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* One story in the ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo No Need For Tenchi!]]'' manga series has Sasami tear up an hankerchef to help make a splint for an injured wolf.
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** In the first book Cassie suggests using Jake's shirt as a bandage for Elfangor, [[{{Averted}} but]] the latter says that he's too injured and it wouldn't help.
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* In ''AxisPowersHetalia'', Prussia does this for Hungary.
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* MortalInstrumentTrilogy - Clary tries to invoke this, to Jace's amusement.
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* In the final part of ''MassEffect3'', you can hear a man instructing a girl to do that over the radio.

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* In the final part mission of ''MassEffect3'', you can hear overhear a man instructing soldier trying to instruct a girl to do that over the radio.
radio to make a tourniquet from her clothing to save another soldier whose leg had been blown off. The tourniquet doesn't work, and the soldier dies. Hearing enemies approaching, the girl decides to use the soldier's gun to kill herself.
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* Rachel does this in an ''{{Animorphs}}'' book, tearing a strip off her own leotard to bandage Tobias's wounds. Justified in that they've been thrown back in time 65 million years; she literally has nothing else to use that she knows isn't poisonous.
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* ''StarTrek'', particularly ''DeepSpaceNine'', did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.
* ''{{Angel}}''. After bandaging Wesley when he gets an ImpaledPalm from a {{Booby Trap}}ped door, Cordelia points out that she doesn't have enough shirt for the rest of them.

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* ''StarTrek'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''DeepSpaceNine'', ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.
* ''{{Angel}}''.''Series/{{Angel}}''. After bandaging Wesley when he gets an ImpaledPalm from a {{Booby Trap}}ped door, Cordelia points out that she doesn't have enough shirt for the rest of them.

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* ''{{Angel}}''. After bandaging Wesley when he gets an ImpaledPalm from a {{Booby Trap}}ped door, Cordelia points out that she doesn't have enough shirt for the rest of them.
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See also AfterActionPatchUp and ActionDressRip.
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It also can be can be used to send romantic signals about the characters involved, it is not uncommon to have the person ripping the clothes being a girl and the injured party be a guy she likes. The fact that it is commonly a women doing this can be seen as a form of mild titillation if it is played for {{fanservice}}.

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It also can be can be used to send romantic signals about the characters involved, it is not uncommon to have the person ripping the clothes being a girl and the injured party be a guy she likes. The fact that it is commonly a women woman doing this can be seen as a form of mild titillation if it is played for {{fanservice}}.
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** He's got more hurt than you've got skirt!
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* In ''UpstairsDownstairs (2010)'' Lady Agnes Holland uses an expensive looking blouse to stem the bloodflow of [[spoiler:Beryl, after Lady Persephone shoots her and then kills herself, she event tells the staff to ignore Lady "Persie" who is already dead.]]

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* In ''UpstairsDownstairs (2010)'' Lady Agnes Holland uses an expensive looking blouse to stem the bloodflow of [[spoiler:Beryl, after Lady Persephone shoots her and then kills herself, she event even tells the staff to ignore Lady "Persie" who is already dead.]]
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* ''ReadersDigest'' wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom half [of the bikini] had to come of too, it would have." Props, lady.

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* ''ReadersDigest'' wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom half [of the bikini] had to come of off too, it would have." Props, lady.
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* ''ReadersDigest'' wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom hald [of the bikini] had to come of too, it would have." Props, lady.

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* ''ReadersDigest'' wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom hald half [of the bikini] had to come of too, it would have." Props, lady.
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* StarTrek, particularly DeepSpaceNine, did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.

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* StarTrek, ''StarTrek'', particularly DeepSpaceNine, ''DeepSpaceNine'', did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.
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* StarTrek, particularly DeepSpaceNine, did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.
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* Used for [[RuleOfFunny humorous]] FanService in the ''{{Archer}}'' episode ''Space Race Part 2''. While being held hostage on a space station, Lana Kane opens her jumpsuit and removes her tank top to distract the guard so she and the rest of the ISIS hostages can overpower him. In an offscreen fight Lanas jumpsuit is destroyed and Archer is shot in the arm. Left wearing only panties, Lana reaches for her tank top just as Archer is wrapping it on his arm as a bandage. [[spoiler:This leaves Lana with nothing but space agency decals to cover her nipples with.]]
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* Not clothing, but thematically similar, in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Rarity cuts off her tail to fix the mustache of "Steven Magnet" the sea-serpent who is suffering a MinorInjuryOverreaction. It's done specifically to highlight how her generous nature outweighs her [[TheFashionista fashionista]] personality to set her up as the wielder of the Element of Generosity.

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* Not clothing, but thematically similar, in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Rarity cuts off her tail to fix the mustache of "Steven Magnet" the sea-serpent who is suffering a MinorInjuryOverreaction. It's done specifically to highlight how her generous nature outweighs her [[TheFashionista fashionista]] personality to set her up as the wielder of the Element of Generosity.
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* In the early MichaelJFox movie ''DocHollywood'', he momentarily agonizes over having to rip up some Armani shirts in order to treat a woman who's gone into sudden labor.

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* In the early MichaelJFox movie ''DocHollywood'', ''Film/DocHollywood'', he momentarily agonizes over having to rip up some Armani shirts in order to treat a woman who's gone into sudden labor.
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* In ''UpstairsDownstairs (2010)'' Lady Agnes Holland uses an expensive looking blouse to stem the bloodflow of [[spoiler:Beryl, after Lady Persephone shoots her and then kills herself, she event tells the staff to ignore Lady "Persie" who is already dead.]]
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* It was parodied in ''HotShots: Part Deux'': the main girl rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage a wounded team member, then another one, then the resident perv realizes she'll just keep going until she is completely naked, so he claims he is wounded, too.

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* It was parodied Parodied in ''HotShots: Part Deux'': Deux'', the main girl rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage a wounded team member, then another one, then the resident perv realizes she'll just keep going until she is completely naked, so he claims he is wounded, too.
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* It was parodied in ''HotShots 2'': the main girl rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage a wounded team member, then another one, then the resident perv realizes she'll just keep going until she is completely naked, so he claims he is wounded, too.

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* It was parodied in ''HotShots 2'': ''HotShots: Part Deux'': the main girl rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage a wounded team member, then another one, then the resident perv realizes she'll just keep going until she is completely naked, so he claims he is wounded, too.
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* ReadersDigest wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom hald [of the bikini] had to come of too, it would have." Props, lady.

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* ReadersDigest ''ReadersDigest'' wrote about one of those incredible true stories of the one hundred pound girl dragging her six foot injured boyfriend down a mountain. She stripped over her jacket to wrap a gash on her leg, her bikini top for his head wound, and said that, "If the bottom hald [of the bikini] had to come of too, it would have." Props, lady.

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* ''SailorMoon'' Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually uses it on a wound Umino gets to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.

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* ''SailorMoon'' Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually uses it on a wound Umino gets whilst trying to defend her to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.
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* ''SailorMoon'' Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually gives it to Umino to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.

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* ''SailorMoon'' Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually gives uses it to on a wound Umino gets to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.
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[[caption-width-right:331:When miles away from a first aid kit, your jammies will do]]

Somebody is injured and there is no hospital, drugstore, or first aid kit in sight. This leaves only one option, someone is going to have to rip up the clothes they are wearing to make a bandage to put on that wound.

This is an action that, though seemingly a simple act of kindness, can say many things about the characters involved. It can show that if they don't hesitate at all the character ripping their clothes is either a battle or survival pragmatist, or if they do hesitate that they are perhaps a tiny bit vain or at least image conscious or if said clothes were [[DoomedNewClothes expensive and / or new]] they are more mindful of the money they are wasting rather than the needs of others.

It also can be can be used to send romantic signals about the characters involved, it is not uncommon to have the person ripping the clothes being a girl and the injured party be a guy she likes. The fact that it is commonly a women doing this can be seen as a form of mild titillation if it is played for {{fanservice}}.

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[[AC: Anime and Manga]]

* ''SailorMoon'' Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually gives it to Umino to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.

[[AC: Film]]

* Janet ripped her slip to make a bandage for Rocky in ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' just before the "Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me" number.
* It was parodied in ''HotShots 2'': the main girl rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage a wounded team member, then another one, then the resident perv realizes she'll just keep going until she is completely naked, so he claims he is wounded, too.
* In the early MichaelJFox movie ''DocHollywood'', he momentarily agonizes over having to rip up some Armani shirts in order to treat a woman who's gone into sudden labor.

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* In the second ''DragonridersOfPern'' novel, F'lar and Lessa are wearing new outfits to a wedding. F'lar ends up in a duel with T'ron, during which he gets his suit cut up, and Lessa has to rip up her dress to make bandages.
* In the 1924 novel ''Jungle-Born'' by John Eyton a village girl who's run away from her abusive father finds the WildChild protagonist unconscious and badly injured from a tiger attack. To save him she strips off her one and only garment and tears it into strips to wash and bandage his wounds. The fact that this means they're now both naked probably isn't insignificant.

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* There was an episode of ''TheFlyingNun'' where Sister Bertrill tore her habit to make a bandage.
* An episode of ''{{Gunsmoke}}'' had Kitty shred up her petticoat to make bandages for an ailing Matt.
* ''{{Survivorman}}'' Les Stroud has done this after injuring himself in the wild.

[[AC: Video Games]]

* In the final part of ''MassEffect3'', you can hear a man instructing a girl to do that over the radio.

[[AC: Western Animation]]

* Not clothing, but thematically similar, in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Rarity cuts off her tail to fix the mustache of "Steven Magnet" the sea-serpent who is suffering a MinorInjuryOverreaction. It's done specifically to highlight how her generous nature outweighs her [[TheFashionista fashionista]] personality to set her up as the wielder of the Element of Generosity.

[[AC: Real Life]]

* In the case of Real Life of it happening... in the past it has happened on the battlefield before First Aid Personnel were commonly deployed, and can happen now. But also take a zone after any disaster and you cannot locate a First Aid kit, therefore you use clothes as a makeshift bandage.

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