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''Hide deep inside, it was my little creep stalker room''
''As they disrobed I was oogling and ogling''
''Little did they know that for me they were modeling!''
|'''[[Lonely Island]] (feat. Nicki Minaj)'''|"Do the Creep"}}
'''The Peeping Tom''' is a character who gets his kicks from non-consensual voyeurism - spying on others in explicit situations without their permission or knowledge. Peeping Toms are often driven by a fetishistic urge, deriving pleasure not just from the act of spying itself, but from the thrill of the potential for getting caught. This is, unfortunately, a case of [[Truth in Television]], as acts of peeping are reported in all cultures around the world, their goal made easier each year as [[Technology Marches On]].
The methods of peeping can vary from work to work, from the classic depiction of a pervert peering through windows to watch people changing clothes, to [[Naughty Birdwatching]] through the use of telescopes or binoculars, to the tech-savvy voyeur who sets up hidden cameras in bathroom stalls. While these characters are commonly male, a female Peeping Tom (or "Peeping Tammy", if you will) is plausible. Characters who focus their attention on only the subject of their unrequited affection may be both The Peeping Tom and a [[Stalker with a Crush]].
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* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Nodoka, Ranma's mother, has a definition of "manliness" that includes a man must be a peeping tom.
* Toad Sage Jiraiya in ''[[Naruto]]'' spied on girls in hot springs all the time. He called it "research." Somewhat justified in that he was a popular author of trashy romance novels.
* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', three of the girls spy on Keitaro trying to kiss a sleeping Naru during one of their study sessions due to being bored/curious. Naru apparently was awake the whole time, and gives Keitaro a nice [[Megaton Punch|punch]], followed by poking her finger into the three holes that Kitsune drilled and
* In ''[[Sora no Otoshimono]]'', Tomoki takes it to the extreme by having Ikaros stop time while he gallivants around the city, stripping down high school girls all around. He actually shrinks himself and sticks himself in the cleavage of another girl.
* In ''[[Green Green]]'', the male supporting cast does get caught up on this in pretty much every episode.
* In the third season of ''[[
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'': Lain is a peeping tom.
* In ''[[Prison School]]'', this is what got the male protagonists into trouble in the first place.
== Comic Books ==
* This is a running gag on Chilean comic book ''Condorito'', as he tends to spy on young women as they are bathing, undressing or skinny dipping. Sometimes he gets to go away with it, other times he gets beaten into a pulp.
* [[Mark Hamill]]'s ''[[The Black Pearl]]'' is an unusual quasi-heroic example.
* In an issue of ''[[JLA]]'', [[Wonder Woman]] is at home, about to change her clothes, and suddenly turns and addresses the red and yellow light fixture on the wall: "If my body were the last thing you ever saw, would it be worth it?" [[Plastic Man]] gets the hint and leaves with a sulk
== Film ==
* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', the then-teenage George McFly spies on his future wife, Lorraine, from a tree next to her window. This becomes a crucial plot point as this is the point where Marty alters history. When George falls out of the tree, Marty pushes him out of the way of an oncoming car... accidentally preventing his parents' original meeting.
* In ''[[Animal House]]'', Bluto Blutarsky uses a ladder to peer through the second-story window of a sorority house.
* The Lambdas in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' take this trope to an extreme by installing surveillance cameras in all the bedrooms and showers of the Pi Delta Pi sorority house.
* The horror film ''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]'' is about a serial killer who films himself killing girls with the use of a hidden camera. It was directed by Michael Powell, a well-known English director of the 1940s and 1950s, and the subject matter was so controversial in its day that it more or less ended Powell's career in the United Kingdom.
* The famous shower room scene from ''[[Porky's]]'' shows the guys cutting a hole into the wall of the gym shower to spy on the girls, but get a surprise when [[Punny Name|Ms. Balbricker]] comes in.
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* The entire film ''[[Alone With Her]]'' is shown through the spy cameras the main character has hidden in his clothes and his love interest's home.
* Jon Lovitz plays one in the first scene of ''[[Little Nicky]]'' - when he gets knocked out of his tree, we follow him all the way down to Hell.
== Folklore ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is a tailor named Tom from a 17th century version of the legend of Lady Godiva, who is the only person in town to go against the Lady's proclamation and spies on her nude horseback ride through town. According to the legend, Tom bored a hole through his window shutters in order to catch a glimpse of Godiva, and was struck blind for the trouble.
* Possibly even older, the Taka-Onna from Japanese folklore. This [[Yokai]] looks like a very tall and very ugly human female, who enjoys using her incredible height to spy into private homes to watch the owners being, well, intimate. They don't attack humans as some Yokai do, but often enjoy scaring them.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[Peeper]]'' by William Brinkley is a 1981 novel about a Peeping Tom prowling the town of Martha, Texas, and leaving tokens of his appreciation behind for the women he's spied upon to find. Amusingly, being the "victim" of the Peeper begins to hold a special cachet for the women of Martha, such that some women who claim he has visited him are lying... The narrative point of view of the novel is split between the people of the town and the Peeper himself, but despite this his true identity is not revealed until the end of the book -- as are his true motivations.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Red Museum" features a man who secretly records everyone living in his building from inside their bathrooms.
* In ''[[Married... with Children]]'' Bud has drilled a hole into the shower room to watch girls shower. Al says, "That's low son." Bud hangs his head in shame. Al continues, "No, the hole is too low, all you'll see is their knees. Drill it higher!"
* A particularly disgusting example appeared on ''[[Law
* At least one episode of ''[[CSI]]'' ("Strip Strangler") deals with a peeping tom who escalates to rape and murder.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFjPtp1O4M Brian the peeping Tom] on ''Maury''.
* Birkhoff from ''[[Nikita]]'' spyed on Alex as she worked out by hacking her apartment security camera. Given the context she is more creeped out that Division could have been spying on her all along than by his peeping.
* On an episode of ''[[The Equalizer]]'', Chris Elliott has a brief part as a Peeping Tom - here he's just a harmless creep and not the bad guy of the story.
== Music ==
* [[Lonely Island]]: Played for equal amounts of [[Played for Laughs|laughs]] and [[Squick]] in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0 Do the Creep]", which features Jorm, Akiva, and Andy sitting on a tree limb to peep through a window, and Nicki Minaj hiding in a locker to watch boys change after gym.
* ''[[Placebo]]'' have a song called
* [[Evanescence]]'s
{{quote|''Undress in the dark and hide from you all of you''}}
*
{{quote|I wish she'd be more kind now / I'm out of luck 'cause the shades are pulled down / I've seen everything there is to be shown / I followed her all the way home.}}
* [[Halestorm]]'s ''[[Intercourse with You|"I Get Off"]]'' is a rock song about what happens when [[The Peeping Tom]] meets [[The Tease|The Exhibitionist]], from the POV of the exhibitionist gleefully [[Playing to The Fetishes|Playing to the Fetishes]].
== Video Games ==
* In the "Secret Garden" cutscene in ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' Daichi and Joe decide to spy on the female cast members' physical exam.The main character can join them too, leading to several minor [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moments later on.
* ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, LeafGreen,]] [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' has [[Dirty Old Man|an old man]] standing outside the Celadon Gym looking through the windows into it. He comments that "this Gym is great. It's full of women!"
* Both Lloyd and Emil end up as [[Accidental Pervert]]s in the ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' games. They add "Peeping Tom" to your character's list of stat-boosting Titles.
* In the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series, if you're a member of a club, you'll have an option to go peep at the bathrooms during the summer's training camp. You'll have to choose among three windows, which randomly grant you safe-for-work CGs of [[Fan Service|cute girls]] or [[Fan Disservice|ugly macho men]] bathing. Peeping has a hefty price though: All the girls you know will have [[Relationship Values|a severe drop in affection towards you]], particularly those in the same club as yours, if you peeped at girls; and if you watched at men, your Stress parameter sharply goes up.
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', if the Asian (the player avatar) works part-time as a beach lifeguard in summer, he randomly can get at peeping at girls he knows via a nautical telescope. Aside from getting a safe-for-work CG of the girl peeped at wearing a swimsuit, and [[Relationship Values|a drop in affection from her]], you get, like in the ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' example, the "Peeping Tom" (Nozokiya) Title for [[100% Completion|your List of Titles]].
* In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' it is heavily implied that TEC (a sentient, super-intelligent computer) develops a crush on Peach after watching her shower. Not that it's his fault, as [[My Master, Right or Wrong| he was just doing]] what [[Dragon-in-Chief| Grodus]] told him to.
* Something of a meta-example, ''[[Night Trap]]''. Much of the controversy surrounding this game is that the player is assuming the role of a special-OPS agent who is monitoring a bunch of teenage girls having a slumber party - the fact that said agent is supposed to protect them from a family of killers was often disregarded.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Karate Bears Webomic]]'': [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/05/mischief.html
▲* ''[[Karate Bears Webomic]]'' [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/05/mischief.html peep]
* In ''[[Misfile]]'', Ash apparently had a fantasy about peeping into the girls' locker room. However, after a [[Gender Bender]] transformation, it loses its appeal and Ash is [[squick]]ed out when ''she'' finds herself on the receiving end of it actually happening.
* One ''[[Nodwick]]'' story featured a Goddess of Peeping Toms, who [http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2012-02-07 ironically, was often the victim of them.]
== Western Animation ==
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{{quote|'''Willy:''' "Homer! I ''love'' amateur video, and your show is the most amateur video I ever saw. My hobby is secretly videotaping couples in cars. I dinna come forward because in this country, it makes you look like a pervert -- but ''every'' single Scottish person does it!" }}
** Also on ''[[The Simpsons]]'': The ladies call Moe Szylak "Hey you from behind the bushes".
* The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' episode "The Gamemaster" has many [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] moments, one of which being how the eponymous villain captures Lady Jaye while she's changing clothes in a department store changing room. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial| "I do ''not'' have a crush on her, Koko!"]] he exclaims in response to a comment from his [[Robot Buddy]].
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