History Main / KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear

* In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', you can search though [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Curly]]'s room and find her panties.
** Though they're hidden at the end of a totally darkened passageway which you'll most likely be unable to find without checking the map or knowing where it is in advance, so this is for only the most dedicated of kleptomaniacs.
*** In the original, they're just an EasterEgg, but in ''[[VideoGameRemake Cave Story+]]'', they unlock [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Curly Story]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': "Scandalous! ...It's Toriel's sock drawer."

** The reason its graphic in the Final Fantasy VII International depicts it as knickers is that the item is known as "slightly stretched panties" in the original Japanese version. The name change seems to be an attempt at humor by the translators.

** The reason its graphic in the Final Fantasy VII International depicts it as panties is that the item is known as "slightly stretched panties" in the original Japanese version. The name change seems to be an attempt at humor by the translators.
** They made a triumphant return in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Duodecim]], where their name was retranslated as [[BlindIdiotTranslation 'Stretch Boxers']]. Hilariously, it's one of the crafting items for Tifa's [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate weapon]]''.

** This was changed to 'Stretch Boxers' as one of crafting items for Tifa's [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate weapon]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Duodecim]]''.
** The reason its graphic depicts it as panties is that the item is known as "slightly stretched panties" in the original Japanese version. The name change seems to be an attempt at humor by the translators.

* In ''YouAwakenInRazorHill'', Tednugent loots around one of the houses and finds "Exciting Undergarments". He proceeds to wear them on his head for most of the story.

* The ''Franchise/{{Lunar}}'' series has a reputation for GettingCrapPastTheRadar, so it can hardly pass on the opportunity to discuss the contents of people's underwear drawers. Additionally, a few {=NPC=}s possess pictures of the heroines in states of undress, which they are horrified/enraged to find out about and snatch away...before handing them to the main character for safekeeping.

* Similar to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', you can dig a bromide of Jessica out of Kyle's bed in ''[[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete]]'' (the window to do this is ''very'' tight). Jessica is not thrilled.
** The ''{{Lunar}}'' series is famous for these sorts of things, as practically everything can be poked through. And several characters possess these pictures of scantily clad women, which every woman is absolutely furious to find out about and snatches away at once... Before handing them to the main character for safekeeping.

** This was changed to 'Stretch Boxers' as one of crafting items for Tifa's [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate weapon]] in ''[[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Duodecim]]''.

* The "Leliana's Song" DLC for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' includes an NPC whose kinky, fetishy underwear you can loot from his unconscious body. You can either plant the naughty undies on another unconscious NPC (which is part of completing a quest) or nail them to a bulletin board outside a church (which doesn't get you any game benefit, but is funnier).

* In ''YouAwakeInRazorHill'', Tednugent loots around one of the houses and finds "Exciting Undergarments". He proceeds to wear them on his head for most of the story.

* In ''RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'', searching barrels in a certain location will get you something along the lines of "[[EekAMouse Eeeek, you found a mouse]]! ...That's not helpful to the story, though."

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'', Mario can case Princess Toadstool's room to find her "???" - and a retainer will immediately run up and swap it for an item. If you wait until she's a party member, you'll be treated to a freak-out on her part. The Japanese release calls it her "XXX", but the XXX here stands for a blank, giving the same meaning. (See also: {{XXXholic}}.)

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': You can find an item called the Naga-ette "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromide_%28Japanese_culture%29 bromide]]" in a chest of drawers/cabinet. Later a DirtyOldMan will trade you a valuable power-tab for it.

->''If you're a little sick, you'll find panties and lipstick!''
-->'''{{Music/Brentalfloss}}''', ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' WithLyrics

** In the Spanish translation it's an "orthopedic bra". Makes sense. [[BoobsOfSteel Tifa needs as much support as she can get.]]

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': You can find an item called the Naga-ette "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromide_%28Japanese_culture%29 bromide]]" in a chest of drawers/cabinet. Later a DirtyOldMan will trade you a valuable power-tab for it. In Japan, it was actually a Naga-ette's bra; Nintendo of America wouldn't allow it and forced a retranslation.

* Looking through things in ''FortuneSummoners'' can net you underwear, both Male and Female. You CAN wear the female version undergarments, but why would you want to when you've probably got much better armor on already?

* The near-future chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' features a ChainOfDeals that, if kept at for a ridiculously long time, will result in [="TaekoPants."=] After Taeko finds out that you've been paying someone to steal her clothing, you'll also receive a [="TaekoPunch."=] You can also receive "[[{{Squick}} Watanabe Boxers]]" and "[[{{Squick}} Director Boxers]]".

See also PantyThief.

* ''VideoGame/{{Brave Fencer Musashi}}'' has unappraised items found as various parts of the world. When appraised at the pawn shop, they range from pieces of legendary armor, to highly valuable VendorTrash, to this trope.

* In ''MegaManBattleNetwork'', examining Mayl's closet in every game (except 6, where you can't go into her house) will have Lan note he shouldn't, and that even [[OfficialCouple close personal friends]] have limits.

* The near-future chapter of ''LiveALive'' features a ChainOfDeals that, if kept at for a ridiculously long time, will result in [="TaekoPants."=] After Taeko finds out that you've been paying someone to steal her clothing, you'll also receive a [="TaekoPunch."=] You can also receive "[[{{Squick}} Watanabe Boxers]]" and "[[{{Squick}} Director Boxers]]".

* In ''JetForceGemini'', an NPC on Tawfret asks you to retrieve his stolen underwear (which Mizar's troops threw up a tree). Once returned, he'll give you the necessary item needed to continue the game.

* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', checking the closet in the room of Lord [=McCoy=]'s wife will result in "Isaac peeked into the wardrobe... There's a silk negligee... Isaac! [[PantyThief Put that back!]]"
** Followed in ''The Lost Age'' by: "Felix peeked into the wardrobe... What in-!!! [[LampshadeHanging What's with all the wardrobes?]] [[FridgeLogic Where are the baths?]]"
* In ''ShiningForce II'', Bowie can search the princess's closet and find "A small piece of silk" that results in the text "Bowie is flustered".
* In ''MegaManBattleNetwork'', examining Mayl's closet in every game (except 6, where you can't go into her house) will have Lan note he shouldn't, and that even [[OfficialCouple close personal friends]] have limits.
** In the first ''Battle Network'', you can walk right up to her as she's changing, right before one of the boss fights, sometime between [=IceMan.EXE=] and [=MagicMan.EXE=]. It fits into the trope because you can't tell until you actually talk to her.
* In Cloud's flashback in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' you find "[[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tifa%27s_Orthopedic_Underwear.png orthopedic underwear]]" in Tifa's bedroom, ''which he puts in his pocket''. Since Cloud is actually telling the story to everyone, Tifa is not amused by this tidbit.
** This was changed to 'Stretch Boxers' as one of crafting items for Tifa's [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate weapon]] in ''[[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Duodecim]]''.
** In the Spanish translation it's an "orthopedic bra". Makes sense. [[BoobsOfSteel Tifa needs as much support as she can get.]]
** An unused pair of panties (and a few conversations relating to it) can still be found on the game's data- apparently belonging to adult Tifa, they're described as bearing "a childlike pattern."
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'', Chaz will actually ''refuse'' to check the drawers in other houses. The only exceptions are Alys's, which he is too scared to do, and his own, which of course only contains underwear.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'', Mario can case Princess Toadstool's room to find her "???" - and a retainer will immediately run up and swap it for an item. If you wait until she's a party member, you'll be treated to a freak-out on her part. The Japanese release calls it her "XXX", but the XXX here stands for a blank, giving the same meaning. (See also: {{XXXholic}}.)
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' - Jolene has a trouble board issue that she needs handled with discretion. She's hired someone in Rogueport who's been known to make things...''disappear'', and it's your job to pick up everything in a supply closet that needs to...disappear and haul it to him, without telling anyone else about it. Turns out what she needs eliminated are [[spoiler: about 20 pairs of dirty wrestling battle trunks.]]
* In ''[[SuperMarioBros Mario Golf: Advance Tour]]'', if you are male and look in your female partner's closet, it will note that her (default:Ella) clothes are inside and she will get mad at you.
** Bizarrely, if you play as the female character, looking in your own closet produces the exact same "Hey, these are (name)'s clothes!" response (sans angry reaction), making her sound like a ThirdPersonPerson.
* Happens briefly in ''BlueDragon'' looking through Kluke's house.
* In ''JetForceGemini'', an NPC on Tawfret asks you to retrieve his stolen underwear (which Mizar's troops threw up a tree). Once returned, he'll give you the necessary item needed to continue the game.
* In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' - you will find ''two'' pairs of panties, and they're vital evidence! Though only one of them has ever been worn. The other is a prop for a magic act. Naturally, everyone will be either poking fun at Apollo or questioning why he is carrying panties belonging to a teenage girl and a middle-aged woman.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', [[MsFanservice Jessica]] can ''equip'' the underwear you find in some drawers. Including the garter in Princess Medea's room.
* The near-future chapter of ''LiveALive'' features a ChainOfDeals that, if kept at for a ridiculously long time, will result in [="TaekoPants."=] After Taeko finds out that you've been paying someone to steal her clothing, you'll also receive a [="TaekoPunch."=] You can also receive "[[{{Squick}} Watanabe Boxers]]" and "[[{{Squick}} Director Boxers]]".
** In Sundown's chapter, you can swipe Annie's nightie if you send her off to set a trap (otherwise she busts into the room and freaks out).
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' it's fairly common to find underwear, trousers, kilts, and other sorts of clothing when searching dressers.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', a pair of boxer shorts is equippable underwear. Taloon gets a bit flustered when asked to appraise them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' does this frequently. Search any given wardrobe in the Capital Wasteland and you're apt to find lots of pre-war clothing, including the aptly named Sexy Sleepwear and its quest-related counterpart, Naughty Nightwear.

* It's been mentioned a few times in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' that it's impossible to find anything hidden in Bob's seemingly bottomless sock drawer. He once hid a [[EarthShatteringKaboom world-destroying bomb]] in there for safe keeping.
* In ''RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'', searching barrels in a certain location will get you something along the lines of "[[EekAMouse Eeeek, you found a mouse]]! ...That's not helpful to the story, though."
* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'', just before the InevitableTournament, you can search the room of your ([[DefeatMeansFriendship soon to be party member]], after a boss fight with her at least) opponent Katt. If you try and open the treasure chest in there she'll burst in and [[{{Tsundere}} chew you out]] for wanting to "rummage through a girl's things".
* Many crates and barrels in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' games can have just stuff like folded cloth, casual clothing, fruits and vegetables, and other things.
* Similar to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', you can dig a bromide of Jessica out of Kyle's bed in ''[[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete]]'' (the window to do this is ''very'' tight). Jessica is not thrilled.
** The ''{{Lunar}}'' series is famous for these sorts of things, as practically everything can be poked through. And several characters possess these pictures of scantily clad women, which every woman is absolutely furious to find out about and snatches away at once... Before handing them to the main character for safekeeping.
* A side quest in ''VideoGame/FableIII'' involves finding a pair of Reaver's underwear for his biggest fan. The other nightstands in the mansion contain condoms and... Summon Creature Potions.

* if you did this in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II'', or the ''Throne of Bhaal'' expansion, there was an easter-egg enchantment recipe for an impressive suit of armor.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], you can find a magazine(equipment of Klath, who equip books) in one of the old men's drawers, and the magaqzine's description besically tells you it's a dirty magazine.
* Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''. Upon first meeting Rita, Yuri (still convinced she's the blastia thief) can search her drawers. Estelle will interrupt and say it's not proper for a man to search a woman's belongings before doing it herself, at which point she emits VisibleSilence, on top of the music stopping and everything going dark to indicate that what she found was shocking. You never do actually find out what it was, but considering how flustered Rita gets, she's not proud of it.
* You can find female underwear in ''VideoGame/{{Tales of the Drunken Paladin}}: Big Trouble in Little China, Maine''. It can be equipped as a piece of armour, and it protects its user from "sleep" special condition by "making wearer strangely aware". Granted, this game is a parody.
* The "Leliana's Song" DLC for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' includes an NPC whose kinky, fetishy underwear you can loot from his unconscious body. You can either plant the naughty undies on another unconscious NPC (which is part of completing a quest) or nail them to a bulletin board outside a church (which doesn't get you any game benefit, but is funnier).
* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'', you can search a locker in the School of Magic and find girl's clothes. The game scolds you for messing with it. [[spoiler:Amusingly, you get the same message when playing as Xelha.]]
** Interestingly, if you [[spoiler:search Xelha's bed in the Ice Palace]], you get the message 'It's not proper to [[spoiler:search a young lady's bed]]', [[spoiler:even when you're playing as Xelha. You can't even search your own bed.]]
*** FridgeBrilliance moment here - the game's not scolding the character, but the player instead.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'', if you search Vanille's bed, Red will find some underwear and his sister will scold him for staring.
* In ''VideoGame/CobraMission'', you can collect articles of lingerie and trade it to someone for sexy pictures.
* You can catch [[ClassyCatBurglar Kasumi Goto]] snooping through ''your'' drawer (and gleefully commenting on the underwear inside) during the ''Citadel'' DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
* A scene in ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'' shows Lelouch and CC going through Shirley's room. CC pulls out a pair of Shirley's underwear and asks, "Think these would fit me?"

* Pretty much par for the course in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''...especially with Cartman's Mom's room. There's even a sidequest where you collect underpants for the Underpants Gnomes.

* It's been mentioned a few times in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' that it's impossible to find anything hidden in Bob's seemingly bottomless sock drawer. He once hid a [[EarthShatteringKaboom world-destroying bomb]] in there for safe keeping.