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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 Byby the Sexy|distraction]] to beat a guy to a pulp.
 
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 Onon the Tin]]; this trope is often used hand-in-hand with [[Defeat Byby Modesty]] -- unless a writer plays the "Let's subvert the [[Defeat Byby Modesty]] trope by using the [[Full-Frontal Assault]] trope" card).
 
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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** 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 Withwith 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.
** 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.
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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 (Light Novel)|Toradora!]]'', Taiga get the edge on the much better swimmer Ami in a pool race by claiming she's showing down below, knocking her into the pool with a bunch of flotation devices, and then stealing her bikini top while she's still disoriented.
* Used in ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]'' on occasion, usually used by [[Attention Whore|Rachel Castor]].
** 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.
* ''[[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".
* 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 Withwith 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.
* 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.
* In the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' 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.
* Of all the people to fall to this in ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', it's [[Chivalrous Pervert|Sanji]]. {{spoiler|He challenges the "Substitute Queen" (or Regent if you like) of Kamabaka Kingdom to a duel, receiving passage off the island if he wins. He's forced to wear the island's traditional battle outfit (a dress), and gets embarrassed when he realizes the 'queen' is peeping at his underwear while the dress flares up as he kicks.}}
* 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 ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', Sonia begins to strip. When Hayate reveals that that ploy won't work on him, she threatens to call for his female companion and claim that he had tried to rape her. She does get the stone with that, but he returns later to get it back, with Nishizawa in tow, so that she can't try that tactic again.
* In the Masaomi Kanzaki ''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]'' manga, Chun Li is in danger of losing her match with Vega<ref>A.K.A. "Balrog", A.K.A. "[[Fan Nickname|Claw]]"</ref> because the Spanish ninja exposed her right breast, forcing her to fight one-handed. The story treats this as a turning point for her; at the brink of defeat, she stops trying to cover herself and creates her Kikouken [[Ki Attack]] in time to claim victory.
* 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.
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== [[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 -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.
* 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.
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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 ''[[Magic Island (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 [[Robo CopRoboCop]]: 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.
 
 
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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]]''.
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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 ''[[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.]]
* Burt the Bashful, the first boss in ''[[Yoshis Island (Video Game)|Yoshi's Island]]'' falls prey to this trope. His pants descend slightly each time he's hit until he's left naked; as a result, he grows red with embarrassment, bounces around the arena, and explodes.
** 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.)
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* Almost everyone who's played ''[[Punch Out]]'' knows how to defeat King Hippo; hit him in his big mouth to get him to drop his pants, then pummel his fat belly. This strategy has been kept untouched in the new Wii game {{spoiler|though in the rematch, he's taped a manhole cover to his stomach, which you need to punch off first.}}
* ''[[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 ofLegendof Zelda CDiCDI Games|Link: Faces of Evil]]'', one of the major enemies is Militron, who for all intents and purposes looks like a big honking suit of armor. After beating him, his armor blows up, revealing a frail little man in his boxers. "Oh my goodness, this is awful!!"
* 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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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Played with in ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]''. The [[The Nudifier|clothing disintegration]] was entirely accidental, but Zeetha was unfazed because, despite a misleading segue, the character was wearing disintegration-proof undergarments [[Crazy Prepared|for just such an occasion]], implied to happen often in this area.
{{quote| '''Zeetha''': What were you thinking, using '''Bunbury''''s trash?...'''He's''' why every smart actress from here to Paris wears '''special underwear'''!}}
** 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].
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* 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]].)
* 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 ''[[Flipside (Webcomic)|Flipside]]''. Maytag's confidence is tied to her jester outfit, so having it [[The Nudifier|destroyed by Voulger's sword]] leaves her unable to fight back.
* ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'' played it backwards [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1599 in Ninja Theatre].
{{quote| Barging in on people like that. Very rude! I, Shu-Mai, Shaolin scholar, teach you a lesson in manners! ... So... Could you, um, hand me my clothes please?}}
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Chaos Fighters]] II-Cyberion Strike''. {{spoiler|Etliz}} was suffering from [[Clothing Damage|clothing damage]] when {{spoiler|Etlisk}} used a pyro attack on her, but the final blow that defeated her is {{spoiler|a hydro attack on her which put out the flames just in time.}}
* 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.
{{quote| '''Blue Laser Commander''': How could you ever possibly refer these to as ''pants''?}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An odd variant occurs in ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]''. Heather essentially does this herself while attempting to sabotage Harold's water-skiing. A low hanging branch rips off her bikini top forcing her to abandon her sabotage in order to preserve her modesty. However, Harold is sufficiently distracted by his brief glimpse of Heather's boobs to wipe himself out of the competition.
* 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|clothing damage]] was involved). Jack has to find a replacement for his geta sandals that were broken by some motorcycle robots. He at one point tries out a pair of [[Combat Stilettos]] with spikes for a heels. With these spike heels, he performs such feats as running up walls and slicing a parking meter into pieces. Indeed, they seem even better than his geta sandals! He leaps in to confront the motorcycle robots- [[Show Some Leg|and immediately starts receiving catcalls from the robots and bystanders]]. Jack slinks off to try a new pair of shoes.
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Aang]]'s dreams anticipating his fight with the Fire Lord involve him being defeated by the Fire Lord pointing out that he's not wearing pants, at which point he gets too embarrassed to fight and flees. Until he finally turns the tables.
** "No, Firelord Ozai, ''you're'' not wearing pants!"
*** "Oh no! My royal parts are showing!"
* Male (mostly) example: in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]] : The Secrets of Furious Five'', we learn that the Monkey's preferred tactic was to take the opponents' pants. "But master Oogway didn't need pants..."
* ''[[The Animatrix (Anime)|The Animatrix]]'' episode "The Final Flight of the Osiris" opens with a fight where this is threatening to happen, with two combatants gradually cutting off more and more of their opponents' clothes...
** 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), [[TMNTTeenage 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 (Animationanimation)|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 Byby 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 ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob 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.
** 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 Thethe 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 [[Kids Next Door]] episode OP:BUTT, the Delightful Children tried to us that tactic to get Nigel to surrender himself, having a robot crab steal his swim trunks and take a picture of his exposed butt.
** 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.