Reluctant Fanservice Girl

If the writer or artist wants to include a ridiculously sexy female character who is always dressed in skimpy outfits, he may choose to give a reason for this character to dress and behave the way she does. Maybe she's The Vamp, and is using it as a means to get what she wants from men, or maybe she's the Shameless Fanservice Girl who swears by the "you've got it, you flaunt it!" idea, or the Innocent Fanservice Girl, who simply doesn't know or care about the effect she has on men.

Then, there's this girl. She would prefer to dress modestly, and really doesn't like being ogled by men, but, for some reason, the universe conspires to have her dress in skimpy outfits or end up naked. Her clothes may get ripped or stolen, she may be pressured into it by her friends, she may have to serve as a sexy distraction for the idiot guards, the villain may have kidnapped her and forced her to wear a metal bikini... any excuse will do, but whatever the reason, she will always be unhappy about it.

Often played for laughs as a form of Butt Monkey-ness, although serious variants are also possible. After all, much of the humour of the situation depends on whether you think women being unwillingly stripped down carries a host of Unfortunate Implications, or is as harmless as any other fictional kink. If the author wishes to make a point about gender issues, this kind of Fan Service will often be toned down or Deconstructed.

A frequent consequence of the Third Law of Gender Bending. This sort of thing may also happen to the Mr. Fanservice.

Examples of Reluctant Fanservice Girl include:

Anime and Manga

• Ranma-chan often finds her... uh, himself in this position in Ranma ½. Especially if Happosai is around.
• Mikuru Asahina from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi is constantly trying to invoke tropes, and uses Mikuru for her appeal and tries to make her the Innocent Fanservice Girl, much to Mikuru's depair. While she eventually accepts her Meido outfit, she is still struggling to accept it when Haruhi tries to put more revealing outfits on her.
• This is the entire concept of Maicchingu Machiko Sensei. The titular character, a Hot Teacher named Machiko Mai, continually finds herself naked due to the actions of her perverted students, the occassional non-human, or the nature of the universe itself.
• The aforementioned Machiko is voiced by Rihoko Yoshida, who voiced another Reluctant Fanservice Girl - Meg Kanzaki - seven years earlier. The lyrics of the theme song might seem to suggest that she's a Shameless Fanservice Girl, but in the actual series, she isn't nearly that much of an exhibitionist, and anyone who tries to see her in her underwear (or more) will often suffer a violent beatdown - although a nasty hypnosis trick from the show's resident Dirty Old Man did almost get her to strip herself naked in one episode..
• A dozen examples could be found from Mahou Sensei Negima alone, Takane D. Goodman being the most notorious.
  • Further information: Takane is in the habit of using magically-generated clothing instead of actual clothing, and so her outfits tend to vanish completely whenever she's defeated in battle... and she's not exactly the most powerful side-character.
  • This is also known to happen to Asuna. Early incidents involved Negi's wind magic activating by accident, which blew off all Asuna's clothes without causing her any harm. This could be taken as Foreshadowing of her special abilities.
    • Negi's wind magic accidentally activating has done that to many girls, not just Asuna. The fact that his attempt to erase her memory also resulted in nothing more than clothing loss for Asuna, however, was foreshadowing of Asuna's magic cancel abilities. And later, her magic canceling abilities became so strong that she kept her clothes on when Negi's infamous strip-sneeze came around.
• Gray from Fairy Tail is a male example. His training to resist the cold left him with a habit of stripping down to his boxers without realising, and he's always embarrassed to find out he's half-naked.
  • Another example from Fairy Tail is Lucy, whose clothing always manages to rip just enough to cover the naughty bits. She's understandably not very happy about it. Though she is shown saluting somebody while half-dressed.
• Mio Akiyama from K-On!. She's been forced into her share of costumes, not to mention tripping over a cord and landing in a panty-exposing position during the band's first performance in front of the whole school.
• In Yaoi, the Uke sometimes take this role in relation to the Seme. And the audience.
• Yuki from Fruits Basket, especially when he's forced to wear a beautiful girl's kimono for the school festival.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: In the virtual world mini-arc, Joey is forced to wear a the garb of a legendary warrior: a one-shouldered "barbarian" style garment cut very short. It's even skimpier than Mai' costume--although she's extremely comfortable in hers and Joey tries to avoid coming out in his.
• In the Hentai Dragon Pink, Pink is constantly being humiliated in this way.
• Infinite Stratos: Charlotte Dunois often mentions not minding nudity around Ichika, but would prefer that he ask first, yet still chides him for perversion.
• Kallen from Code Geass has fallen into some precarious clothing and/or pose situations, to the point where part of the fanbase considers her nothing more than fanservice.
• Ultimate Girls
• The condition for Ringo's jumping power in Banana no Nana is that she has to wear a miniskirt that shows off her panties.
• The Magical Girl outfit in Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo is designed for a standard young girl. Ureshiko, at 26, has a fully adult body, and she's not quite comfortable when people point out how it looks on her.
• Karina aka Blue Rose in Tiger and Bunny is contractually obligated to go crime fighting in a Stripperiffic outfit despite how impractical and dangerous it is. Mainly because her sponsors market her largely on sex appeal.
• Blast no Tempest: Hakaze Kusaribe is a downplayed example. While her revealing attire is justified due to the fact that she is marooned, she has a habit of sticking a doll in her cleavage for whatever reason.
• This trope is a plot point in Kill la Kill . The Anti-Heroine Action Girl Ryuuko Matoi is extremely embarrassed regarding Senketsu, her super Stripperiffic Sailor Fuku that doubles as a Power Armor... and that's why she cannot unlock its full power and potential. By contrast, Satsuki Kiryuin is a Shameless Fanservice Girl who fully embraces her partial nudity when she dons her own Power Armor Junketsu, and therefore she can draw out all of its powers.

Comic Books

• The entire point of Empowered.

Film

• Leia in Return of the Jedi, when she's caught by Jabba and forced to wear a Chainmail Bikini that makes her look like a Belly Dancer. She does get back at him later, however. Magnificently-

Literature

• Mercy Thompson is frequently naked, as when she changes shape, her clothes don't come with her.
• Amelia Windrose from Orphans of Chaos, constantly. A climactic scene in the third book is enacted with her naked the entire time, and a villain standing between her and the only towel. It's...much more serious than it sounds.

Live Action TV

• Teri Hatcher's character in Desperate Housewives often ended up in this kind of situation.
• Justified in Primeval: Abby wears minimal clothing in her flat because she's deliberately keeping the temperature above 30 Celsius. Why? Well, she happens to be caring for a prehistoric reptile.

Newspaper Comics

• Sally Forth from the U.S. Armed Forces newspaper (not the one seen in civilian Newspaper Comics sections).
• Jane from the Daily Mirror strip of the same name. An urban legend claims that during World War II, when a rumor went out that D-Day would coincide with Jane appearing fully naked for the first time, army brass specifically asked the artist to make it so.

Video Games

• Natalie in Epic Battle Fantasy, after using her Kyun Limit Break, will usually comment on it afterward by saying, "Well, that was embarrassing", "I hope that's enough fanservice for a while", and "Okay, stop staring now."
• The women in Real Girls Strip Poker react this way after the (presumably male) player has stripped them nude.
• Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening, rather surprisingly. She wears a Stripperiffic outfit because it's the standard one for Dark Mages but doesn't seem to notice how titillating it is until she's told about that detail, isn't too pleased when she has to wear a bikini in a DLC stage, dislikes it when people fixate on her good looks, and her sprites have her awkwardly covering herself with her magic tomes.
  • Chrom is a reluctant fanservice boy in the same DLC event. His swimsuit barely covers him, the brand is displayed on the back, and his ass is on full display for Anna to drool over. He's incredibly uncomfortable being so exposed, and not just because the swimsuit is impractical for battle.
  • Cordelia combines this with A-Cup Angst. She likes the initial look of her swimsuit, especially its color, but she's embarrassed by how little it covers and freaks out when Anna reveals how little she has to hide up top.
  • Averted with Gaius, whose main issue is how the swimsuit doesn't have any pockets to hide his candy stash, and that if he were to go swimming the snacks would be damaged by the salt water. He only gets tense when Anna asks about the bandana wrapped around his bicep since it hides his prison brand.
• In Fire Emblem: Heroes's Summer Banners, both Linde and Lyndis/Lyn are very embarrassed when they have to done bikinis.
• The girls (and Gender Bender guys) from SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy are... not too happy to have been kidnapped, taken to an alternate dimension, and then end up wearing super revealing outfits. (Even Mai Shiranui is displeased!) Pictured above is Nakoruru, who gets stuck either as the "sexy vampire priestess" seen in the pic or a Belly Dancer (while her falcon Mamahaha is morphed either into a bat or a Flying Carpet), and is Not Impressed for it.
• Subverted in Persona 5, where Ann "Panther" Takamaki fits in - but mostly when she has to play the Miss Fanservice role under rules of other people and outside her modelling gigs, as Ann herself wants to explore her sex appeal under her own terms.

Web Comics

• Elly from The Word Weary is the only female character to have been featured in a state of undress in the comic, much to her disappointment.

Web Original

• The Nostalgia Critic. Although he's fine to give Fan Service on his own, if he's the victim in other videos (like the Game Heroes promo where they kidnapped him or Spooning With Spoony II) then he'll take on this role.

Western Animation

• Seen briefly in a movie that Homer and Marge watch on The Simpsons, "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules".

Girl: Hercules, the Cyclops tore off my clothes! Hercules: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

• Fluttershy from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic becomes an in-universe example during her brief stint as a supermodel. She hated having the whole world stare at her, but the shy and embarrassed looks she gave to the camera were what got her discovered (in addition to her naturally being very graceful and beautiful). Also, even though ponies don't normally wear clothes, it was implied that some of the outfits she had to wear were chosen specifically to show off her body.
  • In a second season episode she even seems embarrassed that Rainbow Dash caught her naked in bed, even though, as stated, the characters usually don't wear clothes.
• In the Voltron: Legendary Defender episode "The Voltron Show!", Coran forced Shiro to wear a super-tight shirt as part of his "Shiro the Hero" persona (that the audience sadly didn't get to see) in addition to putting all the emphasis on how popular he was with the fan base. Shiro was visibly uncomfortable with all of this.