Shirtless Scene/Playing With

Basic Trope: A scene where the male character is temporarily topless.
 * Straight: Bill takes his shirt off for one scene.
 * Exaggerated: Bill and several male characters are shirtless simultaneously.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene
 * Justified: He removed his shirt because it was literally too hot for him to keep it on.
 * He removed his shirt because he was about to cannonball into the swimming pool.
 * Inverted: A Walking Shirtless Scene character puts a shirt on for a single scene.
 * Every male character except for Bill is a Walking Shirtless Scene.
 * Subverted: Bill removes his shirt, only to reveal another shirt underneath of it...
 * Double Subverted: ...and then he takes that shirt off, too.
 * Parodied: Bill took his shirt on because it was on fire.
 * Averted: All male characters keep their shirts on.
 * Enforced: Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
 * Lampshaded: "Nice pecs," "Nice six-pack," "AAAAAAAHHHH! *faints*" and so on.
 * Invoked: Alice tears Bill's shirt off to reveal that he's actually an alien from a far-away galaxy
 * Defied: Bill refuses to take his shirt off for anything.

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