History Main / TakeOffYourClothes

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', one of the trolls tells Kristoff to take off his clothes... [[AccidentalInnuendo so she can wash them]]. In front of Anna.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', season 2 episode 8: While imprisoned in an AntiMagic cell, the heroes have to throw some cloth over the device that neutralize their powers. However, all the first few attempts are failures, until the three males of the group are down to their underwear. Thus they turn toward their two female companions, Evangelyne and Amalia... who staunchly refuse to disrobe. Even when [[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple Sadlygrove points out that he'd already seen Eva nude...]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar which she denies, seriously embarrassed]]]]. But then they realize they omitted one piece of clothing: Yugo's NiceHat.

* ''Series/{{Pandora}}'': Jax asks Ralen to give her his shirt (because of the blood on it she needs for a blood sample) he misunderstands and starts taking off the shirt he was currently wearing, but he's stopped.

* ''[[Literature/{{Parker}}'': In ''Flashfire'', Lesley tells Parker that she is not interested in him sexually and has no desire to get naked in front of him. He then tells her that she has to. He is checking to see if [[NudityEqualsHonesty she is wearing a wire]].

* ''Series/Daredevil2015''. Elektra does this trope when she wants Matt Murdock to change clothes for a BlackTieInfiltration. However it's [[BelligerentSexualTension likely deliberate just to troll him]].

* ''Series/JessicaJones''. Used for LesYay when Claire Temple has to sew up the title character after she gets a lower leg injury.
-->'''Claire:''' Take off your pants.
-->'''Jessica:''' I usually like a little more romancing.
-->'''Claire:''' Don't we all?

* A WesternAnimation/TotalDrama fanfic called ''Hating Wawanakwa'' involves the Gen 1 boys playing a prank on the girls, one boy for each girl, and if the boy doesn't do it on time, they have to strip and run to the lake in front of everyone. Alejandro is the only one who doesn't, and the boys (and Heather) attempt to invoke this, but he works it by walking with ease and waving to everyone else.

* In the anime ''Anime/Death Note'', episode "Malice" Mello forces Takada at gunpoint to strip down to make sure she has no tracking devices on her.

* ''Manga/GambleFish'':
** Tomu gets Tsukiyono, Natsumi and Mizuhara to take off their uniforms so he can wrap himself against a burning hot cauldron. The clothes catch fire, leaving the three of them in their underwear in front of a whole crowd. They (the crowd and the trio) aren't too fazed considering how the gamble was Serious Business.
** Subverted when Tsukiyono spontaneously takes everything off to prove to Abidani that she isn't hiding any tricks.
** Tomu instructs Mika to take her ski clothing off. Mika misunderstands the instruction and ends up stripping naked.
** Natsumi, Yuka, and Rio were forced into this in a game of strip poker Tomu was playing with 100 billion yen and the Shishidou Crystal Lion at stake.
** In the Guillotine Mahjong match, Emily takes off her clothes to use as a makeshift rope to pull herself to safety, but the wire she lassoed was electrified, stopping her attempt. Regardless, she managed to bounce herself to safety onto the stage's rafters. Later, Yuka, Rio, and Mayo strip to their lingerie to use their clothes as makeshift ropes to prevent themselves from falling into the spiked floor when their support balloons pop.

* In ''Anime/YourName'', when Mitsuha (who is in Taki's body) sees that Miki's skirt has been slashed, she takes her into the office and tells her to take her skirt off. It's only because she wants to mend it, but Miki is understandably flustered by the request.

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* A non-verbal example can be found in [[http://www.gameoverforever.com/gags_en/go_g_072.html one strip]] of the French comic ''Game Over'' (a spin-off to ''ComicBook/KidPaddle'').

* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' episode 15, Tristan practically yells this to Mai and Tea when they were dueling.
* In ''Fanfic/PowersOfInvisibility'', Adrien helps Marinette pick out a date outfit for Juleka. When they're done, he excitedly tells her to try it on. It takes a raised eyebrow from Juleka and a comment from Marinette before he realizes she might want some privacy for this.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', visiting Discworld assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes is trying to blend into California as an "alien". [[note]]A South African in California, that is. She reckons this neatly explains any observed strangeness, and in any case she speaks the language.[[/note]] Sheldon Cooper haughtily demands she takes her clothes off. Fortunately for Sheldon, she understands his motivation -- his sense of correctness has been offended by the fact the sports clothing she has bought, reproduction South African team strip, is incorrect. (Johanna's research had been faulty. Her athletics tracksuit relates to pre-1994 and UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra.) Johanna obliges him and takes it off. Howard Wolowitz is rendered near-speechless.

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* A variation occurs in the French film ''Sur un arbre perché'' with Creator/LouisDeFunes. The car containing the protagonists goes off a cliff but is caught in a tree on the way down. Later on, the girl decides to take her clothes off to sunbathe (keeping her undergarments on) and notices another man looking at her thoughtfully. She playfully asks whether she's giving him ideas, to which he responds: "Yes! A great idea! We'll take off our clothes and tie them together to climb down!" Unfortunately, the ladder isn't long enough and they end up losing it (and therefore all their clothes).
* Happens in ''Film/NinjaAssassin'', probably as a lukewarm attempt at establishing some {{UST}}. Anyway, she gives him a FlatWhat, and he follows with, "Wash, but don't use soap." ItMakesSenseInContext.
* In ''Film/LogansRun'', after emerging from water into a frozen cave, Logan suggests to Jessica that they should take their clothes off, lest they freeze to death. Jessica complies. However, the presence of some dry clothes means that the nudity is short-lived.
* In ''Film/{{Evolution}}'', Ira is reading the periodic table printed on the back of Allison's T-shirt. He has a sudden idea, and when Allison asks him he explains and adds "Take off your shirt, I'll show you." ThoseTwoGuys hanging around exclaim together, "YES!"

* A classic version of this happens twice in the second ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' movie.
** First Mick tells Sue, "Take your bra off." She responds that it's "hardly the time" due to being on the run from a drug lord and his goons. He then uses the bra as bait for a [[JustForPun booby trap]] for the goons (although he does look disappointed that Sue removes it without taking her shirt off).
** Later in the same film, when he captures one of the two lead drug lords and holds a knife to his throat, Mick orders him to take his pants off... in order to disguise himself. The look on the captive's face says he believes a different interpretation.
* Brill asks this to Dean in order to search for bugs in ''Film/EnemyOfTheState''. Eventually he does... to the enjoyment of an Asian lady.

* In ''Film/{{Parker}}'', Parker orders Leslie to strip so he can see that she isn't wearing a wire.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''. Being NakedOnArrival after [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou time-travelling]], we have the requisite scene where the Terminator has to acquire clothes. This time he enters a club during Ladies Night and tells the male stripper there to take off his clothes, which he's already doing. "Patience, [[CampGay honey!]]"

* ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'': While getting Lady Lobelia away from Sir Braggart, Lurkalot takes her into his workshop and tells her to take off her clothes. She starts to obey and then says, "But we haven't got time!" However, he actually wants to fit her with a chastity belt.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Hermione tells Ron and Harry to do just this in book 7. It is simply because they would draw too much attention to themselves out in the Muggle world in their robes. (She has spare clothes in her Bag of Holding.) Note that the clothes she's telling them to take off aren't just robes, they're dress robes, since they had fled from Bill and Fleur's wedding reception.

* A scene from Emily Rodda's ''Literature/RowanOfRin'' counts. Strong Jonn, Marlie, and Rowan just swam through an underground ice-cold lake, and on the other side Marlie is all businesslike about, "Let's change clothes immediately so we don't get sick." -- but Rowan just utterly refuses. Marlie's astounded by this: the whole crux of the plot is about overcoming fear, and they've been through X number of horribly frightening things so far, and how can Rowan think this is a big deal? But Strong Jonn knowingly tells Marlie to turn her back so that modesty can be preserved.
* In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl, The Time Paradox'', N*1 does this to Artemis and Holly at the same time, because the time stream is too fragile to allow extra objects in.
* In ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Solo Command]]'', Wedge orders his [[NumberTwo 2IC]] Wes to strip while doing so himself. It's part of an elaborate prank.

* Happens in ''Literature/ArcadiaSnipsAndTheSteamworkConsortium''. William asks Miss Snips for her belt, "struggling to be as polite as a gentleman asking for a lady's article of clothing could be," while standing on the top of a burning building.
* In ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar The Black Gryphon]]'', Urtho orders Winterhart to be treated for a back injury. She assumes she's being sent to a regular Healer, so she's already shocked when she realizes that she was sent to the ''kestra'chern'' Amberdrake. When he tells her to undress and get on the (massage) table.... (''Kestra'chern'' are a subset of Healers, but a lot of people in the novels assume they're just high-priced prostitutes. At this point in the novel, Winterhart is one of those people.)
* In ''[[Literature/{{Parker}} Flashfire]]'', Lesley tells Parker that she is not interested in him sexually and has no desire to get naked in front of him. He then tells her that she has to. He is checking to see if [[NudityEqualsHonesty she is wearing a wire]].

* A girl-to-guy example occurs in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. When Shiki sees that a button on Neku's pants isn't sewn on right, she demands he take off his pants to let her fix them. He doesn't really interpret it as a come-on, but he's incredibly uncomfortable around people and it's pretty awkward.

* At the end of the ''[[Literature/TheDeathGateCycle DeathGate]]'' computer game, Haplo rips his shirt open and dares his double (Sang-Drax in disguise) to do the same. When Sang-Drax complies, he reveals massive wounds crossing over his heart rune, [[SpotTheImposter which would have been fatal if Sang-Drax was who he claimed to be]].
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', [[VideoGame/Persona3 Akihiko Sanada]], already [[WalkingShirtlessScene walking around topless]], asks Kanji to take his clothes off. While he was well-meaning (he thought Kanji wouldn't be able to fight to his fullest with his coat on), the sexually confused/insecure Kanji takes it as an attempt to hit on him, and he goes right into rage mode.

* In season 15 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Washington asks Carolina to take off her combat armor, as he's realized that whomever is tracking down their fellow Freelancers is using their suit's homing beacons and wants to set up a trap. As this is just after a tender moment, Carolina gets the wrong idea until Wash explains himself.

* A girl-to-girl example is Erika and Kimiko in [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/913 a strip]] of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''. Kimiko's expression in panel three says it all.

* [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/2006.htm One strip]] from ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''. Although Nimue doesn't think Merlin means it ''that'' way; she just doesn't have a nudity taboo.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-03 a scene]] where Girl Elliot certainly looks ready to hammer Tedd for telling her to take her shirt off before he can hastily explain his wanting to test the particulars of [[GenderBender Elliot's]] [[AttractiveBentGender transformations]]. Of course, it doesn't help that Tedd both has a certain reputation and had [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-11-11 suggested the same thing earlier]] for ''entirely'' perverted reasons.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', a Betty Boop {{Expy}} is told that her outfit is too risqué and she'll have to remove it. Trigger a surprised response and a [[RunningGag "Goodnight, everybody!" from Yakko]].
* In the "Steerminator" episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Gosalyn and Honker are trapped in a cage in Taurus Bulba's secret lair behind a water fall. Goslyn tells Honker to take off his clothes, and his eyes bug out. She insists she needs his shirt and backpack, and throws them onto a branch near the water. Some paint that was in his backpack spills out, creating a stream in the waterfall that lets Darkwing see where they are.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', season 3 episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS3E13SophomoreSlump Sophomore Slump]]": At the end of their date, after a hug, Jackie suddenly tells Marco "Take off your shirt." Naturally, he blushes and acts very bashful, but all Jackie wants is to confirm the suspicion that he's still wearing his Mewni knight cape under his hoodie.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Most of the imaginary friends (who don't [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal normally wear clothes]]) are wearing one or two items of clothing that are merchandise of "Funny Bunny"--i.e. of Mr. Herriman, who had starred in a viral video against his will. Eduardo realized that, if Mr. Herriman saw that merchandise, he'd blow a gasket, so he rushed toward the other imaginary friends, shouting this trope word-for-word at the top of his lungs. Madame Foster, who wasn't in on this, obliged with a "Yee-haw!".

* Not the exact example, but none of the Earthland!characters in ''Manga/FairyTail'' can't quite bear to see Edo!Gray in layer upon layer of jacket. They often demand that the [[AlternateUniverse counterpart]] to their guildmate wear about as much as their [[WalkingShirtlessScene Gray]] does.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'':
%%** In "Save Granny", Granny commands her neighbor Cassandra into swapping their skirts.
%%** In "Octosquito", Ma removes her dress and converts it to a suit that protects her from the monster.
%%** In "Acne Dents Happen", Cordless takes off his Space Invaders shirt so he can rub his radioactive acne cream on more skin.
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* In ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries Solo Command]]'', Wedge orders his [[NumberTwo 2IC]] Wes to strip while doing so himself. It's part of an elaborate prank.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', one of the trolls tells Kristoff to take off his clothes... [[AccidentalInnuendo so she can wash them]]. In front of Anna.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'':
** In "Save Granny", Granny commands her neighbor Cassandra into swapping their skirts.
** In "Octosquito", Ma removes her dress and converts it to a suit that protects her from the monster.
** In "Acne Dents Happen", Cordless takes off his Space Invaders shirt so he can rub his radioactive acne cream on more skin.

* The woman [[MegatonPunch slaps the man around]] for being a pervert...

* The woman [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn enthusiastically complies and strips]], maybe taking off much more clothing than expected (like not stopping at the underwear), before trying to get frisky with the man before he could explain that he didn't mean it that way.

Contrast PleasePutSomeClothesOn or YouCanLeaveYourHatOn...

** In the Alchemist arc, a mind-controlled Esper girl uses magic against Touma, which causes serious bleeding due to an Esper's incompatibility with magic. After she's knocked unconscious, Aisa Himegami demands that the girl's shirt be removed. Touma hesitates, but Aisa chastises him, saying that they need to bandage her up and that his concerns about modesty are not only unwarranted but even disrespectful in this circumstance.

* A variation occurs in an early chapter of ''Manga/{{Imadoki}}''. The heroine, Tanpopo, overworks herself in the rain while already under the weather, and when she collapses, her love interest Koki finds her and takes her back to her apartment. When he gets her inside, he realizes that her clothes are soaked...but by this point she is unconscious, so he ends up being the one to take her clothes off for her.

* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''. Being NakedOnArrival after time-travelling, we have the requisite scene where the Terminator has to acquire clothes. This time he enters a club during Ladies Night and tells the male stripper there to take off his clothes, which he's already doing. "Patience, [[CampGay honey!]]"

* In ''[[Literature/{{Parker}} Flashfire]]'', Lesley tells Parker that she is not interested in him sexually and has no desire to get naked in front of him. He then tells her that she has to. He is checking to see if she is wearing a wire.

'''Ryuko:''' ''Huh?'' W-what the ''hell'' are you saying?! I know, you're from the pervert club! You're from the pervert club, aren't you?

* ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'': Arthur asks Selenia to give him the lace holding her top together, so he can use it as a grappling hook. She refuses. He takes it anyway when she was distracted.

* ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'': Arthur asks Selenia to give him the lace holding her top together, so he can use it as a grappling hook. She refuses.

* ''Film/ImACyborgButThatsOk'' has Il-soon request this from Young-goon during [[spoiler: the Rice Megatron scene.]] It gets suberverted since Young-goon finds it perfectly reasonable, but Il-soon begins to realize how awkward the situation is once she actually undresses.

* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': During his rendezvous with a (absolutely ''stunning'') SHIELD agent, Peter repeatedly gets told to take off his clothes. So he can try the new stealth suit on, of course.