Defeat by Modesty: Difference between revisions

** Not to mention the [[The Horde|Robot Army]] in the [[School Festival|Mahorafest arc]]. Their primary weapons: [[Clothing Damage|Stripper rays]].

** Inverted by Takane D. Goodman who upon defeat is stripped due to her clothes being produced by magic.

** [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsuku]][[Stalker With a Crush|yomi]] does this to [[Foe Yay|Setsuna]]. The fact that it partially ''works'' makes Setsuna angry with herself, given that in earlier battles she had fought a previous opponent ({{spoiler|Negi}}) while completely naked [[The Unfettered|without being affected at all]]. She takes it as a sign that she's getting rusty.

** 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.}}

* ''[[Twentieth Century Boys]]'' -- interestingly [[Justified Trope|Justified]] -- It's the reason sumo wrestlers wear loincloths. Manbo/Yanbo convince their opponent that "clothing holds" are unfair and try to make the one kid willing to stand up to them, a girl, take off her shirt.

* 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".

** 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 Arms]] TV'', but they [[Male Gaze|get distracted]] long enough for her to cast ''Corset'', which shreds ''their'' clothes into strips.

** 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]].

 

 

* In a rare male example, one section of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' requires you to steal the uniforms from guards and merchants while trying to sneak into a town occupied by [[The Empire]]. Right off their backs, leaving them only in their underwear, causing them to flee from battle.

* 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 ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day (Video Game)|Conkers Bad Fur Day]]'', to beat Buga the Knut, you must [[Literal Ass Kicking|tear chunks out of his buttocks]] until they can no longer hold up his loincloth, revealing his [[Teeny Weenie|"very small willy"]]. This is really more Defeat By Shame.

* 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.]]

* 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.

** 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)|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.