Defeat by Modesty: Difference between revisions

** 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.}}

* 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!"

* 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 with an "S"|Doug/Dug]] Fin, when she immediately punches him out of the ring while covering herself with one arm.

** 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.

* In the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' anime, Kanon defeats [[Meaningful Name|Lucifer]] in the third arc by slashing a hole in her shirt with his [[Laser Blade]]. As Lucifer put it, ''"I've never been this ashamed?!"''. [[Don't Explain the Joke|It's funny because]] Lucifer represents the [[Seven Deadly Sins|sin]] of [[Pride]]. This doesn't happen in the original game, though, where the fight ends when Kanon gets his sword against her throat.

* 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.

* 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-Men|New Mutants]] were teleported there by a character whose powers didn't affect clothing, then had their powers neutralized. Most of them were a little embarrassed, but Wolfsbane (a devout Presbyterian) was paralyzed with shame.

* 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.

** 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}}.

* 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.]]

 

* ''[[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]]''.

** [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 ''[[Two Kinds]]''. The Eastern General (who is from a puritanical country) is almost, but not quite, defeated when one of the two heroines realizes he reacted poorly to the other's ''bare feet'' -- so she ripped the other one's ''entire outfit'' off. (Luckily, she's an [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]].)

** 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), [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|1988]] Michelangelo defeats a mutant banana by...um...peeling it.

* The infamous "Flight as a Feather" episode of ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' [[Animated Series]] had the Mayor's ex-girlfriend Cookie BaBoom, an [[Ambiguously Brown]], [[Green Eyes|green-eyed]], [[Stripperific]] [[Yandere]] with strategically-placed suicide belts around her body and a plan to [[No Kill Like Overkill|kill herself, the Mayor, and all bystanders/witnesses]] just because the Mayor dumped her. The Mask (impersonating a bartender with a British accent) pulls the suicide belts off her (and uses the belts to make a cocktail in a blender) and she's left completely naked (albeit tastefully -- it's still a kids' show) and gawked at by [[Those Two Guys|Lieutenant Kellaway and his detective partner Doyle]]. She soon flees (clad in the trenchcoat she wore earlier) in shame, though [[Fridge Logic|one has to wonder why a stripper -- of all people -- would be embarrassed over having what little clothes she is wearing taken off in public]]. It ''was'' a defeat, no question, and clothes-stripping was involved to make the antagonist helpless (and provide a [[Distracted by the Sexy|much-needed distraction]]), but the antagonist is a strip--er, "exotic dancer," so just how loosely should the word "modesty" be used in this case?

* In the "Hooky" episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob is finally convinced to not play with hooks anymore after he gets one stuck in his pants, at which time he has to take them off. Then he has to take his ''underwear'' off, which he almost doesn't do, but then they're just ripped off anyway.

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