaggerated: When Bob goes into the fight, he's fully clothed. By the end of it, he's completely naked.
 * Downplayed: Bob gets a small tear on his sleeve, but that's it.
 * Justified: Bob isn't wearing armour and he's up against an opponent with a bladed weapon.
 * Inverted: During the fight, Bob's opponent throws another shirt on him.
 * Subverted: Bob gets his shirt ripped off in the fight, only to reveal he's got another one underneath.
 * Double Subverted: Then he loses that one.
 * Parodied: Whenever Bob does so much as strike a pose, his shirt explodes. Whenever he walks by a branch, it tears his shirt off. He just looks that good shirtless.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Bob's shirt was armoured, and without it, his enemy is easily able to strike a crippling blow.
 * Bob gets a nasty flesh wound to go along with losing his shirt, negating most of the fan service.
 * Reconstructed:
 * Bob notices his armour is gone and adapts his tactics to accommodate for it.
 * Bob explicitly wears loose, fragile clothes which tear easily, so that his enemies believe he has taken more hits than he actually has.
 * Bob's opponent is female, and once he loses his shirt, he's able to defeat her easily because she's too busy ogling his abs.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob loses his shirt in the fight, but is wearing another one under it. Then later, it gets damaged, but magically fixes itself. Then he loses it anyway.
 * Averted: If Bob fights at all, his clothes are unscathed throughout.
 * Enforced: "Bob's our number-one Mr. Fanservice, and everyone wants to see him with his shirt off. Why don't we use this big fight as an excuse for him to lose it?"
 * Lampshaded:
 * "Great. Bob, did you lose your shirt again? The tailor's getting annoyed with you."
 * When Bob loses his shirt, he just so happens to look like he's posing, and his female teammates can be seen swooning in the background.
 * Invoked:
 * Bob rips up his own shirt, just because.
 * Bob is a Handsome Lech who's trying to lose his shirt so he can show off to his female teammates.
 * Defied: Bob specifically wears a shirt that's resistant to tearing.
 * Discussed: "That's Bob. He tends to lose his shirt a lot, so watch out, ladies."
 * Conversed: "Yeah, they're just blatantly having Bob's shirt get ripped so we can see his muscles."

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