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[[File:haruhi-bunnygirls.jpg|link=Haruhi Suzumiya|frame|Poke the Bunny (c'mon, I dare you).]]
{{quote|''"Who's ''[''your tailor'']''? Hugh Hefner? All you need is a cotton tail on your butt and some rabbit ears."''
|'''[[Mind Mistress]]''' (to [[Dasien]]), ''[[The Crossoverlord]]''}}
The [[Bunny Tropes|Playboy Bunny]]... a sexy costume popularized by the [[Playboy]] Club, composed of a [[Of Corsets Sexy|corset]]-styled leotard (color varying, though often black), [[Animal-Eared Headband|fake bunny ears]], a collar with a [[Bow Ties Are Cool]], cuffs, a fluffy tail (usually made of cotton, [[Pretty in Mink|fur]], or [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|feathers]]), some [[Stocking Filler|hose or stockings]] (usually fishnets) and high heels.
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For whatever reason, any female character (or even a male as a joke) could end up in this costume. Most often the pretext is quite flimsy, as it is hard to pretend that this is anything but [[Fan Service]]. [[Big in Japan|Mainly seen]] in [[Anime]] and [[Manga]]; not absent from Western works but rarer, precisely because Playboy has a trademark on this particular outfit, and American trademark laws are a little stricter than in Japan.
This is one of the most common forms of [[
It should be noted that the original Playboy Bunny outfit simply used [[Incredibly Lame Pun|stiffened]] ribbons tied to resemble rabbit ears. Many of the more modern depictions have [[Unusual Ears|Nekomimi-style]] ears. The original costumes were actually custom-made for each waitress by a seamstress who worked for each club; the design is copyrighted and trademarked, which is why you'll never find this outfit worn in [[Real Life]] in any establishment not owned by the magazine.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Sexy Whatever Outfit]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', this edges close to a [[Running Gag]]:
** The first instance of Female!Ranma wearing such an outfit was in her first battle against [[Blind Without'Em|Mousse]]: trapped in female form, and already committed to a man-to-man duel, she dressed up in huge, baggy clothing to fool everyone into thinking she was male, and proceeded to entertain the crowd with simple magic tricks to humiliate the [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Hidden Weapons master]]. The coup de grâce was blowing up said clothing and coming out as a Playboy Bunny (just minus the ears) to infuriate Mousse even further, claiming that even "disguised" as a girl "he" would defeat him. It backfired spectacularly when Mousse [[Clothing Damage|systematically destroyed her clothing]] and left her naked as a jaybird.
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* In early ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', Bulma is given a Playboy Bunny outfit by [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Oolong]], as it's the only outfit he owns that will fit her (and he was up all night guarding their car with a shotgun instead of doing her laundry). She even lampshades this in the Funimation dub when these clothes make her look like the [[Easter Bunny]] ("[[What Is This, X?|What is this, Easter?!]]"). It becomes a plot point when she is subsequently thought to be part of a group of bandits which are identified by the fake bunny ears they wear (the bandit leader being an anthropomorphic rabbit).
* In one episode of ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'', Kyōsuke dreams of a submissive Madoka greeting him in the morning while wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit. Yeah, [[Freud Was Right]].
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': Mikuru Asahina, of course. And Haruhi a few times, most notably in the iconic episode "Live Alive". There's also a picture with [http://www.animeyume.com/suzumiya_haruhi/tmohs_bunny_girl.jpg all the girls wearing Bunny outfits!]
** There are even figurines of the girls in bunny outfits.
** The picture of the females of ''Suzumiya Haruhi'' as bunny girls ended up as a poster on Konata's wall in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' ... which lead to it eventually [https://wcloudxkumo.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/3651-bunny_suit-hiiragi_kagami-hooragi_tsukasa-izumi_konata-lucky_star-takara_miyuki.jpg being spoofed] featuring the girls of ''[[Lucky Star]]''. ([http://images6.fanpop.com/image/answers/3215000/3215965_1366511952435.1res_450_330.jpg Here's a side-by-side comparison of the original and the homage].)
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* ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'': [[Shorttank]] Leona Ozaki surprisingly wears a Playboy Bunny outfit in the second OVA. For a [[Perp Sweating]] of all things. A [[Game Show]]-style Perp Sweating involving throwing knives and a ''hand grenade'', mind you...
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' [http://simplicitybc2000.deviantart.com/art/quot-Rabbit-Season-quot-40845633 has a few of these]:
** When Negi discovers Chisame Hasegawa cosplaying as "Chiu", she's in a Bunny Girl outfit. And he drags her outside in front of the class, to her great embarrassment. Of course, it gets worse when the costume [[Clothing Damage|doesn't survive]] a [[Sneeze of Doom
** Another time, Akira was made to wear a more classic-style costume when the girls were considering a [[Cosplay Cafe]] for the school festival.
** During the festival itself, Setsuna wears an outfit that kind of resembles a cross between this and a mascot-style fursuit.
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* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'': [[Fan Girl|Lavinia's]] ill-fated plans to seduce [[The Stoic|Sara]] at one point included wearing such an outfit. It did not work.
* At one point of ''[[Peach Girl]]'', Sai wears one of these to spy on Momo being escorted to a party by her boyfriend's brother.
* Bunny-san of ''[[Miyuki-chan
* Even when otherwise irrelevant for the series (that is, no Bunny outfit ever appears in the run of the show), it isn't uncommon for some official art to put the female characters in such costumes, just for the heck of it. [[media:BunnyGirls TenchiMuyo 7732.jpg|Here is an example]] with the girls from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Muyo]]''
** Mihoshi does dress as a Playboy Bunny in the ''No Need for Tenchi!'' manga, as part of a ploy to distract a corrupt planetary regent.
** One version of Galaxy Police uniforms has a [[Do-Anything Robot|Do-Anything Gizmo]] that the poor officer has to hang from their back pocket. Plus a [[Nice Hat]]. Just to make Mihoshi look like a [[Petting Zoo People|Bunny Girl]].
* Subverted in the ''[[Girls Bravo]]'' manga, although otherwise rife with [[Fan Service]]. [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Fukuyama]] tricks the girls into a perverted game, having them put on some fetishistic costumes. And the final loser would have to walk around the block in said embarrassing clothes. But in the end, ''he'''s the one to lose, and ends up outside wearing a Bunny outfit. He's [[Too Kinky to Torture|enough of a weirdo to enjoy this, though]].
* [[Misty May]] from ''[[Otaku no
* ''[[Kanokon]]'' anime, episode 4: Chizuru puts on a Bunny Girl outfit to try to attract Kouta, but soon finds that the costume does not come off, and is also a demon capable of controlling clothing. Said demon soon proceeds to use Chizuru's body to fly through the school [[Instant Cosplay Surprise|changing the clothes of every girl along the way]], gaining control of their outfits as well. (Some costumes include [[Miko|Shrine Maiden]], Policewoman, Nun, and China Girl.) Later on, the demon uses this as a counter to the attack from a wind user by destroying the clothing of every girl but Chizuru, since the demon is Chizuru's outfit.
* Parodied in the ''[[School Rumble]]'' anime. Yakumo's bunny outfit is actually an oversized rabbit costume.
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* ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]''
** When Rito first suggested Lala should dress to fit in with Earthpeople, she had Peke transform—and kept picking inappropriate garb to copy: a businessman's clothing, a policewoman's uniform, a Bunny.... ''That'' one led Rito to wonder in shock where she'd seen it.
** At the start of the [[RPG Episode|"Trouble Quest" arc]], the Guild assigning "adventurers" their [[Character Class]] had a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/to_love_ru/v11/c094/6.html staff of Bunnies]
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', this is the most common means of dress for revolutionary second-in-command Emporio Ivankov's people, whether male or female. Emporio also comes from an island populated entirely by men dressed up as Playboy Bunnies. Carrot is a literal Bunny Girl, being a [[Petting Zoo People]] rabbit with a [[Fanservice]]-ish look.)
* In ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'', the naive but kind-hearted Tomoko Nomura is talked by Onizuka into putting on such an outfit. He then leaves her in a crowded street without telling her what he has in mind. When she gets picked up by dodgy-looking guys, she thinks Onizuka wants her to become a porn actress. She's specifically cosplaying the character [[Cutey Honey]] (complete with hairstyle), whose outfit may have been influenced by this trope.
* All of the girls from ''[[Neko-de Gomen!
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Maicching Machiko-sensei
* Hinata Hyuga from ''[[Naruto]]'' in a recent Omake.
* Two of these appear in the background during the [[Russian Roulette]] scene with Boma and Clair in ''[[Heat Guy J]]''.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Erza Scarlet is asked by a reporter what's her favorite "armor" (among the hundred she can [[Instant Armor|"Ex-quip" at will]]). Her answer? [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fairy_tail/v13/c104/8.html The Bunny suit.] And then Lucy, starving for attention from the same reporter, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fairy_tail/v13/c104/14.html dresses in turn as a Playboy Bunny].
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'': Asuka's opponent Mitsuo used female monsters that wore this costume called Gamble Angel Bunnies. ([["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|
* Episode 7 of the original ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' TV series starts at a fancy establishment that has its servers dressed in Playboy Bunny outfits. In a subtle clue to the episode's major twist, the servers are male.
* In ''[[My Hero Academia]]'', Rumi Usagiyama is a hero with a Bunny Girl themed costume and quirk; ''do not laugh'', she is a [[Hot Amazon]] who did not become the #5 ranked pro simply from looks.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Adam Warren put Kei and Yuri into this outfit in his second ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' comic book miniseries. Unfortunately, since it was originally published in the U.S., Playboy frowned on the copyright infringement, and the bunny ears and tails were removed from the art in the trade paperback reprinting.
* An [[Alternate Universe]] [[DC Comics]] book has a 1960s' [[Wonder Woman]] going to a Playboy Club to lecture the customers on respect for women. Ms. Gloria Steinem (see Real Life below) has a cameo.
* [https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/White_Rabbit The White Rabbit], a minor villain in [[Batman]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]]. A thief and escape artist whom even Batman has never been able to catch, she's also a friend and ally of much more well-known villains, including Clayface, Scarecrow, and Bane. [[Beware the Silly Ones|She is not to be taken lightly.]]
* [[Marvel Comics]] also has a villain called the White Rabbit, whose entire shtick is dressing up like a Playboy Bunny variant of the White Rabbit from ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. She's an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] who becomes the [[Arch Enemy]] of
* Dumb Bunny from the parody-comic ''The Inferior Five'' has a costume that suggests it. According to her own account, she decided on a bunny-themed costume after someone told her rabbit ears would improve her television's reception. [[Dumb Muscle| (There's a reason she's called Dumb Bunny.)]]
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Some of the ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Doujinshi|fanart and fancomics]] often have Reisen and Tewi, who are ''already Rabbit [[Youkai]]'' to begin with, being dressed as Playboy Bunnies by their mistresses Kaguya and Eirin.
*
** On 2023 the same phenomenon repeated through the East Asian fan artists... and now there were pictures of anime ''boys'' donning the suit as well.
* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic ''Reload'', Naruto makes all of the women of an ''entire ANBU assassin squad'' into these. No, really.
* It's mentioned under "Anime and Manga" that a particular image of the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' girls was parodied with the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' girls. Artist "lucky-star-girl446" has done the same homage with the ''[[Naruto]]'' girls; [https://web.archive.org/web/20200107161133/https://www.deviantart.com/lucky-star-girl446/art/naruto-girls-114478898 see it on DeviantArt].
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* [http://www.explayboybunnies.com/history/movies/movies.html Many movie examples on this page.]
* ''[[The House Bunny]]''
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* In the illegal casino in ''[[Outrage]]'', the servers are dressed as Bunnies.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* [http://www.explayboybunnies.com/history/movies/television.html Many television examples on this page.]
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' had Hugh Hefner and two Playboy Bunnies as special guests. Naturally, the two bunnies took part in a game of "living scenery".
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* ''[[SCTV]]''—resident lothario Johnny LaRue ([[John Candy]]) owns an ersatz Playboy Club, with similarly-attired "gerbils".
▲== Music Videos ==
* [[Hello! Project]] group v-u-den wore Playboy Bunny outfits in the music video for their single "Aisu Kuriimu to Mai Purin", as well as in almost all subsequent live performances of the song.
* The [[Kaiser Chiefs]]' music video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5kEqRFPwo The Angry Mob]" has several Playboy Bunnies.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the stage musical adaptation of ''[[Legally Blonde (theatre)|Legally Blonde]]'' (see above), when called a skank by her romantic rival for her Playboy Bunny costume, Elle Woods recovers by taking someone's glasses and insisting she is dressed as an undercover Gloria Steinem (see below). She then asks her, loudly, if she is calling Gloria Steinem a skank, and a horde of feminists descends upon the rival.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* One special species of Pixie from the ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' series has an outfit like this. Its description notes that it's very popular among male breeders...
* Many ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' character models, including one of Jessica's outfits in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''. All of the female Jesters in ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' wear these.
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* Elena/Eririn from ''[[Variable Geo]]''.
* Olivia from ''[[God Hand]]'' gets one as an unlockable outfit.
* ''[[Parodius]]'' has
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''
** In the [[Original Generation]] games, [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl|Excellen Browning]] often promises to wear one for various (male) characters. In the second game, the promise is actually used to make sure she's freed from enemy brainwashing. In the final episode of the anime adaptation ''Divine Wars'', she actually comes through on it, even roping the female captain into doing it as well.
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'''Kallen:''' You brought your triangle into the cockpit...
'''Ester:''' You're piloting the Guren wearing a bunny suit, aren't you?! So I'm bringing my work tool into mine too!
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'''C.C.:''' It looks like she really is that frustrated that she couldn't become a bunny [girl].
'''Kallen:''' Sure looks like it...
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* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''
** It's not as immediately obvious due to the far less developed polygon rendering of the time, but a fair number of these (all of whom are also [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami clones]]) appear in the Gold Saucer in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
** Fran from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' (where the Viera first debuted) and ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'' have the Viera in much more modest clothing, except for the Fencer and Elementalist classes.
* [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]'' has the staff of the Bean Rua nightclub dressed as bunnygirls.
* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'': The Pokémon Lopunny has been based on this. Seriously, that's not surprising. Too bad that 50% of the time, Lopunny's a '''[[Unsettling Gender Reveal|GUY]]'''. Some people were actually joking that PUSA would call it Playbunny in English-language localizations even before the Japanese release.
* Raine can wear a bunny suit in the [[PlayStation 2]] of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''.
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* ''[[Bloody Good Time]]'' has this as one of the player characters.
* The protagonist of ''[[Keio Flying Squadron]]'' is Rami Nana-Hikari, a teenager dressed in the outfit who rides a giant, green, flying bird and fights spaceships, tanks, battleships, all that side-scrolling shooter stuff.
* Jane the Alchemist in ''[[Maple Story]]'' dresses like this. (Why? given the [[Cloudcuckooland| type of place Maple World is]], she may not need a reason.) Also, this is one of countless Cash Shop outfits you can buy to equip to your own character.
* More [[Hentai]] games than we're willing to admit having seen. One of the most infamous ones is actually called ''Do You Like Horny Bunnies'' No prizes for guessing what it's about...
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''
** The ''Lucky Bunny Bounty Show'', a [[Show Within a Show|Show Within the Webcomic]], is entirely about Playboy Bunnies.
** Let's also mention the [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-12-30 occasional] [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2005-07-12 confusion] of referring to the fans as "bunnies".
* [[Cute Witch|Mye]]'s Bunny transformation in ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]''.
* [http://reallifecomics.com/archive/061017.html These] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130308122247/http://reallifecomics.com/archive/061018.html two] ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' strips.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': Agatha Heterodyne pulls it off [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090605 in prudish steampunk victorian style]. This a joke about Foglio's [[Bleached Underpants|past work with actual cartoon sex]]. Rather than a Playboy Bunny, though, it is more a full-body bunny suit and it's not revealing at all... at least until a few panels later where Zeetha has a slightly less prude version.
* ''[[RPG World]]'' has Diane don the bunny costume as part of a plan to rescue Hero from some pirates.
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* In ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', [[Gender Bender]] Kade Whiteclaw gets put in such a costume during Chloe's party. Not entirely on her own free will, [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/my_lovely_assistant although "she" doesn't complain that much.]
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* March Hare, White Rabbit, and Silver Marten from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' all wear this sort of costume.
* In SOTF-TV, one of the games on the ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' mini site, the kids each get alternate outfits that are potentially [[Fan Service]]-y and/or humorous. As a result, [[Griefer|Sidney Rice]] gets one of these. At first she hates it, but she wastes no time in putting it on out of curiosity and almost immediately warms up to it.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayBqOZHWHE Bunny Sindel]. Players who design mods have a lot of free time...
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has a dark example. SCP-1903 is a former Playboy Bunny named Jackie who became the victim of an odd curse which she is now a cause of. Initially she was a performer at a high class club with... [[You Do NOT Want to Know| some other job there]] that her employer kept secret. Eventually, the curse seemed to come about when a customer (referred to as “AF”) took a liking to Jackie; his jealous wife found out, and “convinced” Jackie’s employer to break confidentiality and spill Jackie’s secrets. (Both the jealous wife and the employer are regarded as possible orchestrators of the curse, but exactly how and why is not known.) The curse turned Jackie into a dark caricature of a Bunny, leaking mercury from her skin, the mask and gloves of her costume becoming part of her body, the mask turning horrific and skull-like, her gloves turning claw-like, and being rendered deaf, unable to hear without wearing the bunny-ears. It also seems this curse is very contagious, and anyone who learns A) AF’s name, B) exactly what AF did to Jackie, and C) Jackie’s response to said actions will become a creature like her, but unlike her, experience constant pain and often insanity. To Jackie’s credit, she tries very hard to dissuade any of the Foundation from reading up on her past, but not all of them listen; the Foundation is just [[Aesop Collateral Damage| too obsessed with researching their charges to leave well enough alone]]. At very least, AF fell victim to the curse too and took his own life, [[Laser-Guided Karma| literally cutting his face off.]]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A few of them appear in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled". Justified because one of the [[Special Guest]]s in the episode is Hugh Hefner.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In 1963, feminist author Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Bunny in the New York Playboy Club. Her article, featuring a photo of her in Bunny uniform, exposed how women were treated at the clubs (in short, rotten with ridiculous rules, poor pay and sexual harassment) and was a sensation.
* Before she became a successful voice actress, B.J. Ward was a Playboy Bunny. (Sadly, [[Voltron|Princess Alura]] never wears one.)
* [[Rie Tanaka]], another voice actress, also wore a Playboy Bunny costume [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccsx/2960967495/ one time].
* More future celebrities who worked as Bunnies: [[Blondie (band)|Deborah Harry]], '70s supermodel Lauren Hutton, actress [[Twin Peaks|Sherilyn Fenn]]... and [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Magenta]].
* Playboy ''knows'' that their customers love Bunnies and the bunny suit (the anime exposure also helped), so they [https://www.yandy.com/products/playboy-elegant-bunny-costume sell these] through their subsidiary Yandy. Great for Halloween or just giving your loved one a bit of a [[Fanservice]]y treat.
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