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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'' takes this a little further than usual, with the Puma sisters distracting the cops with a [[Striptease]] while their boss reloads his machine gun.
* In the television incarnation of the ''[[Dirty Pair]]'', this is a tactic Kei resorted to once when some guards had them at gunpoint with no other choices
* ''[[Slayers]]''
** Subverted when Gourry asks Lina Inverse to jiggle to distract a guard and her response is "I can't do that!" (Lina's [[Pettanko|relatively small chest]] is a [[Running Gag]] in the series.)
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** In the manga, Ranma ''loves'' using this trope to his advantage. He's a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|loveable but]] [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] [[The Tease|tease]]. Would you expect anything less? Although most of Ranma's other opponents (even girl-shy Ryōga) are immune to Ranma's [[Gender Bender|feminine attributes]].
** Ranma also does this to save Ukyō from Ryōga: when the former is first introduced to the school, Ryōga misunderstands and (like everyone else at first) thinks Ukyō is a man, and nearly skewers her with his umbrella. Ranma quickly dashes in and rips open Ukyō's uniform jacket, showing her breasts (bound tight with [[Sarashi]]) to Ryōga. He gets smashed with a [[Improbable Weapon User|giant steel spatula]] by way of thanks.
** Even Akane (!) gets into the act: in order to save Ranma from the [[Orochi]], she rips off her own jacket, revealing her true gender. The woman-eating dragon is sufficiently distracted and stops in its efforts to eat Ranma. That was ''after'' female-Ranma's attempts to
** Nabiki invoked this trope once by [[Panty Shot|flipping up Akane's skirt]] in front of Ranma. Not only did it distract him, but it completely stopped him from finishing an attack based on strong emotion. In this case, the strong emotion was depression. Ranma uses a similar technique on Ryōga at a critical moment of the same depression-technique, causing it to backfire.
** The Vengeful Doll (in Akane's body) invokes this by stripping in front of Ranma, then tries to kill him while he's stunned.
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* In one episode of ''[[Princess Nine]]'', the all-girl baseball team tries the tactic on an all-boy team. It works for a few innings....
* The same trick is used in the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' [[Manga]], where Urd undoes a few buttons on her top to help Megumi win her match to keep the baseball team from shutting down the softball team. It works for a few innings, but they snap out of it when they realize they're about to lose.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic the Second Raid]]''. The soldiers guarding Amalgam's giant mecha are pleasantly surprised when twin [[Emotionless Girl
* Done in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' by Miaka when she is held captive by Kutou soldiers in the dungeon. She calls it "Operation: Sex Plot".
* Used in the first arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]] Kai'', where Rena, um... [[Raging Stiffie|disables]] Keiichi by turning up the [[Moe]] factor [[Up to Eleven|to eleven]].
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** Used again when Angel transformed into Lucy and lifted her top as Lucy.
** Lucy and Kana use it rather effectively during the S-Rank test to win their dual against Fried and Bixlow. Except for the fact that Fried and Bixlow were intentionally throwing the fight. The sexy strategy only appeared to work.
* In the ''[[Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]'' anime, Fairy
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Blair seems to favor this tactic to actual combat, as she tried to seduce Soul in the first chapter. {{spoiler|And Blair during a run-in with some [[Gender Bender|flipped Gender]] did this as a man, to a succubus... by transforming into her (his) human form. Regardless of gender, [[Even the Girls Want Her|Blair is]] very hot.}}
* Done off-camera in ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. [[Ms. Fanservice|Sheryl Nome]] walks onto the bridge of the ''[[Cool Starship|Macross Quarter]]'' unannounced. When the crew asks how she got past security, cut to a shot of a very happy security guard touching a [[Lipstick Mark]] on his cheek.
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** Invoked much later by Julia Roberts's character in ''Mystic Pizza''. She's not successful. Her date decides to give it a try, prompting a woman to pull over when he drops his pants.
* Both played straight and subverted in Jackie Chan's ''Operation Condor''. Early in the movie, Jackie distracts the thug with the gun by pulling the towel off a recently-showered Elsa, then kicks the guard unconscious. Later, when Jackie, Elsa, and Ada are in a similar situation, this time with Ada fresh out of the shower, Elsa de-towels Ada... and Jackie is just as distracted as the thug.
* Played
* In ''Slums of Beverly Hills'', Marissa Tomei's character gets a ride from a trucker by standing in the middle of the road and opening her bathrobe. The headlights shining through the robe suggested nothing underneath.
* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''
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* Part of the 3-person group's scam strategy in the movie ''Kingpin''. [[The Smart Guy|Roy]] would set up a bowling match bet with potential suckers, [[The Ditz|Ishmael]] would do the actual bowling, and [[Ms. Fanservice|Claudia]] would distract Ishmael's opponents with revealing outfits and seductive actions. Humorously, this worked every time, even against a group of ''[[Even the Girls Want Her|old women]]''.
* ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]'': Amanda Peet distracts assassins by walking out of her room naked.
* A rare gender-reversed example was [[Double Standard|played for laughs]] in ''Mickey Blue Eyes'': The title character tries to distract his fiancée by acting in a sexy and suggestive manner in order to prevent her from noticing a painting that is hanging ''right next to her''. He ends up looking absolutely ridiculous, and (probably) not particularly sexy to ''any'' segment of the
* ''[[The Replacements (film)|The Replacements]]'': [[The Cheerleader|The cheerleaders]] deliberately use this trope to cause a penalty call against the [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Dallas team]] for a false start, while the replacement Sentinels are still learning to work together. It is also distracting to the fans and the refs.
* In ''[[Fierce Creatures]]'', Willa Weston [[Fan Service|uses this on Vince McCain and Rollo Lee... successfully]].
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* In ''[[Garrett P.I.|Gilded Latten Bones]]'', intruders break into Tinnie's and Garrett's love-nest, and she flashes her breasts at one to distract him while Garrett's punching out the other.
* Subverted in the [[BattleTech|Mechwarrior: Dark Age]] novel ''Service for the Dead''. In preparing to fight in a [[Trial by Combat|Trial of Grievance]] against a rival, Anastasia Kerensky opts to wear tights and what amounts to a backless, halter-style bikini top, the latter of which she removes mid-combat. Her opponent is unfazed... until she [[Clothing Combat|strangles him]] [[Duel to the Death|to death]] with it.
* The [[Action Girl]] in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Puppet Masters (novel)|The Puppet Masters]]'' uses this to detect men who've been possessed by the Alien Invaders. Those [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]] are assumed to be "hag-ridden", though as the President points out at one stage, it could also mean they're "[[Unusual Euphemism|harem guards]]"
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** "The Doctor Dances": Rose references this trope and resigns herself to doing it. However, Jack points out that the person they're going to distract is a) a friend of his and b) gay. He then volunteers to do the distracting himself, and adds, "Don't wait up."
** In "The Doctor's Daughter", Jenny seduces a guard to get his weapon. She just flirts with him and snogs him, not taking anything
** According to Rory, Amy passed her driving exam with the help of a short skirt.
* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'': One of Daisy's specialties. This backfired on her once, in Season 4's "Cletus Falls in Love," where Deputy Cletus, instead of getting wise to Daisy's charms, falls madly in love with her. Anywhere else, Cletus would be arrested for stalking and/or fired for unprofessional behavior, but for the Dukes, his puppy-dog-smothering of Daisy is just an annoyance... until Cletus helps them against the bad guys in the end.
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:: The result is Diane performing "Hey Big Spender" in said dress... with full orchestral accompaniment somehow.
** The other example is in "From Honey, with Love": One of the gadgets Wayne produces for the Canadian secret agent he's working with is a hat that, when donned and activated, hypnotizes onlookers into seeing the wearer as an attractive blonde in a bikini, allowing ''anyone'' to distract their opponents this way.
* In the Australian mini-series ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' a female convict seduces the duty officer in order to get him out of the way for a convict escape attempt; unfortunately a musket discharges and the officer races back to see what's
* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "The Right Hand of God", Sam leaps into a boxer in the 1950s, and convinces his girlfriend to distract his opponent by streaking at a critical moment so he can get in a knockout punch.
* In one episode of ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]'', the Bundys are challenged to a bowling game. Kelly turns up late and Peggy yells at her for not doing her part. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HquSqgqkAHc Then she takes off her coat...]
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* Lampshaded in ''[[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]'' by Kururu, of all people. "Show a little leg. Guys can't resist a little leg."
* In ''[[Desperados]]'' the Chick of team, Kate, can do this to attract the enemies and lead them away from their posts and into deadly traps (you know, like in real life). Be careful though, for the enemies will pretty soon get that Kate is stringing them along and will knock her out or even shoot (once again, as in real life).
* In Adam Cadre's ''I-0'', a sketchy guy will pull over and offer you a lift if you actively try to
* In ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', Madison pulls a combination of this and [[Rip Tailoring]] in hopes of seducing (and further interrogating) a man in a seedy club.
* Inverted, then subverted, in ''[[Dragon Age]] Origins'', when a Templar who doesn't want to lets you pass points out (if you have her in your group) that he might not mind spending some time with Morrigan in exchange for letting you pass. Morrigan lets him know, not explictly but in no uncertain terms, that even if she agreed to do so she would kill him (and possibly ingest him and then spit out his bones). Leliana however plays along.
* The [[Horny Devils|Elise]] boss fight in ''[[MadWorld]]'' sees Jack trying to break her grip during his [[Action Commands|power struggle]]. Thing is, once he breaks her hold, [[Gag Boobs|her rack]] is directly in his face. There's another action command to ''look away''
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', the [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|courtesans]] you find throughout the cities are (after Sequence 1) on Ezio's side. For some coin, he can hire a cluster of them to surround him as he walks the
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', this is given a darker edge if Ezio achieves "middle" rank with the Courtesans' Guild, unlocking the ability of Courtesans to distract Horsemen, but also somehow arming every affiliated courtesan in Rome with a dosage of poison which they can inject a guard with. Unfortunately, since the player can't control this at all, it sometimes leads to a distraction of a far less desirable sort...
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' the courtesans are replaced by [[Romani]] dancers, though the desired effect is still the same.
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== Web Comics ==
* Distraction Damsel from ''[[Supermegatopia]]'', whose only superpower was causing timely wardrobe malfunctions (usually her own) or otherwise distracting bad guys (and good guys, and [[Innocent Bystander
* Subverted in [http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/brathalla.php?view=single&ID=14398 this strip] of ''[[Brat Halla]]'' strip, where we see the Norse goddess Hel (who is [[Red Right Hand|a rotting corpse from the waist down]]) do this. [[Fan Disservice|Not a pretty picture]]. The intent in this case was to subdue Balder's [[Raging Stiffie]]...
* Gina once distracted someone holding her at gunpoint in ''[[Apple Geeks]]'' by flashing her breasts. The gun''woman'' was [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=297 stunned into submission].
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'', this is something of a speciality of Sarah's. [[Lampshade
* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'': [http://theglen.livejournal.com/89715.html Mr. Welch is not allowed to take advantage of this by sending strippers to the guardroom.]
* Agent Lux of the ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' has... interesting methods of getting the attention of a crowd. But very effective ones.
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