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* Lara Croft of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' is occasionally known by many as a fanservice machine by many video gamers. Well, she does fits with her tanktop wear, nice legs and... um... nice body.

** Li Mei on Deception.

** In the Mortal Kombat vs. DC, Catwoman has her catsuit unzipped to her navel, and isn't wearing a bra.

** This actually becomes a plot point in the third game, when Maya happens to be wearing the sort of maid outfit that gets a certain witness all hot and bothered. However, since she is young-looking and small-chested he isn't interested in her. Then Mia possesses Maya and suddenly he becomes much more cooperative...

*** Later, their younger (8 years old, I believe) cousin Pearl Fey channels Mia.

** To say nothing about Excellen's [[Expy]] Kaguya Nanbu from ''[[Endless Frontier|Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]'' is a sin: this girl's just about as [[Moe Moe]] as she can get, and still provides a rack that beats out the ones possessed by Lamia [[Expy]] Aschen Brodel (and Lamia's considered having the biggest boobs this side of OG)...but does it end there? Nope; her [[Stripperific]] clothes reveals her thighs, slightly on her midriff, and most importantly, from her shoulders and the upper part of her ample bosom. Said clothes are ''so'' tight, she's called the "Dairy Cow Princess". Did we mention she also has her own [[Gainaxing|boing yoing yoing]]?

*** Honestly, though Kaguya is the reigning queen, pretty much EVERY female character in [[Endless Frontier]] would be the Ms. Fanservice if deposited into another setting.

** That was only for ''Sonic Adventure 2'' (Battle) though, her fanservice is more downplayed these days.

* Morrigan's outfit in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' is effectively not much more than a leather skirt and a scarf loosely draped over her shoulders.

*** And female Hawke herself even has a touch of this, not from her outfits, but from the way she moves those hips when running about. It's a surprise she doesn't throw out her back! Interestingly, all the female characters have the same run, so whatever your taste, you can admire Hawke/Isabela/Merrill/Aveline/Bethany/Tallis shaking Dat Ass.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' has at least one every game. From the top:

*** Also there's [[Evil Is Sexy|Ultimecia]], who's a [[Lady in Red]] [[Stripperific|revealing clothing that exposes her]] ample breasts [[Absolute Cleavage|and wondrous cleavage]].

*** We also have [[Lady of War|General Beatrix]] who's a sexy general with a large bust and has a metal bikini [[Absolute Cleavage|exposing most of her cleavage]].

*** Lani the bounty hunter is pretty busty [[Absolute Cleavage|and has a revealing outfit on]].

*** Also [[Evil Is Sexy|Yunalesca]] who wears virtually nothing at all [[Stripperific|except an extremely small and revealing bikini]], and has one of the biggest busts in Final Fantasy history.

*** Fran, from the same game. Wears a thong and a bra with a see-through silk veil over her midriff, and comes from a species with elongated feet similar to many quadruped mammals, resulting in high heels being the most practical form of footwear. Yeah.

**** Don't forget the bunny ears!

*** Penelo's outfit in the mini sequel seems to take a turn for the Fanservice too.

** Rikku (although all 3 girls from ''Final Fantasy X-2'' could do) for having a default costume consisting of a miniskirt, bikini-top and scarf. She actually puts more clothes on when she goes to the hot springs.

*** In one of the later chapters you, if you make the right decisions in the Mt. Gagazet episode, are shown Yuna, Rikku and Paine bathing in the hotsprings wearing only bikinis.

*** Terra is fairly conservative in her base outfit, but all of her alternate outfits are gratuitous to some degree. Her first alt provides a [[Panty Shot]], her second alt shortens her skirt and gives her a [[Leotard of Power]] to show off her crotch and bits of her rear, and her bonus DLC alt provides [[Bare Your Midriff]]. Also, all of them remove her tights to show [[She's Got Legs]]. And let's not get started [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|on]] [[Rapunzel Hair|her]] [[Femme Fatalons|Esper]] [[Cute Monster Girl|form]]...<ref> ([[Don't Explain the Joke|Hint: She's nekkid]])</ref>

* The summon creature Shiva is consistency nearly naked and the trend finally broke with the Shiva sisters with being mostly covered.

** Though Snow does sit on them once they're summoned. While they are gazing up at him. Yeah.

** She has a weapon called the ''Lady's Thong'' for god's sake!

** Bloody Roar's cast seems to be designed around demographically pleasing fanservice tropes, except for Busuzima who is there to ogle said tropes. There are two who vie for the coveted title of Ms. Fanservice however, Jenny Burtory, who dresses like a hooker and goes stark naked for her transformation, and Alice Nonomura, who fulfills both 'horny' and 'cutesy' portions of fanservice at once, though unless you're into [[Furry Fandom|that sort of thing]] and can appreciate a giant rabbit in a miniskirt, her transformation only covers the moe-side. Hidden character Uranus and Uriko in the first game also somewhat qualify.

*** If you get past the fact of how horrible the 4th game is... Nagi could count as well. [[Fan Disservice|Or maybe not]].

* ''[[Bayonetta]]''. They didn't make the game playable with one hand for nothing. However, Bayonetta is ''the'' major playable character, not an auxiliary character.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' combines a [[The Reveal|Reveal]] with Ms. Fanservice: {{spoiler|Midna's true form is a tall, redheaded, [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|topless]] babe who leaves Link completely speechless (which isn't that unusual considering he's the [[Heroic Mime]], but certainly amuses ''her'', at least.)}}

** The Great Fairy in Twilight Princess, who only wears a loin cloth and has her hair covering her breasts. It's debatable if more people think of her because of this or because she [[Nightmare Fuel|unlike the Great Faries in Oot, WW (except for that one that seems to have a crush on Link, because Nintendo realized she was creepy enough) she doesn't have a creepy laugh]].

* Angie from ''[[Trauma Center]]'' appears to be turning into a Ms. Fanservice based on [http://kotaku.com/5045232/who-wants-trauma-center-on-other-platforms the reward for an ATLUS poll...]

** But she's got nothing on [[Izuna Legend of the Unemployed Ninja|Izuna The Half-Undressed Ninja]].

*** All of the female members in ''[[Trauma Team]]'', if you don't see their cleavage then expect a bathing scene. And then there were the [[Feelies]] of Tomoe...

** In the first game, there's a scene where Meryl randomly decides to take her pants off. Her excuse: they didn't smell good. Right...

*** {{spoiler|EVA was actively trying to seduce Snake}}. Meryl has no such excuse.

** In the 4th game, Naomi had the [[Absolute Cleavage|cleavage]], the [[Show Some Leg|ripping of the skirt]], and managed to seduce a main character.

*** And she exploited those for all she was worth...as much as they threw the fanservice title on her, it's surprising she didn't appear during a playable section of the game for players to tranquilize and abuse.

* ''[[Painkiller]]'s'' portrayal of Eve is enough to make players contemplate all kinds of original sin.

*** The EQ2 games have Antonia Bayle in equally [[Stripperific]] glory.

* Pericci from ''Star Ocean: First Departure''. The fact that besides her generous curves, she appears to be no older than ''twelve'' may take this into [[Lolicon|uncomfortable]] [[Squick|territory]] for some.

** Pericci was twelve in the game's original version where she was more of a [[Cute Monster Girl]]. They made her sixteen for the remake.

*** Hence "[[Older Than They Look|appears]]".

* In ''[[Castlevania]] Judgment'', Maria admits she is envious of Shanoa, Carmilla and Sypha's breasts.

* ''[[Silent Hill]] 2'' combines this trope with [[Fan Disservice]] for [[Nightmare Fuel|horrible, horrible]] effect with the character of Maria. She wears a deliberately revealing outfit (a bonus scenario shows she works as a stripper) and spends most of her time flirting with James and basically telling him "I'm yours and you can do whatever you want to me". The fact that she's behaving like that in Silent Hill, a town where the [[Malevolent Architecture|Malevolent]] [[Chaos Architecture]] is the ''least'' of your problems, is unsettling enough, but then there's the revelation {{spoiler|she's a delusion created by James as he goes ''completely insane''}}, which doesn't at all help matters.

* Rachel from the modern ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' games. She has a rack that would make Pam Anderson jealous and dresses in leather fetish gear. Even more blatant in Ninja Gaiden Sigma, where she's a playable character. And players have the option of changing her hairstyle and color, an option which has no effect on gameplay whatsoever other than appealing to the player. Then there are sections with manual [[Jiggle Physics]] control.

* Kasuga from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', a platinum-blonde ninja with a body like her namesake, who wears a catsuit that barely covers half of her. Her Lord, [[An Ice Person|Uesugi Kenshin]], can bring her to orgasm with a single glance.

** The [[Gender Flip]] version of Saika Magoichi is also quite the [[Ms. Fanservice]]. She wears a [[Breast Plate]] which still shows off her ample bosom (especially the upper arts), and her gratuitous [[Sexy Backless Outfit]], [[Bare Your Midriff|Sexy Midriffs]], and has a [[Of Corsets Sexy|sexy corset]], as well as a shapely butt that shows off when she's running.

** Tear fulfills this role in-party; that robe of her appears to be glued to her form.

*** Tears actually subverts this trope, due to the fact that she's actually quite modest about her incredible figure, going as far as {{spoiler|refusing to wear the swimsuit Emperor Peony had made for her because it was too "daring" and choosing to wear a rented tasteful one-piece instead}}. Natalia, however...

** Don't forget her [[Giant Waist Ribbon]], for some fans, it's quite appealing and makes her that ''much'' sexier.

** To be fair, her normal outfit isn't too bad. Two of her [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|unlockable outfits]], a bathing suit and formal wear, are much worse. She even lampshades the formal wear.

** Makoto Nanaya also qualifies. While she wasn't this at first, her appearance as a playable character in ''Continuum Shift'', and the unbelievably [[Stripperiffic]] outfit that came with it, sealed the deal.

** The past arc is also not safe from [[Ms. Fanservice]], as exemplified with Kokonoe's mother Nine/Konoe A. Mercury. She's a [[Hot Witch]] with long pink hair, short temper for [[Tsundere]] tendencies. And yes, even if she's not wearing revealing clothes, she had big boobies for [[Marshmallow Hell]] and her skirt is short enough for [[Panty Shot]].

** Deconstructed in ''[[Persona 4]]'' with [[Idol Singer|Rise Kujikawa]], who's afraid that people believe she's nothing more than an [[The Ditz|airheaded bimbo]] because of the overt sexuality of her "Risette" persona, which her "shadow" later calls her out on. It is later when she defeats her shadow that she learns to accept that she's a good girl and that "Risette" is nothing more than a sexy on-screen personality.

*** That's not quite it - if you do her social link sidequest, she actually comes to accept that the different versions of herself she adopts for different situations are ALL her: she's both Rise and Risette at the same time and that's O.K. The entire game is about accepting the hidden parts of your personality after all. If she rejected Risette her shadow would have beaten her during your fight.

* Keira from ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' may count, [[Smurfette Principle|more in the first game than any other]], where she actually gets a [[Panty Shot]] in her garage/workshop area at a few angles in Jak-view.

** Maia, the female antagonist in the first game, is mostly aptly described as a dominatrix-elf-thing.

** Not to forget Tess, who's [[The Ditz]], who has quite generous cleavage herself, and spends all her time in hot pants.

* ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' gives us Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox. The same series also features [[Gadgeteer Genius]] [[Wrench Wench]] Penelope, not to mention the Contessa, Neyla... There's something for EVERYONE.

* Every female character in the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' mod "[[A Dance With Rogues]]" (which was, surprisingly, written by a woman).

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Miranda]] from ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'' was obviously [[Stealth Pun|designed]] with the trope in mind. She wears a ''very'' skintight [[Spy Catsuit]] (which starts off white and can later be upgraded to black PVC), and the game [[Male Gaze|isn't afraid]] to show off her best attributes.

** Players handy enough with the character creation screen can make their own, too. The new default female Shepard for the third game seems to be designed with being [[Ms. Fanservice]] in mind.

** [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] with Diana Allers, the reporter in the third game, who says that it serves to increase ratings. According to her, it works.

* Justified in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' by giving a blurb about how it is a sign of confidence to wear revealing clothing in the Empire, but somehow Dawn Star's shirt, underwear, and four wide ribbons evenly spaced around her waistband, Silk Fox's skintight midriff-baring black jumpsuit, and the female [[Fragile Speedster]] player model's sleeveless tunic and underwear seem a bit much.

* Shania from ''[[Shadow Hearts]]''. In her Fusions, she flies up into the sky and nearly strips off her clothes, and comes back down wearing pretty much nothing at all.

* Jeane from the Suikoden series (especially from [http://suikosource.com/images/chars/j/jeane07.jpg 4] & [http://suikosource.com/images/chars/j/jeane08.png 5])

* [[Hot Witch|Vanessa]] from ''[[Luminous Arc]]''. Dial F-cups for [[Fan Service]] and seiyuu who is known for H-Games, and to a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|lesser]] extent, Claire.

* Duchess Elstwhere from [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]]. Several story paths only open up if she's in her underwear, and she is ''constantly'' being stripped of her clothes and forced to wander the world in [[Stripperiffic|panties, brassiere, socks and gauntlets]].

* In [[Seiken Densetsu 3]] Angela's [[Stripperiffic]] leotard is both lampshaded and deconstructed. She also has a special attack which basically moons the enemy to death.

* Most of the female characters in ''[[League of Legends]]'' are at least a bit [[Stripperiffic]] and several are shamelessly fanservice-based, but the clear winner by far is Miss Fortune the [[Bounty Hunter]] who [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L78zEKWCMII/TIAgS_qQD1I/AAAAAAAAA8k/Uluhln7rGMk/s1600/MissFortune_Splash_0.jpg dresses like a pirate-themed stripper] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPFWrGJXsNI&feature=related has a shamelessly erotic voice.]

* Pretty much every girl in ''[[Dead or Alive]]''. "She kicks high", indeed...

* Joanna Dark in [[Perfect Dark|Perfect Dark Zero]] after her wardrobe became much skimpier compared to how she dressed in the previous game.

* All the girls in ''[[Rumble Roses]]'', oh yeah they sure have really good wrestling moves.

* Shizune Hakamichi from [[Katawa Shoujo]]. She's the only character to get a random [[Panty Shot]] during the entirety of the game, has a larger bust than the rest of the girls (save for Misha), and {{spoiler|her second sex scene is perhaps one of the most graphic in the game. (You can tell the artist had fun drawing that.)}} Add to the mix {{spoiler|the [[Black Bra and Panties|dark, lacy underwear she wears]] in that scene, how she keeps [[Zettai Ryouiki|her dark stockings on]] while Hisao does her, and the impression of confidence and kinkiness she gives in both scenes - the first time, in the guest room of her house, she apparently didn't even close the door, the second time, she and Hisao make out in the student council room and only after a while they realize they have forgot to lock the door. }}

* Ming Numara from [[Lost Odyssey]] manages to be this in appearance, if not in personality. Despite being a queen, she romps around in leather gear that features [[Absolute Cleavage]], and the crotch cut out of her otherwise practical trousers, so that you can have a permanent [[Panty Shot]] of her leather panties. There's even one scene in the game where she has to show the 'royal crest' on her chest to some guards, and the camera takes it's time with a generous shot of her breasts. The game designers put so much care into the design that they have veins!

* Celestine in [[Magna Carta 2]] is one, despite having a very childlike personality. She wears little more than a bikini, and is constantly flirting with one of the male party members. Our first glimpse of her also happens to be of her breasts.

* In ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette|Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel]]'', Sichte becomes this. She's just as voluptuous as in the first game, but now she also [[Bare Your Midriff|bares her midriff]] due to [[Clothing Damage]] she took to the lower half of her shirt sometime prior to ''Freudenstachel''.