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* [[Red Sonja]].

* Recently subverted with [[Supergirl|Power Girl]] in ''[[Justice Society of America]]'': [[Most Common Superpower|her body]] hasn't changed, but she's finally come into her own as a successful warrior and leader, to the point that she is now chairwoman of the JSA. She still provides plenty of fanservice though.

** Ocelotina on the other hand intentionally plays to this trope, pretending to be a superheroine and getting into the same situtations Emp does for profit.

* ''[[Archie Comics]]'': Cheryl Blossom defined this in the 1980s (where it got her written out of the books) and '90s, where she was basically red hair on Pamela Anderson's face and body (the ones ''she'' had in the 1990s). Melody was this for [[Josie and the Pussy Cats]], wearing the skimpiest outfits and drawing all the male attention.

* Cythea in ''Necrophim'', a beautiful succubus who never wears any clothes.

* Averted in the DC series ''Manhunter: Street Justice'', with protagonist Kate wearing a full-coverage bodysuit when she fights crime. Granted, she stole it from an evidence locker, but kudos to the author for making her different.

* Vikki Vale in ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' spent the first few pages dressed in nothing but a pink bra and undies talking about how [[Superman]] is the "Man of Steel" for other reasons and all they had was a flying bat. When she found out that she had a date with Bruce Wayne, she ended up in very revealing dress.

** [[Frank Miller]]'s script for that part reads less like ''Dark Knight Returns'' and more along the lines of [[Better Days|Jay Naylor]].

* Durham Red in ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' generally wears a low-cut uniform and stands in a manner that emphasises her [[She's Got Legs|legs]].

* Thorn from ''[[Bone]]'', not so much in early chapters, though. In later chapters, you get to see her bare legs quite a bit, and almost a little boobage due to [[Clothing Damage]]. There's even a gag (that actually ''is'' in an early chapter) where Fone Bone is nervous enough to accidentally eat a bar of soap because he's taking a bath with Thorn. (And before that, he watches a bird that seems to be there for the sole purpose of averting Fone's gaze away from Thorn while she's getting nude, before she goes into the water.) [[Love At First Sight|Needless to say, Fone Bone takes an instant liking to her.]]

* Panda Delgado from ''[[Body Bags]]''. She's only 14, but she sports a serious pair of breasts and wears a super-short cheerleader skirt and skintight sweater set. The skirt is so short the reader gets panty shots when she's standing still.

* For the most part, Anderson in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' doesn't provide much fanservice other than being hot in general. Her own spinoff, however, is a different story. In the first collected volume alone, she spends half a story naked in a coma (she is mostly covered by a sheet, but still), has another judge walk in on her in a shower, and goes clubbing in a low-cut, tight minidress.

* Druuna, from the Italian graphic novel series of the same name, is either naked or wearing a skimpy tank-top-and-thong combo roughly ninety percent of the time.

* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'s love interests are, usually, shown like this. Back when Steve Ditko drew the book, not so much since the [[Comics Code]] was in effect and they all wore modest dresses, and most of them were in high school. By college, however, characters like Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson were introduced. Gwen, however, stopped being this par for the course of her [[Character Development]]. Mary Jane, however, kept the revealing clothes and flighty personality even after maturing, though in her case its justified: She's an actress/model, it's literally her ''job'' to be hot. Still, while most superheroines have an [[Impossible Hourglass Figure]], MJ is almost always a [[Buxom Is Better]] crossed with [[Male Gaze]] and [[She's Got Legs]], and doesn't have the superpowers to justify it. This has, however, since they once made a statuette of MJ that got flak because of this (and because [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|she looked like she was washing Spider-Man's suit for him]]).

** Black Cat, being basically the [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]], had a suit designed for [[Absolute Cleavage]], made out of black PVC, and had a build that would require lots of surgery to get in real life, even more so that a lot of other heroes.

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