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{{quote|''"What I want to know is what is so wrong with my body that nobody wants to see it?!"''
|'''Grace'''
A (usually) female character with no nudity taboo. This can be [[Justified Trope|"justified"]] any number of ways, but nine times out of ten, it's ''[[Most Writers Are Male|really]]'' for [[Fan Service]].
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* '''A lack of cultural awareness:''' For other [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]s, their people may have a [[Our Nudity Is Different|different form of modesty.]]
* '''Arrogance, and a inhuman set of priorities:'''The [[God in Human Form|local goddess-avatar]] might not fully understand why this "nudity" thing is getting in the way of proper worship, but it had better stop.
* '''How close she considers the main character:''' The [[Sugar and Ice Personality|Sugar and Ice Girl]] and [[Genki Girl]] might not understand why the [[Childhood Friend Romance|Unlucky Childhood Friend]] is getting
Often such characters are [[Naked on Arrival]]; it's not unheard of for a work to use the two tropes together to add a Fanservice Non-Sequitur (or to set up [[Ms. Fanservice]]) and then never mention it again.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': A monkey tossed into the Spring of Drowned Girl comes out as a naked girl who looks [[Cloning Blues|almost exactly like female Ranma]].
* Ren in the anime ''[[DearS]]'' starts out uncomprehending and only gains a partial understanding of it: "I'm not naked, [[Hadaka Apron|I'm wearing an apron]]!"
* Parodied and gender-reversed in, of course, ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]''. Ranpha's unsolicited android "boyfriend" comes shipped to the space station naked, and has no intention of putting on clothes. Ranpha finally forces him into one of her own dresses, and when that doesn't work out, she steals a suit of Volcott's.
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* Amuro Ninagawa of ''[[Umisho]]'', who has no shame around someone she likes. Swimming naked is a hobby, and she considers taking a shower to be using a garden hose in the backyard of the male lead.
* Mamiko Kuri from ''[[Narutaru]]'' prefers to be naked while she's indoors, to the shock and amazement of her visitors. Outside she wears little more than a flimsy dress (or on rare occasions, her school uniform). She's actually "closer to nature" in a way, since {{spoiler|the Earth itself is one big [[Mon]] for her and her [[Evil Counterpart|Good Counterpart]], Shiina}}; furthermore, while the nudity may be innocent, Mamiko's personality [[Creepy Child|most certainly]] [[Little Miss Badass|isn't]].
* Miharu and basically every human resident of the alien world Seiren from ''[[Girls Bravo]]'' have absolutely no restraint regarding nudity due to their planet being almost entirely composed of ([[No Bisexuals|apparently heterosexual]]) women. This, of course, allows the show to completely indulge in every kind of [[Fan Service]] imaginable. Miharu’s lack of anger contrasts that of Kirie, who assumes that Yukinari had lewd intentions when
* Both personalities of [[Half-Human Hybrid|diclonius]] Lucy/Nyu from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', though the show alternates this character trait
* Hikari from ''[[This Ugly Yet Beautiful World]]'' unzips the jacket Takeru gives her upon [[Please Put Some Clothes On|meeting her]], prompting him to rezip it. Her sister Akari is a little better, stealing a sun dress as her [[Going Commando|only clothing]] before she joins Ryou's family.
* Lala from ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' has no qualms about walking around naked. Her excuse is that as a princess, she's always had servants help her bathe, dress, etc. so she's used to being nude around other people. It's important to note that other people of her race (including her family members) do not seem to share this lack of a nudity taboo.
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* In ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', Rosamia Badam (due to [[Fake Memories]] implanted in her through the process that made her an Artificial Newtype) had some, well, trouble keeping her shirt on when the AEUG doctors check on her, much to [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Fa Yuiry's]] despair and Kamille's embarrassment.
* Late in ''[[Love Hina]]'', the girls try to cheer Keitaro up in the [[Hot Springs Episode|hot springs]], which Kei initially thinks is going to be a trap to get him to peep at naked girls again. Though the plan had everyone in bikinis, foreigner Nyamo doesn't get it and is completely nude.
* In ''[[Kamisama Kazoku]]'', protagonist Samataro's [[Hot God|goddess]] [[Hot Mom|mom]] is the Innocent Fanservice Girl, shamelessly mixing it up with [[My Beloved Smother|a deep affection for her son]] that adds to the [[Oedipus Rex]] plot of the series. She goes so far as to fall asleep in her son's bed nude, and when he wakes her up to chastise her, she is completely unashamed about it.
*
* ''[[Psycho Busters]]'' has Ayano. And it doesn't help that her [[All Men Are Perverts|teammates are all guys]].
* Choko of ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'' can behave this way at times
* This happens frequently with Goku in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series. Having been raised in the woods with the only other human he'd ever seen being his adoptive grandfather, the social taboos against nudity don't occur to him, so quite often he'll end up having his clothes destroyed, and not understand why everyone else is so concerned about him being naked.
* Aisha from ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]'' in at least two episodes of the series. During the fortress siege episode, Yellow rather poetically explains it as her being too innocent of the ways of the world to have a concept of modesty.
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* The main female lead of ''[[G-On Riders]]'', at least in the manga. The [[In Medias Res]] opening has her chasing down a spaceship that accidentally caught her (unworn, floating in the wind) panties on its wing. The second chapter is much the same. After a while, they just stop trying to justify it. [[Author Appeal]] at it's most blatant (much like the [[Ecchi|rest of the series]]).
* The eponymous heroine of ''Nanako-san Teki na Nichijou'' (Translated as ''[[Nanakoish Days]]'' or ''Nanako-san's Daily Life'') has little to any shame about her body, considering the very universe itself conspires to steal her clothing at every opportunity.
* Tima of ''[[Osamu
* Kazuki Kosuda from ''[[B Gata H Kei]]'' struts around naked in her home, to the chagrin of her brother Takashi.
* Eureka ended up naked in front of Renton in the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie ending which symbolises her rebirth. She showed no shame or anger of being naked due to her mind being reduced to that of an infant when she is reborn, but she does constantly cover her chest area.
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* Mokuren in ''[[Please Save My Earth]]'' has her shower interrupted by Shion, who needs to update her security card. She lets him into her quarters, and searches frantically around the room for her security card, in the nude. This is because Mokuren was raised as a nudist. When she discovers her mistake she's embarrassed; not because Shion saw her naked, but because she embarrassed him.
* Gray Fullbuster from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is a rare male example. In his training as [[An Ice Person|an ice mage]], his teacher made him strip down and stand in the snow in order to fully understand the cold. It became ingrained to the point of subconscious, as he'll need someone else to point out when he's mysteriously misplaced all of his clothing. Leon, who studied under the same teacher, seems to have the same problem.
* The Eponymous ''[[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl
* Lacus Clyne from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' initially appeared to be this when [[Obfuscating Stupidity|
* ''[[Strike Witches]]'' is very well known for its characters running around without any pants, [[Hand Wave]]d by it making it easier to connect to their Striker Units. None of the girls seem to have any problem being bare-legged.
* Isma from ''[[Berserk]]'' has no compunctions with walking around nude in public.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Storm of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comes from an African tribe with [[National Geographic Nudity]] aplenty. Not only that, but her mutant powers included a physical immunity to weather extremes, so she had no qualms going naked in New York in the dead of winter. However, she eventually grew accustomed to Western norms, so the issue never comes up anymore.
* ''[[Cable]]'': it's not played up, but he has no problems with stripping off and showering while discussing his next move with his (female) chief of staff on Providence Island. In the [[Bad Future]] he grew up in, people had more important things to worry about than modesty.
{{quote|'''Irene:'''...does it make sense for you to be always shedding your clothes around me?
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* In the original trilogy of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films, mutant shapeshifter Mystique goes naked in her natural form (human, except with blue skin and [[Eyes of Gold|yellow eyes]]).
* One of the segments of ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'' involves a woman parodying the typical portrayal of Hollywood women/models of the time by acting like this—that is to say, she walks around completely nude (in lingerie in the edited for TV version) while doing typical daily things (going to an art show, walking around town, ''going to church'', etc.) She gives the stereotypical vapid interview responses as narration, talking about how much she loves the area, how nice people are to her, etc.
* In ''[[
* [[Raquel Welch]]'s iconic [[Fur Bikini]]-clad [[Nubile Savage]] character from ''[[One Million Years BC]]''. Many critics claimed her [
== [[Literature]] ==
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* A possible inversion occurs in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, with the Mud People. While they're not prone to running around naked, they are more lax than the rest of the people when it comes to otherwise taboo subjects. For example, to the Mud People, "You have very nice breasts," is nothing more than a compliment, indicating they think the woman is beautiful and/or fit for motherhood—which causes some awkwardness when some of the males leave their village to travel with one of the main characters. Fortunately, these guys don't speak English very well, so the awkwardness is confined to him asking the female lead, "How do I tell that girl she has nice breasts?" She responds with the general rule, only compliment things that aren't covered by clothes.
* Played with a bit in ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' with [[Woman Scorned|Ellen]]. With her soldier father and his friends being her only company during her childhood, she was showing signs of growing up as a [[Tomboy]] and would do "manly" things with them (such as urinating outdoors together or cursing). This trope was among those "things." When she began entering puberty, however, the soldiers' attitudes changed, and her father tried to send her off to a convent for her well-being. Instead, she rebelled and ran off.
* Because he was [[Raised by Wolves|raised by highly spiritual and otherworldly Martians]], Valentine Michael Smith of ''[[Stranger in
* The werewolves of ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Obviously they're naked in wolf form, but they remain nude in human form as well, and show no shame for it.
** Subverted with [[Proud Warrior Race Girl]] Kitai from the same author's [[Codex Alera]]- she comes from a culture where the standard dress (for men and women both) is a loincloth and little else, but she's smart enough to recognize that humans are generally not comfortable with someone showing that much skin, and almost always dresses in a plain soldier's shirt and pants.
* Some of the Uberwald werewolves in ''[[
* Usha in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' series, particularly ''Dragons of Summer Flame''. Quick relatively spoiler-free explanation—she's half Irda, a supernaturally beautiful race, and half human. She spent most of her life living with the Irda and was ugly compared to them. Then she ended up in human lands, and by their standards, she's dazzlingly beautiful. She does learn fairly quickly, however.
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''[[The Naked Sun]]'', the protagonist, Elijah Baley investigates a murder case on the planet Solaria, where people despise human contact, and communicate with very realistic holograms (called "viewing", as opposed to "seeing"). When Baley wants to talk with the victim's pretty, young widow, she appears naked on the hologram; she doesn't understand his embarrassment, since it's just "viewing"—it's not as though he's there in ''person'' or anything. In fact, the idea of him being there in person [[squick]]s her out ''worse'' than the idea of him seeing her naked at all.
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* [[Kate Daniels]] says that shapeshifters are all either very modest or very open, since their changes leave them nude afterwards. Thus Dali drops her towel after drying off without seeming to notice that she's in a crowded room, and several times after fighting beside Curran Kate has to force herself to keep her eyes on his face.
* Aphreal from ''[[The Elenium]]'' is of the Goddess type, while she takes on mortal form she stays clothed, (thankfully since her preferred form is a little girl), whenever she has to revert to her real form she sees no reason to bother with clothing, much to the consternation of Sparhawk.
* A group of girls like this are produced artificially in one of the ''[[Gor]]'' books. They're raised from birth with [[No Nudity Taboo]] and no contact with men. When they reach 18 or 20 they're sent out to the royal court to be raped. [[Moral Event Horizon|Then they are killed the next day because the experience drives them irretrievably insane
* Kas, the main viewpoint character of Henry Sackerman's ''The Love Bomb'', is a [[Human Alien]] from an entirely clothing-optional culture. This is both [[Played for Laughs]] ''and'' [[Played for Drama]], as he's arrested for indecent exposure several times.
* ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'': Dejah Thoris. And all the other women of Barsoom. And the men. The various Barsoomiam races wear plenty of jewelry (which denotes social status) and in many cases leather harnesses (for attaching weapons/tools/possessions to) but nothing else. They also seem to find the Earthly custom of wearing clothes to be amusing- particularly ''hats'', for some reason.
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** To Ferengi women, wearing clothes is the taboo. In their first introduction in ''TNG'', they glare at Tasha Yar with disgust and act like she's being forced to do something that she probably "shouldn't" want. It's because Ferengi females are viewed as property, and wearing clothes would indicate their male has something to hide. In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', Quark's mother fights this and earns the right to wear clothes. Also: nude Ferengi? [[Fan Disservice|Really]]?
*** It's played for some serious laughs when Quark and his brother return home to deal with her "deviant" behavior. Both of them act extremely uncomfortable around her in clothing (much in the way human sons might be expected to act around their mother who suddenly decided to NOT wear anything), keeping their eyes cast down so they don't have to see her non-nude body.
** Seven of Nine from ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''. Having been assimilated by the Borg when she was a child, she never had any chance to learn such taboos after recovering. In the notorious scene where Q Jr [[The Nudifier| uses his power to strip her]], she barely even reacts.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', although she never got as far as actually being naked, the character of Leela (who was born and raised in a tribe of jungle savages and wore relatively little clothing) had a habit of stripping down to her underwear in front of men of cultures where this was inappropriate. She remained completely innocent about the effect this seemed to keep having, as such things were not an issue in her own society.
** If the interviews are to be believed, the actress Louise Jameson who played Leela also counts, since she was amazed that she became a sex symbol from running around in a leather bikini on television right after the football.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has a few.
** Pistis Sophia from the 3.5e ''Book of Exalted Deeds'', the [[Lawful Good]] [[Our Angels Are Different|archon]] paragon of asceticism and self-perfection. Since she's an angel who fights like a [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] and whose personal philosophy discourages material baggage, clothing is just another superfluous possession to her.
** Elves of the [[Forgotten Realms]] normally don't see any problems with nudity, and humans who dealt with them too much (including the Seven Sisters) sometimes pick up their habits. Though they make adjustments to not become too much of a distraction when among the humans. In books, citizens of Cormanthor (''Elminster in Myth Drannor'') considered a handful of enchanted gems stuck to the skin to be a fashionable dress, and for the ladies of Evereska (''Return of the Archwizards''), the discovery that men who see them swimming start to breathe heavily was rather disconcerting. Drow also got Eilistraee—as one of the authors put it, "goddess of butt-neckid moon dance". To be fair, in her case, her nudity is supposed to represent freedom, which she embodies.
** ''Every'' female character pictured in ''[[Dark Sun]]''; way too hot for armor on the post-apocalyptic setting of Athas, and anyone who does not become a capable fighter will not last long, so the typical female adventurer is a [[Hot Amazon]] in a [[Chainmail Bikini]].
** The Vaati (aka Wind Dukes of Aaqa) are powerful beings associated with the [[Dismantled MacGuffin| Rod of Seven Parts]]. Both genders are tall, muscular humanoids who rarely wear clothing; being spirits of elemental air, they don't exactly need it to keep warm.
* The Nazzadi in ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]''.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has the [[Artificial Human|Alchemical]] ''Thousand-Faceted Nelumbo'', who, given that she's a cold-proof robot and a loner by necessity, usually doesn't wear anything other than a cloak, which she casts off during a fight. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]], however, in that she's actually aware that this attracts stares-the cloak can reshape itself into normal clothing if she's forced into a social situation.
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** Princess Ruto (and most of the other Zoras) in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' wear no clothes, but [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes|being fish people]], the closest thing to naughty bits we see are [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|nipple-less breasts]]. Although they're a clear case of no nudity taboo, the Zoras have been shown to sometimes wear clothes, such as in the sequel ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' which features a female Zora singer who wears a dress. This is all justified, of course, as the Zora are an aquatic race and clothes would make swimming (at least swimming as fast as ''they'' can) difficult.
*** As of the 3DS remake, Ruto seems to have built-in clothes, or at the very least, a built-in top.
** Most of the Gerudo are this, an [[Always Female]] (almost) race where there is nary even one who is not a [[Statuesque Stunner]] with a [[Chainmail Bikini]]. Justified of course, as they live in a hot, arid area of Hyrule.
*** And as far as the "almost" part goes, Ganondorf is the ''very'' rare exception, and [[Evil Is Sexy| given how muscular and hunky he is]] in some games, he could be considered a male example of this Trope.
* While Dizzy of ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' doesn't go completely naked, she seems to be unaware of how [[Stripperiffic]] her regular outfit is...
** She was actually raised by Testament, a [[Stripperiffic]] ''male'' Gear. Maybe that has something to do with it?
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* Similar to the Grace example above, ''[[Twokinds]]'' brings us Flora, a [[Cute Monster Girl|Tiger-girl]] from a Rainforest tribe who ends up naked a ''lot''—although with her being a [[Petting Zoo People|furry character]], it might not count. The artist has lamented that Flora just seems to naturally end up naked despite his intentions. Subverted a bit as she [[Raised by Wolves|lived with humans]] for half her life, and thus should know better—doubly so as the other Keidrans seem quite comfortable staying dressed in human company (and wear loincloths when in the forest). In other words, she has even less of a nudity taboo than the race of people with no nudity taboo!
** Other Keidrans with names run the gambit: Kathrin was bred as a sex slave that's appealing to human sensibilities and seems to be genetically predisposed towards having no nudity taboo (and keeps invoking [[Accidental Innuendo]]); Laura (who grew up with Keidrans) is a [[Shrinking Violet]] and dresses very conservatively, Natani has his own issues {{spoiler|1=being a F2M [[Transsexualism]] and all that}} and dresses from head to toe (or at least [[Running Gag|tries to]]), Mike and Evals seem to mostly have human ideals about clothing while working, but flashbacks on the author's [[Word of God|Deviantart site]] suggest that Evals used to enjoy walking around his original owner's estate in the nude, etc etc.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Errant Story]]'': "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130827001719/http://www.errantstory.com/2008-02-11/768 Having no cultural nudity taboo does not work that way!]"
* In spite of her typical modesty, Agatha of the webcomic ''[[Girl Genius]]'' strays into this territory with astounding regularity since her habit of sleepwalking (and sleepworking) tends to result in her waking up in her lab [[Wrench Wench|elbow-deep in engine grease]] and wearing only her ([[Of Corsets Sexy|Victorian-era, mind you]]) underwear. As mortified as she is each time it happens, you would think she would start wearing pajamas at the very least—but then, this is fanservice we're talking about, so common sense need not apply.
** [[Mad Scientist|Sparks]] and common sense tend to have a dubious relationship at best...
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** Notable for doing it to raise awareness about the raw-food lifestyle. Now why people insist any lifestyle choice is inherently a "cause", is another thing.
* It does exist in certain situations: In some countries, like Germany or Finland, going completely nude into public, mixed-gender saunas is pretty much normal, which may surprise people from other places who are used to everyone covering themselves with bathing trunks, bikinis or towels.
* Reportedly, [[Joan of Arc]] decided it would be a bit pointless to worry much about modesty while travelling with the army, and was therefore frequently at least topless while getting in and out of her armor. Soldiers later testified that they felt no desire for her; whether this meant that she wasn't very attractive<ref>Probably not the case, based on some of the testimony given after her death at her "Rehabilitation".</ref> or that they did not want to admit to sexual desire for someone who was beloved to the point of worship is up for debate.
** Manners and habits were really different in medieval Europe, people were far more comfortable being nude around relatives and servants, or in certain circumstances (such as going bare-naked to the bathhouse from your house).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130624132827/http://healthmad.com/mental-health/vestiphobia-the-fear-of-clothing/ Vestiphobia]—from Latin ''vestis'' (clothing) and Greek ''phobos'' (fear). A paranoid fear of clothing usually caused by a traumatic experience linked to cloth, it can be as minor as feeling very uncomfortable when wearing certain types of materials, to the point of being completely unable to handle getting dressed. One of the most common symptoms of vestiphobia is an overpowering conscious or subconscious desire to remove the offending articles of clothing. Unlike [[Naked People Are Funny|fiction]], this is [[Nightmare Fuel|not as]] [[Fridge Horror|funny as it sounds
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands'' (1996, pp. 142–145, 149) by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. While searching for an ideal roommate, she accepts an offer from Jason and Brenda Clinken, a nudist couple, and finds their nudity off-putting.<ref>Her unease is justified by the fact that she didn't find out about their nudism until ''after'' she'd already moved in with them.</ref>
** "Their nakedness was intrusive." — page 143
** "May I say something to you? You can't get too prudish with us. You know, a pussy is a pussy. It doesn't mean anything." — Brenda, to Shirley, page 145
* In the late 18th century in France, a feral child known as [[wikipedia:Victor of Aveyron|The Wild Boy of Aveyron]] was found in the woods. Having apparently spent his entire childhood living alone in the forest, he was comfortable without clothes, even playing happily in the snow, naked.
* There are plenty of people who [[
* Humans are the only animal species that wear clothes. All the other creatures are happy to run around in the buff (the fur or feathers usually help). They're also happy to get it on in full view of each other and anything else that walks by.
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