• There was a Wisk Plus laundry detergent ad a while back that had a woman magically teleport the clothes off of a bunch of hunky construction worker types, leaving them in their underwear. Naturally, one guy had bunny rabbit print undies, leading to this memorable exchange at the end of the ad:
  First Guy: You got bunnies on your shorts?
  Second Guy: [archly] Killer bunnies.

Childish women's underwear

• An ad for Carls, Jr. hamburgers shows a Turkish beauty queen walking out onto a hotel pool area. She strips off her gown and sash, leaving herself in nothing but a bikini swimsuit illustrated with little cartoons of the burger she's advertising, which looks like childish underwear when viewed from a distance. One mother covers the eyes of her little son, but whether this is Deliberate Values Dissonance or because the bikini looks like silly underwear cannot be determined.
• For one of Metlink's "Fare Evasion Karma" poster, it depicted a lady who was walking with her skirt tucked in her underwear, unaware. Such underwear was depicted as white and adorned with hearts.
• The girl in this Levi’s commercial gets caught trying to steal a guy’s wallet, so he steals her skirt in return. She’s revealed to be wearing pink panties with a teddy bear on them, which he reacts to by giving her a flirtatious grin, which she surprisingly reciprocates, unlike a random girl who witnessed the whole thing and just reacts with an annoyed gesture.

• In Happy Friends, Big M. is shown on a few occasions to be wearing underwear with a heart pattern on it.
• Lamput:
  • In "Airport", one of the items in the docs' suitcase is a pair of underwear with a heart-pattern print on them.
  • In "Fashion Show", the Fashion Show model who has her dress ripped off her has heart-print underwear.
• Simple Samosa: In "Chhote Rajaji", we get to see Cham Cham's shorts, which have a heart-print pattern on them and are marked with his name.

• Savage Dragon: The Dragon has been known to wear print◊ boxers◊, including the classic hearts.◊
• Wolverine: Wolverine was shown wearing such underpants when he tried to go through airport security, but his adamantium skeleton kept setting off the metal detectors.

Other-print boxers

• Batman: The Riddler apparently has green question-mark print boxers.
• Deadpool: Deadpool is occasionally seen in boxers with his logo (a stylized version of his mask) on them.
  • He's also occasionally seen in boxers featuring other heroes' logos, including Captain America. One gag featured him upset that his Squirrel Girl Underoos(TM) were improperly washed. That's right, Squirrel Girl. Might explain why she's so vicious towards him.
    • And to make matters even nuttier, that particular issue happened long before Deadpool even knew that Squirrel Girl even existed. Here at TV Tropes, we like to call this Foreshadowing.
  • His recent adventures take this to a whole new level of horrifying as he has acquired Jean "Marvel Girl" Grey's original costume, complete with tiny yellow panties. An attempt to impress some ladies by stripping down reveals that he wears these when his other clothes are being laundered.
• David Qin from Strangers in Paradise also had a pair with teddy bear print. They were a gift.
• A Doctor Who Magazine comic strip featured the Eighth Doctor jumping through various Elseworlds. In the one where he was an ordinary human in a relationship with Dr Grace, the one Doctor-ish touch was the question-mark print boxers.
• Spider-Man In the Spider-Man (1990) story arc "Perceptions", Peter wore Felix the Cat boxers.◊ (Artist Todd McFarlaine often slipped Felix into the background art, and in this story, where a character actually commented on it, he was scripting the story as well.)
• Supergirl (Wednesday Comics): One mailman who gets his pants ripped off by Krypto the Superdog wears white boxer shorts with little red hearts.
• Superman: In a story where Mr Mxyzptlk had taken over Metropolis and Superman and Lex Luthor were in an Enemy Mine situation, they attempt to infiltrate "Mxcorp" disguised as guards. Mxy waves a hand to remove their uniforms leaving them in boxers. Supes' were blue with an S-shield pattern, and Lex had green with "L"s. (It seems likely Mxy added this touch For the Lulz.)
• The cover of the 2000 AD Free Comic Book Day 2014 issue is a parody of the famous image from The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #50 ("Spider-Man No More!") in which Pete in street clothes walks away from a bin with his Spidey-suit in it. On this cover Judge Dredd is walking away from a re-syk bin containing his Judge uniform, while wearing nothing except boxers printed with his badge.

Other men's underwear

• The Flash: Wally West once ran around in fruity◊ briefs◊ under mind control.
• Rocket Raccoon: In Rocket Raccoon 2016 #5, while fighting Kraven the Hunter, Rocket pulls open Kraven's tights to throw a flashbang inside, revealing his pink heart-print briefs.
  • Additionally, in the previous two comics of that arc, Rocket ran around New York City in nothing but his tighty-whiteys and gloves.
• Mr. Beaver is seen wearing light purple briefs with little white hearts in the second issue.

Childish women's underwear

• Atomic Robo: When a trio of action scientists had to strip before a tribe of rock people, we see the female one's panties have a cartoon bear head on them.
• Batwoman: Evidently, Kate Kane has a pair of planet-printed briefs.
• Empowered: Empowered owns a pair of Capitan Rivet-printed panties. And the matching t-shirt.
• Harley Quinn: A Running Gag in the Amanda Conner/Jim Palmiotti era is Harley's tendency to wear colourful underwear with fun prints. Once or twice, her girlfriend Poison Ivy is shown similarly.
• Power Girl: Another Conner/Palmiotti example would also be in the pages of their Power Girl 2007 run, where Peeg's sidekick, Terra, once had to help with some superheroing while on a day out, but lacking her costume, she just stripped to her underwear, which had a cartoon ladybug printed on the butt.
• Secret Six: Scandal Savage has a pair of polka dot boyshorts. Ragdoll, meanwhile, has yellow footie pajamas, complete with buttflap.

• Most of the male characters of Pluggers have been shown in these at least once.

Other-print boxers

• One arc of Breaking Cat News features the cats at the vet. During their exams, they're in underwear. Sweet-natured Puck, of course, wears white boxers with red hearts.
  • Elvis also wears heart-printed boxers in one strip because he thinks it's too hot to wear pants.
• Jon Arbuckle from Garfield's wardrobe of underwear consists entirely of brightly colored (and patterned) boxers.
  • Including a pair that glows in the dark.
    • One strip from the mid-90s also features Jon getting caught outside the house one morning while wearing his bunny footy pajamas.
• Not sure if this counts as newspaper comics, but this◊ WWII propaganda poster shows Hitler wearing boxers with swastikas on them.
• In Zits Jeremy's dad wears heart boxers.

Other men's underwear

• Calvin's rocketship briefs, used for gags at least three times.
  • Somewhat subverted in that he's actually very proud of them, and (being Calvin) is implied to show them off any chance he gets.
    • Except on the day where he rips his pants and then has to do a problem on the chalkboard, though this may be due to his Ping Pong Naïveté.
  • He finds it hard to be without his cartoon underpants, having a need to gird his loins with funny animals.
  • In a Sunday Strip drawn as one of Susie's fantasies where Calvin and Susie are an adult couple, Calvin tells Susie he's not her husband but "Wonga-Taa, king of jungle" and strips off his suit until he's wearing only leopard-print briefs. Susie's reaction: "Oh, nice underpants! You're really gross."
• FoxTrot's Jason wears Unix underpants, as revealed on February 22, 2013.

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• Broom Hilda often has an accidental dress lift that reveals a rather nautical set of boxers.
  • Sometimes, the letters USMC can be seen near the hem.
• Skye, from Doonesbury, tries to prove she isn’t evil by mentioning she wears Hello Kitty underwear.
• After Tiffany recorded a video of Luann changing in the locker room to use as blackmail material, Luann wished she hadn't been wearing her Pooh bear underwear.

• In The AFR Universe story "the King of Thieves", the Phantom Thieves are playing the King's Gang. One of the dares leaves Yusuke losing his pants. He's currently wearing boxer shorts modeled after the pelvic area of Michelangelo's David to Futaba's horror.
• In Courting a Malfoy Harry has boxers with Golden Snitches on them.
• In The Debate Cormac is wearing nothing but My Little Pony underpants when he's dragged out by bouncers for slapping a prostitute.
• In EFF'ING The Tournament a Blast-Ended Skrewt tears off the bottom of Bagman's robe, revealing his blue boxers with animated yellow bunnies.
• Hank Stanley from Emergency! gets fire engine print boxers for Christmas from his wife here.
• In A Friend Indeed Harry has ivory boxers with maroon lions on them.
• In Harry Potter and the Book of Lost Souls Harry's accidental magic makes Dudley's trouser button pop off, revealing his Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle underpants.
• Harry has Snitch undies in Harry Potter and the Dream Come True.
• In Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin one of the seventh-year Slytherin prefects wears black boxers with green and silver snakes on them.
• In Hiding Sirius' portrait mentions a prank which turned a teenage Snape's clothing inside out, revealing his purple dinosaur undies.
• In Lies On L wears strawberry-print boxers.
• In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Mello has underwear with Ms on them. Dark has the same kind of underwear, except with Ds on them.
• Lincoln's Memories: Lincoln Loud's first underwear had UFOs on them.
• Almost every Death Note fanfic where Matt's underwear may be mentioned (most commonly Slash Fics of him and Mello), they'll be printed with something related to Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, The Legend of Zelda, etc.
• In the Gender Flip fanfic Nerima Magistra Nelly Magi, Asuma (the male version of Asuna) wears pink boxer shorts with teddy bears on them.
• Pokémon Crossing: Several chapters note Holly’s tacky boxers (namely, ones with cutesy Johto Pokémon on them like Mareep or Togepi).
• In Sacrifices and Second Chances an angry Marlene vanishes Sirius' pants, revealing his unicorn boxers.
• In Saying No Hermione compliments Seamus' Batman underwear.
• In Something Borrowed, Something Blue when Harry and Draco get married Harry's "something borrowed" is a pair of boxers Theo gave Draco as a gag gift. The undies in question sport hearts, rainbows and unicorns which state "I'm horny!".
• In This Bites!, when he gets his pants bitten off by the newly human Merry, Garp is revealed to wear fire-hydrant boxers.

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• Anger Management: Ronnie Anne wears bunny underwear.
• PotterPuffs Harry Potter fan art reveals Death Eater underwear, including Narcissa's hilarious HelloKitty panties◊.
• Lucy's Secret: Lucy wears Princess Pony undies, so she's embarrassed when Lori sees a discarded pair.
• In Kyon: Big Damn Hero Kimidori Emiri wears Trope-tan print underwear.
• PMD: Another Perspective: Strewn about in the clearing with Purry's bag is the clothing she was wearing when she entered the portal. Blazy holds up a pair of panties with a Meowth's face on them and starts asking what it is, only for Purry to snatch them away and hide them behind her back while blushing.
• In the This Time Round fic "Like Water for Adric" Bernice Summerfield wears pants printed with whisky bottles.

• Barbie as Rapunzel: When a Fat and Skinny duo of Prince Stefan's guards reports back to him after being scared away and burned by the dragon Hugo's fire, it's revealed that their armor got burnt off at their rear ends and their underwear's exposed. The fat guard wears the "white with red hearts" kind of boxers.
• Disney loves this:
  • Jasmine's suitor at the beginning of Disney's Aladdin. Odd, since the Sultan is holding a piece of heart fabric as though it's from the underwear, when in fact it should be from the pants that Rajah bit a hole in.
    • Also one of the guards during One Jump Ahead — not hearts, but white polka dots on pink background.
  • In Disney's Mulan, when the Comic Trio goes skinny-dipping, one of them drops his red hearts boxers on Mushu. (It seems the Ancient Chinese invented these, too.)
  • Pete in Disney's The Prince and the Pauper wears frilly heart print underpants.
  • In The Princess and the Frog, a hunter's red heart underwear is exposed after a gunshot narrowly misses his crotch.
  • In Alice in Wonderland, when the Queen of Hearts falls over, her bloomers have, as you'd expect, red hearts on them.
  • Ken from Toy Story 3
  • In the Peter Pan sequel Return to Never Land, a huge octopus mistakes Captain Hook for a codfish, grabs him by his legs, and accidentally pulls off Hook's pants to reveal he wears heart print boxers underneath.
  • Randall Bogg's Start of Darkness during the final round of the Scare Games near the end of Monsters University is a non-comedic variation of the trope: Sulley's roar is so loud that this messes up Randall's attempt and lands on a rug behind the simulator robot and takes on this pattern, causing the other members of Roar Omega Roar to mock him and Randall to vow revenge on Sulley.
  Johnny Worthington III: Hearts?!
  Chet Alexander: Way to go, Boggs!
  (Randall changes back to his normal colors and angrily looks at Sulley)
  Randall: That's the last time I lose to you, Sullivan...

Other-print boxers

• The Aristocats: Edgar the butler is revealed to be wearing red and white striped boxers twice in the film: when he overhears Madame discussing her will with her lawyer, and when a huge chunk of his pants is torn off by a pair of dogs.
• Belle's father Maurice accidentally pulls down his pants and is wearing pink polka-dotted underwear when we first see him in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
• Despicable Me 1: Gru's underwear has polka smileys.
• In An Extremely Goofy Movie, Goofy embarrasses Max while shopping for clothes by proudly showing off red boxers with Mickey Mouse prints on them.
• A scene in Monster Mash (2000) reveals that Drac wears black boxer shorts with red bats on them after Mrs. Tinklemeister accidentally vacuums his clothes off.
• In The Nightmare Before Christmas, as Lock, Shock, and Barrel stuff "Sandy Claws" down the pipe that leads to Oogie Boogie's lair, Santa is shown to be wearing mistletoe boxer shorts under his robe.
• Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy: Shaggy's underwear has junk food prints.
• Linguini from Ratatouille is revealed to be wearing Incredibles print boxers during the scene where he is trying to hide Remy the rat from the other chefs.
• Rio: As Marcel is parachuting down with his henchmen hanging onto his legs, his pants come down showing his underwear is blue with ducks on them.
• In Rugrats in Paris, one of the ninja security guards is wearing red smiley face boxers when he loses his pants to the green goo.
• In The Thief and the Cobbler, Zigzag is wearing pink boxers with purple stylized "Z"s under his robe when he launches himself up through the floor of the throne room.

Other men's underwear

• Fantastic Mr. Fox: Ash wears printed briefs.
• Patrick Star was embarrassed when he was revealed to be wearing underwear with "Goofy Goober" dancing peanut print in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. During the "Now That We're Men" musical number, his pants are ripped off for one verse, revealing that he's now wearing whites as a sign of adulthood.

Childish women's underwear

• In Disney's Robin Hood (1973) when Lady Kluck is beating up Prince John's guards, one of them grabs her waist and pulls. Her bottom half slides down, revealing purple polka-dot underwear◊.
• Rita from Flushed Away is revealed to have blue-and-white striped boxers during the scene where Roddy accidentally pulls down her pants while escaping from the Toad and his henchrats while using the sewer gate's main cable as a zipline. Rita then proceeds to use said cable as a belt shortly after escaping.
• In Rugrats in Paris, Coco LaBouche loses the back of her dress revealing purple underwear with green hearts and pink S's which are supposedly dollar signs.

• The pimp at the beginning of the 1977 exploitation flick Fight For Your Life is shown to be wearing loveheart boxers after Kane and his buddies steal his car and his clothes.
• Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon 4; when directed by Riggs to strip to his boxer shorts to distract a madman wielding a flamethrower, Riggs asks with a laugh "Are those little hearts?"

Other-print boxers

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Aleksei Systevich wears boxers with rhino faces (appropriately enough).
• In the 1933 short film Beauty and the Bus, a theatre manager is revealed to be wearing flamboyantly dappled boxer shorts when Patsy Kelly accidentally rips his trousers clean off in the process of slipping and falling off the stairs to the stage.
• Just standard striped boxers but played for laughs in Help! when Ringo is strapped into a Mad Scientist molecule-enlarging machine to remove a stubborn ring. All his other rings but that one drop off, then his zipper undoes itself and his trousers drop.
• In the George Lucas film version of Howard the Duck, the title character was strip-searched by police, exposing a pair of red boxers with white polka dots.
• Christopher Lambert's character in The Hunted (1995) wears boxers dotted with cute little pigs, which his lover finds rather amusing.
  Paul: Yeah... I like piggies.
• National Lampoon's Men in White: Ed is seen wearing Mighty Morphin' underwear when he and Ed are about to be vivisected.
• The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure: Toofie's underwear is blue with bunnies on them. Understandable, since the main characters are children...
• During the S Club film Seeing Double, the band escapes from some guard dogs. One succeeds in ripping a hole in the seat of Bradley's trousers, revealing white boxers with red clover print.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day: When the T-800 enters the biker bar, everyone stares. In-universe, it's because it was Naked on Arrival. During filming, Arnold Schwarzenegger was wearing these to get the desired reactions from the extras.
• Transformers:
  • In what may have been intended as a Shout-Out, Sam Witwicky (played by Shia LaBeouf) is revealed to be wearing blue boxers with transformers on them when Frenzy attacks a terrified Sam and pulls off his pants.
  • Agent Simmons (played by John Turturro) found himself handcuffed to a lightpole wearing some gaudy tropical boxers. Mikaela scoffs at that; the agent is too busy plotting revenge to be embarrassed.
  • It's certainly far better than what he wears in the sequel.

Other men's underwear

• Austin Powers uses his Union Jack brief-clad buttocks to overload the Fembots. Well, what else would he wear?
• Roll Bounce: Junior is shown to have a pair of nighttime sky themed purple briefs with white stars when he is pantsed at the Sweetwater Roller Rink.
• A variation in The Sicilian. Duchess Camilla is forcibly stripping off the bandit Giuliano, but starts laughing when she finds the feared outlaw is wearing US Army issue underpants. Giuliano snarks that she must have seen a lot of them, which she doesn't deny.

Childish women's underwear

• Not so much childish as actually children's underwear in Charlie's Angels (2000), as Cameron Diaz's character was wearing Spider-Man Underoos.
• In Dude, Where's My Car? the heroes are menaced by a giant alien woman... wearing pink bunny panties.
• In Nerve, Vee is wearing panties with a cartoon panda face on the butt. When she strips down to her underwear to change into the fancy dress, one of the watchers comments on this and wonders how old she is.
• In the The Nanny Diaries, Annie Braddock is pantsed by the kid she's babysitting revealing her bright pink panties with dog print on them.
• In Nikita, Nikita wears a childish cherry-print underpants/bra set, contrasting with her dangerous mission and demonstrating her continued connection to her old life.
• In Disney's Christmas movie Noelle, the titular Noelle, played by Anna Kendrick mentions in a festive fashion that she needs her partridge in a pear tree underwear to be cleaned.
• In X, Lorraine wears a pair of Sunday "day-of-the-week" underwear demonstrating her innocence, naivety, and possibly virginity.
• In LOL, Ashley Hinshaw’s character is shown wearing a pair of light blue panties with multi-colored flower prints on them, bought by her strict mother, which Lina Esco’s character teases her about, mistaking the flowers for Care Bears.

Other women's underwear

• In Anger Management (the movie, not the TV series), there is a scene in which Heather Graham has a cameo as a beautiful but psychotic woman. She invites Adam Sandler into her home (Sandler's therapist, played by Jack Nicholson, has set this all up, but that's not known at the time) and attempts to seduce him by appearing in nothing but Boston Red Sox fan lingerie (with the bra cups resembling baseballs) and then starting to peel off the bra. Sandler nervously tells her to stop (he has a girlfriend), but this causes the woman to assume he thinks she's fat and to very slowly have a nervous breakdown, culminating in her screaming at him, throwing a chocolate cake in his face, and throwing him out into the rain.
• Are You Being Served?:
  • Mrs. Slocombe's bloomers have the Union Jack printed on them:
    Mrs. Slocombe: Ooh, I 'ope I 'aven't forgotten me passport.
    Mr. Harman: Don't worry, if you show that lot at customs what you're showin' us, I'm sure they'll know you're British.
  • Conchita wears knickers that say "OLÉ!" on them.

• In Chronicles of a Strange Kingdom the jester Jacques wears knee-long underpants with red hearts and yellow daisies, and the Perpetual Frowner assassin Cantor wears brightly striped ones. Both give their friend Olga fits of hysterical laughter.^note Granted, she saw Cantor's underpants while intoxicated, and she discussed it with Jacques while recovering from drug overdose. When the jester tells about it to King Shellar (who always wears black), the king deadpans that the assassin kills people with laughter by showing them his underwear.
• In the Quebecois novel Le Dernier Des Raisins, Francois's are pink with elephants.
• In one of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels, one of the Doctor's companions has underpants with a carrot on the front. He's not especially embarrassed by them, but another of the Doctor's companions is embarrassed to see them.
• In Grave Peril, one of The Dresden Files books, Harry Dresden fought off vampires while wearing only yellow ducky boxers (especially amusing as he'd stolen them from the vampires' laundry room). It's since become a running joke in the fandom.
• From Life's Little Instruction Book:
  127. Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.
• In The Saga of Darren Shan, Gavner Purl has bright yellow boxers with tiny pink elephants (a gift from his girlfriend).

Childish women's underwear

• In Action Figures: Legacies, the new Manticore wears Hello Kitty underwear beneath their badass power armor.
• Kate Daniels once woke up in shapeshifters' HQ after severe injuries. When she gets out of the bed, she (and Curan) realize she's wearing underwear with pretty little bows. She has yet to live this down.
• When her dog Igor accidentally uses the X-ray projector on her in Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid, Franny K. Stein is shown to wear panties that have bats on them.
• In the Babysitters Little Sister books, Karen steals the underwear of a boy in her class off the clothesline and waves it around the classroom in an Escalating War of Jerkassness. He retaliates the next day by doing likewise to the Minnie Mouse underpants her grandmother bought for her.
• When the Monkey King came to Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe, he raided panties from every girls' dorm there. Some of the trophies included teddy bear panties, and a pair of My Little Pony panties that he left on the flagpole. Rumor has it they belong to Dragonrider, the daughter of supervillain Devilmaster.

• Abed wore such boxer briefs on Community in anticipation of being pantsed by Troy when he pantsed him.
• Booth had these on a Bones episode once.
• Cory in the House: After the titular Cory gets stuck in the ceiling, Newt tries to pull him loose by his legs, only to pull down his underwear…just as Meena is arriving with Sophie and her Sunshine Girls trope.
• In The Dick Van Dyke Show episode The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail, Buddy Sorrell changes in the warden's office and reveals a pair of heart-print boxers, making one of the convicts jealous. Apparently they're all issued plain underwear, and he fantasizes about getting a polka dot pair for himself when he gets out.
• Świat według Kiepskich: In the episode "Kotłowy" Ferdek, in order to avoid working in the hospital boiler room, stretches out white boxers with red hearts for Paździoch while wearing them over his pajama pants.
• Quantum Leap: in the episode "Temptation Eyes", Sam meets a psychic who can see him as himself; they embark on a kind of holiday romance. When Al stops by, Sam gets out of bed to reveal heart-print boxers, which Al proceeds to mock (partly that he's wearing underwear at all). They were a Valentine's gift.

Other-print boxers

• Poor Zack Martin from Suite Life... He once did a load of laundry with candy in his pocket and it turned his underwear multi color. Which is lampshaded when Maya notices.
  Maya: It takes a man to wear rainbow underpants.
  Zack: They were white til' I did a load of laundry with candy in my pocket.
  • His brother Cody goes through this in the pilot for On Deck. When he gets stuck halfway in a porthole window, his friends try to pull him out by his pants, only to pull them down and expose his underwear with Share Bears on them.
• On an episode of The Big Bang Theory Howard talks the gang into going to a bar to pick up women. They all change out of their standard superhero-symbol boxers ... just in case.
• On Chuck, super tough NSA agent Casey got caught wearing ones with lucky red clovers all over them [he's handcuffed to a headboard at the time]. "It's like Prague again, eh Casey?" In one of the Chuck comics, he has a Hawaiian print pair!
• On Cougar Town, financial manager Andy Torres, who is about to meet with an important potential client, demonstrates that he is wearing his "lucky" boxer shorts by pulling them up to show the "wiener dogs and balloons" pattern.
• In the Monty Python sketch "How to identify different parts of the body", a recurring theme is the identification of "Naughty Bits" — shown as white boxers with red polka-dots. Recurrences include "the naughty bits of a horse" — a horse wearing similar boxers, "the naughty bits of a lady" — a woman wearing boxers and a particularly modest bra in the same pattern, and "the naughty bits of a cabinet minister" — picture of a cabinet minister with polka dot boxers superimposed on top of his clothes.
• A hilarious moment in the popular season 1 episode of Veronica Mars, "An Echolls Family Christmas", features several poker players stripped down to their boxers. Duncan and Logan were wearing identical ones (blue with reindeer heads).
• In his 60th anniversary special, Mickey Mouse was stripped to a pair of boxers with orange polka dots by an angry wizard. (Mickey had "borrowed" some of this wizard's magic to impress the crowd gathered at the celebration).
• iCarly: Spencer with his duck pajamas. Then his duck boxer shorts. Sam and her "I love Las Vegas" underwear. Freddie's anti-bacterial underwear would be related to this trope somehow.
• Black Hole High revealed Stu Kubiak to be wearing white boxers with red polka-dots on them under his gym shorts when the usually shy Lucas Randall tore them off him in gym class in the episode "Genome". The rest of the class was amused, but Lucas's teacher sure wasn't.
• Survivorman had Scooby-Doo boxers, but it's unclear if he owns some, or it's just part of the "props of items average joes would most likely have if lost".
• Tim's union jack boxers make several appearances in The Goodies, most notably in "The End" and "Scoutrageous".
  • And in Saturday Night Grease he dons a pair of underpants that have a large carrot on them.
• Eiji Hino of Kamen Rider OOO seems to own nothing but boxers with loud, garish prints (and the rest of his outfits are just as bad). They're an Iconic Item for him, as he's The Drifter traveling the world with no real desires beyond having clean underwear for tomorrow.
• Booth had Christmas boxers in "The Man In The Fallout Shelter" on Bones.
• This was a Running Gag on BeetleBorgs. (Visual gags where someone's pants fell down - combined with goofy underwear - happened all the time on the show. For example, Count Fangula had ones with bats printed on them.)
• In the Doctor Who episode "The Zygon Invasion", a character notes that the Doctor used to wear question marks on his clothes. He replies that he still does. He just wears question mark underwear now. A comic with the Eighth Doctor, "The Glorious Dead", had a panel showing him wearing question mark boxers.
• In an episode of Mama's Family, Naomi buys Vince boxers with bananas on them. ("Lord, where'd you get those, Banana Republic?" snarked Mama.)
• In the Australian viewer feedback series BackChat, a correspondent speculated that host Tim Bowden was actually a puppet operated by someone off-screen. To prove otherwise the suit-and-tie wearing Tim had the camera pan downwards, showing his bottom half was only covered in striped boxer shorts (a Take That! to the ABC's cheap set, which was the real reason Tim Bowden never got up and walked around a bit). Due to the Fan Disservice of Tim's knobbly knees, subsequent viewers requested he not do that again.
• For Pedro Pascal's turn as Inigo Montoya in Home Movie: The Princess Bride, he wears a reasonably accurate recreation of Inigo's costume, sans trousers- the camera cuts to him to reveal that he's wearing green tropical leaf-patterned boxers.

Other men's underwear

• One episode of Man vs. Wild revealed that Bear Grylls owns a pair of Union Jack briefs. (This may have been a set-up, though.)
• In a scene in That '70s Show parodying Psycho, Kelso drops his The Incredible Hulk briefs before getting into the shower.
• In Dead Like Me, Mason is shown multiple times wearing nothing but his Union Jack briefs. Which was enough for George to demand he moves out of her apartment.

Childish women's underwear

• On The Daily Show, Kristen Schaal promised to take off a piece of clothing for every sexist comment made by the news media. At first she tried to stop after just taking off her earrings and coat, but Jon Stewart pointed out they had a lot more clips, and she ended up standing in nothing but her Wonder Woman underoos.
• On My Wife and Kids, when Michael and Junior were renovating the garage with Franklin, Franklin stoops down, revealing the pink panties Kady (his girlfriend) gave him. Michael and Junior go on to admit that they got the same gift from their significant others.
• Not underwear per se since its part of a full body suit but Akibablue has a teddy bear print across her buttocks underneath her outfit's skirt which is clearly meant to evoke this trope.
• Daisy Wick owns multiple pairs of "day of the week" panties in Bones. She first shows off her "Monday" pair in the first episode of the sixth season (to distract a bunch of men who were threatening her and Brennan), and the "Tuesday" pair was seen draped over the couch a few episodes later, when Booth and Brennan walked in on Wick and Sweets mid-coitus.
• Frankie Heck has a pair of pink panties that say "I'd Hit That" in the The Middle. She loses her pants in the gym due to a treadmill fail.
• Mr. Bean: The woman's underwear when her skirt flies upwards in Back to School Mr Bean has this kind of design.
• In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy pulls down her pants to reveal her colorful heart undies to make an example that embarrassing stuff happens to everyone.
• Although the pair is never shown, Britta Perry from Community is revealed to be wearing Hello Kitty underpants during Season 1, something that clashes with her presentation as a mature, no-nonsense woman.
• In an episode of M*A*S*H, a local who does laundry for some of the soldiers refers to Major Margaret Houlihan as "lady with tiger skin underwear".

• One of the photos in the lyric booklet for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Mandatory Fun" depicts him in a military uniform with his pants down, exposing his heart boxers.

• Near the end of Mercedes Lackey's song "The Oklahoma Weed-Whacker Massacre," about a man whose mind snaps under the pressure of competitive lawn maintenance, leading him to run around slicing people's clothing off with his weed-whacker:
  Next thing you come to see,
  Well, there's Tulsa County Sheriff,
  Standin' there in front of God and CBS and who knows who,
  Wearin' nothin' but his boots
  And the belt that held his pistol
  And his TV Tummy-Toner
  And his best Smurf boxer shorts.

• In the music video for Music/Sublime's "Smoke Two Joins", the main stoner girl pantses a cop who wears briefs with doughnut-print.

• In the music video for Theory of a Deadman's Bad Girlfriend, the titular bad girlfriend wears brief panties with "Bad Girlfriend" written across the back.
• In the music video for Pistol Annies' ''Hush Hush", Ashley Monroe flips up her skirt to reveal her frilly pink bloomers which read "Hippie" across the back, which is played for laughs and tongue-in-cheek rebellion at a church potluck gathering.
• The cover for Amanda Palmer's ''Amanda Goes Down Under" depicts Palmer wearing boyshorts depicting the Australian flag.

• In Scared Stiff, the Stiff In The Coffin is revealed to be wearing boxers with little hearts on them.

• This happens a lot in pro wrestling, mostly for comedic effect:

• TNA wrestler Eric Young stripped down to a pair of SpongeBob boxers during one PPV, and beat amazingly well-endowed valet Traci Brooks in a bikini contest.
• At one point in the WWE, proud Canadian Lance Storm was pantsed, revealing that he wore Power Rangers underwear.

Other men's underwear

• Jim Cornette was in the wrestling business for decades, and over those many years his pants would occasionally snag to due his own missteps, the actions of another worker or even attacks from enraged fans. Whatever the occasion, he would ALWAYS be wearing some ugly pattern on his underwear. Sometimes they were handmade, by Cornette himself, as he later revealed stores didn't always have something stupid enough to wear, literally turning this trope into an art form in of itself.
• In a Tuxedo Match, Santino Marella stripped Ricardo Rodriguez, Alberto Del Rio's manservant, down to a pair of white briefs with a silhouetted image of Del Rio's face on the seat, in a WWE moment that was definitely not disturbing at all.

Childish women's underwear

• Stacy Keibler wore a ridiculously frilly pair of pink panties when she, Jackie Gayda, Sable, and Torrie Wilson competed in a Lingerie Match at WrestleMania XX.
• Once, when she was a member of Right to Censor, Ivory was stripped down by several other Divas to her polka-dot panties. Especially embarrassing because she had a reputation as a loud-mouthed, tomboyish Dark Action Girl.

• In the Spike Milligan episode of The Muppet Show, he drops his trousers twice: the first time his boxers have the Union Jack on them, the second time, the Stars and Stripes.

• The "Deadpool and chill" Marvel Legends figure is sculpted wearing boxers that have his usual logo turned into hearts.
• The Plumber Pants game by Creator/Hasbro, in which players load the plumber's belt with tools, leading to his pants falling and exposing his heart-print boxers.

• In Rewrite (2011), Kotarou gets a view of Chihaya's panties as he saves her from being stuck in a tree (It's a long story...). After that, "cherries" is not a good word for him to say around her.
• In Little Busters!, Rikki accidentally sees Komari's panties while helping to free her from a water tank on the school roof. At first he isn't sure if the animal represented is an anteater or armadillo, and when Komari finds out he saw her she wails that now she won't be able to get a bride (not be a bride, ''get'' one).
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney:
  • Trucy Wright's "magic panties" are blue with red hearts.
  • Plum's are huge bloomers with her namesake flower on them.
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
  • School Mode offers up one of the student's underwear as a prize for earning that character's ending. In here it's revealed that Hifumi wears a pair of colorful briefs modeled around a Super Robot Humongous Mecha from one of his favorite anime, which was a subject of Chapter 3 in the main story (that includes both the robot and the underwear).
  • The art book reveals that Makoto (who, as the protagonist, can't receive a School Mode Ending) wears white undershorts with a pattern of yellow stars covering them.
• In the H-Game Kimihagu, Emily wears white briefs that have blue/pink hearts and the words "Sweet Baby" all over on them. At an earlier point in the game, she wears pink panties with a Tanuki face on the front.
• In ClockUp's Euphoria, Rika wears yellow panties with pink hearts on them.

• In the Chimney Chickens episode Date Envy, Blaze photocopies his white-with-red-hearts underpants as an Infraction Distraction trying not to get caught photocopying student records.
• In the Happy Tree Friends episode "Gems the Breaks", Splendid is seen wearing these under his hazmat suit when he gets pantsed.

Other-print boxers

• Dayum:
  • Brody, the Family-Friendly Stripper from “Types of Friends Portrayed by Minecraft”, wears white underpants with red polka-dots.
  • Jerry from “Types of Kids at Sleepovers Portrayed by Minecraft” also wears white underpants with red polka-dots.
• In the Cartoon Hooligans episode "The Rumors About Spider-Man and Deadpool", Spider-Man is revealed to be wearing​ underwear with polka dots.
• In Homestar Runner, somebody once sent in a photograph of their Stinkoman underwear.
  • Strong Bad's underwear apparently has lipstick marks on it, but if they were received from actual kisses... well, let's just say he really is a ladies' man.

• These seem to be Chuy's underpants of choice in Girly.
• In this Nodwick comic, Artax gets busted for not wearing guild-approved midnight blue underwear with stars and moons. He owns at least one set of pink with hearts.
• A very rare female example: Fuschia in Pastel Defender Heliotrope.
• Captain Phi of the Royal Guard has some nice ones in Exiern.
• Freefall: Kornada's boxers, shown when Sam swipes his clothes to use as a disguise for Florence.
• Sandra and Woo involved this trope. When Ralph's pants get sliced off by Cloud, the last panel shows him in his heart boxers.
• In the very first panel of Allen the Alien, Allen wears this type of boxers.
• Hero wears these in RPG World (as seen when he opens his inventory).
• Burk in the now defunct A Path to Greater Good, as seen whenever he loses his pants.
• Cucumber Quest's Commander Caboodle has pink boxers with I Heart Justice printed on them.
• Curtailed's Fox wears heart-print boxers, and nothing else, to a job fair in this strip. According to the rant, the real-life Fox actually owns at least one pair of these.
• The title character of Tony Comics sometimes wears pink boxers with white hearts.

Other-Print boxers

• Apparently Professional Killer Black Monday Blues has a pair of boxer shorts that have a fish-pattern printed on them.
• This strip of Ghosts of the Future shows Silver wearing boxers with dinosaurs printed on them.
• Post-reboot, Burk in Hero Oh Hero is still losing his pants, but he now wears polka-dot boxers of various colors.
• In this Freefall strip, Sam comments mentally that the "Teddy bears in space" shorts he's wearing may not have been the best of clothing decisions..
• Girl Genius:
  • An omake shows that Gilgamesh apparently had "MAD" emblazoned on his boxers (in the world of GG, "Madboy" is slang for a Mad Scientist, which Gilgamesh certainly is).
  • There is also a Wulfenbach sigil, like on everything else.
  • In another week of omake, we find that Tarvek has "BAD" on his.
• Drecker from Adventurers! had dagger-print underwear.
• Mr. Mighty from Everyday Heroes has boxers with his logo.
• Questionable Content:
  • Marten has pink boxers with red polka dots.^note What he is doing there is explained a few strips earlier.
  • Angus has embarrassing drawers though we don't see them.
• Nerf NOW!!!!: Appropriately enough, the BLU Pyro sleeps in blue flame boxers.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Rocko Sasquatch in polka-dots (Bob needs Brain Bleach).
• In Blank It, Aric wears polka-dot boxers and Lemmo wears Space Invaders boxers.
• Here in +EV. Poker-themed, of course.
• Bill spends an extended scene of Fletcher Apts Chained to a Bed wearing only indigo polka-dot boxers.
• In Monster of the Week: The complete cartoon X-Files, Fox Mulder's boxers have Grey faces.
• Homestuck:
  • John wears boxers with a printed pattern of green slimer ghosts.
  • Pictured above is Terezi's scalemate boxers, overlapping with Childish Women's Underwear.
• Prezleek Comics: Prez has been shown wearing boxers with Quest Icon print and with yak print.

Other men's underwear

• Bennie in A Doemain of Our Own wears briefs with steaks and bacon print. When he discovers a rose on Sue's undies it inspires a classic pun.
• Axe Cop wears underwear with an animated picture of himself chopping off a bad guy's head. He really doesn't do anything halfway.
• The King of the Franks in Scandinavia and the World is shown wearing Hello Kitty print underwear.

Childish women's underwear

• The Wotch: Anne Onymous wears Wonder Woman Underoos.
• Angela in Punch an' Pie also has a set of Wonder Woman Underoos. It just belays her Womanchild personality.
• Somewhat common in Questionable Content', though usually off screen:
  • Marigold wears frilly Badtz-Maru panties.^note The author's LJ blog has the illustration for those interested.
  • Faye seems to have quite a collection. She would never wear leopard print underwear. Only jaguar print. Or monkeys. Or dancing alligators.
• In another Nerf NOW!!!! example, the RED Sniper is too distracted by Engie-Tan's strawberry panties to notice the BLU Pyro sneaking up behind him . . .
• Chloe in Eerie Cuties — pink, frilly, and with baby chicks. Probably not something you'd expect from a succubus. Then there are Doom Panties, with only one little skull with a bow for ornament, which probably elevates them to Happy Fun Ball status.
• Hatsuki of Moon Over June has a huge collection of these and often wears them around the house.
• Sandra and Woo: In one of the comics, Woo literally tears off Sandra's clothes, including her shirt. All that's left on her is her underwear with hearts on them.
• Marie of Sandra on the Rocks wears Super Mario Bros. "mushroom" lingerie. Well, she is a rather dedicated Girl Gamer.^note As in, calls her breasts after Super Mario characters.
• Baskets of Guts: Rikleeno's underpants are dotted with bourbon lilies.

• Channel Awesome: Dr. Insano is revealed to have a set of these when Linkara asks him why he's not wearing pants during the Warrior #4 review.
• In The Sims 3 version of My Immortal, "Snap" is wearing these when Ebony catches him and "Loopin" having sex with Dobby watching.
• Wild Life SMP: Discussed on Day 5, where the episode's gimmick revolves around Life SMP trivia Pop Quizzes. Thanks to Skizz being a Walking Shirtless Scene as a Red Life in Limited Life, one of the Trivia Bot questions for Day 5 asks about the colour of Skizz's underwear in that season, where one of the (incorrect) answer options is "white with hearts".^note They were solid red.

Other-print boxers

• When Danielbeast of lonelygirl15 is shown to be wearing "English flag underwear" (actually the Union Flag) in "Crazy Emo Chick", he protests that he hasn't had a chance to do laundry lately, so they were all he had to wear.
• In The Nostalgia Chick's "Least Awful Disney Sequels" review, she discusses a hypothetical Disney movie about Anne Frank. A Brick Joke in the credits adds "The Nazi's sidekick has a funny polka dot underwear joke!"

Childish women's underwear

• Shiro Luna is a let's player who draws OCs who are all women with very childish undies. They provide both fanservice and comic relief.

• Many stores carry "loungewear" with various patterns and designs licensed from cartoons, television, movies, or so on. However, finding boxer shorts with red hearts on them is surprisingly difficult, unless you're looking around Valentine's Day.
• Originally marketed by Fruit of the Loom there are Underoos, media themed underwear for children that has been popular since 1977.
  • There are now adult-sized Underoos, popular as a nostalgia item.
• This pair of boxers is labelled "home of the whopper."
• Don't forget your pink "I ♥ NY" boxers when going into combat◊.
• In a similar vein, panties with "Mind the Gap" printed on them are a popular London souvenir.
• This is a regular staple of Improv Everywhere's annual No Pants Subway Ride.
• There's an online shop called Me Undies which carries underwear for both men and women in cute goofy prints, as well as standard solid colors.
• "Lazy One" has an entire line of funny boxers with cartoon animals along with butt and fart jokes on the backside.
• At the weigh-in before the 2022 boxing match between strongmen Eddie Hall and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Eddie showed off his cheeky humor by stripping down in front of the camera to a pair of blue briefs decorated with yellow rubber duckies.
• Make sure you don't rip your pants when wearing goofy underwear as happened to this Reddit user, who happened to be wearing the cartoon classic pink heart boxers.