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'''Gene''': ''Which one?'' (Her sword or her obi)
'''Suzuka''': ''Both of them!''
'''Gene''': ''Hmmmmmmm.'' ''(sniffs the obi)''
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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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Contrast [[Sexy Coat Flashing]] (in which a [usually female] character clad in an overcoat—or some kind of coat—willingly flashes someone).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* 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 ''[[Magic Island]]'', the [[Action Girl]] slices a pirate's belt. While he's trying to pull up his pants (and giving the audience a good look at his [[Goofy Print Underwear|silly boxers]]), she says "Don't be droppin' yer drawers in the presence of a lady!" and quite ''literally'' kicks his ass.
* Inversion in ''[[RoboCop]]'': When Murphy's partner Anne Lewis gets the drop on one of Boddicker's thugs, he's in the middle of relieving himself. He asks for a few seconds to keep his modesty back in his pants - and then gets the advantage when this distracts the officer.
== [[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.
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** 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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** 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.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Ron Stoppable will have this happen to him ALL THE TIME. It doesn't bother him though because it happens so much. Although, the only time he will take the time to pull his pants up is when he has been completely denuded (except for his boxers), and there's a break in the action, or his pants get wrapped around his ankles, which would be an actual hindrance.
* ''[[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 (animation)|The Mask]]'' [[Animated Series]] had the Mayor's ex-girlfriend Cookie BaBoom, an [[Ambiguously Brown]], [[Green Eyes|green-eyed]], [[Stripperific]] [[:Category:Yandere|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?
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** 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 the Pauper (Disney film)|The Prince and The Pauper]]'', starring Mickey Mouse, had the titular hero defeat [[Jerkass|Pete]], simply by slicing at Pete's pants so they fell down, revealing a pair of very [[Goofy Print Underwear|frilly heart-print bloomers]]. Cue howls of laughter from everyone present, instant loss of respect and abject humiliation.
* 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".
== [[Real Life]] ==
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