Clothing Damage/Western Animation

One episode of Totally Spies! actually has a minion shoot the girls with a "clothes shrinking ray".
Samurai Jack loses clothing this way quite frequently. Seriously, just about every other episode.
- In an episode of the fifth season, the Lazarus-92 alien completely destroys Aki's clothing; seeing as she is an Innocent Fanservice Girl, it doesn't cause her to stop fighting it for even a second, until a mortified Jack gives her his gi.
The Duck Dodgers episode "Samurai Quack" parodies the above by having Daffy (in the role of Jack) insist that he and Aku can't have their big fight until he's ripped off his shirt, hakama pants, and hair tie, leaving him near-naked and wild-haired. He then rips his own flesh off leaving him a skeleton.
Teen Titans
- Played to its most disturbing in the episode "Birthmark" where Slade actively tears Raven's clothes, showcasing the various demonic birthmarks that show up on her skin. The intense shredding eventually leaves Raven clad in a ragged bikini, and is so reminiscent of rape for all intents and purposes that it's a wonder how it got past the radar.
  - This gets more disturbing when you recall what had happened next afterwards :someone from Newgrounds named ZONE-SAMA recreates the entire sequence where the Mind Rape escalates into actual rape!
- In a more traditional application of the trope, Robin gets the sleeves of his martial arts tunic ripped off by a Threshold Guardians in "The Quest". Fangirls were... quite pleased.
- In "Haunted" Robin's costume is heavily damaged following his battle with Slade's projection. He also damages his costume in Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo during his fight with Saico-Tek.
- And in "The Beast Within", Beastboy's costume us shredded every time he turns into the werebeast. And yet it remains intact when he turns into an elephant, dinosaur, whale, or other animal of enormous proportions.
The early '90s X-Men animated series:
- In a first-season episode, Rogue confronts Apocalypse. He hits her with an energy blast that blows back, then shreds, then vaporizes her jacket. Rogue being '90s Rogue, and this being a) a kid's show and b) the Marvel Universe where pretty much everyone uses Unstable Molecules, there was no other damage done on the surface. Of course, no damage was needed; convenient angles and the fact that Rogue was deprived of her bomber jacket provided all the Fan Service the scene needed.
- Also sometimes in battle Wolverine would get his shirt ripped or blown off.
X-Men Evolution
- Something similar happens in this show, but somewhat justified. Rogue is hit head-on by a massive fire blast from Pyro. Having just absorbed Colossus' metal skin power, she comes out of it unharmed. Her clothes, however, are burned off except for the obvious necessary bits and some extra scraps.
- Happens other times in Evolution, especially with Scott. Whenever he got into a rough situation, his shirt would usually get ripped, exposing half of his chest.
One Treehouse of Horror segment on The Simpsons was based on the film The Fantastic Voyage. It has a sequence where white cells attack Marge (who was given a Stripperiffic outfit and made unusually busty just for this episode) and eat away at her clothing. "But they seemed to know just where to stop".
Has begun happening to Kevin from Ben 10 Alien Force in a couple of episodes, sealing his fate as the Mr. Fanservice.
The Final Battle of Avatar: The Last Airbender has Aang losing his shirt, though the Magic Pants stay firmly in place and unripped. This is actually important though:hitting his scar on a rock ended up unleashing the Avatar State. Zuko also got his shirt torn taking the lightning for Katara.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
- In an episode, Raphael tears his own (rented) tux to shreds as he draws his laser-sais when a fight breaks out.
- In another episode April's outfit gets shredded when Raphael pulls her out of some thorns she then proceeds to tear off the loose parts of her clothing.
One particular scene in the Danny Phantom Grand Finale had this happen to Danny no less than three times in a row!
In the Adventure Time episode "Finn the Wizard", an asteroid that Finn has destroyed shatters into pieces, tearing apart Finn's and the other Wizards' clothes, as well as Jake's fur, thus rendering them nude.
No matter what happened to Zeta in The Zeta Project, he never had so much as a rip in his clothes—because they're a holographic projection outside his robotic shell. Ro only has occasional clothing damage, usually to her jeans.
In Family Guy, this happens to Peter every time he fights Ernie the giant chicken.
King of the Hill
- In the episode "Texas City Twister", when a tornado strikes the trailer park the Hills are at and Hank fails to make it to the shelter, he grabs onto a nearby pole the force of the tornado shreds Hank's clothes bit by bit until he's left in his underwear which eventually blows off too, he covers himself with a cactus so Luanne won't have to see his private parts.
- This has happens to other characters like Luanne in "Propane Boom part II"; her shirt and jeans get damaged in the explosion but it's minimal and she also loses her hair.
- Bill got his shirt ripped off his newly adopted Rottweiler in "Dances With Dogs".
- And Dale got heavy clothing damage when he accidentally blew up a mini propane tank in "Master of Puppets".
At least a couple of moments in Justice League.
- One instance that comes to mind is The Flash in "Divided We Fall".
- Also, Superman in "Hereafter."
Batman/Superman
- In a Crossover episode, Bruce Wayne is kidnapped by Brainiac (not for being Batman, which he doesn't know, but for being filthy rich), so Robin recruits Supes to help him find Bruce. In the meantime, Supes poses as Batman by wearing his suit (over the top of his own) and using his superior muscle control to fake Batman's voice. When they confront Brainiac, he blasts "Batman" with a beam that would've killed a human. Then Superman walks out of the flame, the Batsuit completely burned away, but his own clothes and cape just fine.
- In the first crossover of the two, Harley Quin and Lex Luthor's driver have a Cat Fight while Lex and the Joker have a "business discussion" about killing Batman and Superman. When the fight is over, both of the girls' clothing are very ripped, but none of it is very revealing, and it is QUITE clear that the girls are in all kinds of pain.
Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe: Renegades suffers this on a couple of occasions, but never enough that we can see his face.
During the events of Tokyo Mater, Mater actually gets parts of his new paint job in Japan gradually peeled off by Kabuto, the short's villain, as their race progresses because of Kabuto's tendency to strip his rivals of their own paint if they lost to him. But at the end of the short, Mater wins the race though with almost all of his paint peeled away, and as a result Kabuto ends up losing his own paint job.
Good thing Superboy bought so many shirts in Young Justice. His favorite boots were destroyed by magma though.
On The Spectacular Spider-Man, Peter's suit suffers this a lot. Not generally Fanservice.
Catwoman's suit receives a pretty hefty helping of this by the end of DC Showcase: Catwoman.
Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes
- Happens to The Wasp, Captain America (comics), Black Panther, and several civilians and SHIELD agents (but not Iron Man) after The Leader unleashes a gamma explosion that turns them into monsters.
- In an early episode, Captain America's outfit gets torn when a WWII-era pursuit of Red Skull instead results in an explosion, causing Cap to drown into the Arctic Ocean and freeze for over 60 years.
Futurama: Enforced in "I Second That Emotion." When Leela is offered up as a "virgin" sacrifice by the sewer mutants, the mutant leader orders a minion to chain her to a post, then tear her shirt a little.
Played for laughs in one episode of Adventures of the Gummi Bears, where Sir Tuxford's armor is destroyed by the out-of-control dragon-decoy (which Tuxford believes is an actual dragon) forcing him to make his report to the King in his long underwear. In front of the other soldiers.
In an episode of the 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Continuity Reboot, part of Teela's shirt rips while defending a village of hobbit-like folks from Skeletor's slime zombies, exposing her midriff, and she loses her barrette, causing her hair to fall loose. By pure coincidence, this small change makes her look exactly how the locals remember her mother (as in, the Sorceress) who had defended their village decades ago.
in the old Pac-Man cartoon, Mesmeron wasn't harmed by Pac-Man's chomping, but his clothes were a different story. Every confrontation between the two would end with his dark, scary sorcerer robes torn to shreds. Fortunately for him he had a whole wardrobe full of identical robes.

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