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{{quote|'''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''': Don't you just wish this moment could last forever?

 

He isn't a pervert. No, really! His hands just ''happened'' to slip and find themselves [[Thanks for the Mammary|on her breasts]]. He just ''happened'' to trip on that rug over there and land (probably head-first) on top of her [[Funbag Airbag|ample chest]]. Maybe he needed to use the bathroom and ran into her taking a bath or a shower. And he just ''happened'' to be there when [[Marilyn Maneuver|the only wind of the day blew up her skirt]] and his only sin was [[Male Gaze|instinctive goggling]]. He can't help it if his honest-to-goodness accidental moves make him come off as as a lech that can't even muster the... "slickness"... of the [[Casanova Wannabe]].

 

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== Advertising ==

* There's an ad where a woman on a plane attempts to climb over the sleeping man sitting next to her to get to the aisle. Through a series of mishaps, she ends up with her sleeves snagged (pinning her arms behind her back) and her blouse popping open. The man wakes up with the woman's breasts (covered by her bra) in his face. [[Distracted by the Sexy|This troper can't remember what the ad was for, though.]]

 

 

** In an episode of the anime, the girls actually spot an impostor Keitaro when he catches a falling Shinobu without "tripping and falling and landing with his head up her skirt."

* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': It happened several times, not only to Kouji (which is not surprising) but also to Sayaka. One example of it was original manga's episode 8 when they saw each other naked [[Hot Springs Episode|in the hot springs]]. Curiously there was not slapping or reproaching. After the initials screams they calmed down and apologized at each other. It was even cute.

** This drops out of sight almost completely when the drama gets dialed [[Up to Eleven]].

* This happens occasionally to Makoto Mizuhara in ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]''. Primarily when he was serving as ''Princess'' Fatora's [[Body Double]].

* Densuke from ''[[Eiken]]'' is as much a parody of this trope as ''Eiken'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Harem]] anime. It has happened so often, Chiharu (the other half of the [[Official Couple]]) has learned to recognize Densuke by ''how'' he gropes her breasts.

** The [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|nameless Teacher]] advising the club also tends to fall into compromising positions in front of Densuke—if she and Densuke collide, things get ''really'' [[Hentai|weird]]. (On the other hand, the Teacher is also a [[Covert Pervert]].)

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Negi occasionally falls into these situations. But because of his age, the girls are usually far more likely to blow it off or tease him about it than they are to get mad. Hell, they probably ''put'' him in the situation in the first place just to tease him! Okay, except for the billion or so times he [[Sneeze of Doom|sneezes]] and [[Clothing Damage|magically blows all their clothes off]].

** It also happens almost as frequently to the ''female'' characters, due to Negi's age absolving him of blame. For example, in one of the many "Asuna and Negi fall on top of each other while naked" scenes, a bunch of the other girls [[Not What It Looks Like|walk in on them]] and accuse Asuna of having her way with their innocent young teacher. Or the time when Ayaka walked in on Makie peeking under Negi's towel. Or when Setsuna [[Groin Attack|grabbed Negi's crotch]] during a fight because she didn't realize it was him.

** Luca changed in front of him and even [http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/hayate_no_gotoku/en/0/325/page/14 got into a bath] that Hayate was in, when she thought Hayate was a girl. This caused her a lot of embarrassment when [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|she finds out the truth.]]

** This even happens to [http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/hayate_no_gotoku/en/0/325/page/17 Segawa], who isn't even that major of a character.

** Also partially subverted in the first season with Yuuno. HE knows that he's actually a human male, [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|as opposed to the sentient ferret he appears to be]], and that Nanoha should probably not be doing things like undressing in front of him and dragging him into the girl's bath at the local hot springs. She, however, is ignorant of this fact, and proceeds to do both of the above. To his credit, he ''thought'' she was aware of his true form, and presumably he simply believed she just wasn't a very modest person. And in both of the above situations, he has the good grace to freakin' ''[[Blank White Eyes|panic.]]''

*** Of course, Yuuno might actually have had the right idea about her! [[All There in the Manual|Years later]], in the pre-''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|StrikerS]]'' manga, Nanoha ''still'' wants to take Yuuno with her on a girls-only trip to a hot springs resort. Yuuno is understandably still nonplussed. [[Ship Tease|What this says about Nanoha's thoughts toward him is a matter of interpretation.]] Unfortunately, we never hear what the other girls who went on the trip (and who also knew about Yuuno) thought about Nanoha's idea.

* Subverted in ''[[Vandread]]'', where the females in the crew, being unused to sexual interactions with men, rarely seem to mind the protagonist walking straight into their [[Gainaxing|jiggling]] bosoms, often letting him loiter for a bit.

** The above example only has one practitioner, Jura, who is a tremendous flirt. But the trope also played to an extreme in the episode where Hibiki's Accidental Perversion gets Bart thrown into quarantine, and leads to a strange campaign to get rid of the men—involving spacesuits worn as quarantine outfits. The girl he ended up in a compromising situation with is extremely reclusive and actually wears a full-size bear costume as her "uniform".

* As usual, ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' subverts this trope with Shinji, whose forays into Accidental Perversion hint at the sexual frustration and confusion that add to his many psychological problems. The culmination of this subplot in ''[[Writer Revolt|End Of Evangelion]]'', when he {{spoiler|masturbates over Asuka's comatose body}}, has become a [[Never Live It Down]] moment for Shinji.

** Episode 5 of the TV series has Shinji dropping off stuff at Rei's apartment, when a naked-except-for-a-towel Rei steps out of the shower. Shinji trips and falls on top of her, his hand landing on her naked breast. Her only reaction? [[Emotionless Girl|Stoically]] ask him to get off.

*** Really, the Rebuild version isn't all that different from the TV series - in fact, it's shot-for-shot, pose-for-pose alike except for a single detail: they moved a [[Scenery Censor|critical table lamp]] about two feet to the left.

** ''Rebuild 2.0'' ups the ante several degrees. Remember the toothpick scene from ''1.0'' and the TV series? This time Asuka is on the receiving end (with [[Scenery Censor]] assistance, unfortunately) and Shinji happens to turn around. It takes her a few seconds to realize why he is blushing but when she does, does she bother to cover herself? Noooo, she runs up and '''kicks him in the face while stark naked''' then has the audacity to call him a "stupid pervert". Also, when Mari parachutes onto the school roof she lands on Shinji. It takes her a few seconds to realize she has a boy in [[Marshmallow Hell]].

{{quote|'''Kyon:''' That sweet, innocent girl... can't seem to figure out how to lock a door.}}

** Though Mikuru does ''not'' think he is a pervert because of it. Fascinatingly, she's not even embarrassed after the incident, happily pouring tea into his cup afterwards.

* Kouta Oyamuda from ''[[Kanokon]]'' is frequently falling into this position in front of the girls at his school, such as that they call him the "Great Ero-King". Actually, it's quite the opposite: ''Chizuru'' (his girlfriend) is the one who's always making a move for him and getting the both of them into... questionable positions.

* Ryo in ''[[Penguin Revolution]]'' keeps accidentally catching Yukari bathing or changing clothes, and usually gets things thrown at his head when he does.

* Sōsuke falls afoul of this trope a few times in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', at one point causing [[Tsundere|Kaname]] to come at him with a baseball bat.

** In one episode he pulls a [[Diving Save]] to get Kaname out of the path of a truck, and ends up [[Thanks for the Mammary|with a hand on her breasts]]. Unusually, [[Covert Pervert|she actually seems to enjoy it for a few seconds]] before returning to normal and smacking him.

* ''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]'': Kindaichi is a genuine pervert who tries to pretend that he got into these kinds of situations by accident, but he has had his share of unintentional walk-ins, including one time he accidentally barged into a bathroom while it was occupied. {{spoiler|He'd [[Eureka Moment|then realize later]] that the character claiming to be female had been peeing with the toilet seat up, and this lead to the solution to the mystery.}}

** Considering the fact that Tails is a lot more innocent than Dr. Robotnik or Metal Sonic, his case was probably more believable to Sarah.

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', since Ran doesn't know [[Older Than They Look|Shinichi/Conan's real identity]], she's either undressed in front of the kid and/or taken baths with him. Eagerly lampshaded by his mother Yukiko, who after she manages to keep Ran from finding out his identity, eagerly tells him that Ran would be ''not happy'' to find out that the kid she took baths in front of was actually the love interest she's [[Tsundere]] for...

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Winry walks into her bedroom and starts undressing, without realizing Ed is in the room with her. He only gets to see some [[Underboobs|underboob]], but her reaction is [[Tsundere|explosive]] nonetheless.

** In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]], Ed accidentally grabs Psyren's breast while fighting her, and blushes awkwardly. Psyren lampshades this and asks him if it's the first time he's fought a woman.

* Jin from ''[[Kannagi]]''; our hero always seems to find himself in strange situations when his [[Clingy Jealous Girl|childhood friend]] comes in.

* In the [[Yaoi Fangirl]]'s corner of the ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' fandom, it's become something of a running gag to have Syaoran walk in on Kurogane and Fai while they're in the midst of sex. Most of this is pure [[Rule of Funny]], since Syaoran is so straight-laced and noble (at least when it comes to sex and Sakura) most of the time.

** Another twist the fandom uses sometimes is to have Sakura catch them and either not know what's going on [[Yaoi Fangirl|or like it]].

* ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' sees Kenichi accidentally groping Miu on a few occasions, usually when one of his master scares him. His first reaction is usually to run right to Miu and grab her from behind, leading to [[Thanks for the Mammary|the inevitable]]...

* Partially subverted in the case of ''[[Tona Gura]]'' male lead Yuuji Kagura. He doesn't mean to walk in on female lead Kazuki in awkward situations, but he also doesn't hesitate to exploit them.

* In ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'', Rin ends up this way with just about every girl he can court, and inevitably with one he normally cannot (the last leads to a heated argument about who is more perverted).

** Not to mention Soul. [[Ms. Fanservice|Blair]] [[Naked First Impression|really]] [[Marshmallow Hell|isn't]] [[Stripperific|helping]] [[Nosebleed|his]] [[Not What It Looks Like|relationship]] with [[Tsundere|Maka]].

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. Really, Tamahome, how much of an Accidental Pervert can you get?

* Kyōsuke in ''Ultimate!! [[Hentai Kamen]]''. A few other characters, but mostly him; possibly due to his [[Only Sane Man]] syndrome.

* Nonomiya Nono from ''[[Nononono]]'' seizes on the assumption that she's a pervert/transvestite rather than be found out as a girl when the local [[Tsundere]] finds her changing and sees her panties.

* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'', when Kira is trying to get Lacus off the Archangel, he attempts to give a space suit to put on, but they both quickly notice that it won't fit over the very long dress she is wearing. Lacus responds by, to Kira's chagrin, taking it off right in front of him, giving the audience of very good shot of her panty.

* Since it's a harem comedy, this happens a few times to Maeda from ''[[Ai Kora]]''. Though given that Maeda ''is'' [[Loveable Sex Maniac|a raging pervert]], the girls can usually be forgiven for jumping to this conclusion.

* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': Gray is searching for Lucy in her house, decides that she might be taking a bath, and imagines a scenario in which he bursts into the bathroom, and Lucy, clad only in a towel, slaps him and accuses him of being a pervert. He then tells himself that it was bound to happen eventually and does it anyway. It's also mentioned that Gray is often considered to be an Accidental Pervert because he has a habit of [[Naked People Are Funny|subconsciously stripping to his underwear.]]

** Of course, there's also the first meeting with his love interest, a woman whose magic causes her body to be made entirely out of water. When trying to freeze her in the middle of battle he grabs the first thing he can get a hold of: her boob.

* Kosuda from ''[[B Gata H Kei]]'' provides examples of this on a few occasions, though the difference is that his girlfriend (and series protagonist) Yamada ''wants it''.

** Problem is, he has no idea. That she wants it. Or even that she's his girlfriend.

* A rare example of the accidental pervert getting away with it: In ''[[Ultimate Girls]]'' [[Kaiju]] obsessed high school reporter Makoto hears someone in a room yell "monster", bursts in, takes several photos, reloads his camera, takes more photos, realizes his mistake, and politely leaves. The room was filled with girls who were changing their clothes. Several seconds go by before the first of them reacts.

* In the OVA of ''Guyver'': out of control; after his first battle, Sho carries and unconscious Mizuki to her house. She then wakes up to see him carry her, more specifically notices his hand under her rear. She then jumps off him and says "Sho, you're a pervert!!" before running off. Leaving him confused.

* Chigusa, from ''[[Silver Diamond]]'', is a frequent example of this trope. So much so that he gets labelled as a pervert by almost every single character that meets him. Pretty much the only one who doesn't is his most frequent victim, [[Chaste Hero|Rakan]].

* Whenever Kagome is bathing and isn't in her own time, [[Inuyasha]] will see her naked.

* Masataka of ''[[Sakura Gari]]'' meets Katsuragi... when he walks in on him giving Souma head.

 

** This is later mirrored by D.C and Eclipse.

* [[Sailor Moon|Ami]] from ''[[Dungeon Keeper Ami]]'' terrifies everyone, partially because of her fearsome reputation (up to this point, she's beaten [[Big Red Devil|a Horned Reaper]], what is possibly [[Mighty Glacier|the oldest dragon in the world]] and [[Game Breaker|the Avatar]], all in single combat). But the only thing that everyone seems to recall is her reputation for being the biggest, [[Not What It Looks Like|most depraved]] [[Malicious Slander|rapist]] [[Never Live It Down|ever]].

 

== Literature ==

 

== Film (Live Action) ==

* ''[[The View Askewniverse|Mallrats]]'' has [[Silent Bob]] turning into one of these: each time a [[Zany Scheme]] backfires, he ends up in a women's dressing room, where he sees a girl in the process of trying on clothes. And it's always the same girl.

** The girl in question, Gwen, is later seen changing in semi-public while talking to Brodie and TS, claiming that it saves him the effort.

* Does [[Jackie Chan]] do the famed: "Double Hand Accidental Breast Grab" maneuver once per movie, or does it just seem like it?

* Frank Drebin in the first ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' movie. See the entry in [[Thanks for the Mammary]] for more detail.

{{quote|'''Zoo Patron''': I can see why they keep him in a cage.}}

* ''[[There's Something About Mary]]'': While Ted is in the bathroom waiting for Mary to finish dressing up, he stares at a bird through a window. The bird then flies away, which reveals the half naked Mary through a window on the other side...

* Andrew in ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'' repeatedly tries to save Kate from animals that attack her, but the animals run off before she notices them and all she sees is Andrew grabbing her while she's undressing.

* In ''[[Superbad]],'' Even accidentally brushes his crush's breast when someone in the hall bumps into his arm.

 

== Manhwa ==

* Minwoo from ''[[Metal Heart (Manhwa)|Metal Heart]]''.

 

== Mythology ==

* According to one version of the story, the [[Blind Seer]] Tiresias received his powers this way. While out for a walk one day he saw Athena bathing in a lake, and she reacted by blinding him. When she realized that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and not trying to peep after all, she gave him the power of foresight as an apology.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* There's an episode of ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' where Chloe is using the Ancient equivalent of a shower when the power goes out. She calls out for Eli, he comes running... and just ''happens'' to shine his flashlight on her, getting a full frontal before realization hits and he stutters an apology while looking away. [[Fan Service|Too bad the camera's positioned behind her]].

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Beast Below" the Doctor is holding Amy out of the TARDIS by her ankle, looks up her nightdress and laughs. Cue Amy giving him a look.

* In ''[[Eastenders]]'' Billy Mitchell was hazed on the day before his wedding and found himself wearing nothing but his boxers. He tries to ask a woman for some spare clothes, but then her dog tears off his boxers and she calls the police (even though she could clearly see the dog did it).

* In the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "Say Cheese", a flashback involving a picture with [[Guns N' Roses|Slash]] reveals that Marshall had been grabbing Barney's ass instead of Lily's all along.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': ''Polymorph''. When you're writhing on the floor, begging an android with a large tube attached to its crotch to pull off your underwear, it's kind of easy for people to [[It Makes Sense in Context|get the wrong idea]].

* In a silent spot on the classic Red Skelton show, Red is wooing a tall woman with a large, and pushed up, bust. Her father, a short, bald man objects. At one point her father arrives and the young woman runs away. Red does not see this because he is bashfully looking the other way. He reaches over to, I guess, take her hand and his hand comes to rest on the guy's bald head. Red panics and pulls his hand away. It's been all these years and I still do not know what the audience at the time was supposed to think. Was he panicking because the father was there, or was he panicking because his hand had come to rest on her partially exposed breast? Given censorship and the subversion of it in comedy, I really do not know.

 

== Video Games ==

* For completely legitimate and case-related reasons [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice]] winds up in possession of two sets of panties, one belonging to a fifteen-year-old girl and the other to a mob boss' wife. The judge is rather disturbed by this.

* In [[Ace Attorney Investigations]], case 5, poor Edgeworth ends up with [[Abhorrent Admirer|Wendy Oldbag's]] undershirt as evidence. Franziska takes this the wrong way and promptly whips him.

** Subverted in the OAV when Lloyd trips and falls on top of Collete. Both of them are [[Chaste Hero|too innocent]] to see it as anything other than funny.

** Played straight in an optional scene in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]] 2'', where Lloyd becomes the accidental pervert ''again'', in an almost identical situation to the first game. It's inverted in a different version of that scene, where Emil decides to go into the hot springs alone, and it's ''Marta'', his main love interest, who peeps in on him and then ''joins him''. He chivalrously tries to resist her advances, but ends up catching the attention of the rest of the party, who naturally dub him a pervert. Both Emil and Marta try to explain, but everyone thinks Marta is just trying to cover for Emil. Of course, only Lloyd truly believes him.

'''Kuuya:''' You idiot! Who bathes in a hot spring with his clothes on!?

'''Kohina:''' If you're a Peeping Tom, you should admit it. Be proud of who you are! }}

* Subverted in ''[[Agarest Senki]] Mariage'''s second generation. Ciela walks in on her female friends naked, [[Thanks for the Mammary|accidentally gropes them]] and more classic examples of this trope but, being a girl, finds the other party members ignore it or even encourage her instead of attacking. Played straight in the first generation (and the second generation if the main character is male) though.

 

== Visual Novels ==

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]: Newspaper'' arc [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2004-06-01 Non-Gratuitous Nudity] began with Sarah "caught" by her friend.

 

== Web Original ==

* Parodied in ''[[Tales of MU]]'', when Mackenzie walks in on a fully-clothed Amaranth, who—being a nymph—displays the typical outraged reaction of a human girl caught in a state of undress.

* Michael Garcia in ''[[The Impossible Man]]'' can never get a break with his female employees... except for one subversion in the entire story.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Finn falls victim to this once more in "Marceline's Closet" when he enters Marceline's bathroom just after she removed her clothes to take a bath.

* He also has one at the start of ''Incendium''.

* The ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Naked Ambition" centers around this. Bobby accidentally sees his cousin Luanne naked, and when he tells his friend Joseph, Joseph becomes obsessed with getting a look. His attempt to peep causes Bobby's girlfriend Connie to accidentally think they're peeping on ''her''. At the end of the episode, Connie's father also accidentally sees Luanne and when she screams about it, Joseph (who's passing by on his bike) says "Aw man!"

* In the ''[[Popeye]]'' short "A Dream Walking" a sleepwalking Olive walks into a construction site, prompting Popeye and Bluto to keep her safe until she gets home. Eventually Olive makes her way back to her room, but when she sees Popeye looking at her in the window she thinks he's being a [[The Peeping Tom|Peeping Tom]] [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|and starts throwing stuff at him]].

 

== Real Life ==

* This happens often enough [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19sell.html?_r=1 in stores] that companies have studied how to prevent it from happening. Customers who do this tend to leave the store quickly without buying anything.<ref>In his book “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping” (2000), Mr. Underhill expounded on the dangers of “butt brushes” (if the aisles are too narrow and people brush up against each other when they pass, they tend to leave the store)</ref>

* [[Newsnight|Jeremy Paxman]] of all people became this in an interview while explaining how hard it can be to interview [[Boris Johnson]]. Explaining how Johnson tended to pat him on the arm repeatedly in interviews, he proceeded to miss the hostess' upper arm and immediately apologise.

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