Naked First Impression/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character's first appearance is in the nude.

  • Played Straight: Bob walks in on Alice in the shower.
  • Exaggerated: Alice spends the entire series in the nude.
  • Inverted: Bob first meets Alice when she is wearing jeans and a turtleneck sweater.
  • Justified: Bob is on the run from assassins, and hides behind the first door he sees, which turns out to be Alice's bathroom.
  • Subverted: Alice is in the pool, wearing a bikini.
  • Double Subverted: But loses her bikini top in the water, just as Bob is walking towards the pool.
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
  • Parodied: Bob meets Alice at a nudist's convention.
  • Lampshaded: "Alice, when you meet people, Please Put Some Clothes On."
  • Averted: Alice never appears nude in series.
  • Enforced: Rule of Funny or Rule of Sexy, depending on what they're going for.
  • Invoked: See "Justified"
  • Defied: Bob has blueprints of the building, and does not hide in bathrooms.
  • Discussed: "Meeting someone when you're in the altogether...that's gotta make an impression!"
  • Conversed: "Isn't it funny how the naked person is almost Always Female in these situations?"
  • Played For Laughs: Naked People Are Funny
  • Played For Drama: Alice believes Bob is trying to rape her and screams for help.

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