Basic Trope: For whatever reason, the aliens on this show do not wear any clothing.
- Straight: The Senzarians are almost universally nudists, despite their advanced tech.
- Exaggerated: Clothing is almost entirely a human invention: no other intelligent species seen wears a scrap of clothing.
- Downplayed:
- Senzarians don’t have a nudity taboo but still put clothes on for decorative or practical purposes.
- Senzarians aren't naked... They wear clothes for the extra pockets when they need them, and their clothes are nothing except some way to have pockets so they don't cover that much anyways... Unless they wear protective armor or environment suits.
- Senzarians do wear some clothing, but it's mostly limited to accessories or Monster Modesty.
- Justified:
- Senzarians are Mechanical Lifeforms with no privates to cover and other ways of dealing with the more practical issues humans use clothing to solve.
- Senzarians are one of the most invincible species in the universe: any armour would be a downgrade, and so they never developed the concept.
- Senzarians are basically animals, and like earth animals do not wear clothing.
- Senzarians are shapeshifters, and haven't developed clothing that changes with them. Thus, being dressed would severely limit their abilities, or at least run the risk of ruining perfectly good clothes should they need to change shape and not have time to undress first.
- Senzarians are blind, so there is no point in dressing.
- Senzarians live in a hot climate, so there's no need for them to wear clothing for warmth.
- Senzarians already have some sort of natural body covering, such as fur, that serves the same purpose as clothing.
- Inverted:
- Little Green Man in a Can.
- Humans lose their nudity taboo, and thus invade other planets while starkers.
- Enclosed Extraterrestrials
- Aliens are fully dressed and can't fathom the idea of not wearing clothes.
- Subverted:
- The Senzarians seems to be strolling about in their colossal tentacles forms naked, until one of them opens up to reveal it was some organic Powered Armour.
- The first Senzarian encountered is stark naked, but this is due to a teleporter malfunction that left their clothes behind.
- Double Subverted:
- …and they weren’t wearing anything under it, and thus continue walking about naked outside it.
- After an awkward first contact, a Senzarian explains they don't usually walk around naked... they typically wear a pair of gloves, a headdress, and little else.
- Parodied:
- Senzarains have written entire songs and indeed, historical epics about how pants are for the weak.
- The invading Senzarians force is defeated by throwing frilly apparel at them, as they couldn’t wear cloth due to hideous allergies.
- Bob, a nude Senzarian is a recurring character on the show, who one day introduces the human characters to his family... only for the human characters to realize that other Senzarians wear clothing and that it's even weird to them that Bob is a streaker.
- Zig Zagged:
- Some aliens wear clothes, some do not, some never take them off.
- Different Senzarain religious sects have different perceptions of nudity and what must be covered: no two of their cultures agree on what, if anything is obscene.
- Averted:
- No aliens appear on the show, naked or otherwise.
- Aliens do appear, and are fully clothed (at least by our standards).
- Enforced:
- Senzarains are quite humanlike and not unattractive, so the market shoehorned them into being Innocent Fanservice Girls.
- The creators of the show couldn't think of any real reason why the aliens would be wearing clothes, or even how they'd put on clothing anyway, so they just skipped the issue altogether.
- Lampshaded: “What are these human things you call pants?”
- Invoked: The Senzarians initiate first contact in the nude, in order to intimidate humanity with their considerable assets.
- Exploited:
- Nexathoth, the resident Senzarian, is taken to court by Rick, on charges of public indecency
- A group of Senzarian delinquents travel to earth, knowing they won’t be arrested for indecent exposure as they can just say “It’s part of our heritage!”
- Defied: “Why would we attack nake- why would you THINK we would attack naked?! What are you humans ON?!!"
- Discussed: “Nex, dude, you gonna put on some pants?” “…Nahhhh.”
- Conversed: “The Senzarians thinks clothing is against their religion, and for this we are truly thankful.
- Deconstructed: Being from a jungle planet, Senzarians did not invent clothing or armour and thousands of solders are killed due to exposure, human attacks, and dihydrogen oxide.
- Reconstructed: Not that this even slows them down.
- Implied: A space explorer mentions encountering aliens, and one of the main descriptors of the unseen aliens is "They were buck-ass naked."
- Plotted A Good Waste: The show is propaganda about the dangers of nudity, with The Senzarians as the bad guys.
- Played For Laughs:
- Senzarians are basically Space Celts, complete with space chariots, space torcs, space woad, and little else.
- The Senzarians are known for two things: being very human-looking, and not wearing clothes. The only ones seen on screen are elderly ambassadors and bureaucrats.
- The aliens' lack of clothing is played as Naked People Are Funny.
- Played For Drama: The fact that they don’t even have clothing for common ground makes the Senzarians hard to communicate with.
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