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== Animation ==
* Played straight in ''[[Totally Spies!]]''.
* This has been a trope associated with both the [[Real Robot Genre]] and the [[Super Robot Genre]] since the genre's inception. It is EXCEEDINGLY rare to show a pilot in an robot show that wears anything bulkier than form-fitting lycra.
** Played with in [[Code Geass]]. The Black Knight pilots get to wear some form-fitting spandex-like suits, but many Britannians wear their [[Bling of War|dress uniforms]] when inside Knightmare Frames.
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* The heroines of ''[[Dirty Pair]]''.
* ''[[Claymore]]'' outfits are this plus light armor, even the new ones after the time skip don't stray far from the original concept.
* The combat gear used by Section 9 from ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell (1995 film)||Ghost in The Shell]]'' is this plus tactical vests. Especially noticeable on The Major.
* Nena Trinity's season one outfit in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''. Not to forget her brother Johann, who wears a midriff-baring top and short shorts.
** Also Tieria's in some shots.
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* ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' (1980). Both General Kala and Princess Aura wear lycra/spandex costumes.
* In the ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]'' film, Judges wear a lycra/spandex bodysuit undergarment under their body armor.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' has this in spades. The main cast threatened to quit if they didn't get rid of them seeing how not everyone looked good in them. Plus, the spandex costumes were hard to get into and out of, requiring the help of assistants every time the actors needed to use the bathroom, hence the uniform change in the rest of the Star Trek movies.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' series have a few examples.
** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' uses this in its first few seasons before switching to looser uniforms, as does ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]].''
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' used this with Seven of Nine. For [[Fan Service|obvious reasons]].
* ''[[Buck Rogers in Thethe 25th Century]]'' First season. Colonel Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and Buck Rogers sometimes wore spandex jumpsuits.
* Zoe Heriot from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* The Disney Channel's [[Zenon]], a sci-fi movie set in 2049 AD, has many of its characters wearing spandex and other form-fitting materials.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* A sadly-cut bit of ''[[GURPS]] IOU'' was the Department of Zen Aerobics. Classes consisted of sitting in a [[Lotus Position]], watching aerobics on TV. "It has no known practical applications, but the classes are ''very'' popular."
* In ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', Imperial Assassins (of all schools, but especially the majority-female Callidus), wear uniforms that are quite literally sprayed on—the substance (called SynSkin) comes in large aerosol cans and provides whole-body protection from various airborne toxins and temperature variation whilst allowing the skin to breathe properly, but only if applied ''directly'' to naked flesh.
** In the more recent ''Dark Heresy'' series of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' [[RPG]]s by Fantasy Flight Games, Synskin has been changed to 'a bio-reactive bodyglove with an inert non-reflective surface that molds itself to the wearer's form'. In other words, it isn't literally sprayed on anymore, though it's still Future Spandex.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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