History Main / AccidentalPervert

* In the first arc of ''DragonBall'', Goku -- being raised in the mountains until he met Bulma -- doesn't know how to confirm gender by look, so he innocently pats the girls' privates for any... well, balls. This resulted from an interesting situation in episode 2 when he took off Bulma's undies while she's sleeping...

He isn't a pervert. No, really! His hands just ''happened'' to slip and find themselves [[ThanksForTheMammary on her breasts]]. He just ''happened'' to trip on that rug over there and land (probably head-first) on top of her [[FunbagAirbag ample chest]]. Maybe he needed to use the bathroom and ran into her taking a bath or a shower. And he just ''happened'' to be there when [[MarilynManeuver the only wind of the day blew up her skirt]] and his only sin was [[MaleGaze instinctive goggling]]. He can't help it if his honest-to-goodness accidental moves make him come off as as a lech that can't even muster the... "slickness"... of the CasanovaWannabe.

Regularly results in PervertRevengeMode. See also NakedFirstImpression and ThanksForTheMammary. Overlaps with NotWhatItLooksLike, except that AccidentalPervert refers to a character type to which this kind of thing happens ''all'' the time, rather than just a few times. He's usually also the UnluckyEverydude to emphasize his sheer bad luck in scoring with girls. This can also happen to the ChasteHero or CelibateHero, for the obvious [[NotSoAboveItAll comic value]]. When played straight, the Accidental Pervert has at least some elements of the ChivalrousPervert, which he may become outright if he gains enough confidence to come to terms with his libido. They can often be mistaken for ThePeepingTom. They fall into this if they [[CrashingThroughTheHarem Crash Through the Harem]].

A lot of the times, this trope can feel rather forced due to the very unlikely circumstances around it. Sometimes, it isn't so much bad luck, as it is characters grabbing the IdiotBall. The girl may not always be very cautious (like changing clothes in her bedroom without covering the windows). This could lead into a DoubleStandard as the male one is treated as the pervert, even though it's at least partially the girl's fault. Guys are not exempt from this however, as they often walk into [[GenreBlind situations that you just know are going to end up like this]] (like barging into a girl's bedroom without even knocking).

** In ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'''s BeachEpisode, Kouji accidentally undoes Sayaka's top[[hottip:*:he was trying to grab her shoulder and missed]]; she's actually more upset by Boss getting a look at her breasts than she is by Kouji, even though he [[DistractedByTheSexy weaponizes her boobs]] in order to escape the enemy fortress.

* This happens often enough [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19sell.html?_r=1 in stores]] that companies have studied how to prevent it from happening. Customers who do this tend to leave the store quickly without buying anything. [[hottip:quote:In his book “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping” (2000), Mr. Underhill expounded on the dangers of “butt brushes” (if the aisles are too narrow and people brush up against each other when they pass, they tend to leave the store)]]

* FanFic/TaleofSolaron : The titular SnakePerson Solaron is this all the time. He continuously spouts innuendo and seductive subtext whenever he tries to come across as charming. And he has no idea he's doing it.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/sure-thing-sweet-cheeks/18864 This]] poor guy from NotAlwaysRight, who just keeps [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging himself deeper...]]

* FanFic/TaleofSolaron : The titular snakeman Solaron is this all the time. He continuously spouts innuendo and seductive subtext whenever he tries to come across as charming. And he has no idea he's doing it.

* TaleofSolaron : The titular snakeman Solaron is this all the time. He continuously spouts innuendo and seductive subtext whenever he tries to come across as charming. And he has no idea he's doing it.

* ''ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'' opens with Dreyfuss on the grounds of a mental hospital, cured and anticipating his release - then he's clocked in the head with a croquet ball and propelled into a lake - he staggers out and passes out on the grass. Clouseau (who of course launched the ball) rushes to administer resuscitation. He straddles Dreyfuss and thrusts repeatedly with his hands as he cries "OUT with the bad air, IN with the good! OUT...IN..." A passing patient witnessing this looking thrilled; her appalled guardian swats Clouseau crying "Pervert!"

** Accelerator gets some of this too, such as the time he walked in on two busty twenty-something year-olds (and a little girl) all naked in the shower. Unlike Touma though, his reaction is more "Are we really doing this? Why didn't you lock the door?"

* Parodied in ''{{Tales of MU}}'', when Mackenzie walks in on a fully-clothed Amaranth, who -- being a nymph -- displays the typical outraged reaction of a human girl caught in a state of undress.

* Spoofed in ''WeddingPeachAbridged''. In the original series, this trope is played straight and Yosuke is sometimes inadvertently put into compromising positions. In TheAbridgedSeries, these scenes are edited so that he is portrayed as a LovableSexManiac.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Botherhood '', Winry walks into her bedroom and starts undressing, without realizing Ed is in the room with her. He gets to see some [[{{Underboobs}} underboob]]. Interestingly, while her reaction is [[{{Tsundere}} explosive]], it is more targeted towards the people who enters the room after her screaming. Ed can be seen still in her room ''after'' she has changed, while everyone else has been driven out.
** Also in ''Botherhood,'' Envy walks in on Edward after Edward just left the shower, and he has no pants or towel on. Screaming ensues.

* Despite being about zombies, HighSchoolOfTheDead manages to get this into it's series, one moment especially stands out where one of the girls gets splashed by water coming up from the sides of a hoovercraft, the protagonist turning around and her shouting "I'M A LADY" seeing as her SchoolUniform [[WetSariScene is drenched]].

* In ''Manga/ElfenLied'', Kouta's cousin [[TeamMom Yuuka]] slaps him a lot for this. The first time it happened, Nyu had been out in the rain and her clothes were soaked. Kouta tried helping her change with his eyes closed, but his cousin walked in at just the right moment for his honest explanation to be hardest to believe. Of course, it's all because Yuuka's a ClingyJealousGirl over how he doesn't pay the same apparent attention [[KissingCousins to her]].
** This drops out of sight almost completely when the drama gets dialed UpToEleven.

* Keitarō in ''LoveHina'' is by far the most {{egregious}} example. The manga even has a filler chapter where Keitaro is so engrossed in studying he winds up dong several 'cool' things in front of the girls while studying (dodging attacks, defending them from turtles, and of course not 'peeping'). This spurs the girls into actually wanting to impress him to gain his affection, something which wouldn't be repeated until many, many chapters later. He studies so hard though, that he doesn't seem to notice and by the end of that chapter, pretty much everyone in Hinata Sou (yes, even Naru) is all like [[WeWantOurJerkBack We Want Our]] [[strike:Jerk]] AccidentalPervert [[WeWantOurJerkBack Back.]]

* Kyōsuke in ''Ultimate!! HentaiKamen''. A few other characters, but mostly him; possibly due to his OnlySaneMan syndrome.

* Surprisingly, a form of this happens in TheBible, in the seventh chapter of the book of Esther. When queen Esther informs the king that [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is plotting to kill all the Jews in the land (which includes her), the king is so enraged that he steps out into the garden to cool his head. Haman, realizing that he's utterly boned now that the [[GodEmperor King Xerxes I, ruler of the Persian Empire]] is angry at him, he stays behind to beg the queen to get the king to spare his life. The king returns just in time to find him falling onto the couch that the queen is reclining on and mistakenly thinks that he's trying to molest the queen ''while the king is still in the same house.'' He is...[[UnstoppableRage less than pleased]] with this and has Haman [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hanged on the gallows that Haman had built to kill his most hated enemy, Esther's uncle, Mordecai]]. As experts place the authorship of the Book of Esther somewhere in the third or fourth century BCE, it makes this, of all tropes, [[OlderThanFeudalism older than Feudalism]].

* This is ''the'' running gag on ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan''.

* In ''AceAttorneyInvestigations'', case 5, poor Edgeworth ends up with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Wendy Oldbag's]] undershirt as evidence. Franziska takes this the wrong way and promptly whips him.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Winry walks into her bedroom and starts undressing, without realizing Ed is in the room with her. He gets to see some [[{{Underboobs}} underboob]]. Interestingly, while her reaction is [[{{Tsundere}} explosive]], it is more targeted towards the people who enters the room after her screaming. Ed can be seen still in her room ''after'' she has changed, while everyone else has been driven out.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', if you're in any position to see up Ashley's skirt, accidental or not, she calls you a pervert.
** There's plenty of times where Leon would get knocked flat on his back by an enemy, his head under her skirt, and she feels it's more important that he saw her underwear rather than the fact that something is trying to kill them at that instant.
** The remake of ''ResidentEvil1'' has several shots where, if Jill is equipped with her civilian outfit from ''ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', the camera points upskirt. Especially the "[[DescendingCeiling Jill Sandwich]]" cutscene.