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To be alive, you basically need two things: a living spirit/mind, and a fully functioning body. Note that clothing is not included in there. When people are born as babies, they're [[Truth in Television|naturally]] [[Naked on Arrival]], and the same often goes for resurrections, unless the force that brings people back to life is feeling extra generous to give them a spare set of clothing on top of that. This can be symbolic of their rebirth into the living world, of course, or serve to show how fragile life is by having them be vulnerable upon being thrust back into the world. Fanservice is also a contributing factor.

May often involve a [[Fetal Position Rebirth]]. The super trope to this is [[Naked on Arrival]].

Note that there may be '''spoilers''' ahead: we're going to have to talk about death if we talk about resurrection.

== Anime &and Manga ==

* ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]: Bloodlust'' gave us the Vampire Carmilla, reviving herself out of pure blood, naked in a casket.

* Not immediately apparent, but the hero of ''[[Guyver]]'' is killed when his control metal is ripped out of his head and his body consumes itself. A new body later forms from the control metal itself, but when the Guyver armor recedes, he's naturally without clothing.

** Played straight at the end of ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion|Rebuild 2.0]]'': {{spoiler|Rei was wearing her plugsuit when Zeruel ate her Eva but is naked when Shinji rescues her from the Angel's core}}.

* When Rogue fell into the Siege Perilous, she was wearing Ms. Marvel's costume. When she was reborn in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #269, she was naked (in the sequence of panels she first appeared as a skeletionskeleton, then grew muscles, then skin).

* Leeloo in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is reconstructed [[From a Single Cell]], and naturally clothing doesn't come with that, though the machine puts bandage-clothing on her shortly afterward.

* Jackie Chan's character in ''[[The Medallion]]'' is brought back to life by said magic medallion when he was already at the morgue, his clothes removed from the autopsy. Averted a while later in the movie, when he does the same thing to bring back his love interest shortly after she died (still clothed), his partner even protests saying right away: "But when he came back, he was NAKED''naked!''"

* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Jack of Shadows'', if anyone gets killed before exhausting his finite supply of lives, he is resurrected naked in the Dung Pits of Glyve at the east pole ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) of the planet.

* ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Franchisenovel)/|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]'': Voldemort's first words upon stepping out of the cauldron he was resurrected in were, "Robe me."

* [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s ''[[Riverworld]]'' series of books, the entire population of Planet Earth from all times and eras is resurected for a surprise Afterlife on the Riverworld. On the Day of Awakening, everyone is reborn naked. This causes a lot of ''Angst'' for those from the Victorian and other prudish eras.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of Time", when {{spoiler|The Master}} is being restructed by a cult using his ring, [[Shirtless Scene|he is shown from the top up without a shirt]].

* Cylon Resurrection works this way in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']], since the Cylons are basically [[Artificial Human]] clones.

* This is what happened to the title character of ''[[John Doe]]'', {{spoiler|after PHOENIX successfully yo-yoed him into Heaven and back again}}.

* ''[[Angel]]'': When Wolfram & Hart resurrected Angel's dam, Darla, she came back nude.

* {{spoiler|Desmond}} in the ''[[Lost]]'' season 3 premiere is an arguable example. Arguable because we still have [[They Just Didn't Care|no freaking clue as to what really happened there]]. He probably didn't die, but he did have a near-death experience that ''should'' [[No One Should Survive That|have resulted in his death]], and [[Plot Hole|he woke up without his clothes anyway]].

* Played with with Claire in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]],''; the only reason she comes back nude is because her [[Waking Up At the Morgue|clothes had been removed for her autopsy]]. When the branch lodged in the "no [[Healing Factor]] if this gets screwed with" part of her brain was removed, she woke up and gave everyone a good scare. However, she's still covered with a cloth at the time -- sorrytime—sorry, no [[Fan Service]].

* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', Sindel is revived from a skeleton; we see the muscles and blood vessels forming on her bones, but the camera sticks above the chestline once she has skin.

* In ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', Serge is very much naked after the flame switches his body back to normal.

* In ''[[Narbonic]]'', when Caliban and Mell are respectively kicked out of the afterlife onto Earth, they're both starkers.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': When {{spoiler|Roy, the leader of the Order of the Stick,}} is brought back to life, he's totally nude and covered only by a blurry section near his crotch. Roy says to Belkar that if he could spend some time being dead, they could tolerate a little full frontal.

* This trope was ''fully'' exploited in ''Crushed: The Doomed Kitty'', a now-defunct webcomic by the ''[[Supermegatopia]]'' brothers. Crushed was a female adventurer, and every time she died (which was often), she'd resurrect at the Temple of Infinite Lives, without all her equipment and clothing. She'd have to go back to her previous body to get it all back, just like in ''[[Diablo (series)|Diablo]]''. This also applied to every other adventurer in the comic, and total party wipes were quite common, resulting in a small horde of naked people popping into existence at the temple.

* Tanica, Rina and, in the backstory, Sarin in ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]''. Especially Tanica, who had no clothes on revival despite her transformation appearing as bark growing over her, clothes and all.

* In ''[[Tales Ofof Gnosis College]]'', Professor Corwin's human-reconstitution technology just ''happens'' to work this way.

* Dhur of ''[[Meat Shield (webcomic)|Meat Shield]]'' is brought [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] this way too, in a ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' shout out. He also has lost all body hair, which seems to distress him more than the nakedness.