Basic Trope: A character's first appearance onscreen is without a stitch of clothing.
- Straight: Alice is naked in her debut episode.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice begins every episode she's in nude.
- Alice first appears naked and stays naked for several episodes until she's finally shown getting dressed.
- Alice is completely nude for the entire duration of the series.
- Downplayed:
- Alice first appears while getting dressed.
- Alice first appears in her underwear.
- Justified:
- Alice is a nudist.
- Alice was just born this moment — she's a baby.
- Alice is being cloned. Her clones are naked because her clothes aren't part of her.
- Alice's species doesn't wear clothes and haven't had prior contact with Earth to know clothes are expected there.
- Alice's debut episode has her as an already-there background character in the sauna and has no interaction with Clarice, the focus character, outside the sauna itself.
- Inverted: Alice has no nudity taboo, and her first appearance is a rare case of her wearing clothes (presumably because it's kind of cold outside).
- Subverted: Alice first appears as a Sexy Silhouette. She appears naked, but she's just wearing skintight clothing.
- Double Subverted: But she takes it off and is naked coming out of the silhouette.
- Parodied: Charly and Bob sneak into Alice's home and find her au naturel. "Hey, nice outfit Alice!" But she responds: "This lame suit? I cannot stand it any longer, so I'll just get rid of it." Then she gets rips her "skin" to reveal a giant alien monster! "HOLY COW!"
- Zig-Zagged: Alice first appears as a nude silhouette. She's wearing skintight clothing, but takes it off and is naked coming out of the silhouette... but she's still "wearing" Body Paint.
- Averted: All characters are fully clothed on their introduction.
- Lampshaded: "As if you haven't seen yourself with this look before. Yeesh! Just throw me a jacket or something, shall you?"
- Invoked: Alice has Medium Awareness and wants to be remembered.
- Exploited: Alice milks endless favours out of Bob by saying she did him a huge favour by being naked at their first meeting, giving him something he must have really wanted.
- Defied: Alice has Medium Awareness, and when the camera turns to her shower, she says "Nuh-uh! You are not meeting me this way!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "The problem with first impressions is that you only can have one." "Say what you want about it bro, but that's a hell of a first impression!"
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alice is introduced this way because Naked People Are Funny.
- Played for Drama: Alice is introduced staring at herself in the mirror, disgusted by her body.
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