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This trope is found in many traditional [[Role -Playing Game|RPGs]] in the form of "cursed" equipment and weapons. Typically these items will be noticeably more powerful than equivalent gear found at that point in the game, but will almost always come at the price of having a really nasty side-effect(such as being randomly stunned or damaging yourself while fighting). Trying to unequip the item under normal circumstances WILL invoke this trope, greeting you with an ominous message about you being unable to remove it. Legitimately removing [[Clingy Costume|'''clingy costumes]]''' would usually require a special spell, item, or a paid service from an NPC to do so - sometimes at the [[Lost Forever|expense of that item]].

* [[Ranma One Half|Ranma½]] gets stuck in a cursed swimsuit, which will drag 'her' into the depths of the sea unless honestly complimented by a particular man.

* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] has a number of villains with this trope, such as the Rhino, the Scorpion, Dr. Octopus, Venom, Carnage, and the Molten Man.

* For a while, [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Tony Stark]] needed to wear his breastplate all the time (even under his civilian clothing) because it was the only thing stopping the shrapnel from reaching his heart.

** The [[Ultimate Marvel]] [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Iron Man]] has a genetic problem that requires him to constantly wear biotech armor all over his body.

* In [[The DCU]], the [[Legacy Character|various]] [[Freedom Fighters (Comic Bookcomics)|Human Bombs]] have to wear a suit at all times to keep from, well, exploding.

** As Nuke's power continues to grow, he has to wear a lead-lined suit to avoid irradiating everyone around him.

* The Witchblade in the ''[[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]]'' comics/series/film/anime is either a [[Clingy MacGuffin]] or a [[Clingy Costume]], depending on the situation.

* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029130101/http://www.johnnysaturn.com/2006/01/18/book-one-page-01/ Johnny Saturn]'' the arch-villain Tactical, who wears power armor, is forced to wear his armor all the time for life support and mobility support after he has a stroke.

* Without his ERG-suit, [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Wildfire]] is just a mass of anti-energy, shapeless and largely unable to interact with the rest of the world.

* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]''

* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', Darth Vader's bodysuit is also a life-support system.

* Occurs several times in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'':

** In [[Retcon|times past]], it was said that Khorne Berserkers' armour fused with their flesh, to the point that it would bleed when struck. It still provided protection from blows equivalent to the unmodified original suit though.

*** [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Dr Doom]]?

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the [[Evil Overlord|First And Forsaken Lion]] has been permanently welded into his armor for [[You Have Failed Me...|failing his]] [[Cosmic Horror|Neverborn]] master.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' (2nd Edition) has a nifty creature known as the Resplendent Cloaker. It's a land-based, parasitic ray that resembles, duh, a cloak and feeds, not on its host, but on its host's injuries. On the other hand, it leeches life energy from its host to mend its own injuries.

* The Big Daddies from ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'' are grafted into their diving suits.

* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', there's Positron -- whenPositron—when the game was first released, he was stuck in his anti-matter driven [[Powered Armor]] suit. He got better, but at the time, if his suit even caught a leak, [[Superpower Meltdown|he would have exploded]] with enough force to erase a metropolis from the map. In one comic, the [[Captain Ersatz|Batman-Ersatz]] Manticore actually manages to bluff several supervillains into fleeing by threatening to put one of his armor-piercing arrows through Positron's suit. It's revealed in the 'Origins of Power' story arc that his superpower is {{spoiler|that his body produces antimatter, which his suit collects and uses for power.}} When he was injured in the Rikti War prior to the release of the game, he lost control of that ability {{spoiler|and was continually producing antimatter}}, forcing him to remain enclosed in the suit. When he was regenerated after being defeated fighting {{spoiler|the Honoree}}, the process restored his control over his ability.

* The ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]] 2'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucfALLwaVgQ&feature=related trailer] shows how a Space Marine is made, including getting permanently sealed into his armor. In this particular instance it's because Tychus Findlay is indeed sealed in it {{spoiler|thanks to Arcturus Mengsk.}}. This isn't always the case, since they've shown characters who put it on and take it off (Raynor, for one). Moreover, while they have cybernetics there's no way to use the bathroom in one of those things.

* The Ghost People in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' add-on ''[[DLCDownloadable Content|Dead Money]]'' are trapped in their hazmat suits.

* In ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', Rocky wore a mithril chain shirt that had a minor curse on it (An apparently embarrasing message that was invisible to him.) Rocky couldn't remove his armor until he next levelled up and got [[RPG Mechanics Verse|another ]][[Dungeons and& Dragons|will save]] to shake the curse off.

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', the villainous Shadowspawn is really an alien parasite that grafts itself onto an innocent human being, who it then slowly digests. When it finishes eating its host, it moves on to another.

** [[Lex Luthor]] from ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' needed one of these after the kryptonite he carried around gave him cancer. He could take it off for short periods of time though.

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