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** Baby Shelby does a variant; he escapes from Donald Duck by unhinging his shell and running about in just his diaper.

* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': The ''JLA Jr.'' tie-in to the "Sins of Youth" arc had the de-aged Justice League ensnared by their base's security system, with ComicBook/{{Steel}} escaping some robotic tentacles by leaving behind his armor.

* In ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'', a fleeing kid gets the hood of his jacket caught in a heavy door which he and two others just slammed on the pursuing Blob. His companions have to struggle with a stuck zipper to get him out of the jacket before the Blob seeps under the door.
* In ''Film/{{Broken Arrow|1996}}'', park ranger Terry removes her jacket and shirt after they become soaking wet, then put them back on, and finally ditches her jacket, when it is set on fire.

* In ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}'', Sue Storm is hounded by {{Paparazzi}} shortly after she gains her powers and is forced to strip [[InvisibleStreaker so she can use her powers]] to shake them off.

* ''Film/InspectorGadget'' has Gadget himself almost fall off the upper-reaches of the Golden Gate Bridge, but saves himself by grabbing [[EvilTwin Robo-Gadget's]] tie. Then Robo threatens this and sure enough, the tie does come off a few seconds later.
-->'''Robo-Gadget:''' Hey Gadget! It's a clip-on.

* Happens to Ann Darrow in an blink-and-miss moment in ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' (2005), when giant bats start attacking Kong after he startled them, when he tried to kill Jack Driscoll. One of the bats tries to take Ann off Kong's hands and attaches its claw by the sleeve of her dressing gown, but as Kong had a good firm on Ann, the bat only manages to tear off her dressing gown, leaving Ann in just her slip.

* In ''Film/{{The Old Dark House|1963}}'', the killer throws a meat cleaver at the hero and flees. The cleaver pins the hero to the wall by his jacket, which he removes so he can escape and rescue the remaining characters.

* ''Film/{{Prom Night|2008}}'': When Lisa is being chased by Fenton on the construction level, he steps on the hem of her dress to prevent her from running. Lisa escapes by just running, tearing off the lower part of her skirt in the process.

* As Emma runs towards the US Embassy to escape Ilya in ''Film/{{The Saint|1997}}'', she sheds the coat he grabbed.

* ''Film/{{The Ten Commandments|1923}}'': At the beginning of the story, when Mary is a starving waif, Dan catches her stealing his hot dog. She escapes by letting him have her cloak.

* ''Tremors'':
** In the original ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', Rhonda becomes ensnared in barbed wire as she flees a Graboid, and gets free by stripping down to her panties, leaving her slacks tangled in the wire.

* In ''Film/UnderworldBloodWars'', when Marius grabs Selene in the final battle, she escapes with a FlashStep, leaving him holding her jacket. He stares at the jacket in his hands in disbelief for a few seconds before angrily throwing it to the floor.
* In ''Film/{{WarCraft|2016}}'', after Lothar climbs onto and attacks the clay golem, it attempts to crush him against a wall. Lothar's boots have sunken deep into the clay by this point, requiring him to unfasten them before he jumps off.

* ''Series/{{Scream Queens|2015}}'': In "Pilot", after Chanel knocks down the Red Devil, he grabs her from the floor. She escapes by taking off her housecoat and fleeing.

* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "What You Need", a man's scarf gets caught in an elevator's doors. He nearly strangles, but cuts the scarf with scissors just in time.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Action Man|1995}}'' episode "Fountain of Youth" had Knuck accidentally step on a pressure mine and remove his boot before outrunning the ensuing explosion.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'' episode "Hefty's Heart", Gargamel has Papa Smurf and four other Smurfs stuck to the table with glue, and then proceeds to pull Papa Smurf off the table so that he could give him a shave when Hefty, who was affected by the HatePlague, breaks free of the plague's control on him and rescues Papa Smurf and the four other Smurfs from Gargamel, pulling the Smurfs still on the table out of their pants so that they could flee back to the village. By the episode's end, the four Smurfs are [[BankruptcyBarrel wearing barrels]] and waiting for Tailor to finish up with their new pants.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'': In "Mandora the Evil Chaser", Mandora sheds her jacket to escape the Living Ooze's grip.

* In ''Film/RestrictedArea'', After Becky finds herself caught by one of the cult members, she manages to escape but ends up losing her shirt while doing so, which her attackers keeps holding into for a while after she escapes.

* In ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', Eric loses his jacket, while trying to escape a nest of baby Pteranodons who were trying to eat him alive.
* Happens to Ann Darrow in an blink and miss moment in ''Film/KingKong2005'', when giant bats start attacking Kong after he startled them, when he tried to kill Jack Driscoll, one of the bats tries to take Ann off Kong hands and attaches its claw by the sleeve of her dressing gown, but as Kong had a good firm on Ann, the bat only manages to tear off her dressing gown, leaving Ann in just her slip.

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': a velociraptor pounces on Sarah Harding from behind in the worker village, shortly after a scene in which virtually all of the hunters hired by [=InGen=] were attacked and killed by raptors. Her lucky pack saves her, though: the raptor only latched onto that and she manages to get away.

* In ''Twist (2021)'', the police chasing Oliver grab onto his jeans in an attempt to catch him while he's climbing onto a roof; he slips out of them and escapes in his boxers.

%%* In ''Film/ZombieFightClub'', while they try to get the car on to escape, the zombies attack the car. As Jenny tries to defend herself from the zombies, she loses her shirt to them.

* ''Literature/TheMurderbotDiaries''. In ''Rogue Protocol'' an AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage has grabbed hold of a woman wearing an environmental suit by the head and is trying to drag her through a hatchway, until Murderbot hits the emergency release on her space helmet (the atmosphere is breathable; she's just wearing it against possible contamination).

* Done [[InSpace with a spaceship]] in ''Series/TheExpanse''. In "Leviathan Awakes", the ''Rocinante'' (disguised as a civilian gas freighter) is under LockDown preventing them from fleeing Eros Station. However the docking clamps are locked onto the mock gas cylinders strapped on the outside of the hull, so they simply eject them and slip away.

* During the ''Heroes vs. Villains'' season of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', the first challenge pitted Sandra against Sugar trying to wrestle an object from each other. Sugar was almost free with the object when Sandra grabbed her by the top. Given her self-described status as a pinup model, Sugar had no qualms about using this trope to secure the point for her team. [[note]]She then gave the editors [[FlippingTheBird two more things to blur out.]][[/note]]
* ''Series/TheThundermans'': In the episode where Max Thunderman creates a clone of his sister Phoebe; the clone has the same tanktop as the real Phoebe, but wears a jacket in order to tell them apart. After the clone becomes dumb and start causing antics, the siblings try to capture her, but while Max distracts one of Phoebe's friends, the clone manages to break free from the real Phoebe, losing her jacket in the process. This causes Max to confuse the clone for the real Phoebe, thus accidentally allowing the clone to continue with her antics.

* At ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 20'', Wrestling/EddieGuerrero escaped from Wrestling/KurtAngle's Ankle Lock by removing his shoe.

* A FurIsClothing example; in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'': Elmyra visits the ACME Wild Safari Zoo, where she sneaks out of her parents' car and grabs a cheetah by his tail. The cheetah tries to run away from her, but loses his fur in the process, which Elmyra ends up wearing. In a later scene, the furless cheetah is wearing a censor bar over his groin.

* ''Film/TalonFalls'': Lance really like shocking the guy in the electric chair, going back to do it a second time when everyone else moved on. [[spoiler:Guess who's in the chair next when Lyndsey and Ryder get there late in the movie.]]

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In "Broken Hearts", Oliver Queen tries to grab Cupid only to find himself holding her gauntlet as she uses a grappling-hook arrow to escape. Felicity Smoak then cuts up the gauntlet and puts it into a gas chromatograph to find out where it was made, giving Team Arrow the location of Cupid's hideout.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' episode "WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain", when the titular Old Man grabs Betty, she escapes by slipping out of her dress. The dress then [[DancingPants slaps him in the face and runs off after her.]]

* In ''Film/WhhenDinosaursRuledTheEarth'', Sanna becomes trapped by a ManEatingPlant, and cuts off a portion of her hair in order to escape. As Tara goes looking for Sanna, he finds her hair trapped beneath the plant and assumes she is dead.

* ''Film/TheTwelfthMan'': The laces of Jan’s boot get stuck while he’s trying to AbandonShip with his comrades and he has to ditch the boot to dive overboard into the Nordic lake. The frostbite from this event (and an avalanche and multiple snowstorms later on) ultimately [[AgonyOfTheFeet force Jan to amputate nine of his toes to avoid dying of gangrene.]]

* A FurIsClothing example; in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'': Elmyra visits the ACME Wild Safari Zoo, where she sneaks out of her parents' car and grabs a cheetah by his tail. The cheetah tries to run away from her, but loses his fur in the process, which Elmyra ends up wearing.

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* TruthInTelevision -- while specific examples are too numerous to list, this isn't an unheard of lesson in martial arts of self-defence to escape someone who grabs you by your jacket or shirt.

* In ''Twist (2021)'', the police chasing Oliver grab onto his jeans while he's climbing onto a roof; he slips out of them and escapes in his underpants.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode "The Legion of Evil", Jenny is encased in a pile of explosives, which she escapes from by carefully sliding her robotic endoskeleton out. She then proceeds to pat her still-trapped exoskeleton, causing the explosives to go off anyway.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode "The Legion of Evil", Jenny is encased in a pile of explosives, which she escapes from by carefully sliding her robotic endoskeleton out. She then proceeds to pat her still-trapped exoskeleton, causing the explosives to go off.

** Subverted in a [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror]] episode. When the Comic Book Guy uses a magnet crane to kidnap Creator/LucyLawless at a comic book convention by snagging the top of her ChainmailBikini, she at first starts to undo it to escape; then she realizes everyone is watching, and changes her mind.
** Played straight in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E8TheDadWhoKnewTooLittle The Dad Who Knew Too Little]]". When Homer refuses to pay the detective he hired to spy on Lisa for information, the detective angrily threatens Homer with a gun while grabbing him by his shirt and demanding a charge of $1000 with a $40 steak he wanted to eat. Homer then wriggles out of his shirt and jumps out the window to escape, leaving the detective still holding the empty shirt.

** During the ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'' crossover event, [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Robin]] left behind his cape and tunic in order to get away from Croc. Detaching his cape is actually a normal tactic for Tim, he even modified it so he can send a current through it that will cause the detached cape to wrap itself around whomever is holding it.