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* In the ''[[Tales (series)]]'', it's ''more'' surprising when a character wears actual functional armour, regardless of gender. Nanaly Fletch (''[[Tales of Destiny|Tales Of Destiny 2]]'') and Judith (''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'') fit this trope to the letter. But the ultimate grand prize goes to [http://images.wikia.com/aselia/images/6/63/Rondoline.jpg Ronodline E. Effenberg]{{Dead link}} from ''[[Tales of the World|Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon X]]'', who bears the most skin out of any (human) ''[[Tales (series)]]'' character, managing to wear ''nothing'' that could accurately be described as "protection".

** Made even more laughable with Judith, who wears a full suit of androdynous armour when the party first meets her, but then changes into her Chainmail Bikini for the rest of the game (unless given a different outfit). The extra costumes in the Japanese [[Play Station 3]] version also features actual bikinis for Judith, Rita and Estelle to wear into battle. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Battle swimwear]] is also available for Yuri, Raven and Karol.

* With a few exceptions, somewhere around half of the [[MMORPG]] ads on the web use/fall prey to this. Not that the other half are much better—they're just not wearing armor, period, leaving the only question a matter of how [[Stripperiffic]] the outfit in question is.

* With a few exceptions, somewhere around half of the [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ads on the web use/fall prey to this. Not that the other half are much better—they're just not wearing armor, period, leaving the only question a matter of how [[Stripperiffic]] the outfit in question is.

** Including, but not necessarily limited to: ''[[Flyff]]'', ''[[Perfect World]]'', ''[[Shaiya]]'', ''[[Last Chaos]]'', ''[[Legend Of Mir 3]]''.

* ''[[Rappelz]]''...this may actually count as a [[Lampshade Hanging]], since the ads go:

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* [http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/ This Tumblr], and its handy RSS feed, collects aversions of the trope and gives credit where it's due.

* [[Gronkh]] discussed this in an early [[Let's Play|Let's Test]]:

{{quote|Female characters in [[MMORPG]]s can be distinguished by the fact that the better their armour is, the more skin is [[Fan Service|shown]] [[Sex Sells|off]].}}

{{quote|Female characters in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s can be distinguished by the fact that the better their armour is, the more skin is [[Fan Service|shown]] [[Sex Sells|off]].}}

* This being the fount of jokes since RPG exists—when in doubt, [http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target92.html blame] [[Min-Maxing]].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140705184446/http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Skimpy-armor-for-dudes-289282243 ''Skimpy Armor for Dudes''] by humon very much averts this trope. The only woman is completely covered up. The nearly naked man is posing for the camera, and the others are no more dressed. Of course, humon mentions that everyone, male and female, would wear barely anything in the society she had created for that, so who knows where else the woman came from.