Basic Trope: A character's clothes gets damaged, often played for Fanservice.
- Straight: Bob gets into a fight and has his shirt ripped off.
- Exaggerated: When Bob goes into the fight, he's fully clothed. By the end of it, he's completely naked.
- Downplayed: Bob gets a small tear on his sleeve, but that's it.
- Justified:
- Bob isn't wearing armour and he's up against an opponent with a bladed weapon.
- Bob has superhuman physical endurance, which doesn't extend to his clothes.
- Inverted: During the fight, Bob's opponent throws another shirt on him.
- Subverted: Bob gets his shirt ripped off in the fight, only to reveal he's got another one underneath.
- Double Subverted: Then he loses that one.
- Parodied:
- Whenever Bob does so much as strike a pose, his shirt explodes. Whenever he walks by a branch, it tears his shirt off. He just looks that good shirtless.
- Bob gets into a fight with Don Cuchillo. He gets a rip on the sleeve of his shirt, which subsequently catches fire to reveal his rock-hard abs, complete with their own theme music
- Zig Zagged: Bob loses his shirt in the fight, but is wearing another one under it. Then later, it gets damaged, but magically fixes itself. Then he loses it anyway.
- Averted: If Bob fights at all, his clothes are unscathed throughout.
- Enforced: "Bob's our number-one Mr. Fanservice, and everyone wants to see him with his shirt off. Why don't we use this big fight as an excuse for him to lose it?"
- Lampshaded:
- "Great. Bob, did you lose your shirt again? The tailor's getting annoyed with you."
- When Bob loses his shirt, he just so happens to look like he's posing, and his female teammates can be seen swooning in the background.
- Invoked:
- Bob rips up his own shirt, just because.
- Bob is a Handsome Lech who's trying to lose his shirt so he can show off to his female teammates.
- Exploited: Bob keeps a trapped rune underneath his clothes, to blast Charlie when he pulls his trademark trick.
- Defied: Bob specifically wears clothes that are resistant to tearing.
- Discussed: "That's Bob. He tends to lose his shirt a lot, so watch out, ladies."
- Conversed: "Yeah, they're just blatantly having Bob's shirt get ripped so we can see his muscles."
- Implied: Bob goes to fight offscreen, and returns without his shirt. It isn't clarified if it was destroyed, or if he performed a Battle Strip instead.
- The fight is not shown, and neither is Bob after the fight. However, we do get to see a couple of females swooning over Bob, commenting on his amazing physique.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's shirt was armoured, and without it, his enemy is easily able to strike a crippling blow.
- Bob gets a nasty flesh wound to go along with losing his shirt, negating most of the fan service.
- Bob goes broke from spending a fortune on clothes he barely gets to wear before fate conspires to shred them.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob notices his armor is gone and adapts his tactics to accommodate for it.
- Bob explicitly wears loose, fragile clothes which tear easily, so that his enemies believe he has taken more hits than he actually has.
- Once Bob loses his shirt, he's able to defeat his opponent easily because they're too busy ogling his abs.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob is defeated by the Big Bad, and left in a sorry state since he is now battered, beaten, broken, and naked. The villain takes some time to gloat over this.
- Losing his shirt sends Bob into a panic attack as he gets unpleasant flashbacks to when he was sexually assaulted.
- Bob gains a painful and gruesome wound.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob loses his shirt in the middle of the fight, which is NOT a pleasant image. His opponent tells him to Please Put Some Clothes On and halts just so Bob'll do that.
- Bob's left in his boxers after taking a particularly heavy blow.
- Plotted A Good Waste: The fight being so Fanservice-y helps take some of the edge off the fact that all combatants involved are locked in a brutal fight to the death.
Go back to Cloth—AARGH, I ripped my pants!
