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Open Shirt Taunt
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Usually seen with the character unbuttoning or removing a shirt, this trope involves a character baring a vital region of their body to provide an easy target and daring another character to stab or shoot them. In the same manner as a Shameful Strip, the removal of clothing signifies vulnerability and defenselessness. In some cases, the character welcomes the injury, thinking it's deserved. Alternatively, they don't really believe the other will harm them, or are at least confident that the blow won't be fatal. Or they just want to Face Death with Dignity. Or it's a case of Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!. May have some overlap with Battle Strip or Defiant Strip. |
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Adventure Time: In "Checkmate", the Vampire King rips his shirt open as he dares Marceline to stake him. Later turns into a Defiant Strip when he rips off his pants as well. | |
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Bleach. Kenpachi does this for Ichigo in their first encounter. Not like Ichigo's first strike does much since Kenpachi is the soul equivalent of Made of Iron. | |
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Happens a couple of times in Redwall. In Salamandastron, Klitch strips off his shirt and dares Urthstripe to shoot him, pointing out that the prisoners Sapwood and Oxeye will die if Klitch or Ferahgo are harmed. In Lord Brocktree, Fleetscut opens his shirt during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Jukka, shouting that if she kills him instead of coming back to help defend Salamandastron her home will be invaded next. | |
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In the original text of Richard III the stage directions explicitly say Richard "layes his brest open" [sic] - that is, he opens his shirt/jerkin for Anne to run him through with his sword, which he has given her for the express purpose after she says she wants to see him dead. (In the 1995 film adaptation of the scene, the title character does this after giving her a dagger.) Unfortunately for a lot of people (her included), she doesn't go through with it. | |
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In the Highlander episode, "Blackmail", lawyer Robert Waverly threatened to shoot Lyman Kurlow (Waverly had videotaped Duncan beheading Kurlow's friend/fellow Immortal and had been trying to blackmail Duncan into killing his wife. When Kurlow turned up, Waverly proposed a "Strangers on a Train" murder swap, which Duncan advised him against). Kurlow, being Immortal, just opened his jacket and smiled at him. | |
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In House of 9, Francis pulls off his shirt while daring Father Duffy to shoot him. | |
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The Order of the Stick has a serious version: after Durkon's trapped soul overwhelms the vampiric spirit possessing his body, he opens his robes, dimisses his Protective Charms, and sits still so Belkar can drive a stake through his heart. | |
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In Cells at Work! CODE BLACK, female white corpuscle uniforms have a Navel-Deep Neckline and no bra, presumably for this reason (the other being Fanservice). | |
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In Farscape Commandant Grayza is all about the cleavage. In an interview with the actress, Rebecca Riggs, she notes that she didn't originally view Grayza's costume as titillating; rather, she thought it was more this trope, baring her vital organs for the enemy to see to show she's not afraid. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: In "Stimpy's Fan Club", Ren is so distraught at disappointing Stimpy that he tears open his fur and hands Stimpy a (rubber) dagger for him to stab him in the chest. | |
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In the 1983 movie of The Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate King (Kevin Kline) does this in the scene before the "Paradox" song. | |
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Rare female example in Nine (Musical). At the end of the "Take It All" number, Luisa gradually strips off to symbolise how her husband has taken everything from her. The end of the song has her ripping her bra open, which coincides with her breaking it off with him in real life. | |
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Batman: The Tally Man comes seeking revenge for the injuries he suffered at the hands of Jean-Paul Valley (a.k.a. Azrael) when Azrael was wearing the Bat-suit. He confronts Dick (Nightwing) Grayson, who had taken over the mantle of Batman from Valley, who has no idea who Tally Man is or why he is gunning for him. During his Motive Rant, he rips open his shirt to show the large bat-shaped scar Valley had carved into his chest. | |
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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: In "Destiny", Little Destiny learns that her bouts with cold and cough were from wearing the ruby that Jay gave to her as a gift (it came from the Ice Crown), and Big Destiny convinces her that he did it on purpose to cripple the Destiny Gang. After Little D is given a sword to finish him with, Jay tears open his shirt and tells her she's free to do so if she really believes it. | |
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In the original Peter Pan novel, after Tootles shot Wendy down with an arrow: | |
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Private Snafu: In "Fighting Tools", a German soldier opens his shirt to taunt Snafu when he sees that his improperly-maintained rifle is leaking mud. | |
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Bloodsport has a legendary example that has Frank Dux bait Paco this way, during the climax of the semi finals of the Kumite. Begins with, "Come on! Come on!!" | |
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Coronation Street had Charlie Stubbs do this when he realised that his girlfriend Tracy Barlow was planning to murder him. He ripped shirt open while she held a kitchen knife and dared her to do it then and there. She did - but not until later. | |
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In some performances of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney himself does this for Toby at the end after learning that he's killed his own wife not knowing just who she was and basically ruined himself in his quest for revenge on Turpin. It's less of a taunt and more of a way to Face Death with Dignity. | |
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CollegeHumor: Realistic Fighting Game has two characters Ryan and Greg engaging in a somewhat awkward Wimp Fight in a bar instead of fights similar to the likes of Street Fighter and BlazBlue. During the fight Ryan opens his shirt to taunt Greg. | |
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In Creature Tech, the last fight between Dr. Ong and Dr. Jameson ends with Ong baring his chest for Jameson to strike him. It's a Batman Gambit and it works. Jameson gained his powers for this fight from an alien symbiote, and Ong has figured out that the symbiote is an intelligent creature that would much rather bond with a moral host than an evil one. When Ong bares his chest, Jameson rips his heart out — and the symbiote immediately abandons Jameson (killing him in the process) to bond with Ong and save his life. | |
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Shakespeare would later re-use this trope in Julius Caesar. Cassius dramatically escalates an argument with Brutus by throwing open his toga, presenting a dagger, and taunting Brutus to kill him, just as he had killed Caesar. | |
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In Beowulf, our hero — now a king and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the world — goes the whole-hog of taking off his armor, throwing away his sword, and ripping open his tunic to bear his chest to an enemy warrior, all the time telling him to kill him. The last time he yells "Kill me!", it doesn't seem so much a taunt, as a plea. | |
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In High Deryni, Morgan, Duncan, Kelson and Cardiel slip into Morgan's Castle Coroth to retake it from rebel leader Warin deGrey. They secretly watch Warin heal an injured man before confronting Warin and his officers. Morgan informs Warin that he and Duncan can Heal just as he does, and Warin refuses to believe him. Duncan suggests a demonstration of Deryni Healing and volunteers to take the injury to be Healed; he removes his shirt and is shown to have the training scars typical of a nobleman on his pale torso. Duncan's vulnerability is heightened when he tells Warin to choose the weapon and inflict the injury himself to be certain there is no trickery. | |
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Barracuda: In "Scars", Raffy corners Maria and aims a pistol at her chest. She responds by ripping open the bodice of her dress to expose her breast and begging him to shoot. | |
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Ferdinand the Bull: When the outraged matador tries to incite the flower-sniffing Ferdinand into fighting him, he opens his shirt and shouts "Give it to me!". Ferdinand then sees the flower tattoo on the his chest and licks it. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the gladiatorial Wych cults of the Dark Eldar tend to wear skimpy clothing into combat. This serves a triple purpose: to evoke this trope (it is explicitly stated that one purpose of wearing skimpy clothes is to dare their opponents to hit them), to provide Fanservice for the crowds, and display their unscarred bodies as testament to their combat prowess. The higher up in the rankings you go, the less clothing you typically wear. | |
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Sam in The Magnificent Seven (2016) wears his shirt almost completely buttoned up for most of the film. When he's confronted with the villain, he opens it up revealing a scar from a noose - from when said villain raided his village and lynched him. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After yet another double-cross Buffy turns up at Spike's crypt determined to stake him once and for all. A pissed-off Spike rips off his shirt to expose his manly body and tells her to Get It Over With, whereupon they start making out passionately. Cue Daydream Surprise Catapult Nightmare as Spike realises he's fallen in love with his Arch-Nemesis. | |
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In Interview with the Vampire, Louis wins a hand of poker against a very temperamental opponent, who immediately accuses Louis of cheating and aims a pistol at his chest. Caught in a self-destructive downward spiral following the death of his wife and child, Louis opens his shirt and demands that the man follow through with his threat. Instead, he lowers his weapon and allows Louis to leave. | |
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In The Kill Point, at one point during negotiations, Mr. Wolf strips his shirt off in front of the bank to show that he's not afraid of getting shot. It also shows off his extensive war scars to the public, as he's cleverly using his military service to rouse support for himself and the other hostage takers. | |
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In the How I Met Your Mother episode "Bagpipes", during Robin and Barney's fight over dirty dishes, Barney hands Robin a (butter) knife and then rips his shirt open. | |
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