Shameful Strip: Difference between revisions

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May also happen if the police or other security forces do a strip search on a character.

 

Contrast with [[Go-Go Enslavement]], in which the captured is given clothes, though the clothes given are either scandalously revealing or utterly humiliating in some other way (too modest, it's women's clothes for a man, it's a cartoony outfit, etc). Accidental happenstances go into [[Wardrobe Malfunction]]. If the person loses their hair instead of their clothes, it's [[Traumatic Haircut]].

 

* In an episode of ''[[Inuyasha|Inu Yasha]]'', Kagome is knocked unconscious by the villain-of-the-week and wakes up naked in a big cooking pot. From the time Inu-Yasha rescues her until she retrieves her clothes, she wears his fire-rat-hair kimono.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': After {{spoiler|Battler surrenders to Beatrice}} in the second arc, he is found stripped ''completely'' except for a chain around his neck that Beatrice uses as a leash. Sadly that [[Scenery Censor|dumb railing got in the way]].

* In ''[[Cross Ange|Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon]]'', Embryo - the [[Physical God| creator of the World of Mana]] and a [[Jerkass Gods|a complete asshole]] - does this to Ange, using his divine power to destroy her clothes simply to prove he can. {{spoiler| He doesn't get away with it, though; later she cuts off his connection to Mana, [[Brought Down to Normal|causing him to become mortal]], and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?| strikes him down]] in an epic battle.}}

 

* Seen in the [[Vertigo Comics]] limited series ''Proposition Player'', where a villain discusses the finer points of this technique—when to strip the captives by force, and when to make them strip themselves.

* In ''[[Lady S]]'', after capturing the heroine, the bad guys (including a woman) order her to strip so she won't try to run away in the streets. It doesn't work, she's a [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]] (she doesn't try to cover herself while running away). This troper still wonders whether she would have run away if they forced her to strip completely rather than allowing her to keep her underwear.

 

 

* ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]'': When Taarna was captured by the Barbarian Leader, he had her stripped.

* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'': During the climax, when [[Big Bad|Judge]] [[Complete Monster|Frollo]] and his guards are preparing to sentence Esmeralda to death by [[Burn the Witch|being burned at the stake,]] before the execution even took place it's actually implied that all but one of Esmeralda's outfits were destroyed by Frollo so she can be executed properly, and the only outfit Frollo didn't destroy? A white dress. Guess where she was hiding that dress all along!

** Unless you think that said white dress could be a sort-of underwear. Meaning it can be seen as [[Fridge Horror|her being executed while in her undies.]] Then again, it's most likely that the dress was a standard clothing for women who are about to die at the stake, so it was forcibly put on her.

* In ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' after the death of the emperor, SkekUng confronts SkekSil and issues the challenge for supremacy. The Chamberlain responds by declaring the challenge be a Trial by Stone. After the battle, the Chamberlain is stripped of his clothing and outcast by the High Priest as punishment for losing to the new emperor, SkekUng.

{{quote|You have seen, gentlemen, how a woman must be made to remove her own clothing, depriving her of her dignity. With a man, it is the opposite. STRIP HIM!}}

 

* Happens twice in ''[[Redwall]]''; The vermin captives of the Bark Crew are stripped of their uniforms and forced to walk back to the fortress naked (and neck-deep in the sea, just to make matters even worse), and Flinky and Crinktail are "stripped to the fur" when captured by Raga Bol. May not have entirely the same impact as with humans, considering the [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]] phenomenon, but given that in another book a vermin [[Mook]] is embarrassed when [[Big Bad]] Badrang cuts his kilt off, maybe it does.

* The fantasy parody novel ''Heroics for Beginners'' features the [[Big Bad]]'s "Evil Assistant" tearing open the captive princess' blouse, on the grounds that exposing a female prisoner's body makes her feel more vulnerable. She's very surprised to encounter a chainmail bra underneath.

* [[Larry Niven]] and Jerry Pournelle's ''Oath of Fealty'': at the end of the novel, the captured ecofanatic saboteurs and some common criminals are stripped naked, painted, tattooed and left for the police to find.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

* In Jack Chalker's ''Flux & Anchor'' series, this happens to Cassie twice. The first time, she's been caught spying around a temple and is placed naked in a cell, told that if she resists, there'll be chains and a gag, too. The second time, she's been abducted by the male-dominated society of New Eden, waking up from unconsciousness to find herself naked, [[Bound and Gagged|gagged and handcuffed]]. The abduction is a prelude to an extended period of "[[Brainwashed|re-education]]."

** Some things run in families—Cassie's daughter Spirit is abducted by the evil sorcerer Coydt van Haas, who magically makes her strip herself without realizing it. Once she's aware of the situation, Spirit is then trapped in a bargain where she reverts to a state of nature, unable to wear clothes, use tools or even speak a human language -- [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|or to care about any of those limitations]].

* A recurrent theme in the romance novels of Bertrice Small, but especially in ''A Love For All Time,'' where four English girls are carried off by Muslim slave traders midway through the novel. Their clothes are taken during a [[Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me|preparatory bath]] and all four are made to march through the streets of Algiers naked before being auctioned off in the same state.

* In ''Spellfall'' by K. Roberts, Natalie, a 12 years old girl, is captured and drugged by an [[Big Bad|evil wizard]] Hawk and his female assistant. When she wakes up, all her clothing (and glasses) have been removed, and replaced with a short shift, allegedly to make it harder for her to escape. It is also implied that Hawk [[Dirty Old Man|was also involved]] in the clothing removal, as he later is interested in seeing Natalie change back.

 

* ''[[Life On Mars]]''. Happens to Sam Tyler after he's slipped a mickey by a prostitute in a frame-up. He wakes up tied to a bed with Gene Hunt kicking down the door accompanied by WPC Anne Cartwright. Considering Annie's embarrassment and Gene's quip of "it's not all golf and badminton in Hyde, eh?", it's fairly safe to say Sam was naked.

* ''[[Numb3rs]]'': In an undercover assignment, to spot bugs. Blatant [[Fan Service]], what with the promos advertising the strip and the random lingerie she ''just happened'' to be wearing. The shame bit's still there, though.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', when a Greeed is stripped of its Core Medals it is also stripped of the clothes and armor they are wearing.

 

 

* In ''The Time of Your Life'', when Blick interrogates [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|Kitty]], who claims to have worked as a burlesque queen (an obvious lie), he forces her to put on a striptease for him on the spot. This is played for tears, not laughs.

 

* This is actually an aspect in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] [[Original Generation]]'' starting from the OVA, and goes as far as nakedness. The autonomous system ODE captures humans to become the core of their units. In the process, they strip their victims naked, tie them with cords of the machine, and make their life force be the fuel of the Bartoll robots, until they die from loss of blood. Of course, the peak of the [[Fan Service]] / [[Fan Disservice]] of this scenario was when they happen to capture the protagonist group member with the biggest melons of all, Lamia Loveless. She's not spared of the treatment, so off they go stripping her naked. Imagine that you see her unexposed breasts while she's being forced to fight the team! She managed to live instead of dying from loss of life force, thanks to her [[Robot Girl|unorthodox inner structure of her body]].

** Duminuss repeats this practice in ''[[Original Generation]] [[Gaiden Game]]'', on Lamia again. Or maybe that's because she forgot to bring some spare clothes.

* The whole point of the Creative Finishes in the [[Fanservice]]-ish ''[[Senran Kagura Estival Versus]]''. Doing them strips the opponent nude and catapults her into some embarrassing situation, like into a basketball net, soccer goal, cage, or even stack of giant pancakes.

* One part of ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age Origins]]'' involves the Warden captured by Loghain's guards, who strip him/her of all equipment except underwear before throwing him/her in prison. Seeing as they do the same to Alistair if he's with the party at the time, it's rather... suggestive. Especially since one way to escape (if the player pursues that option) involves seducing the guard...

 

* ''[[Narbonic]]'': Male example: after Nick Cricetida is knocked unconscious, he awakes in the villainess's bed naked.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''

** It's only until much later that [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2011/08/for-certain-values-of-pony/ he gives them any sort of clothing], [[Go-Go Enslavement|though it's only a slight improvement]].

 

* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer destroys the Sacred Parchment of the Stonecutters, he is forced to "walk home naked, dragging the Stone of Shame". Until they spot a birthmark on his rear marking him as [[The Chosen One]]. They then remove the Stone of Shame, and attach the Stone of Triumph (about twice as big) instead.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' - in a fixed game of strip poker in a shady Tijuana den, Brock is made to go naked - all the others are so dumbstruck at the sight that he has no problem brutally subduing them all.

 

* Reportedly, during the lead up to [[The American Revolution]], one colonial was stripped naked and forced to walk home - by his peers - when he tried to attend a public protest of the Tea Act. Why? [[Disproportionate Retribution|He had tea in his pocket.]]

* In Medieval Spain (more exactly, the city of Valencia), if a Christian man has a Moorish lover and they were found out, the punishment for her was being stripped and forced to walk around town naked.

 

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[[Category:Nudity Tropes]]

[[Category:Narrative Devices]]

[[Category:Stripping Tropes]]

[[Category:Index of Shame]]