History Main / MarilynManeuver

* Bruce from BruceAlmighty uses his new God powers to blow up a woman's skirt.

* The scene is parodied in the {{Discworld}} game ''Mortality Bites''.
** Ginger dreamt this scene in ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' (which contains innumerable {{Shout Out}}s to classic movies).

* This is one of Sue's events in ''MitsumeteKnight''. [[ShoutOut And to make it clear about the reference]], the CG obtained through this event is called "The Monroe Effect" in the game's CG Gallery, the Mitsumete Gallery. The event also has a nice RefugeInAudacity moment : when Sue asks the Asian (the player's avatar) if he saw anything, the best answer is to actually tell "They (the panties) were white?". This will reassure her, saying that he hasn't seen them then, since he said the wrong colour.

* It happened with Ash's mother in ''{{Pokemon}}'' when walking to a movie premiere on a windy day.

[[caption-width:236:Note the sewer vents she's standing on.]]

* Parodied in ''TheHouseBunny'', where Anna Faris' character tries the Marilyn maneuver while standing over an open pothole... and gets scalded. Talk about a seven year burn.

A female character's skirt or dress being lifted by the wind; sometimes it can instead be done with a ManInAKilt. May or may not result in a PantyShot, depending on the angle it's seen from and the victim's reaction time (for some reason, they always tend to be quicker on the draw when it's seen from the front). Bonus points if the wind is sudden and unexpected, causing the woman to shriek and try to push the skirt back down. Oftentimes the woman actually enjoys the experience, which sends this trope into (non-violent) TooKinkyToTorture territory.

A female character's skirt or dress being lifted by the wind; sometimes it can instead be done with a ManInAKilt. May or may not result in a PantyShot, depending on the angle it's seen from and the victim's reaction time (for some reason, they always tend to be quicker on the draw when it's seen from the front). Bonus points if the wind is sudden and unexpected, causing the woman to shriek and try to push the skirt back down.

* Shugo spies two female PCs in the middle of this in ''[[DotHack .hack//DUSK]]''. Someone on the dev team for The World must have done quite a bit of [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean research]], as Shugo is quite enamored with the "bump mapping."

The [[TropeCodifier iconic example]], of course, is MarilynMonroe's white dress in ''The Seven Year Itch''.

** ValuesDissonance, nothing. As [You=Tube] will confirm, there are still quite a few carnivals out there with "skirt-blowing" funhouses. (They're ''really'' popular in Europe, apparently.) And it should be pointed out that their female "victims" consider it all in good fun.

* One of the games on the Spanish GameShow ''El gran juego de la oca'' featured each member of the dance squad wearing a Marilyn-style dress and a different colored garter on one leg. After all eight took turns dancing on a wind machine, the contestant then had to slide a colored garter up each girl's ''other'' leg that matched the one she was already wearing.

* And then there was the case of another Diva wearing the white halter dress (which didn't involve the Maneuver, but I just can't resist mentioning it here). D-Generation X were scheduled to compete in a tag team match with Vince [=McMahon=] one night in the summer of 2009, but ShawnMichaels and TripleH worried that Vince just wasn't "angry" enough to make an effective combatant. They spent the whole time before the match trying different strategies to goad him to violence, and one of them was sending the ''atrocious'' singing Diva Jillian Hall into his office wearing a ''Seven Year Itch'' costume and performing Marilyn's birthday song for [[JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]] in her hideous voice ([[DidNotDoTheResearch though Marilyn had not been dressed that way when she sang for Kennedy]]). Vince screamed "GET OUTTA MY OFFICE!" and became steadily more filled with rage as the night wore on, until he was finally ready to compete. (This incident culminated in a CrowningMomentOfFunny when commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler noted that Jillian looked a lot "like Monroe"....and then, a moment later, clarified that he meant ''James''!)

* And then there was the case of another Diva wearing the white halter dress (which didn't involve the Maneuver, but I just can't resist mentioning it here). D-Generation X were scheduled to compete in a tag team match with Vince [=McMahon=] later that night, but ShawnMichaels and TripleH worried that Vince just wasn't "angry" enough to make an effective combatant. They spent the whole time before the match trying different strategies to goad him to violence, and one of them was sending the ''atrocious'' singing Diva Jillian Hall into his office wearing a ''Seven Year Itch'' costume and performing Marilyn's birthday song for [[JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]] in her hideous voice ([[DidNotDoTheResearch though Marilyn had not been dressed that way when she sang for Kennedy]]). Vince screamed "GET OUTTA MY OFFICE!" and became steadily more filled with rage as the night wore on, until he was finally ready to compete. (This incident culminated in a CrowningMomentOfFunny when commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler noted that Jillian looked a lot "like Monroe"....and then, a moment later, clarified that he meant ''James''!)

A female character's skirt or dress being lifted by the wind; sometimes it can instead be done with a ManInAKilt. May or may not result in a PantyShot, depending on the angle it's seen from and the victim's reaction time. Bonus points if the wind is sudden and unexpected, causing the woman to shriek and try to push the skirt back down.

A female character's skirt or dress being lifted by the wind; sometimes it can instead be done with a ManInAKilt. Can result in a PantyShot... [[MagicSkirt or]] [[VaporWear not]]. Bonus points if the wind is sudden and unexpected, causing the woman to shriek and try to push the skirt back down.

* This is one of Sue's events in ''MitsumeteKnight''. [[ShoutOut And to make it clear about the reference]], the CG obtained through this event is called "The Monroe Effect" in the game's CG Gallery, the Mitsumete Gallery. The event also has a nice RefugeInAudacity moment : when Sue asks the Asian (the player's avatar) if he saw anything, the best answer is to actually tell ?They (the panties) were white?. This will reassure her, saying that he hasn?t seen them then, since he said the wrong colour.

* Happens to Ling Ling in ''SteamDetectives'', providing Narutaki with [[EurekaMoment a valuable clue to a recent string of robberies]]. Unfortunately for him, [[AccidentalInnuendo she interprets his comments comepletely differently...]]

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* Asuka's introduction in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* Several times in ''MahouSenseiNegima''. Jack Rakan even has a technique that's solely meant to invoke this trope after he's stolen his opponents' panties.
--> '''Rakan:''' Creating a tempest whirling at speeds of a hundred kilometers per hour around the target, whilst the target herself feels nothing but the soft touch of a gentle breeze! Truly the ultimate wind technique for granting the dreams of men!!
** Yue accidentally does it to herself once when she's trying to demonstrate some wind magic.
** Also used early in the manga as a side effect of Negi's [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes]] when they ''don't'' cause ClothingDamage.
* At least once in ''LoveHina'', too--when they're returning from Pararakelse.
* When Shamal from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' uses her magical device Klarer Wind to heal the protagonists, her dress does this.
* Natsuki in the fourth episode of ''MaiHIME''. And she wasn't wearing panties.
* Happens to Ling Ling in ''SteamDetectives'', providing Narutaki with [[EurekaMoment a valuable clue to a recent string of robberies]]. Unfortunately for him, [[AccidentalInnuendo she interprets his comments comepletely differently...]]
* In the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, this is parodied on one of the {{omake}} pages, where Al's loincloth blows up.
* Subverted in ''HayateTheCombatButler'' when [[ChasteHero Hayate]] is worried about this happening at at least two different points, both girls cheerfully announce that they are actually wearing shorts underneath their skirts so if he makes some wind that is okay!
** But also played straight when he does this to Maria while demonstrating his new FinishingMove.
* Shugo spies two female PCs in the middle of this in ''[[DotHack .hack//DUSK]]''. Someone on the dev team for The World must have done quite a bit of [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean research]], as Shugo is quite enamored with the "bump mapping."
* It happened with Ash's mother in ''{{Pokemon}}'' when walking to a movie premiere on a windy day.
* Happens to Haruko in SlamDunk, when Sakuragi is running around like the LargeHam he is.
* The indirect cause of the entire plot of {{Bakemonogatari}}.
* Yuuji's [[WeNeedADistraction bright idea]] in ''BakaToTestToShoukanjuu'', complete with the white dress, [[AffectionateParody at least in Yuuji's head]], that is.
* Happens to some passing schoolgirls in {{Chobits}}, just as Chi happens to be on a quest for underpants.
* Seen in a chapter of ''KeroroGunsou'', when Momoka is shown doing this as part of her "sex appeal" training.

* [[LookingForGroup Richard]]. [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/180 Just Richard.]]

* ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''?referenced [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070925.html here]]?by a robot who looks like a walking refrigerator, sadly.
* Happens with both an anonymous Marilyn look alike and a robots pet Emu in [[FreeFall Free Fall]].
* A kilt-wearing man in BlurTheLines [[http://www.blur-the-lines.com/?p=258 performs one of these involuntarily]].

* Marilyn Monroe's scene was copied in ''PulpFiction'', by a Marilyn impersonator.