Badass Longcoat: Difference between revisions

* Claire Stanfield from ''[[Baccano!]]'', in the anime he wear it with button closed, in the Light Novels he wears it open.

* Jiro Mochizuki in [[Black Blood Brothers]] rocks a bright red one, like a lot of these examples. Doesn't fit [[Bring My Red Jacket]], though.

* Gai in ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' wears one as the leader of the Funeral Parlor group. {{spoiler|Shu takes it for himself and adds a [[Scarf of Asskicking]] after Gai dies.}}

* [http://ja.gram.pl/upl/blogi/98610/img_wpisy/2012_17/DarknessAoi.jpg Darkness Aoi] the closest thing that [[Ring X Mama]] has to a [[Big Bad]] is often wearing one.

* The first thing [[DC Nation|Travis Grey]] did upon pickpocketing a [[Green Lantern]] ring was create a costume for himself; black shirt, black leather pants, and one Badass Longcoat of black leather. The only green on him is his ring and Corps symbol. (This might be because Travis is blind). The ''second'' thing he did was start rounding up crack dealers and scaring the shit out of the local gangs.

* Kyon's greatcoat in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', [[In Medias Res|first in the prologue and gaining it about twenty chapters later]].

* Alim Surana in [[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns|this]] Dragon Age fanfic has one. It's made of suede and leather and is dyed black. He didn't originally have it, but the Warden Commander decided that,since Alim is the most powerful out of all of them, he should have an appropriately badass attire. He seems to have made it a habit of generating his own [[Dramatic Wind]] whenever he's in the center of attention too.

* Takeru Takaishi wears one of these in the ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]''.

* [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] in ''[[Wes Craven]]'s A New Nightmare'' is the first and only time he appeared in a long coat, in addition to the usual striped sweater.

* For another villainous example, ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2'''s Doctor Octopus wears a long coat and pairs it with [[Cool Shades]].

* From the ''[[Mutant Chronicles]]'' movie, Sgt. Mitch Hunter's incredibly shiny coat qualifies.

* Doc Brown in ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III,'' for his first appearance: shooting the rope hanging Marty, and forcing Buford Tannen and his gang to back down. He wears it for the remainder of the movie, and it does look badass, especially when he's enacting the Western archetype of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|leaping from car to car on a train he's about to hijack.]]

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Harry Dresden famously sports a duster. He's enchanted it to be bulletproof and knifeproof, so almost never goes anywhere without it - no matter how unfashionable it is. It's not, however, ''impact''-proof, as he notes on one occasion after being shoulder-checked by an enormous muscle-y brute, which demonstrates why it's an important measure but by no means a perfect one. He's gotten it to the point that the impact is spread out across his body, which any physics fanatic will tell you reduces the pressure of the impact. Though his shields do work better. It's also occasionally mentioned that before he was given the leather one, he wore a canvas duster.

* [[Colt Regan]] typically wears a black duster when on the job, mostly because it looks cool.

* John Taylor from Simon R. Green's ''[[Nightside]]'' series wears a long ''white'' coat. It even has a self-destruct in it, which sends it up in flames if it gets too far from his body. Green gave a reasonably plausible justification (let a significant personal possession get loose, and you're likely to have all sorts of magic nastiness come down on you), but the reader suspects he had tongue firmly in cheek while writing that one...

** John's probably kidding when he tells servants he'd prefer they not take his coat because he hasn't fed it recently. ''Probably''.

{{quote|'''John:''' Oh please, can we not do this, this time.

'''Sherlock:''' Do what?

'''John:''' Yeah you do. }}

** Unsurprisingly, the coat has become extremely sought-after, to the point where Belstaff reissued it after the series premiered (only for one season - it's now out of production, and still very much a fan favourite) and it is now being credited with [http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9026030/Its-elementary-lets-have-Holmess-coat.html bringing classic tweed coats back into fashion].

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Cypher The Fallen one, and indeed all "The Fallen" Dark Angels have taken to wear Badass Longcoats, in theory to hide their identity's. As they are seven to eight foot tall, and tend to wear said longcoats over their bulky Power Armour, its less than effective at hiding, but more than effective at showing off the Badass

** The Chaos Lord mad scientist Fabius Bile wears a long lab coat made from stitched-together human skins. If anything is the last word in badass evil mad scientist gear, it's that.

* The Imperial Trenchers in ''[[Mutant Chronicles]]'' universe are both specialized in trench warfare and wearing badass trenchcoats styled after the early 20th century British military (which they're a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]). [[Retired Badass]] Jake Kramer and [[The Stoic]] Cybertronic Overseer Cyril Dent also wear those.

* Crimson Viper from ''[[Street Fighter IV]]'' has a longcoat as her alternate costume. It's badass on its own, even before factoring in the taser gloves and flamethrower shoes.

* The more-or-less unknown protagonist of ''[[Red Steel]] 2''. All we know about him is that he wears a longcoat, and that he's chosen to take on the town of Caldera all by himself. And he wields a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] ''[[The Musketeer|and]]'' a [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]].

* Ricardo from ''[[Tales of Innocence]]'': black and double-breasted. What he wouldn't do for his [[Berserk Button|little brother]]...

* Albert Wesker in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles]]''. Both his spiffy black trench-coat and his entire tight-fitting outfit are completely [[Hell-Bent for Leather|made out of leather]]. He just [[Cool Shades|knows how to look cool]].

* Jerry Andrews of ''[[Coga Suro]]'' habitually wears the same dark grey coat throughout the comic's first run, even indoors, contrasting with the other cast members who usually wear t-shirts or similar. Slightly subverted in that he's the [[Smart Guy]] rather than a consistent badass.

* Donovan Deegan of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has a badass long coat...made even more badass in that said long coat is ''[[Real Men Wear Pink|pink.]]''

* Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, the [[Anti-Villain]] dictator of Europa in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. His is a greatcoat that serves to make his already imposing figure [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040105 more so]. An early version is shown [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030813 here]. It's sufficiently Badass that it makes him look imposing even [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040804 from the back, with a baby in a backpack.]

** His son Gilgamesh [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030314 does] a little bit of this too, though [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070328 doesn't quite have his father's knack for it]. But [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071121 he's] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071130 getting][http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080303 there.]

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Hard Drive, a villain from ''[[Swat Kats]]'', derived his data-hacking/teleporting/electrical powers from his "Surge Coat". Why not just a form-fitting data-suit or a backpack and goggles? Because the Surge Coat looks ''badass''.

* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''' villain Doctor Octopus pairs his long coat with goggles.

* Macbeth in ''[[Gargoyles]]''. It came in handy when he fought Goliath, as he was able to [[Giving Them the Strip|quickly slip out of it and escape the gargoyle's clutches]].