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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Scene 3: Daphne Rubin-Vega plays Mimi. In 'Boheme', she's a sweet, shy seamstress. Now, she's a CRACK-HEAD, NYMPHOMANIAC PROSTITUTE! YEAH!"''
|''[[Forbidden Broadway]]'' parody of ''[[Rent]]''}}
Good news! You've acquired the rights to remake that classic cartoon you loved as a child as a movie / novelisation / TV series /
▲{{quote|''"Scene 3: Daphne Rubin-Vega plays Mimi. In 'Boheme', she's a sweet, shy seamstress. Now, she's a CRACK-HEAD, NYMPHOMANIAC PROSTITUTE! YEAH!"''|''[[Forbidden Broadway]]'' parody of ''[[Rent]]''}}
▲Good news! You've acquired the rights to remake that classic cartoon you loved as a child as a movie / novelisation / TV series / comicbook / whatever. But hold on; you watch the series again and you realise something. ''Shockingly'', there's [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] - not even [[UST|Sexual Tension]] or a [[Fan Service|gratuitous bikini shot]]. Well that will never do - surely people only ever watch TV for the sex, right? And what'll [[Parent Service|keep the parents entertained]]? There's only one for it: you'll have to make it [[Hotter and Sexier]].
Firstly, all the female characters get [[Stripperiffic]] outfits while the men get [[Shirtless Scene]] after [[Shirtless Scene]]. Then add some "[[Witty Banter]]" between the lead characters about [[Gag Penis|penis size]], some [[Double Entendre|bow-chicka-bow-wow]], a [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|"manly" hero]] and a [[Chaste Hero|Chaste Sidekick]] who's [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|a stupid and innocent virgin]], a [[Ms. Fanservice]] with [[Gag Boobs]] and [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|no nudity taboo]], and, of course, buckets of [[Fan Service]]. Heck, why not go all the way and [[Marry Them All|chuck everyone in bed together]] and say it's just you making the series more mature.
Unsurprisingly, fans tend to dislike remakes that use this trope for several reasons. Firstly, these are characters that people have cherished since childhood, and it can be very disturbing to see them suddenly start making [[Caught
It's not ''always'' a bad thing. Some creators originally planned for their work to include lots of sex, only for it to be nixed by the [[Moral Guardians]]. Older works that were raunchy and risque at the time may not be as the times have changed, so to keep the same feel the sexual themes are exaggerated more than the original. As a result, when the work gets remade in a new, less restrictive media (such as [[The Movie|TV to film]], or [[Anime First|anime to manga]]), the creator can restore what was cut before, with the advantage that this time, the content is properly integrated with the story.
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See also [[Historical Beauty Update]], [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]], [[Rated "M" for Money]], and [[Fan Service Pack]]. Going in the opposite direction will often get you [[Bleached Underpants]].
{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* The freaking ''Sun Maid Raisin Girl'' has gotten this treatment. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZcFq8ige8 See for yourself.]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18O2tiCxZ8E Happens again] in ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]].''
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6Wwb6Std0&ab_channel=TheHierarch This commercial] from Japan applies the Trope with [[Rule 63]] to Ronald McDonald.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* The spinoff/AlternateContinuity ''[[Slayers]]'' manga, ''The Hourglass of Falces'', is probably the closest the series gets to this trope (even if it isn't the series proper). Basically, there's actually a decent plot that makes sense, and two major characters who didn't appear outside the novels (Luke and Milina) appear, but it usually falls under the shadow of the sheer amount of BOOBIES. The canonically-busty [[Genki Girl|Princess Amelia]] gets an outfit switch that includes a short skirt flaunting a pair of panties and has the [[Boobs of Steel]] trope taken [[Up to Eleven]], [[Deadpan Snarker|Milina]]'s outfit changes entirely into a skimpy ensemble, and [[Red Headed Heroine|Lina]] makes up her flat-chested status for [[Panty Shot|panty shots]]. Also, the [[Tagalong Kid]] for this manga, Noa, is a living stack of [[Fetish Fuel]] (enormous breasts, short skirt, and [[Potty Failure|wets herself in fear in one scene]]). Add a lot of [[Skinship Grope]], and you've got one hell of a racy spinoff...
* When ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' was adapted into its manga counterpart, a number of non-canon [[Hentai]] chapters were added, apparently for no reason other than to boost sales.
** Speaking of the ''[[Mai-Otome (
** ''[[Mai
** ''[[
* The ''[[Eiken]]'' OVA. Yes, the manga still had among other things the most [[Refuge in Audacity|over-the-top]] [[Gag Boobs]] in existence, but the OVA took it even farther. Somehow.
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' probably had more explicit scenes than all of the other [[Gundam]] series combined (especially in the [[Special Edition]], where we get to see {{spoiler|Kira getting out of bed after having comfort sex with Fllay, then has flashbacks to such an event during battle}}). Being in an age where the Internet speeds up the pace of [[Rule 34]] helps too.
* The first ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]'' OAV had scenes that bordered on softcore porn, like {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Osamu's [[Attempted Rape]] of Yohko}}. However, the OAV after that one were [[Lighter and Softer]] to make it more appealing to younger audiences.
* ''[[Nightmare of Nunnally]]'', a manga spinoff of ''[[Code Geass]]'' that had Nunnally receiving a Geass along with Lelouch, had more fanservice then you can shake a stick at. Not to say ''[[Code Geass]]'' [[Fetish Fuel|wasn't hot and sexy]], but seems like the manga was specifically [[Pandering to
* While the ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[Blassreiter]]'' was already a not so kiddy version of ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', Blassreiter Genetics does the aforementioned things and adds Nudity and some sex scenes (NOT Implied type, the softcore porn type) for good measure. Yet it had a bit of a [[Lighter and Softer]] appeal to it.
* In the original manga of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', [[Big Bad|Aion]] is a creep, but treats all the women in his group with respectful but platonic feelings, and while he delights in screwing with the minds of his enemies, he leaves their bodies alone. The anime version has him [[Forceful Kiss
* ''[[
* ''[[
** The fourth season manga ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** The other fourth season manga, the [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[
* With ''[[To
** In an inversion, the first anime adaptation had barely any fanservice, which could be considered [[Adaptation Decay|missing the point of the show]]. Thankfully, [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel|the second anime season was just right on it]].
* ''[[One Piece]]'', where every adult female is either a [[Gonk]] or a sex goddess in her own right. It didn't start out that way though. The most blatant example is Nami, as illustrated ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928023627/http://apforums.net/showthread.php?s=32448ec93fe9512d63a831662a0d9390&t=9362 here]''.
* [[Go Nagai]] is well-known for his risky, borderline hentai titles. Heck, his break-out title was the eptly titled ''Harenchi Gakuen'' (Lewd School). This one was still a shounen manga though and never went beyond being naughty. In the mid 90's however, a reboot called ''Heisei Harenchi Gakuen'' hit the shelves, which finally was a full-fledged cartoon porn.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]: The Inspector'' is chock full of fanservice moments, including a scene where Excellen gets brainwashed similar to what happened to Lamia in the ODE Incident of ''OG Gaiden'' along with a variety of other fun stuff like Ending Credits featuring the female cast in bathing suits as well as one [[Fan Disservice|with Elzam and Zengar]].
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' might be this compared to [[Tenchi Muyo!|its preceding series]]. In one episode, even though it was only a holographic disguise, "Amane"'s outfit was so revealing that even [[X
** This also led to a bit of [[
* When Mitsuki Oosawa got the job of making a manga based on the ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral]]'' games, she managed to get away with cranking up the sexiness in the storyline quite a bit, via several scenes in which the characters are shown either having sex (nothing ''that'' graphic, though, more like R-rated), right after sexy times, or having rather erotic fantasies about their romantic partners. I.e.: the scene in which Diadora and Sigurd confess their mutual love has Sigurd hugging a wet and naked Diadora who had been skinny-dipping before he came in, and they go through [[Their First Time]] right after their wedding; {{spoiler|Lachesis and Eltoshan are ''this'' close to have sex after recognizing their feelings for each other, only Elto's conscience stopping him form taking Lache's virginity and finally setting into a [[Last Kiss]]}}; Diadora's train of thoughts {{spoiler|before being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}} includes more than one mental image of Sigurd and herself naked in each other's arms, and Sigurd also fantasizes about her nude self {{spoiler|after her kidnapping}}; Lex and Ayra decide to get married when they're naked in bed and few after having sex (also coupled with Lex showing [[Hidden Depths]] and almost crying into Ayra's naked bosom {{spoiler|after his [[Bad Dreams]] about his [[Missing Mom]] and his feud with Langobalt}}); and {{spoiler|Lachesis and Fin}} have sex right after their love confession (this one is [[Justified Trope|fully understandable]] since they're among the youngest members of the army, they go at it right before {{spoiler|Fin leaves for Lester not knowing if he'll ever be back to her}}, and both of them were ''very'' emotionally exhausted {{spoiler|after Eltoshan's execution, with Fin being barely able to keep Lachesis from crossing the [[Despair Event Horizon]]).}}
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** This originally started with the ''Nekogoroshi'' one-shot OVA (Mion in a [[Fur Bikini]] anyone?), next came ''Rei'' with the FIRST OVA being a [[Pool Episode]], and then ''Kira''.
* [[Mayu Shinjo]]'s works (''[[
* Inverted with ''Negima!?'', [[Studio Shaft]]'s adaptation of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. The original is known for having a fair deal of fanservice, but this anime had none. It was still a good series, but it felt odd.
== Comic Books ==
* Wildstorm's horribly misjudged ''[[
** Cheetara was chained provocatively to a wall in her first appearance, with the insinuation she'd been [[Squick|raped by the mutants]].
* And pictured above is [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718152225/http://www.zenescope.com/bookpages/grimm01.htm
** Actually, Grimm Fairy Tales is a subversion – sure, all covers feature attractive women in fetishized costumes of fairy tales characters, or with those characters, but stories themselves are mostly modern versions of fairy tales, rather [[Darker and Edgier]] than
* Happened to second Wonder Girl, once she moved from ''[[Young Justice (
* Alan Moore's [[Lost Girls (
* They tried to do this with Sue in ''[[The Fantastic Four]]'' shortly after the [[Onslaught]] storyline. The [https://whatculture.com/comics/15-worst-female-superhero-costumes?page=6 "slutty Invisible Woman costume"] (as it is called) was nearly universally despised, and they got rid of it quick - Marvel seemed to be going through a "strange" period with redesigns then.
== Fan Works ==
* The [http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/gallery/#Disney-Heroes Disney Heroes] fanart collection by davidkawena definitely counts. Particularly the Peter Pan one.
** Here's the princess version of this: [http://steevinlove.deviantart.com/gallery/23384510 Defenders of the Enchanted Kingdom WIP]
* Go to ''[[DeviantArt]]'' and you [[Rule 34| are guaranteed]] to find ''dozens'' of examples of this for ''any'' fictional character you can think of, literally. Be warned, however, you might need [[Brain Bleach]] for some of them.
== Film ==
* The ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies. Freddy [[Freaky Friday|in Daphne's body]] [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|feels himself]]. Shaggy in Velma's body looking up her own skirt too. [[Hilarity Ensues]] in both cases.
* ''[[Transformers]]'' managed to pick up a masturbation joke with several minutes of lead-in, several sex jokes and a rather [[Squick
** It should be noted that one of the ''first'' photo releases of the 2007 film included [[Fan Service|Megan Fox's cleavage]]. Before a single photo release of a Transformer.
** And did we mention that a large part of Bumblebee's pre-battle appearance basically involved him [[Shipper
** On the other hand they did balance it out with plenty of [[Fan Disservice]]. Nobody needed to see that much of John Turturro.
** A really hot blonde {{spoiler|becoming a killer robot}} might be regarded as [[Fetish Retardant]] at its fullest or as [[Fetish Fuel]], depending on your tastes.
** In there is also ''[[Kiss Players]]''.
* Every single Uwe Boll adaptation of every videogame. Particularly ''[[Alone in
* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' had [[Halle Berry]] as Fred's [[Sexy Secretary]], with some lines that went beyond [[Parental Bonus]]. To prevent backlash, however, Wilma and Betty were not oversexualized, [[Rule 34|no matter what some fans thought about them]]...
* The musical ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' was already this compared to its source novel, but the movie of it is even more so - not to its benefit when it means the Phantom has been hit with severe [[Adaptational Attractiveness]] that makes all the talk of his hideousness prior to his unmasking moot.
* Happens with a lot of adaptations of ''[[Dracula]]'', in particular [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874 The Francis Ford Coppola version]. ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' is WAY more accurate to the novel than the Lugosi version,(probably because the Lugosi version is based on Hamilton Deane's play, and not Bram Stoker's book). However, the original novel had an old and ugly Dracula. While he did become younger looking as the novel progressed, Dracula was never described as anything close to attractive. Any [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] events are closer to rape than sexy. The Count's portrayal in ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' actually destroyed one potential interpretation of the original novel. The image of the dissolute Count (representing unrestrained animal sexuality) seducing cultured/repressed English girls becomes a lot less powerful when said English girls are strongly implied to be boinking each other.
** Vampires were originally analogies to sexual predators, and nearly [[Twilight (
*** In all honesty, vampires were actually originally meant to represent disease and corruption. Tuberculosis and porphyria victims were often thought to be vampires. You can thank Mr. John Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and then Bram Stoker for making vampires sexual. There's nothing sexual about a supernaturally re-animated corpse that drinks blood (and not just from the neck - wrists and legs aren't uncommon) and spreads disease with its very presence.
* The film versions of ''[[Dukes of Hazzard]]'', which took a family friendly comedy series (with a resident, though mild fanservice character) and turned it into a sex comedy, complete with a raunchier unrated DVD version and R-rated direct-to-DVD sequel. Several actors from the original series even went public with their complaints.
* ''[[Red Riding Hood (
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (2011
* ''[[
== Literature ==
* This trope has been applied to the [http://inventorspot.com/articles/element_girls_pretty_periodic_table_21561 periodic table of elements] by a female Japanese university professor.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Game shows:
** ''[[Family Feud]]'': Progressively, starting (to an extent) the Ray Combs version, but never moreso than when Steve Harvey became host in 2010. Euphemisms for "penis" and "masturbate" are seen almost every day.
** ''[[Match Game]]'': Starting with the 1973 daytime version, where "boobs" was the most frequently uttered no-no, although double-
** ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
* Not only is ''[[
* The second season of ''[[
* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Trinity]]'' is basically a
* The TNT series ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'', based on a series of books by author Tess Gerritsen, has cast the gorgeous Angie Harmon in the title role, despite the fact that in the books, Rizzoli is frequently described as either plain or average looking and with an irrational dislike for beautiful women.
* The ''[[Zorro]]'' [[Soap Opera|Mexican telenovela]], named "Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa" ("Zorro: Sword and Rose"). It's apparently based on the Isabel Allende book on the character, and sexual allusions and metaphors are ''NO'' strangers to Mrs. Allende's's books.
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* The Canadian version of ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' notably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1YeK9xF3oQ pushes] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GoFozOooYg the] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExDHamsukc envelope] of how sexual dance routines can get.
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' to the original ''[[CSI]]'', as the innumerable shots of bikini girls per episode will remind you.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' was often promoted as a
* ''[[Victorious]]'', compared to Dan Schnieder's other shows.
== Music ==
* Nelly Furtado's first two albums were kinda experimental pop/folk, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sunday2001/images/leicester/wallpaper/nelly_furtado640x480.jpg normal clothing]... then ''Loose'' had her singing R&B/hip-hop, some with suggestive titles like "Promiscuous" and "Maneater", and [http://static.poponthepop.com/images/gallery/nelly-furtados-big-booty.jpg sexy wardrobe] (giving birth between those albums helped her body to get good enough for those tight pants).▼
*** It is notable that Nelly Furtado is an mild example of this trope, as critcs noted, she did not resort to just wearing underwear or grinding like some of contempories. ▼
▲* Nelly Furtado's first two albums were kinda experimental pop/folk
▲** In fact, pretty much all female pop singers tend to enter a "sexy phase" whenever album sales sag, or their audience enters a new age bracket. [[Dork Age|Even]] [[Jewel]].
▲
▲** Male R&B pop stars are no stranger to this either. [[Usher]] is a good example.
* The [[K
* [[Hilary Duff]] is a subversion. Although some of her songs have gotten Hotter And Sexier
* [[Miranda Cosgrove]] is starting{{when}} this with her EP, ''High Maintenance''. Note the last track of the EP, as it's just that. <!-- MOD: "High Maintenance" was in 2011. How much did she follow through in the years since? -->
* [[Miley Cyrus]]'s example is discussed further below in the [[#Real Life|Real Life]] section, but as far as her music career was concerned, she went there the moment she started ''Party In The USA''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVNOnPyvIU Untitled (How Does It Feel) by D'angelo].
* Lovage did this when they covered [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMoGdwixTM Berlin's "Sex (I'm A)"]. The Lovage version [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4joDAJQA30 can be heard here] and is either
* [[Katy Perry]] started out as a Christian pop singer. Then she made "I Kissed a Girl"...
* The revival of ''[[Cabaret]]'' in the 1990s directed by Sam Mendes was pointedly
▲== Theater ==
▲* The revival of ''[[Cabaret]]'' in the 1990s directed by Sam Mendes was pointedly [[Hotter and Sexier]] despite the show being hardly clean in the first place.
** Subverted: in the Mendes revival, you could also [[Squick|see the needle tracks]] on the skins of the Kit Kat Klub dancers where they'd been using. [[Fan Disservice|Not so sexy]].
* The musical ''[[Chicago]]'' is greatly
* Parodied by the tagline to ''[[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]'': "HISTORY JUST GOT ALL SEXYPANTS."
* In the transition from ''[[La Boheme]]'' to ''[[Rent]]'', most of the
** Mimi's number "Out Tonight" became
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Deus Machina Demonbane]]'' is what happens when you do this sort of thing ''to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]''! To be fair, it still portrays most of what it borrowed as creepy as it's source, and lots of stuff is still freaky and decidedly non sexy {{spoiler|Dagon and the Deep Ones come to mind}}. However, by the same token, no less than {{spoiler|Nyarlathotep}} gets hit with this trope, and you wouldn't believe [[Absolute Cleavage|how]] [[Meganekko|sexy]] [[Bi the Way|the]] [[Creepy Sexy|result]] is.
* The much-documented, "maturing" of the ''[[Prince of Persia
* ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' goes through this. Sure. A simple way to describe Ivy. She was [[Boobs of Steel|busty to begin with]], but as later games came out, she grew and grew, and her clothes conversely shrank and shrank. ''[[Soul Calibur]] III'' started the Character Creation stuff, but ''SCIV'' turned this up several notches with destructible armor, every bonus character being a female, and ''especially'' Angol Fear's appearance and Shura's dialogue.
** Ironically enough, in ''SCV'', Ivy's clothing is far more modest than any of her default outfits in previous games.
* The fan-made modules ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'' and ''The Bastard of Kosigan'' are [[Darker and Edgier]] and Hotter And Sexier than the main ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' stories. The official expansion ''Hordes of the Underdark'' might be a more tame example, showing [[Fan Service|nearly nude drow women]] as opposed to the only Fanservice in the original campaign being Aribeth's [[Breast Plate]]. It also introduced romance between you and other characters, and succubi, human-sized fairies and other [[Cute Monster Girl]] enemies appear more frequently. A confrontation with the game's [[Big Bad]] even has her obviously trying to seduce you sexually.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** [[
*** [[Pirate Girl|Isabela]], however, is an example on her own. In her appearance in ''Origins'', she wore rather silly armor that might qualify as a one piece swim suit with a leather skirt, though it was not as bad as the typical [[Chainmail Bikini]]. Nor was she the only one wearing it. Pretty much all the [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Wade%27s_Superior_Drakeskin_Armor_Set female light armor] was a [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Leather_Armor_Set leather leotard] or [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dalish_Leather_Armor_Set two piece]. In ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'', she trades it in for a too-small shirt, underwear, and thigh-high boots.
*** Isabela personally makes this change, but compared to the first game's [[Hot Witch]] and [[Token Evil Teammate]] [http://images.wikia.com/dragonage/images/d/dd/Morrigan_profile.jpg Morrigan], the second game's main party is pretty overdressed.
* ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy X
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' series is easily often considered this for the Fighting Game genre. But for better or for worse that is often the ONLY thing that people talk about the series. (Even though most other fighting game series do this for their female cast on a regular basis.) But in all fairness Tecmo wasn't exactly trying to stop it either especially after the ''Xtreme Beach'' series.
** But yet oddly enough Tecmo tries to carefully make sure that the DOA girls sex appeal would only be used for things like [[Absolute Cleavage]] and Stripperiffic outfits. There is a popular theory that the first ''Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' game had bad sales due to its M rating for nudity (the only nudity being Christie's butt in the opening sequence).
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Krystal]] from the ''[[Star Fox (
** Wolf O'Donnell has become this in ''[[
* While the aforementioned game couldn't do anything TRULY explicit, ''[[God of War (
** The lesson of this appears to be, so long as your game is set in Antiquity, having topless women walk around purely for the sake of being topless is just fine. Particularly if their dialogue advances the plot.
* Certain fans feared that this is exactly what was going to happen to ''[[Metroid]]''{{'}}s Samus Aran when it was announced that Tecmo and Team Ninja (of ''[[Dead or Alive]]'', or "[[Jiggle Physics|boing]]" fame) would be making ''{{[[Metroid: Other M]]''. Ironically enough, her presence in this game is actually a lot more tame and modest than her normal appearances out of her armor. (After all, ever since the infamous [[Samus Is a Girl]] twist in the original game occurred Samus ended up becoming quite a [[Ms. Fanservice]] when she is not in her traditional power armor.)
* This is the main reason [[Ms. Fanservice|Rouge the Bat]] was introduced in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series.
* Before having Ivy and Sophitia (from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'') jiggling about the camera whilst destroying each other's clothing, Namco proved they could taken the already-cleavage-familiar ''[[Tekken]]'' and spin-it-off into ''Death by Degrees'', an action game that puts you in the numerous bullet-deflecting string bikinis of Nina Williams.
* Nikki, from Crystal Dynamics' 2.5D platformer ''Pandemonium'', was an average looking teenage girl in the original game. In the sequel, ''Pandemonium 2'', Nikki is a much older looking woman with longer hair, bigger breasts, and full red lips. This might be a case of [[She's All Grown Up]] if it weren't from the fact that Nikki from the sequel looks like an entirely different character instead of an older version of the same character from the first game. The manual goes as far to lampshade this.
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* This happened to Judy Nails from the ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' series. In the first two games, she was a cute, fairly normal alt-rock chick. By the third game, she wore heavy make-up, changed her jeans and plaid for a mini-skirt and belly top, and of course there's also her [[Most Common Superpower|sudden growth spurt]].
** It bears mentioning that between the second and third games the developers changed from Harmonix (who moved on to make ''[[Rock Band]]'') to Neversoft after Red Octane sold the name to Activision.
* ''TERA Online'' is basically "''Lineage II'' with even nakeder girls."
* ''[[No More Heroes]]: Heroes Paradise'' is practically the original game with improved graphics... And an extra
** Although it probably makes [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Bad Girl]]'s outfit ''less'' [[Fetish Fuel|fetishistic]].
* The ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' characters have gotten progressively more attractive with each entry into the series, with the biggest jump occurring between the fifth and sixth installments. In particular, Sun Quan went from [https://web.archive.org/web/20111103064425/http://ui10.gamespot.com/937/charapopup17_2.jpg this] to [http://www.blogcdn.com/playstation.joystiq.com/media/2009/07/dw6e38l.png this]. And that's not even getting into the increasing [[Stripperiffic]]-ness of Diao Chan's outfits.
** As well as [[
* The 3DS remake of ''[[Fatal Frame]] 2'' has done this to the protagonists. In the original game, Mio and Mayu are two relatively cute, yet demure teen girls. In the remake, Mio has noticeable cleavage and Mayu's high-collared top has been replaced with one that shows off her chest and collarbones. Their faces have also undergone a revamp to make them more stereotypically attractive.
* More boobage and less clothing was the order of the day for all the female characters in ''[[
* The ''[[Castlevania]]'' series has Alucard. Circa the NES era, he's a [[Classical Movie Vampire|middle-aged, wrinkled, unimpressive generic film-Dracula-esque character]]. Then came ''[[Symphony of the Night]]''. The young, long-silver-haired, alabaster-skinned and fine-featured, impeccably dressed gentleman on the page graphic there. That's Alucard. Yowza. And Maria Renard from the previous game is all grown up.
* ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'' takes place in an adult playground and with it comes a lot more innuendo and more perverted moments than in the previous ''[[Dead Rising]]''.
** The comics from IDW take this further since Isabella Keyes [[Fan Service Pack|suddenly got considerably more buxom]] and Rebecca Chang whom was already a [[Ms. Fanservice]] to begin became even more so since she was showing more cleavage and her bust size is now about as big as Jessica's from the original ''[[Dead Rising]]''.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed 2]]'', compared to Altair who is pretty much [[Married to
* Jill Valentine's outfit (ie, her uniform) was pretty modest in the first ''[[Resident Evil (video game)|Resident Evil]]'' game; [[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis|the third]], however, gave her this treatment with the notorious tube top and short-shorts getup. Fortunately, the remake made her outfit more practical.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', it seemed the female fighters' outfits were getting progressively more skimpy in each installment. For example, Kitana went from [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/6/69/KitanaFanSteel.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110924163834 this], to [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/f/f4/MK3U-01_Kitana.png/revision/latest?cb=20120110174612 this], to [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/1/1d/Kitana_mk9_koncept_nobg_by_fullm8n-d32kod1.png/revision/latest?cb=20121114200930 this]; unlockable skins were often even worse. Eventually, though, around the tenth game, developers made an about face and started [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/3/33/Kitana_MK11_render.png/revision/latest?cb=20200510004518 giving the female characters more dignity.]
* ''[[Battletoads]]'' subverts this with the Dark Queen, the 2020 relaunch having her swap the [[Dominatrix]] outfit from the original game for more modest (maybe more "cartoonish") [[Evil Sorceress]] robes. She actually has something to say about this to her old associate Jeff (and by association, [[Trolling Creator|fans who complained about the change]]) after Jeff criticizes her outfit, doing so [[High Altitude Interrogation|as she dangles him from their spaceship’s airlock:]]
{{quote|'''Dark Queen:''' I guess we’ve changed Jeff, I’ve grown more impatient and you want to control what I’m wearing. [[Sarcasm Mode|Like you’re entitled to it because we hung out twenty years ago]].}}
== Web Animation ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7h3mtgVlwg&list=PLEW5pt51nZ-M2MBTHS0PCjEo6t-nNf-R7&index=17 This adaptation] of the plot of ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]''. While Whitney’s… assets are not quite as exaggerated in story as the thumbnail suggests, all NPCs and the two protagonists are given a slight [[Age Lift]], making them teenagers, and many important female characters are made more voluptuous. There's even a few teen-romance and dating scenes in some parts of the story.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Nerf Now]]'' is a
* Rather infamously, ''[[Sonichu]] 8''.
* When T gave up on getting ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' syndicated, he "celebrated" it with "Behind Closed Doors", where nearly all the couples past and present either have sex or almost have sex. This is the first arc to hint at [[Anything That Moves|Stan]]'s bisexuality, and while it's not the first arc to hint at Sara's lesbianism, [[A Date
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'s'' infamous censored ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]''
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/6/15/ Eventually followed by] a
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' and its first spin-off, ''[[Magick Chicks]]'', were both slightly risque, possibly the equivalent of PG-13 ratings. ''[[Dangerously Chloe]]'', the second spin-off, was far closer to an R-rating, with more suggestive and NSFW material - the protagonist is a succubus, after all.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (
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* Introduction of Lola Bunny in ''[[
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100218125658/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8039477657790445932 Red Hot Riding Hood]''. Starts out as a normal Little Red Riding Hood until the characters suddenly rebel at this done-to-death staging and demand a fresh approach. Red is a sexy adult nightclub entertainer. It was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.
* In the [[Famous Studios]] ''[[Popeye]]'' shorts, [[Damsel in Distress|Olive]] [[Informed Attractiveness|Oyl]] was made more attractive so it would make more sense that Popeye and Bluto were fighting over her.
* While the [http://images.wikia.com/thundercats/images/8/80/Cheetara.jpg original] [[
* Speaking of [[Cat Girl]]s; some versions of [[Wonder Woman]]'s foe Cheetah raise the question of whether she is a human under a costume and for that matter, whether she is even wearing a costume. The animated movie ''[[Catwoman: Hunted]]'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9gXRVm-0dA answers both in the negative.]
* ''[[Justice League]]'':
** In the ''[[New Gods]]'' comics, Barda's costume [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Barda_(New_Earth)| is usually a modest set]] of high-tech [[Powered Armor]]; here, she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNQVoX8tuI becomes a little more daring]] in regards to "casual wear", switching to the armor with a [[Transformation Trinket]] when a battle starts.
* A lot of pin
▲== Other/Real Life ==
** Case in point: Teri Weigel. She started her career as a ''[[Playboy]]'' Playmate in 1985. Soon after she posed for the more explicit ''Penthouse'' magazine. Eventually she started appearing in hardcore pornographic movies and magazines and even worked for a while as a legal prostitute at the Bunny Ranch brothel in Reno, Nevada... by which time ''Playboy'' had stopped mentioning that she had ever been a Playmate.▼
▲* A lot of pin ups and centerfolds eventually turn into this. Starting out as standard mild but sexy non-nude modeling, then semi-nude, then completely nude, then explicit poses, soon followed by "insertions" (and possibly hardcore porn, though not always). Basically "''Raunchier and Nastier''". But depending on your taste that's likely not a bad thing. The glamour models who don't do nude pictorials probably don't do it not just because of any moral standard, but because they haven't been offered the right amount of money yet.
▲** Case in point: Teri Weigel. She started her career as a Playboy Playmate in 1985. Soon after she posed for the more explicit Penthouse magazine. Eventually she started appearing in hardcore pornographic movies and magazines and even worked for a while as a legal prostitute at the Bunny Ranch brothel in Reno, Nevada.
** Other examples are Amber Easton, Meggan Mallone, Tila Tequila, Vicky6, Priya Rai, Brianna Frost and Francine Dee.
* A lot of real life child actors will
** A la [[Anne Hathaway]]'s switch from ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' and ''Havoc''.
** Another example is Elizabeth Berkley from ''[[Saved
** An even more extreme (and successful) example is [[Miley Cyrus]], who utterly shattered her [[:Category:Former Disney Child Stars|Disney child star]] image to avoid being typecast as [[Hannah Montana]] until she was in her sixties. After a decade and her goal accomplished, she began dialing back her outrageousness.
** Quasi-aversion: Although she also started out as a [[:Category:Former Disney Child Stars|Disney child star]] (in films like ''Napoleon & Samantha'', ''[[Freaky Friday]]'', ''[[Candleshoe]]'' and ''Tom Sawyer''), [[Jodie Foster]]'s career-making role as a [[Fille Fatale|14-year-old prostitute]] in ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' was ''not'' a case of trying to escape her image, but a progression into more serious films of a kind that she couldn't make for Disney.
* Inverted with [[Barbie]], whose wardrobe originally included lingerie (though most of her lingerie resembled long gowns, which Barbie will either use as undergarments or sleepwear), but by the late 2000s she cannot wear lingerie anymore to avoid alienating little girls.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula Hula dancing] is, in fact, an inversion. While the idea of the coconut bra is rather suggestive, those were added when tourism became popular in Hawaii and Polynesia. Traditionally, female hula dancers were topless.
* As of the mid-2020s, fashion is increasingly trending towards becoming even Hotter and Sexier than before, mostly thanks to social media like Instagram and TikTok featuring women who flaunt their beauty to entice men (and women). To some extent, porn is also responsible for the sexualization of the everyday look, as [[Buxom Is Better|large breasts]] and [[Baby Got Back|a large ass]] are in ''full force'' as the desired look for women. General [[Camp|flamboyancy]] is also more strongly pronounced than ''ever'' thanks to the [[Bishounen]] style making a huge impact online, so men now have to pull double duty of being both pretty ''and'' handsome to attract women, and that too brings it's own style of sexualization to the everyday fashion standard.
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