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Basic Trope: A woman is subject to providing Fanservice against her will.

  • Straight: Alice is a prude who is prone to Clothing Damage, which is also why her most common losses are Defeat by Modesty.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice gets a bit of Clothing Damage in a fight where most of her teammates do as well.
    • Alice is often stripped, but only when she is on her own and always manages to cover herself up in time. Nobody actually sees her naked.
    • Alice is often stripped, but always manages to get herself covered up before anyone sees too much of her.
    • Alice is often stripped, but those around her are usually more embarrassed than she is.
    • Alice’s reaction is less Naked Freak-Out and more as though she spilt something on herself or her car got towed.
    • Alice is an exhibitionist who is fine with being naked in front of adults. However, bad luck always makes her accidentally end up naked next to kids.
  • Justified:
    • Superheroine Alice is Nigh-Invulnerable (and uses it to take hits for her teammates or civilians). (Un)fortunately, her superhero costume is not so durable.
    • Alice has issues with her body and actively avoids showing almost any skin.
    • Alice finds herself having to defend her honour in duels — but to avoid any waste of life, the duelling code of the setting demands Clothing Damage only, with the aim of Defeat by Modesty, ensuring the loser is appropriately shamed.
    • Alice is a plain old prude. She'd prefer wearing some modest clothing.
    • Alice has no real problem with public nudity; it’s the “involuntary” part that upsets her.
  • Inverted:
    • Alice hates clothing and walks about everywhere naked, but circumstances conspire to clothe her.
    • Alice is The Prankster and most of her pranks involve publicly stripping people naked.
  • Gender-Inverted: Bob, the famously Sharp-Dressed Man in the cast, who explains that he feels naked if he's wearing anything less, finds himself a frequent victim of Clothing Damage.
  • Subverted:
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice's party outfit was suggested and prepared by her friend, at whom she is now very annoyed.
    • It was an act to save face: Alice blushes all the way and is very thankful when the opportunity to get dressed comes up.
  • Parodied:
    • Alice dresses up in multilayered winter clothing and body armour for her group's next fight. And ends up in only a bra and panties by the end of it.
    • Emperor Evulz' latest evil scheme is to get Alice scantily clad. Just like the last three before it.
    • Alice is a member of a Freudian Trio alongside Carol and Denise. She's the only one who hates being naked, and is the only one who DOES end up naked, much to the other two's disappointment.
    • Alice is completely naked throughout the entire series and mortified over it. However, she can very well wear clothes if she wants to but rejects any clothes or attempts to clothe her for unexplained reasons.
    • Alice is seen naked in the Group Picture Ending.
    • Alice is also naked in marketing character photos, posters and trailers.
  • Zig-Zagged:
  • Averted: Nobody gets forced into an uncomfortable clothing situation.
  • Enforced: "We need more Fanservice, but we can't have the viewers seeing any of our female characters as sluts. Hey, I know! Let's add a few Contrived Coincidences!"
  • Lampshaded:
    • "Oh, come on! Why, why, why is it always my shirt?!"
    • "Oh not this again! Stop staring!"
  • Invoked: The Nudifier.
  • Exploited:
    • Defeat by Modesty.
    • An evil witch curses Alice to be permanently naked, promising to lift the curse if Alice does evil deeds for her.
  • Defied:
  • Discussed: "And Alice gets blasted again. Binoculars, boys!"
  • Conversed: "Of course, Alice gets hit with the raygun..." "Who else? Someone who might get an ugly burn?"
  • Implied: Alice is very accident-prone and always breaks things. Someone mentions that she should go to the beach since there is nothing that can be broken there. She replies that, somehow, she always finds a way to "break" her bathing suit and she is tired of the men hovering around, waiting for her to have another accident.
  • Deconstructed:
    • Alice goes bankrupt because she has to keep buying new clothes every time they get ripped up.
    • Being constantly forced to wear revealing outfits has done a serious number on Alice's self-esteem.
    • Alice Took a Level in Jerkass because of her constant humiliation and lashes out at anyone who sees her. This in turn reduces sympathy for her and people are even more likely to jeer at her during her malfunctions than help her, angering her further.
    • Alice always seems to end up in a situation that results in her becoming naked, no matter how much she tries. She eventually grows desensitized to her constant nakedness and just walks around naked so that she never worries about losing her clothes again.
  • Reconstructed:
    • She eventually gets her clothes insured so she no longer has to worry about clothing damage.
    • Alice is supported by her friends and family, who make sure to cover her up whenever she is stripped and fight every Jerkass and pervert who bullies or harasses her.
    • The onlookers tolerate Alice’s behaviour due to the stress she is often under, and she learns to keep control of her anger.
  • Played for Laughs:
  • Played for Drama:
    • Alice eventually develops severe self-esteem issues due to the multiple times she is disrobed and humiliated, so she has to seek therapy.
    • Alice is a Sex Slave of Evulz, who takes delight in exposing her.
    • Alice is heavily bullied and slut-shamed by her peers.
    • Alice has a Heroic BSoD over being stripped.
    • After being stripped in public, Alice covers herself up and bursts into tears, making her bully have a Heel Realization.
    • Alice gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the other characters and the audience for their Lack of Empathy and cruelty to deriving joy from a woman’s emotional distress.
    • Alice is the only female character in her work to ever get stripped against her will due to the curse on her signalling only her out as a Cosmic Plaything. She learns that if she casts a spell to get rid of the curse, other women and girls will end up stripped. She has to choose whether to endanger fellow women or keep serving her humiliating, thankless role.
    • Alice attempts or is Driven to Suicide over her humiliation.
  • Played for Horror:
    • Alice is prone to Clothing Damage and has a Nightmare Fuel tattoo somewhere on her body, which the camera always shows.
    • Evulz' clothing-destroying weapon works too well and strips away Alice's human form too, revealing she's an Eldritch Abomination.
    • Alice is so sensitive that she turns murderously violent when stripped (or humiliated in other ways) and lashes out at anyone unlucky enough to be near her.
    • Alice is trapped in an And I Must Scream situation, forced to spend eternity in a time loop dancing naked in front of a jeering crowd.
    • Alice's misadventures frequently end with her being raped, assaulted or tortured.
    • Alice is a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer, targeting those unsympathetic to her naked humiliation to regain control over her life.
    • After having nude photos of her go viral, Alice is driven to madness and becomes an Omnicidal Maniac attempting to start World War 3 so no one will be alive to remember her humiliation - or at least they'll remember her as a monster rather than a joke.
  • Plotted a Good Waste: Alice learns that she is a fictional character written to be stripped and humiliated for sexual pleasure of the viewers and tries communicating with her author, the viewers or both to plead them to give her a better story.

Quick! Back to Reluctant Fanservice Girl before Evulz' Wave-Motion Gun is done charg—OH COME ON, MY SHIRT!

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