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{{quote|''"Just whose idea was it to have this evil general running around wearing ''neon blue lipstick''? It's hard to look like a militaristic badass when you look like you just escaped from a production of ''Cabaret''! I kept wondering if his D&D alignment was [[Depraved Homosexual|Chaotic Fabulous!"]]''
The heroes have had it. They've been captured and tied up, and can only watch mutely and impotently as the [[Evil Overlord]]'s final plans unfold. The large, oversized doors at the far end of his cavernous control room swing open, and in walks the [[Big Bad]] himself in an ominous swirl of purple fog...
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Did the [[Evil Overlord]] suddenly ''forget'' that he was in a serious action-adventure and decide to play dress-up with a trunkful of his mother's old castoffs?
Uh-oh. It seems we have a
This trope comes into play whenever a villain decides to don an outrageous, over-the-top costume, usually replete with [[
It's not hard to see why this should happen. Villainy, as a profession, tends to attract [[Large Ham|flamboyant personality types]]. Still, this is no excuse for dressing up as a [[Depraved Homosexual|gothic drag queen]] during the least appropriate times, and no amount of [[Super Strength|inhuman strength]], [[Kick the Dog|dog-kicking]], or [[Magnificent Bastard]]-ness can restore a villain's menace once it's been undercut by a move like this, at least most of the time. (Unless the villain happens to be a [[Monster Clown]], and the over-the-top costume and makeup is part of his/her schtick.)
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Of course, it was also stated in the Evil Overlord List #29, which stated "I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion." Still, that's no excuse for not doing it ''well''.
Tends to happen a lot with [[Sissy Villain]]s and [[Agent Peacock]]s. May cross over with [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]] if the [[Mooks]] are victims, too.
A subset of [[Narm]]. Compare [[WTH Costuming Department]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* If you're a female villain or [[Monster of the Week]] in ''[[
* Not a costume, exactly, but [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|the ridiculously over-the-top]] "Blue Eyes White Dragon Jet" that Seto Kaiba flies in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' series has definitely got to qualify for this trope. It gets plenty of fun poked at it in the ''Abridged Version''.
** Though, to do it justice, in the Manga it was a fully-functional Fighter Jet just painted to look like Blue-Eyes. You wouldn't be laughing when you found out that it still had all of its weaponry.
* ''[[
** A CLAMP artbook shows that the [[Nice Hat]] could have been worse. the original version looked like nothing so much as a kite; the hat he does wear in the show is merely the base of the original.
*** CLAMP also designed an outfit for C.C. to go along with Lelouch and Suzaku's. It actually looks pretty good, so of course it's the one that doesn't show up in the series (though she does wear it in the final Picture Drama).
** For some, the overly fancy looking ornamental sword Lelouch carried, which to most looks like a plastic toy, was usually taken more seriously after {{spoiler|he got fatally skewered by it in the last episode}} while others have said that the sword actually ruined the aforementioned scene for them, sending it from [[Tear Jerker]] to [[Narm]] territory.
** Several Britannia nobles have hairstyles out of date by at least a hundred years, including the Emperor. The British [[British Courts|just really love wigs]].
* About half of the main villains in ''[[
** The Pillar Men wear nothing but loincloths and over-the-top Aztec accessories.
** Most villains would never be able to get away with half of the costumes Dio wears throughout Part 3. Also, his [[The Renfield|Renfield]], Vanilla Ice, has a sillier outfit.
** Diavolo borders on, but comes up just short of [[Villainous Crossdresser]].
** Pucci and Kira suffer from this the least, as Kira wears business suits and Pucci wears his priest outfit. The President in ''Steel Ball Run'' also averts this somewhat.
* After the first episode of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'''s second season (or after the release of season 2's first character sketches), the fandom has been snickering ''hard'' upon the... outfits used by {{spoiler|Ribbons and their followers}}. It is really difficult to take a man in pastels seriously. Especially when he has a "[[Cleavage Window|chest window]]". And the less said about their party outfits, the better. {{spoiler|Hilling Care, WTF is up with that tux of yours?}}
** Graham Aker was a whole lot cooler when he wasn't wearing a goofy samurai outfit as Mr. Bushido.
** The Trinity Team with their white and yellow spandex bike shorts definately count as well. Nena looks fine in hers, but the problem is that Johan wears spandex ''shorts'' and Michael's own pants are horrible as well.
* ''[[
** Harribel's outfit wouldn't be so bad if she actually kept it on. Alas, her Espada tattoo is located on her enormous boobs so she needs to go topless to show it off. It only goes downhill from there.
** Oh, you think Harribel is bad? Remember Nnoitora? Remember that spoon thing behind his head? Remember the ''shoes''?
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** What about Aizen's banana suit? The form-fitting ''dress'', high heels, and butterfly wings aren't much of an improvement. To say nothing of that tacky mullet.
** {{spoiler|Ginjo}}'s [http://www.imagebam.com/image/e704bb147426382 new outfit]. Did he take up fashion clues from AIZEN?
** The Vandereich mostly avert this trope due to rhem [[Putting
* Creed from ''[[Black Cat (
* ''[[
* Okay, so Olba Frost from ''[[After War Gundam X
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
** The less said about Yuna's pajamas, the better. You won't be able to easily escape from them, though: they've become a huge [[Memetic Outfit]].
* Specialty of Mamoru Nagano. Probably the best example would be Possoidal, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Heavy Metal L
* While ''[[
* Agon of [[Eyeshield 21]] seems to incorporate everything that screams "douche" (rather appropriate given that he's a [[Jerk Jock]]) in to his look which frankly makes his popularity with the ladies rather perplexing. This is a 17-year-old Japanese boy who wears dreadlocks, sunglasses, and a gold chain around his neck at all times. To say nothing of the huge dragon tattoo on his back and his horrendous clothing choices (wearing an animal print dress shirt to a date is just all kinds of wrong...)
* [[Smug Snake]] Shapiro Keats from ''[[Dancougar]]'' likes his purple eyeliner and has the fashion sense of [[David Bowie]].
* In [[Shiki]], if you are one of the titular [[Our Vampires Are Different|Shiki]], if you aren't a mook, you get a fabulous outfit. Tatsumi apparently has cat ears as expressive hair and an outfit which probably gets him a lot of willing female Shiki. Then there's the Shiki who apparently is Vampire Lady Gaga. Sunako has utterly insane hair and a Victorian dress, and Megumi's fashion fails could get a page of their own.
* In ''[[City Hunter]]'', there's an [[In-Universe]] example with one of the [[Monster of the Week|Villains Of The Week]]: after he managed to capture both Ryo Saeba and the girl he was protecting, a fashion designer, said girl accuses him of poor fashion taste upon seeing his clothes; this flusters him, as when they meet later after Ryo and the girl made their escape, he has put up ''more'' tacky clothes, and inevitably gets further mocked by the protagonists, to his embarrassment.
* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' gives us Jake Martinez, who manages to be terrifying while looking like... Well, picture the phrase [http://thisissternbild.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/commie-tiger-bunny-12-78de0162-mkv_snapshot_07-02_2011-06-20_10-14-23.jpg "glam rock serial killer"].
* Envy of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* Fuala Griffon from ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
** Also, the Zanscare meetings become unintentionally hilarious when you see either grunts or commanders wearing really stupid-looking old-fashioned wigs. Even people who do realize the parallels between the Zanscare "fashion" and traditional looks associated to some officer posts are... weirded out, to say but politely.
* In the first ''[[Appleseed]]'' movie the officers of the Olympos Regular Army wear completely ridiculous teal uniforms.
* While not a ''[[Anti-Villain|villain]] per se'', at least not an outright one, Mello's outfits in ''[[
* When {{spoiler|Sugata}} joins the Glittering Crux in ''[[
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* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/273218 This flash animation] gives us [[Marvel]]'s less than stellar choices in villainous fashions. At least Galactus has an excuse.
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** In the tie-in comic for ''[[
** Also from Marvel, we have Black Talon. [[Deadpool]]'s [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wkKt_mUc7Ug/SYp9NQK_VDI/AAAAAAAAGgc/Qjt2C1RkTkU/s1600-h/BlackTalon.jpg encounter with him] says it all.
** And Mysterio, who wears what appears to be an upside-down goldfish bowl on his head. This is especially hilarious because he's supposed to be a [[Master of Illusion]], yet he apparently has never thought that it might be a good idea to create the illusion that he isn't ''wearing an upside-down goldfish bowl on his head''. Eventually they caught on, and when his illusionary gas was enhanced by Dr. Doom, he went around town with the rest of [[Spider-Man]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]] in various disguises - a metal band, a punk band, and a schoolboy - with the [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem|rest of them as schoolgirls]]. Of course, they didn't know how they appeared.
*** A charming cartoonist named Katie Cook has [[Lampshaded]] [http://katiecandraw.typepad.com/.a/6a00e550a9fd7d88340120a6310488970b-pi the fishbowl effect.]
*** The exact same thing was done in the first ''Spider-Man'' Playsation game, if "What If?" mode was activated.
*** It seems that everyone has made fun of Mysterio's headgear - ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' has Spidey bringing it up if he's part of your team on the helicarrier, for example. In fact, "fishbowl for a head" is Spidey's ''favorite'' method of addressing him.
*** They fixed that in ''[[Ultimate Spider
*** He's [[Zero Punctuation
* A rather unknown (for a reason) Marvel comic called ''Thunderstrike'' featured a villain called Carjack (
* ''[[The Flash]]'' villain The Rainbow Raider: Admittedly, he is colorblind, so it's not really his fault, but still.
* ''[[
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Deimosdcu.png Deimos] from ''[[The Warlord]]''. Between the pixie boots, the bare midriff, the long, dangling loincloth, the random high collar and the huge sleeves, there's something here for everybody to laugh at.
* Sometime during the '90s, Dc introduced [[Batman|Nightwing]]'s future self from an alternate reality. He started a out as a good guy before being turned to the dark side rather quickly. He wasn't the first Bat-family member to do so, or the last, but certainly [http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4231/teamtitans8.jpg the worst dressed.] [[Spikes of Villainy]]. Mullet. ''Nipple piercing.'' Only half a shirt, but an enormous 1970's collar to compensate. Surely it all made sense in the mind of a madman.Of course, then it in a shocking twist, it he was actually just some guy who had no relation to Nightwing whatsoever and wasn't really from the future. It was the 90s.
** His name was [[World of Warcraft|Deathwing]]. Lets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj-mI1RrfHU play him off].
* In ''Flight No. 714 to Sydney'' [[Tintin
* Keith Giffen's Mister Nebula, a parody of Galactus, might as well be the best example of this trope, considering instead of eating planets, this guy travels around the Universe in his Nebulamobile, redecorating planets according to his own sense of aesthetics, which has a ''distinctive'' tasteless flair.
* Electro is another Spider-Man villain who gets a lot of gaffe for his costume. The main thing is that mask resembles a starfish made of lightning bolts, but the rest of his lightning bolt-bedazzled costume is pretty ridiculous too. ''[[The Spectacular Spider
== [[
* This trope is spoofed in ''[[The Return (
* The parody crossover
* In [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7295884/1/Mao_Grou this] [[
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' takes this to its logical conclusion, where all the bad guys are stereotypical preps wearing pink. It has the balls to depict [[Big Bad|Voldemort]]/[[Rouge Angles of Satin|Volfemort/Vlodemort/Volxemort/]][[Star Wars|Darth Valer/]][[The Matrix|Tom Andorson/]][[The Lord of the Rings|Tom Bombodil]] wearing '''high heels'''.
* ''[[
== Films ==
* Films featured on ''[[
* A utilitarian example occurs in the ''[[James Bond (
** This was parodied at the end of the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie. The clear see-thru suit Dr. Evil is wearing seems to serve no useful purpose, other than making him comically slide off chairs whenever he tries to sit on them.
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* The ''[[Masters of the Universe (
* An example occurs in the live action [[Dr. Seuss]] movie ''[[The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T]]''. The costume the titular mad conductor wears at the end is probably the most flamboyant example of this trope ever made. The villain's dress-up routine even [[Villain Song|gets its own song]] written about it.
*
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** Really, Riddler spent the entire movie getting steadily more ridiculous, culminating in a costume containing five thousand pounds of glitter.
** Mr. Freeze from ''[[Batman and Robin (
* Xerxes in ''[[
* Ming the Merciless in ''[[Flash Gordon (film)| Flash Gordon]]'', especially in [[Flash Gordon (
* Averted in ''[[
* In its deconstruction of superheros, ''[[Watchmen (
* Todd Spengo from ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]]''. Then again... everyone on the planet of Spengo has bad fashion sense.
* Evilene in the Sidney Lumet version of ''[[The Wiz]]'' wore a large, garish-looking dress which, like many items in the movie, seemed to be made of garbage.
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* Dr. Schadenfreude from ''[[Igor]]'', [[Word of God|deliberately designed]] to look like a cross between [[Elton John]] and [[Marilyn Manson]].
* The [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Warriors of Virtue]]'' definitely qualifies as this. And in a movie about ninja kangaroos no less.
* Darius Sayle in ''[[Alex Rider
* Gozer from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
* ''[[Megamind]]'' plays with this a lot, as the [[Villain Protagonist]] wears ever more ridiculous giant collared outfits. He's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know that the key to being a super-villain is "PRESENTATION!" (cue Guns N' Roses).
* Matthew Patel in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' is dressed pretty ridiculously, to the point where someone actually thinks he's dressed like a pirate. Patel responds defensively:
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** Patel is deliberately portrayed as a typical over-the-top Bollywood villain.
* Even for the 80s, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QObDZUscd4k Velvet Von Ragnar], played by Gene Simmons from the movie ''[[Never Too Young
* [[Jeremy Irons|Profion's]] sidekick in ''[[Dungeons
** Damodar becomes the [[Big Bad]] in the sequel, somehow losing his badassery.
* In ''[[Zoolander]]'', Mugatu looks like an unholy mixture of Satan, Cruella DeVille, and a poodle. He also inexplicably dresses up as a young German boy during the brainwashing scene.
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== Literature ==
* Esmé Squalor in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is an extreme example.
* ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'': [[Who Dares?]] laugh at the tights and red velour cape of Doctor Impossible
* One goblin villain in the Drizzt Do'Urden series combined this with [[Rummage Sale Reject]]
* [[War of the Dreaming
* Ublaz Mad Eyes in ''[[Redwall]]''. His evil plan, resulting in years of work and the horrible deaths of hundreds of innocents, was all so he could get hold of a pink pearl crown.
* In ''[[Last Legionary|Young Legionary]]'', Haxxarians seem to be an entire ''[[Planet of Hats|culture]]'' of this.
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== Live Action TV ==
* As noted, ''[[
** Traxartus, the villain of the movie ''Deathstalker'', frequently wore short tunics with boatneck collars, pink fur, and satin turbans.
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'''Crow:''' Wait -- something of ''mine''... }}
** ''[[Puma Man]]'' had [[Big Bad]] Donald Pleasance wearing a girly black and silver tunic.
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** The cone-headed invaders from ''[[Invasion of the Neptune Men]]''.
** Xenos, the evil priest king from ''[[Gor|Outlaw of Gor]]''. Even the fact that he was played by the incredibly [[Badass]] Jack Palance couldn't make up for the fact that he was wearing a long dress and a hat that looked like an opening seed pod.
** Even Dr. Forrester himself, after Joel and the bots discuss world domination schemes and costumes following the ''[[Undersea Kingdom]]'' short in the ''[[Attack
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'''Dr. Forrester''' ''(in a ridiculous outfit)'': What is that supposed to mean?! I’ll deal with you later! Back to the drill, Frank. ''You will [[Superman (
* What about The Master's outfit from the end of the ''[[
** The outfit is Time Lord formal wear, most famous for its abundance in the "The Deadly Assassin". The serial was aired ''twenty-one years'' before the movie however, so introducing it without ''any'' explanation nor the outfit's [[Nice Hat]] results in this trope. It's very much not the Time Lord clothing of the classic series. It's like someone saw Time Lords with their giant formal collars, thought that the collars were made of fabric and part of the robes (which means that the gigantic evil pointy collar droops a bit), and then dyed the whole thing black, red, and gold so we could tell that the guy possessing his murder victim's corpse was evil.
* The short-lived [[Sid and Marty Krofft Productions|Sid and Marty Krofft]] superheroine series ''ElectraWoman and DynaGirl'' featured some truly crazed villain outfits, but special mention must be paid to evil musician Glitter Rock, who wore a huge sparkling green afro wig paired with equally enormous star-shaped sunglasses.
** Glitter rock musicians' outfits tended strongly to the ridiculous, even for the 70s. Glitter Rock's outfit was ridiculous ''by glitter rock standards.''
* In ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', Vince is such a fashionista that he'll always comment on the villain's taste, whether good or bad. Vince himself makes some pretty eccentric fashion choices.
* Every Goa'uld overlord on ''[[
** Ba'al swings widely: from looking like he wearing a bathrobe to leather longcoats... Zipacna is the worst: His first appearance [http://www.zianet.com/jsager/Zipa1.jpg he wore what looked like a straw hat and a Hawaiian shirt]. This is supposed to be "traditional" Mayan dress, given that he's impersonating one of their deities.
** There's also Lord Yu-huang Shang Ti, the Jade Emperor, who not only dresses like a Chinese emperor, but he actually was the ''first'' Chinese emperor, meaning he created this style.
* The Riddler Unitard was so hated by Frank Gorshin, his actor on the 1960's ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series, that he designed a new outfit for himself. The green three-piece suit and bowler hat with question mark tie that resulted is now the character's most common outfit.
* While Ming in the short-lived ''[[Flash Gordon (TV series)|Flash Gordon]]'' TV series avoids this most of the time, preferring to pass himself off like a benevolent dictator of a Third World country ("Ming the Merciless" is what his subjects call him behind his back) by wearing a military uniform, he does wear an ornate robe in an episode where Mongo commemorates the Sorrow, a manmade cataclysm that destroyed the previous Mongo civilization and left their world in ruins. Ming's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Rankol wear a long black robe and some sort of a metal plate on his head.
== Pro Wrestling ==
* [[Triple H]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJu_DxQ2uYU entrance] from ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Wrestlemania 22'' definitely qualifies here, for the worst Conan outfit ever. Should have saved that one for Halloween, Trips... Not that [[Face]] [[John Cena]]'s homage to Al Capone was much better.
* Damien Demento, especially his hairy Venus flytrap shoulder pads.
* When [[Goldust]] [[Face Heel Turn|turned back to heel at one point]], he became [[The Trope Formerly Known
* Nelson Frazier (Mabel/Viscera/Big Daddy V) used to wear body suits that resemble balloons or garbage bags (especially the latter when he was Viscera), then pajamas, and finally pants and suspenders but no shirt (his cup size must be bigger than even the most well endowed Diva's).
* [[Zack Ryder]] wore bright purple tights with different length pants legs, a see through jacket (which closer inspection shows to really be an extremely gaudy dress shirt), swimming goggles, and a head ban on his first ECW appearance. Just in case that look wasn't bad enough he also spiked all of his hairs straight up. Thankfully his outfit became more bearable as time went on, acquiring solid jackets, ditching the goggles for shades, and finding sensible tights.
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== Video Games ==
* Many villains in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series. A lot of the Amano designed villains look particularly effeminate, all the way back to ''[[
** Kuja from ''[[
** [[Final Fantasy X
** Kefka from ''[[Final Fantasy VI
** Not even the women are safe. While Edea from ''[[
* Cole from ''[[
** And of course, Cole can have a [[Good Costume Switch]] if the player goes for Good Karma.
* Zaki from ''[[Live a Live]]'' wears a lizard. ''And nothing else''.
* Dantel, the final boss of the [[So Bad It's Good|laughably awful]] ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' ripoff ''Survival Arts'' is best described as an "incredibly cheap and hilarious white trash ripoff of Shang Tsung."
** More like "[[Samurai Shodown|Amakusa]] on the change from someone's couch cushions".
* Team Galactic in ''[[
** Between the weird [[We Will Not Have Pockets in
** The Cipher Peons in ''[[
** Team Rocket grunts in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
** [[Pokémon Black and White
** And then, there's [https://web.archive.org/web/20111109002337/http://images.wikia.com/pokemon/images/2/2c/Ghetsis.png Ghetsis.] His abomination of fashion doesn't take centre stage to {{spoiler|his [[Abusive Parent|unrelenting,]] [[It's All About Me|sociopathic]] ''[[Complete Monster|bastrady.]]'' }} And it does fit with the yin-yang theme.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120720012752/http://www.talesonline.net/symphonia/yggdrasil.jpg Yggdrasil] in ''[[
* Almost everyone from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', but special care must be taken to name Shinnok, Quan-Chi, Sindel, Shang Tsung in MK3, Kano in MK3, and many others. For some reason they don't seem so goofy in the game (except Shang Tsung and his dorky fighting stance), but if you've ever seen pictures of the actors wearing their actual costumes, it is very hard not to laugh. Most of the Earth Realm warrior look rather normal, particularly dressed down characters like Lu Kang and Johnny Cage. Unless doing everything shirtless counts. Sonya, and the ninjas (well, male ninjas anyway) also look rather normal.
* Jeanne from ''[[Bayonetta]]'' wears a red jumpsuit with a huge poofy collar and a bow just above her ass, open-toed, high-heeled sandals, and fluffy tassels on her guns. However, she has nothing on Balder, who wears a ''dead white peacock stole'', a golden quarter mask, and an earring-attached monocle over said mask. [[Fashionable Asymmetry|And a single glove]].
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice]]'' {{spoiler|[http://www.court-records.net/arts/gs4guidebook/04-kirihito01.jpg Kristoph Gavin]}} is frequently mocked by the fandom for his shoes.
* This is [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] with the {{spoiler|Soda Poppers}} in [[The Adventures of Sam
* Konstantin Brayko in ''[[Alpha Protocol]]''.
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** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Henry]] [[Big Bad|Leland]] is more restrained, but still has a deeply unfortunate taste in shirts and ties. Thorton comments on it, but never to his face.
*** One such comment is about how the only thing Leland and Brayko seem to have in common is a similar taste in shirts and ties. Ouch.
* [[Atelier Iris]]' {{spoiler|[http://g.imagehost.org/0144/PALAXIUS.jpg Palaxius]}} and his horrible, horrible man-sideboob.
* One of [[Big Bad]] Sadler's [[Dragon]]'s Ramon Salazar from [[Resident Evil 4]]. Not only does he look like a wrinkly literal [[Man Child]], his outfit makes him look like a mini-Napoleon wanna-be that makes it practically impossible to take seriously (if not for his better dressed towering mutant [[Mooks]])
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', [[Big Bad Wannabe]] Benny wears a checkered suit that makes him look like a [[Honest John's Dealership|used car]] [[Smug Snake|salesman]]. NPCs and companions will even remark about how ugly the suit is after he's dead.
** Benny is based on real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel, who owned a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111011083443/http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/nm_bugsy_siegel_mobster_110120_ssh_ssh.jpg similarly hideous suit].
* Shen Yu (a [[Fu Manchu]] [[Expy]]) in ''[[Evil Genius (
** Some of the henchmen aren't much better, such as Jubei (an [[Anime]]-inspired samurai) and Moko (a tribal protector).
* The obscure Japan-only [[Data East]] game ''Garyo Retsuden'' takes place in [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms-era]] China, and for the most part, the enemy forces don't look out of place there. At least until you reach the final boss. Red-and-yellow garb you'd normally expect to see in a superhero comic, wild blond hair, green half-mask and gloves...you get the idea. Even better, he's none other than Lu Bu. Yes, ''that'' [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Lu]] [[Dynasty Warriors|Bu]].
* [[Dark Souls]] has a hilarious example in an NPC Black Phantom called Xanthous King Jeremiah (Jeremiah the Yellow King in Japanese). As expected from his [[Boss Subtitles]], he [[Exactly What It Says
** The yellow turban however, is a legacy item from [[
** Another unfortunate example is [[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* Black Mage from ''[[
* Galgarion, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[RPG World]]'', has a designer that does this to him (the comic largely being an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, we are ''not'' spared the Kuja outfit).
* Parodied in ''[[The Non
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* ''[[
** And even though he apparently wasn't a villain in that timeline, his [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006590 God Tier outfit] inspired much lulz, especially his pantaloons.
** An argument can be made for [[Monster Clown|Gamzee]] as well, depending on whether you find his clown makeup and scars combination to be scary or hilarious. Certainly his God Tier outfit raised a few eyebrows, thanks to its Huge, Purple, Codpiece.
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== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[
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'''Dictator:''' This is the uniform of a great man!
'''Yakko:''' Does ''he'' know you're wearing it? }}
* When Valmont from ''[[
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'''Ratso''': Isn't a gown a dress?
'''Shendu''': NO!
'''Ratso''': Oh. (''[[Beat]]'') Yes it is. }}
* ''[[
* Some [[Transformers|Decepticons]] have a bit of..[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galvatron_(BWII) a] [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skyquake#Generation_1 crazy] [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bruticus_(G1)#Generation_2 color scheme].
* The Contessa from ''[[Where in
* Yzma from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* In ''[[
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** Among the tons of examples of actual characters, The Monarch stands out quite nicely in black and orange spandex with armored bits and huge butterfly wings.
* ''[[
** In [[Trapped in TV Land|"Dimension Twist"]], Drakken gets an "Evil Eye For The Bad Guy" makeover into [http://caps.kpfanworld.com/view/57_Dimension_Twist/401-500/423.jpg this]{{Dead link}}.
** His [http://caps.kpfanworld.com/caps/Image2416.jpg Bueno Nacho CEO outfit]{{Dead link}} in ''[[The Movie|So The Drama]]'' isn't going to win him any Best Dressed Executive awards, either.
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