Chainmail Bikini: Difference between revisions

* This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7jkygJ_QNo Pepsi Ad] featuring [[Britney Spears]], [[Beyonce]], [[Pink]], and [[Enrique Iglesias]] in a[[Gladiator gladiatorial eventGames]].

:* The trope is further referenced with regard to Watchwomen in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]!'' when a skimpy skirt and papier-mache armor outfit is found in a collection of stripper costumes. The stripper explains that sometimes men like to see [[Fair Cop|a pretty girl in armor]]. Angua is confused, as men never seem happy to see ''her''.

:** Previously, the introduction of a barbarian heroine in ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'' caused the narrator to muse, "Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one's shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, thighboots and naked blades," before acknowledging that, like the later female members of the Watch, she was wearing sensible chainmail. (The cover artist in question, Josh Kirby, always drew ''Discworld'' heroines to fit the trope anyway, because it's Traditional.) The TV adaptation {{spoiler|does invoke the trope not only with the barbarian heroine ''and'' an earlier character who Rincewind has to fight (although Liessa Dragonrider actually wears ''less'' in the book)}}. Well, it'd be humanly impossible for {{spoiler|Liessa}} to be wearing ''less'' than she was in the book. Not because of the [[Moral Guardians]], but because the average ''pet dog'' is wearing more than {{spoiler|Liessa}}.

:* The skinny, flat-chested witch Magrat, on the other hand, [[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|borrows the fearsomely bosomy breastplate of the mythical Queen Ynci the Terrible to go and battle elves]], and as a result ends up much more fearsome herself. Because no one told her it's just a decorative "remake" [[Cold Iron|made from a washbasin]]—it ''looks'' impressive.

:* There's also Vena the Raven Haired in ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', a ''[[Xena]]'' pastiche who, like Cohen, is pushing retirement age... and still wears her old form fitting adventuring outfit.

:* It's made a bit more practical in ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' with the advent of "micromail", chainmail made from many, many small links that, as is [[Running Gag|repeatedly stated]], doesn't chafe... and it's later demonstrated that a pair of boxer shorts made from the stuff can ''literally deflect a blow from a sledgehammer''.

* Female Klingon warriors in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' wear the same armor as the males, except with a noticeable hole[[Cleavage Window]]. (Kleavage).

* Lampooned in the [[DeviantARTDeviantArt]] comic [https://www.deviantart.com/themaskofafox/art/Female-Fantasy-Armour-Gender-Bender-497930442 seen here] (NSFW) When the male warrior (who has plate armor) claims the female battle-mage's Chainmail Bikini is "perfect" for someone like her, she uses a [[Gender Bender]] curse to [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|see how ''he'' likes it]]. As the second part shows, the [[Second Law of Gender Bending]] is indeed Inverted completely.

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