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{{quote|'''Suzuka''': ''Give that back!''
'''Gene''': ''Which one?'' (Her sword or her
'''Suzuka''': ''Both of them!''
'''Gene''': ''Hmmmmmmm.'' ''(sniffs the
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A (usually) male character incapacitates a (usually) female opponent by stealing or [[Clothing Damage|damaging]] her clothes in a way that threatens to expose her if she continues the fight. Somewhat related to [[Standard Female Grab Area]] in that both actions can incapacitate an allegedly strong female character who doesn't act (or refuses to be) soft and submissive.
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Can also happen to a guy, as not that many guys in fiction feel it's right to show their [[Unusual Euphemism|little selves]] in public.
The polar opposite would be, of course, a woman [[Show Some Leg|using her own body]] (usually with a [[Stripperific]] outfit) as a [[Distracted
Be careful though. [[Defeat Means Friendship]] can still apply here as well, even if the circumstances seem odd. If the girl doesn't care about being disrobed and rushes you anyway, it's a [[Full-Frontal Assault]]. If baring all is done in order to escape rather than to keep fighting, it's [[Giving Them the Strip]]. Often employed by those who [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]].
Compare [[Hannibal Lecture]] (in which a character uses emotional shame to defeat an enemy), [[Shameful Strip]] (in which a character ends up naked as punishment), [[Wardrobe Malfunction]] (in which a character ''accidentally'' ends up naked), and [[Naked Freak-Out]] ([[Exactly What It Says
Contrast [[Sexy Coat Flashing]] (in which a [usually female] character clad in an
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', Gene defeats Suzuka by stealing her obi (belt), leaving her unable to attack him without her kimono falling open. The superior position and the hostage is then used for negotiation, to great effect.
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** Inverted by Takane D. Goodman who upon defeat is stripped due to her clothes being produced by magic.
*** Actually, this is a running gag, as Takane tries to get revenge on Negi stripping her with magic by picking multiple fights with him, where every one ends with her once again naked. At one point, she uses her shadow magic to magically generate her clothes. Naturally, Negi KO'ed her and the clothes disappeared as she loses consciousness. Then after that she ends up fighting [[Anti-Magic|Asuna]]. Then, trying to defend the campus against the robot hordes, she gets hit with their "nakey beams" at that point again. Her friend tells her to just give up, and resign herself to a fate of [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]].
** [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsuku]][[Stalker
** Fate accidentally did this to Asuna; he was attempting to [[Taken for Granite|petrify her]], but her [[Anti-Magic]] made her immune. Her clothes, however...
** Negi does this to the group of Ariadne guards when they attempt to arrest him, by combining a disarming spell with his [[Black Magic]]. In his defense, it was really the only way of ending the fight without hurting anyone.
** And it was also recently done to Asuna (again) with a mild subversion; this time she shouts "Oh, like I care anymore!" and [[Full-Frontal Assault|continues to attack anyway]]. {{spoiler|It's a pity it isn't really her, or this'd easily be a CMOA.}}
*** Oh, it's still a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her, {{spoiler|seeing as even though she's is a fake, [[Master of Disguise|Shiori]] as "Asuna" is a ''perfect'' copy of her personality, so it might as well be the real one. The real Asuna would certainly say the same type of one liner in that situation}}.
* The start of ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''; Ataru catches Lum by stealing her [[Fur Bikini]], so she has to cover her breasts with her hands and can't fly as fast. Unfortunately what he said just before that made her think they were engaged right then.
** He does it to get her to come to him, rather than him having to chase her around. In the anime, he uses a suction cup on a string, while in the movie ''Beautiful Dreamer'' he takes it up a notch and just reaches into his pants [[Impossible Thief|and pulls it out]], saying, "Hey! Look what I got!"
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* Flat-out averted in ''[[Rave Master]].'' [[Action Girl]] Julia faces off with an especially perverted member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Six Guard]] who enjoys using his powers to blow apart her clothing. Julia refuses to submit, and even ''rips off the remains of her own bra'' to prove the point that modesty will not defeat her. She eventually beats him down with no regard to her nudity, and in fact fully intends to tell her lover Let about all the onlookers who saw her to see what'll happen.
* Turned on its head in both the manga and live action version of ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]''. A female swordsman, after being defeated and raped by a swordsman who used a form of hypnotism and mind tricks, came up with a method that would allow her to revenge herself against him in a future match. It essentially involved having two incredibly realistic (and honestly disturbing) tattoos etched on her breasts and back. Whenever she was attacked, [[Full-Frontal Assault|she'd rip off her clothes and expose the tattoos before rushing and killing her attackers]], who were usually too taken back to defend themselves effectively. [[Fetish Fuel|The fact that a mostly naked woman was running at them with a sword probably didn't help]]. Can also be seen as a very twisted version of [[Show Some Leg]].
* In ''[[Toradora
* Used in ''[[Kenichi:
** Subverted with Miu who, in spite of being the very embodiment of girlish modesty (and [[Yamato Nadeshiko|traditional Japanese politeness]]) in this manga, never gets upset about a [[Clothing Damage]] until ''after'' the fight is over.
** Also subverted by one of the combatants, Dou Koukyouku from the Nanken team, whose shirt is torn to shreds by Rachel, leaving her absolutely topless. Her response is to shout at her, "Hmph! I gave up my identity as a woman long ago!" and holds her stance. Doubly subverted by the fact that Dou still gets her ass handed to her by Rachel, who's pissed by the fact that Dou was getting more attention than her. And then to top it all off, RACHEL'S top then comes undone, which other characters note she did herself.
* ''[[
* Done in Lee Kang Woo's Korean manhwa ''[[Rebirth]]'', to prove a point. Shy priestess Millenear is sparring with vampire anti-hero love interest Deshwitat to prove to him that she is strong enough to help him save the world. Desh tears her clothes apart, making her drop to her knees to cover herself and yell at him for being a brute - whereupon he calmly puts his hand to her throat and tells her "you're dead".
* Subverted in ''[[Dragon Half]]'', where breaking [[The Hero|Mink]]'s [[Chainmail Bikini|platemail bikini top]] turns out to be a ''[[Berserk Button|big]]'' mistake for [[Spell My Name
** In the OVA it's played with further, when Mink gets a little overexcited at the sight of her friends cheering at the victory, causing her to throw her arms into the air and show her assets to the crowd.
* The bad guys try to use this on Loretta in ''[[Wild
* A common trick used by Satou Kazuma - the [[Anti-Hero]] protagonist of ''[[KonoSuba]]''- is to use magic to snatch the underwear of female opponents. Satou has quite the reputation of a dirty fighter.
* In the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]'' manga, [[Complete Monster|Vocal]] rips off [[Stripperific|Ocarina]]'s bra when she is about to unload her most powerful attack on him, making her stop in the mid-move to cover herself. Considering that Vocal was lightyears beyond Ocarina's power level anyway, this was done purely for lulz.
* ''[[One Piece]]'',
** Of all the people to fall to this
** [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Nightin]] tries to do this to Boa Hancock in the ''3D2Y'' special, using her odd fighting style (where she drinks alchemy-made concoctions and spits them at foes) to dissolve her dress and make her too embarrassed to fight. It doesn't work - Hancock is a [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]] who could care less. Nightin is also wrong that she can use another of her concoctions to resist [[Taken for Granite|Hancock's powers.]]
* In ''[[Grenadier]]'', Rushuna is prevented from doing her trademark evasive acrobatics after a stray bullet rips her panties off. She [[Invincible Hero|still wins]], though.
** In the manga she doesn't even mind, which leads to [[Censor Shadow]] later in the fight.
* Inverted in ''[[Ultimate Girls]].'' The girls' clothing begins a disintegrating process from the moment they enter battle, and their shame and embarrassment at their pending nudity actually ''enhances'' their powers.
* In her ploy to get the inheritance stone of the Sanzenin in ''[[
** Earlier, Hayate apologetically interrupted Sonia's [[Motive Rant]] to tell her that because of the pose she'd taken up and the fact that she was standing above him, her intended victims could see up under her skirt. She promptly crouched down to hold her skirt in a less revealing position.
* In the Masaomi Kanzaki ''[[
* The girls of ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' usually avert this trope. Hakufu, one of the protagonists, will be mostly or entirely topless in her average fight against a challenging opponent. There are examples of those who play the trope straight as well.
* In ''[[Psychic Academy]]'', Ai once did this by accident. He made his first Jump (Teleportation), lost his balance on landing, and [[Accidental Pervert|accidentally groped his opponent's breasts while regaining his balance]]. The woman he was fighting burst into tears and ran away.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', Lelouch is able to win an argument against Kallen by pointing out the fact she is only wearing a Bunny suit (the Playboy version, we mean). You may think the [[Ms. Fanservice]] who performed a [[Full-Frontal Assault]] on Suzaku would be immune to that, but apparently it's different when Lelouch is the one looking.
* This is a favorite tactic of [[Samurai|Goemon]] from ''[[Lupin III]]''. In his fights against (usually male) [[Mooks]], he often dispatches them by cutting off all their clothes with his [[Implausible Fencing Powers]].
* [[Inverted]] in ''[[Ranma
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[The DCU|DC comic]], ''[[Firestorm|The Fury of Firestorm]]'', this is how title character defeats the female terrorist, Plastique, who has started the detonation function for the [[Action Bomb|bombs on her costume]] which she intends to use to either kill her hostages or make herself a martyr for her cause. Firestorm thwarts both aims with one movement when he turns her costume to vapor. The bombs instantly drop off her, allowing Firestorm to collect them so that they can be disposed of elsewhere, while she is reduced to a naked laughing stock.
* Back when Genosha was a country where mutants were enslaved, the [[X
* Thanks to inept swordsmanship, this happened to ''both'' [[Mickey Mouse]] and Pete in the same fight in one of the older comics. Both rushed off . . . to find some empty barrels, [[Subverted Trope|using them for purposes of modesty but continuing the fight]].
* The [[Metal Men]] defeated Giganta by (accidentally) ripping her clothes off, and agreeing to act as a makeshift bikini in exchange for her turning herself in.
* Tigra pulled this on Moonstone/"[[Ms. Marvel]]" by slashing the front of her costume, therefore leaving her, ahem, open for a crowd of paparazzi photographers.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Antonio Banderas does this to Catherine Zeta-Jones during their [[Sword Fight]] in ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]''. [[Sex Sells|It was pretty much the entirety of the film's ad campaign]].
* In the kids' film ''[[
* Inversion in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Happens to Alanna in [[Tamora Pierce
** Happens again in her duel with Duke Roger: He gets in a slash that cuts open her tunic and incidentally slices through the thing she was wearing to bind her chest. Extra points 'cause he had no idea that would happen.
** Speaking of [[Tamora Pierce]], Sandry manages this in ''[[Circle of Magic|Will of the Empress]]'' for a non-violent victory over her would-be kidnappers: A stitch witch, she unstitches their armor, weaponry, and much of their clothing.
** Didn't she tie them up with it, though?
** And for the hat trick, Daine in ''[[Tortall Universe|The Immortals]]'' fights her final battle with the big bad naked of both magic (because of exhaustion) and clothes (because there's no [[Magic Pants]] aspect to her shapeshifting ability) - naked except for {{spoiler|the badger god's claw, which she wears as a pendant, and turns out to make a handy knife}}.
* Averted in ''[[Star Wars|Shatterpoint]]'': Mace Windu is cornered by a pair of militia in a public shower and beats the crap out of them. [[Badass|As if you'd expect less of him]].
* Variation in the ''[[Redwall]]'' book ''Lord Brocktree''. The (mostly male) vermin foraging gangs captured by the Bark Crew are forced to remove their clothes and walk back to the fortress naked. [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|May not have the same impact as with human characters, though.]]
== [[Live
* Jamie, in ''[[Mad About You]]'', uses a threat to drain a man's bubble bath as a negotiating ploy.
* During the final immunity challenge of ''[[Survivor]]'''s fourth season, Kathy lost her balance while attempting to stop a breast from slipping out of her shirt.
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** In the Heroes vs. Villains season, villain Sandra tried to do this to hero Sugar by pulling her top off during a challenge. Sugar, not the least fazed, won the round and flipped Sandra off with both hands.
* Averted by Jon on Season 4 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', when he did the final Roadblock naked.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]''; Jack tries this on Emilia, draining the tub to get her to confess where she's hidden an idol they're competing over. She tells him it's under her bed...which is actually where she left a bunch of mouse-traps, and she was actually bathing ''with'' the idol.
* Subverted in ''[[Firefly]]''; Mal initially acts awkwardly indignant at being forced to strip and left in the desert, when the plan comes to fruition, he swaggers around with self-satisfied confidence before his crew, in no hurry to dress.
* Played straight in an episode of ''[[Shasta McNasty]]''.
* [[Sherlock]] (in Buckingham Palace, wearing only a sheet) refuses to take a case and starts striding out of the room. Mycroft Holmes steps on his sheet.
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"Or what?"
"Or I'll just walk away."
"I'll let you." }}
* In an episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', the protagonist tries to assassinate Cyane by attacking her in her bedchamber. Xena grossly underestimates the Amazon Queen, who humiliates her foe by stripping her of her armor piece by piece - and then donning it herself - eventually forcing Xena to flee in shame wearing only a loincloth.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In a very rare non-sexual example, [[Kirby|Meta Knight]] will flee any fight in which his intimidating mask is destroyed or otherwise removed. Why? Presumably because he doesn't want the world to know he looks like a blue Kirby with a cape.
* In the PC fighting game ''Bikini Karate Babes'', Venus, one of the boss characters, has a grab move that swipes the bikini top off certain fighters. This sends the opponent running off-screen while covering her breasts in embarrassment, [[One-Hit Kill|thus ending the round]].
* In ''[[
* In a rare heroic example, getting hit by a scimitar in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped]]'' will cut Crash's pants off, causing him to shamefully slink away while attempting to cover his [[Goofy Print Underwear|pink polka-dot boxers.]]
* Burt the Bashful, the first boss in ''[[
** The Burt Bros. in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' are defeated in the same way.
* The female wrestling game ''[[Rumble Roses]]'' actually has a Humiliation bar. When your enemy's h-bar is full, you can do an h-move, which is a very powerful submission. If you win, it is an H-KO. (Which isn't any different from a normal win, unless you set "H-KO only" from the options.) While there isn't any stripping, most of the H-moves and the moves use to fill the bar in the first place, would turn most people red. (However, some moves would make you scratch your head trying to find the humiliation in them.)
** Really, they should call it the f-bar, for [[Fan Service]].
** H as in [[Ecchi]] sounds about right to me.
* Almost everyone who's played ''[[Punch
* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' in the "La La" stage the character you're trying to help, Cap White, gets nearly all of her(already quite revealing) dress torn off by her rival Mr. Virus
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* In ''[[Samurai Legend Musashi]]'', ''[[Gadgeteer Genius|Malbec]]'' fights alongside his assistants, since cutting female lab assistants in half isn't very heroic, ''[[Clothing Damage|guess what happens when you attack them?]]''
* In ''Revenge of [[Shinobi]]'' among your enemies are women whose dresses are shredded when hit by enough shuriken, leaving them sitting on the ground holding up what remains of their clothes rather than dying.
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* H-Game ''[[Lightning Warrior Raidy]]'' has this whenever you completely drain out an enemy's HP.
* Nearly every foot soldier in ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]'' and its sequels is defeated this way.
* In ''[[Mario Is Missing]]'', Luigi defeats Bowser by [[Removable Shell| swiping his shell]] (and naturally, Bowser wears [[Goofy Print Underwear]]) and then shoving the humiliated villain off the castle walls.
* A key gameplay mechanic of the ''[[Akiba's Trip]]'' franchise, where stealing or destroying an opponent's clothes is the main method of combat. While [[Our Vampires Are Different|Shadow Soul or Synthister]] (in the first or second game respectively) opponents will burn to a crisp once their bodies [[Weakened by the Light|are exposed to sunlight]], if you get into a fight with a normal human they will instead run away once their clothing is removed.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Played with in ''[[
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** Not that she'd be fazed if it had worked. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050523 Modesty isn't exactly one of her weaknesses].
** In the novelization she '''isn't''' wearing special underwear ... but the warriors of Skifander's "Double Guard" always train in the nude.
* Subverted in ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'', during the [[Web Comics/Awesome|fight]] between Zerlocke's sire and bunny!Mye.
* ''[[Magellan]]'' has a character with the ability to turn himself but not his clothes into gas, rendering him unable to affect anything until he reforms... which he refuses to do without his clothes, so throwing them away during a fight is a smart move.
* An [http://www.exiern.com/?p=94 interesting example] in ''[[Exiern]]''.
* In the middle of a trial by combat with a female vampire in ''[[Sorcery 101]]'', Seth slides his hand under her skirt and gropes her. She's so furious that she immediately summons a black fireball and slams him out of the ring, seemingly leaving her the victor. Unfortunately, someone was too upset to remember magic was prohibited.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110103122620/http://www.sorcery101.net/2006/sorcery101/20060906-3/ "He is on my lawn unable to move! How exactly does he win?!"]
* Inverted in supplemental material for ''[[
* Male example in ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'': Eric [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], so he attempts to impress his skill with a sword on [[Pirate Girl|Giovanna]] by [[Clothing Damage|removing her hat and]] [[Of Corsets Sexy|corset]]. She responds by cutting his pants off, then clonks him on the head when he tries to cover himself.
* A justified example is given in an early chapter of ''[[
* ''[[
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Chaos Fighters]] II-Cyberion Strike''. {{spoiler|Etliz}} was suffering from [[Clothing Damage
* Inverted at the end of the [[Homestar Runner|''Cheat Commandos Adventures'']] episode played right before the music video "An Important Rap Song" by [[Token Human|Crack Stuntman]] where the Blue Laser Commander's evil plan for that episode for some reason involved him taking off his pants in public. He is foiled by the Cheat Commandos who force him to put his pants back on while in the middle of his evil plan.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An odd variant occurs in ''[[
* Usually, this trope is subverted on ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', as Jack just keeps fighting even after he's been stripped of his ghi and is clad in only his fundoshi (which, to the delight of fangirls everywhere, ''has'' happened). However, the episode "Jack's Sandals" had this trope played straight (even though no [[Clothing Damage
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender
** "No, Firelord Ozai, ''you're'' not wearing pants!"
*** "Oh no! My royal parts are showing!"
* Male (mostly) example: in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]
* ''[[
** Of course, that wasn't "combat" so much as "foreplay" . . .
* A rather...uncommon example can be seen in ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', where during a fight with assorted mutant beasties (including mutant bowling balls, leprechauns, and slices of pizza), [[
* ''[[Kim Possible
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' acknowledged how the [[Fetish Fuel]] of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' can lead to an easy victory: [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Confronted
* The infamous "Flight as a Feather" episode of ''[[The Mask (
* In the "Hooky" episode of ''[[
** This seems to also be SpongeBob's [[Laser-Guided Karma]] in the episode "Ripped Pants" if not just a final joke. After a whole episode of making silly "ripped pants" jokes and annoying everyone, and making them think he drowned, he rips his underwear and it falls off.
** In addition, there are a couple of video games based on the franchise in which underwear is the representative of SpongeBob's health. There's even one where you see them come off and he covers himself.
* Disney's short ''[[The Prince and
* In the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode
** Ironically, {{spoiler|the rest of Sector V in the same episode defeated the Delightfuls by ripping their pants and skirts off them}}.
* Happens to Zeke [[The Big Bad Wolf]] at the end of ''[[Three Little Pigs (Disney film)|Three Little Pigs]]'', which also caused him to devolve back into a non-anthro wolf.
* Once when [[Looney Tunes|Yosemite Sam]] was supposedly an Arab -- in traditional robes -- and attacked [[Bugs Bunny]], Bugs remarked calmly, "Your slip is showing." Sam immediately stopped attacking and crouched down, doing his best to hold the hem of his robe to the ground all around him.
* In an episode of ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days (1972 TV series)|Around the World In 80 Days]]'', Fogg foils Mr. Fix by swiping his pants, causing Fix to run and hide, because being seen in his underwear is "undignified".
* In an episode of ''[[Dudley Do-Right]]'', Snidely Whiplash steals the hero's clothes while he is bathing in a stream, leaving Do-Right too humiliated to go back to the camp. ''Not'' because he is naked, but because he is ''out of uniform'', something he considered the most shameful thing of all for a Mountie. Still, Do-Right gets even with the Whiplash at the end, stealing ''his'' clothes.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In water polo, grabbing at an opponent's bathing suit is against the rules. The tighter the suit, the easier it is for the referees to see when it happens, so most teams and players use extremely tight suits, which are easily damaged, even by legal play. In international competition, this gives an advantage teams from cultures with more relaxed attitudes towards nudity. Americans typically respond to suit damage by immediately covering themselves, becoming useless to their team, while Europeans will just let it all hang out until the next stoppage of play.
* In May
* In a German subway, a man makes an aggressive move towards a woman, driving his leg forcefully into the chair next to her. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WReevc7P0lA This is then met with possibly the funniest RL Crowning Moment Of Awesome most have been allowed to witness.] [[Memetic Mutation|Thank you internet!]]
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