Shirtless Scene/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A scene where the male character is temporarily topless.

  • Straight: Bill takes his shirt off for one scene.
  • Exaggerated: Bill and several male characters are shirtless simultaneously.
  • Justified: He removed his shirt because it was literally too hot for him to keep it on.
    • He removed his shirt because he was about to cannonball into the swimming pool.
  • Inverted: A Walking Shirtless Scene character puts a shirt on for a single scene.
  • Subverted: Bill removes his shirt, only to reveal another shirt underneath of it...
  • Double Subverted: ...and then he takes that shirt off, too.
  • Parodied: Bill took his shirt on because it was on fire.
  • Averted: All male characters keep their shirts on.
  • Enforced: Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
  • Lampshaded: "Nice pecs," "Nice six-pack," "AAAAAAAHHHH! *faints*" and so on.
  • Invoked: Alice tears Bill's shirt off to reveal that he's actually an alien from a far-away galaxy
  • Defied: Bill refuses to take his shirt off for anything.

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