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{{quote|'''Tommy:''' How was it? I heard there was an awesome shower scene.

 

 

More often the person is female, but can also be done with men to appease the squealing fangirls (and gay fanboys).

 

Subtropes include:

 

Compare [[Bathtub Scene]].

 

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* Kallen's shower scene in ''[[Code Geass]]''. Yeah, there was [[Pixellation]], too, but apparently the viewers still got to see the good stuff.

** Versions exist without the pixels. Specifically, the Youtube versions.

** An earlier one takes place in Subaru and Teana's time with the academy, in which Subaru talks with Teana about her admiration for Nanoha, and Teana tells her somewhat coldly that she has no interest in becoming friends with her (she later changes her mind).

* In ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'', to celebrate the tenth issue we're treated to Rinslet taking a shower.

* ''Fire Candy'' doesn't bother to censor, well, [[Fan Service|anything]] in Yukito's shower scene.

* Due to the [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|nature of the curses]], these are a dime a dozen in ''[[Ranma ½]]'': cold showers for turning into the cursed form, [[Furo Scene|hot baths]] for changing back.

* Tieria Erde's shower scene in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is a very rare and completely humourless male example of this trope, random as it may have been.

** Later on, more [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Asuna and Makie are getting Negi cleaned up in a girl's locker room, and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v07/c057/16.html have to hide him] when [[Class Representative]] [[Shotacon|Ayaka]], fellow student Natsumi and [[Hot Teacher]] Shizuna enter (Makie shouldn't have [[Tempting Fate|tempted fate with her loud thinking]]).

* Dana Sterling has a couple of them in ''[[Robotech]]''.

* In a scene in the manga ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Miu spies on Ana to see if she's actually as... ''developed''... up top as the way her clothing lays on her suggests, i.e. moreso than Miu. Apparently so. She's 11, though, and [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] is employed (no chest features are drawn), so whether it's hot or just cute is [[Your Mileage May Vary|up to the reader]].

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' puts Miaka in one of these (among other bathing scenes in the series), where the camera pans ''sloooooooowly'' from her butt up.

** The series itself even had a few, featuring characters like Sheryl, Nanase, Ranka, and even the micronized Klan.

* Gren gets a plot-relevant one in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. Faye gets a fanservice one in the movie.

* Played straight in the anime series ''[[Initial D]]'', both Extra Stage 1 and 2 involve Mako in a shower scene.

* Happens in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' to Edward not long after he escapes from Gluttony's stomach, where he spent a fair amount of time ankle-deep in blood.

* Andromeda Shun from ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' has a random one in the anime, while the bad guy Lizard Misty gets a similarly-framed "bathing in the ocean" scene. Throw in the fact that [[Gender Blender Name|Pisces Aphrodite]] takes a bath in one of the movies and you start to wonder if the animators weren't trying to [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|prove that they were male.]]

** Shinra attempts the same thing in the second arc, but this time it's his dad in the shower. [[Brain Bleach|Oops.]]

*** Shinra himself got a brief one in episode 6. It wasn't as detailed though, much to the fangirls' disappointment.

* Harrison Ford's character in ''Witness'' walks in on his Amish hostess giving herself a sponge bath.

* ''[[Cruel Intentions]] 2'' has a shower scene with [[Twincest|twins]], which, incidentally, is the [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|only thing people remember]] about the film.

* [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[The Outsiders]]'' has a gratuitous scene with Sodapop.

* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] and Wai Lin share an outdoor shower (both clothed) in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', leading a combination [[Shirtless Scene]] / [[Wet Sari Scene]].

* Lampshaded in ''[[PCU]]''. "Shower sceeeeene..."

* [[Zooey Deschanel]] has had two, one in ''[[Elf]]'', and one in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. ''[[Billy Squire|Now everybody, have you heard...]]'' Nothing ''dirty'' is seen, but still.

* ''[[American Beauty]]'' shows us Kevin Spacey jerking off in the shower through frosted glass at the beginning of the film. Later, there's also a [[Dream Sequence]] revolving around Mena Suvari's character in the bath.

* Abigail Whistler's bloody post-battle shower scene in ''[[Blade]]: Trinity'' interspersed with flashbacks of her dad, is the closest the movie comes to being emotionally resonant. It's also pretty much the only bit of [[Character Development]] she gets.

* The [[Final Girl]] in ''[[The Funhouse]]'' is introduced to us this way.

* Helen Hunt takes a shower in ''[[Twister]]''. Storm-chasing is no doubt dirty, gritty work with the high winds and all, but the scene itself is entirely gratuitous.

* [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] gets a bathtub scene in ''[[Secretary]]'', and a post-shower scene in ''[[Sherrybaby]]''. Both are glorious.

* Matthew Broderick's character in ''[[The Cable Guy]]''.

* ''[[Primeval]]'' Season 2: Stephen Hart comes home to find Helen Cutter in his shower: "Hope you don't mind. I got slimed in the Devonian and the smell would make your eyes water. Now stop staring and pass me a towel."

* ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' has a couple of these, one by Sarah and one by Derek. The former is also a [[Shower of Angst]], while the latter is most definitively a [[Shirtless Scene]].

* Twisted slightly in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' when someone asks about Commander Susan Ivanova. Cut to a person in a shower who quickly turns out to be Captain John Sheridan. But it's still a shower scene, ladies. Enjoy.

* Kate has had several shower scenes on ''[[Lost]]''. She also had an underwear-clad bathing scene in the pilot episode.

* Inara gives herself a ritual sponge bath in the pilot ''[[Firefly]]'', {{spoiler|and Shepherd Book walks in on her}}.

* [[Doctor Who|The Third Doctor's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns0Vz7ow45s debut.]

* [[Chuck]], Sarah, Devon (Captain Awesome) and Ellie. Casey did have a shower scene but remained more or less fully clothed because he was in medical distress (no fanservice for the ladies... yet).

* ''[[Lexx]]'' had a few, sometimes including frontal nudity (depending on what country you were in).

* ''[[Glee]]'' has one with Finn singing loudly into a bar of soap as he showers.

** Several times with Sam, including a singing scene a la Finn.

* [[Queer as Folk]]: [[Not Safe for Work|So. Many.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms429LgjQAI Showers.]

* A staple in a lot of [[Korean Series]], usually the male leads:

* All three playable characters have one in ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]''/''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]''. Carla is the only one whose character model is actually naked during the scene (Lucas and Tyler's boxers are sometimes visible).

* Madison's shower scene in ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. Or Ethan Mars' (which was considerably less fan service-y in that regard).

* Possible to invoke in ''[[Endless Ocean]]: Blue World'' if you use the shower facilities behind the cabin of Nineball Island.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', Female Shepards have the option to offer [[Lipstick Lesbian|Specialist Traynor]] a shower in their private cabin. And then join her.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' does one... [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2008/11/showering-is-honestly-very-important/ sadly, it's only a one-panel gag.]

* ''[[Freefall]]'' has one of these in a sub-arc, starting [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00200.htm here]. Since then there have been several more, mostly played straight. The one for the Oct 24, 2011 strip, however, [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the usual [[Fan Service]] purpose: {{spoiler|Florence showers with her clothes still on, as her outfit was just as dirty as she was and she was fatigued from the day's ordeal.}}

* ''[[The Whiteboard]]'': Done as part of the 2007 [[April Fools' Day]] strip, [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf07.html here]. And again in [http://the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html 2012].

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Winx Club]]'' had three brief shower moments in season two: Tecna in episode five, Flora in episode seven, and Professor Avalon in episode nine. Flora's and Avalon's were the most fanservice-y; Flora's whole silhouette was shown in the shower, and Avalon was lounging in the steam with a towel wrapped around him for modesty.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Bonnie goes to take a shower, which doubles as a tribute to ''[[Psycho]]'' when Kim deliberately uses all the hot water.

* The boys of ''[[South Park]]'' got one in "'Lil Crime Stoppers." However, unlike the previous examples, no attempt was made at preserving their modesty: in fact, a full-frontal shot of Stan, Kyle, and Cartman was used in the opening credits for several years afterward.

* In episode 22 of ''[[Wakfu]]'', a sunstroke-suffering Sadlygrove has an hallucination of [[Love Interest|Evangelyne]] showering, with [[Censor Steam]] around.

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