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[[File:final fantasy viii heroine and villain.jpg|link=Final Fantasy VIII|frame|The lady on the right is evil, because [[Absolute Cleavage|more of her boobs are showing]].]]


{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Kabal}}''': ''Whaddaya think? Friend or foe?''
'''Stryker''': ''Foe.''
'''{{spoiler|Kabal}}''': ''Dressed like [[Stripperiffic|that]]?'' 
'''Stryker''': ''[[Genre Savvy|Definitely foe.]]''|'''Kurtis Stryker''' and '''{{spoiler|Kabal}}''' upon sighting [[Dark Action Girl|Mileena]], ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]''}}

Just as good and evil can be [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], you can also tell them apart as heroes dress sensibly (more or less), and villains dress in skimpier outfits.

Although it's not that common nowadays, this likely started as a form of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. "It's okay if they dress immorally. They're the ''bad guys''! (wink)"

This trope doesn't require the good guys to dress like prudes, nor to never put on revealing clothing (because, you know, [[Fan Service]]). It's just that their regular outfits are significantly less skimpy than what the villains wear (and the heroes can dress like that with an [[Evil Costume Switch]]).

The exact way an outfit is skimpier can vary. It can be anything from being more form fitting to outright [[Stripperific]].

This often overlaps with [[Evil Is Sexy]], except this doesn't require the villain to actually be sexy, just dressed skimpily ([[Fan Disservice|there can be a difference]]). Furthermore, that trope often has the villains dress just as sensibly as the heroes, or the heroes to dress just as sexy as the villains (most [[Superhero]] comics). Neither of those is this trope.

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Dress-Coded for Your Convenience]]. May overlap with [[Make Up Is Evil]].

Compare [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]], [[Obviously Evil]], [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]. An author that uses the [[Madonna-Whore Complex]] will often invoke this trope.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Zigzagged in ''[[Bleach]]''. Although shinigami wear far more conservative outfits than the arrancar, the most standout stripperific baddies (Halibel, Mila Rose, Grimmjow, and Lilinette) are some of the most sympathetic ones. By contrast, [[Girlish Pigtails|Loly Aivirrne]], who has [[Zettai Ryouiki|a schoolgirl-like skirt, thigh-high boots]], and a shirt that reveals her midriff and half of her breasts, remains [[Depraved Bisexual|one of the]] [[Yandere|most unpleasant characters]] in the series' run (in the manga at least; the anime actually gave her a good measure of redemption). However, [[Anti-Villain|Neliel]] wore a pantsuit as an Aizen-affiliated Espada, only to wear torn-apart rags upon regaining her memories ''as'' an Espada. The others, like [[Mad Scientist|Szayel Aporro]], [[He-Man Woman Hater|Nnoitra]], [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip|Aaroniero]], and even the Shinigami-born [[Manipulative Bastard|Aizen]] wear more clothing than any of the others ever do. Although [[Ms. Fanservice|Matsumoto]] may be presented as sexier, other than a low-cut top, she's still wearing much more than the others mentioned.
* Inverted in ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]'', where the eponymous ''hero'' is dressed in the skimpy outfit, and the villain wears something more sensible.
** Likely just the [[Author Appeal|author's tastes]], though. Plus, it isn't really skimpy in the sense that it's actually made to show off her body or anything (considering how she's rather...[[Pettanko|flat]].)
* In [[Genzo]], we have Princess Kiku, who dresses like a [[Tomboy|Samurai]], and Genzo as sensible heroes, while the [[Evil Redhead]] Maria Kurusu wears only a [[Of Corsets Sexy|black corset]], a long skirt, and boots.
* The first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. [[The Hero]] wears a long-skirted uniform for her combat outfit, and her allies are either dressed casually or garbed in full military uniform. Meanwhile, [[The Dragon]] is wearing what's basically a black swimsuit with a short skirt and interestingly placed red belts, her [[Familiar]] wears even less, and the [[Big Bad]] shows [[Absolute Cleavage]]. This trope stops applying in later seasons, once Nanoha starts [[Defeat Means Friendship|befriending]] people.
* ''[[Yaiba]]'', where the [[Moon Rabbit|moon]] [[Evil Overlord|empress]] Kaguya dresses like a [[Playboy Bunny]] (she's apparently an anthropomorphic rabbit, {{spoiler|actually an [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}, possessing a human), while the heroes dress sensibly.
* ''[[Silent Moebius]]''.
* ''[[Yatterman]]''. The heroes wear jumpsuits, while the main female villain wears a revealing leather outfit. Her ugly cronies also have their [[Bare Your Midriff|midriffs bared]] [[Fan Disservice|at all times]].
* The girls in ''[[Lime-iro Senkitan]]'' and ''[[Lime Iro Ryukitan X]]'', while their casual and military outfits are rather form fitting and on the short-skirted side, compared to the villains, who dress in barely-covering-anything black leather, they look positively modest.
* In the first half of ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'', Eas, the sole female in the evil Labyrinth organization, wears a [[Stripperiffic]] black outfit complete with a bared midriff and short shorts, while the heroines wear comparatively modest frilly dresses when transformed. When Eas  {{spoiler|makes her [[High Heel Face Turn]] and becomes Cure Passion, she gets a modest frilly dress of her own.}}
* ''[[Star Driver]]''. Almost all evil characters have openly [[Stripperiffic]] uniforms, while good guys usually dress modestly. 
* Kinda inverted in [[Senki Zesshou Symphogear]]. Chris is introduced as a mostly clothed villain with a visor. (she still has underboob showing, though) In the episode where she begins her heel/face turn, she switches it out for a cleavage, shoulder, and thigh exposing costume.


== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'', the dark witch's outfits are even skimpier than those of her good sister, and that's ''really'' saying something.
* Parodied, along with most of the [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]], in [[Grant Morrison]]'s one-shot [[Doom Patrol|Doom Force]]. The villainess first shows up dressed fairly sexily, which her brother finds disgusting - because she's wearing too much clothing. She obligingly switches to exotic lingerie. The brother, meanwhile, later shows up in a speedo and pasties.
* In DC's ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', Arrowette fears she's turned evil. "I'll have to get a tight, skimpy black leather outfit that shows off my cleavage. Oh god. I'll have to get cleavage."
* The [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this trope are lampshaded in an issue of ''[[Avengers Academy]]'' where the Avengers confrony Cyclops' post-''Schism'' X-Men team. Hawkeye (IIRC) says of Emma Frost, "I knew someone who dresses like that couldn't stay a good guy!", to which Tigra responds, "What does that make me? Doctor Doom?"
* The comparison shows up when a DC or Marvel good gal gets brainwashed or possessed or simply chooses to be bad.


== Films ==
* In ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', Dr. Frank N. Furter often dresses in nothing more than a corset, fishnets, heels, and short shorts (or panties...). When others "succumb" to his power, they start dressing this way.
* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/soapbox/125461888840692.htm Princess Aura's metal bikini with shoulders & cape] from the 1980s film of ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'', although some of the heroes were wearing pretty immodest outfits too.
* In ''[[Lair of the White Worm]]'', the entire cast is dressed in a manner fitting people living in the English countryside. That is, except for Lady Marsh, who wears very little and happens to be an evil vampire worshipping an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* [http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/d/d9/Bellatrix89.jpg Bellatrix Lestrange] from the [[Harry Potter]] films counts, at least in ''Order of the Phoenix''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that most of the goodies are either teenagers or over fifty, and those that aren't, such as Tonks or Fleur, are [[Demoted to Extra]].
** Technically, Bellatrix is fairly close to 50 (47 at the time of her death), it's just that [[Helena Bonham Carter|her actress]] is over 15 years younger than the character, and thus movie viewers easily forget that Bellatrix is actually older than characters like Snape. She's actually only 2 years younger than Molly Weasley, if one goes by the official character birthdates.
* While this can fit the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|comics]] too in a way, the only skimpy mutants in the ''[[X-Men (film)|X Men]]'' films either started or ended on the evil side: Mystique (doesn't wear clothes, except when she was still with the X-Men), Emma Frost (a bikini or cleavage for most of ''First Class'' - [[Continuity Snarl|the "Wolverine" version]] [[Canon Discontinuity|doesn't count!]]) and Angel Salvatore (justified in that she worked as a stripper). Although this is because ''all'' the female mutants end up on the Brotherhood's side, and all the women in the movie are used for fanservice.
* ''[[The Marine]]'': Triton's down-to-earth wife Kate wears a denim jacket, white tank top, and jeans. Bad Girl Angela wears a leather getup with a leopard top. And, if memory serves, heels. [[Combat Stilettos|In a swamp chase.]] [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2336135168/tt0419946 Compare].


== Live-Action TV ==
* The ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' recent [[Syfy]] original film with Neal McDonough and Zoey Deschanel, the evil sis had some costumes.
** Let's just say there was a reason why the flying monkeys in this version were nicknamed "boobmonkeys".
* The [[Mirror Universe]] in ''[[Star Trek]]''
** Averted with Mirror Kira, whose black jumpsuit shows rather less skin than normal Kira's red uniform.
*** Mirror Kira's still a lot more openly sexual.
* One gets the sense that ''[[Charmed]]'' was trying to use this trope, only the female lead characters were so [[Stripperific]] that it would have been hard to make the female demons [[Up to Eleven|even more so]]; therefore, the Charmed Sisters are only marginally less sexy than the female demons. Male demons would seem to be a straighter example of this trope, at least in the later seasons, when you had fellows like Zankou using leather outfits as a symbol for their status as evil demons.
* Compare Colonel Deering (good) with Princess Ardala (bad) in [[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]].
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' gives a controlled example with vampire/human Willow, [[Evil Twin|the same character except for alignment]]. Upon discovering how tight her vampire self's corset is, human Willow comments, "I guess vampires really don't have to breathe." She later delivers the gem: "I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Just look at my outfit!"
** There was also [[Dark Action Girl|Faith]], who, while not exactly [[Stripperific]], tended to show a lot more cleavage than Buffy (and wear generally tighter outfits).
*** Averted in later seasons. After she  {{spoiler|became good}}, she wore the exact same clothes she normally did.
* [[Stargate SG-1]] played with this trope a bit. While Carter and Dr. Frasier were always well covered up, the female Goa'uld were generally pretty [[Stripperific]]. This is partially justified by the setting, as Carter and Frasier are military personnel on active duty, and the Goa'uld base their power on being worshipped as gods, and part of the [[A God Am I]] schtick would be to show off their physically near-perfect bodies.
** In the episode "The Warrior", a lot of the males wore similarly skimpy outfits when not in the uniforms they were made to wear by their former masters. 
* As with the [[Sailor Moon|anime]], in the live sction series of [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]], it's hard to miss Queen Beryl's rather generous chest. It's especially noticable compared to the scouts' modest street clothes and [[Sailor Fuku]].
* This happens with some of the seasons of ''[[Power Rangers]]'': compare the suited heroes and heroines to villainesses such as [[Power Rangers Turbo|Divatox]] and [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Vypra]].


== Music Videos ==
* In the video for "You Belong with Me" by [[Taylor Swift]], when the nerdy girl takes off her glasses and reveals that she was [[Beautiful All Along]] at the [[High School Dance]], she is wearing a modest white dress. The [[Alpha Bitch]] character, also played by her, is in a skimpy red dress.


== Professional Wrestling ==
* Back when she first debuted in the late 90s, Stephanie McMahon wore tasteful formal and semi-formal outfits. When she first [[Face Heel Turn|turned heel]] to join up with [[Triple H]] and [[D Generation X]], she switched that look for tank tops and leather hot pants.


== Videogames ==
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series is a fan of this.
** Rinoa, the hero's girlfriend and good girl, versus Sorceress Ultimecia, the game's ultimate villain. Rinoa may be prettier, but evil gets [[Absolute Cleavage|a dress where the neckline ends at the]] ''[[Absolute Cleavage|crotch]]''. And then it's slit up [[Up to Eleven|a little further for good measure.]]
** Also, Edea's dress shows a fair bit of cleavage while she is the villain, but when she turns good, her dress changes to something that covers her chest.  {{spoiler|Then again, she's possessed by Ultimecia when wearing the black dress, so she's probably been borrowing her fashion sense.}}
** Sorceress Adel wears nothing but a skirt. This is [[Fan Disservice]], however, as Sorceress Adel has the build of a man.
** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' follows it perfectly - with both men ''and'' women. Although many of the male protagonists aren't wearing full shirts, Seymour is showing ''even more'' than that (to the point of being the male equivalent of [[Absolute Cleavage]]). {{spoiler|Yunalesca}} is just wearing a bikini.  {{spoiler|Jecht never wears a shirt either - and the player eventually finds out that he's currently Sin, the ungodly horror tormenting the entire world.}}
** ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'' gave us the Cloud of Darkness, a woman wearing a cape, paint...and that's it. All other female characters in the game are significantly more dressed up.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' plays with this as pretty much every female boss can't be bothered to wear more than a bikini (especially Barbariccia), while the female leads are wearing actual clothes. Adult Rydia pushes this though.
** We've gotten this far without mentioning ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'''s fine male example, [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Kuja]]?
* This also carries over into the spin-off ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]. ''Just compare the Cosmos and Chaos female characters. Terra wears a fairly normal outfit, albeit with a miniskirt, though she is wearing tights underneath. Shantotto, as someone ([[Token Evil Teammate|marginally]]) on Cosmos's side, wears a full uniform. Cosmos herself is wearing a long white gown. Meanwhile, the Chaos side only has two women - and they're Ultimecia and the Cloud of Darkness, mentioned above.
** It gets a little amusing in the [[prequel]] game, ''Dissidia 012'', where we see that several heroes were on Chaos's side in the previous war. {{spoiler|Terra}} loses the leggings and skirt in favor of a white leotard and a hip scarf, and {{spoiler|Tidus}} seems to have developed an [[Walking Shirtless Scene|allergy to shirts.]] {{spoiler|Runs in the family, I guess. Cloud}} actually gains more clothing with much fancier armour, but also adds more jewellery, and  {{spoiler|Jecht}} is exactly the same despite being a good guy.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|The Dark Queen]] of ''[[Battletoads]]'': even though the toads are technically naked, it doesn't count due to them being anthropomorphic [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|toads]].
* Inverted in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2'', in which the more light-side of your female party members (Mira and the Handmaiden if the player is male) expose a lot more skin over the course of the game than the darker pair (Visas and Kreia). The Twin Suns, two female Twi'leks that are minor bosses on Nar Shadda, play this trope straight by wearing less than any female party member, except for the Handmaiden in her underwear.
** Though the clothing doesn't change too much, Bastila is much more open to the possibility of sex after falling to the Dark Side in [[Knights of the Old Republic]].
* In ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' series, the first [[Stripperiffic]] female ''antagonist'' character you meet WILL [[Heel Face Turn]]. Subverted with the second female antagonist that appear will has much less revealing outfit {{spoiler|eg.Priel,Elicia and Yorg}}. {{spoiler|Valerie}} will switched to much more revealing outfit when she reveal her true identity.
* In [[Mass Effect]], your teammate Liara wears a perfectly ordinary tunic of the sort many female NPCs are comfortable wandering around in public wearing. Her mother Benezia, suffering from a case of [[More Than Mind Control]], has an [[Impossibly Low Neckline]] to show off her ''huge''...[[Monty Python|tracts of land]].
** Also played straight in the sequel, where Shepard's nicest female allies ([[The Woobie|Tali]], Ashley, and [[Hot Scientist|Liara]]) run around in the same sensible clothes as in the first game, the more morally questionable ones ([[Femme Fatale|Miranda]] and [[Lawful Stupid|Samara]]) have ''extremely'' close-fitting outfits (with [[Absolute Cleavage]] in Samara's case), and the only thing the psychotic one ([[Ax Crazy|Jack]]) wears from the waist up is tattoos and a leather strap that's only just wide enough to cover her nipples.
** Oddly enough, you get a bit of this with some of the male characters as well. [[Hitman with a Heart|Thane]] shows off a strip of bare chest (for medical reasons, apparently), and [[Ax Crazy|Grunt]] has bare arms (in both cases more skin than any non-Asari alien in the first game displays), and are also the most Renegade of your team (unless you download Zaeed, but that's another story).
*** Zaeed's armor doesn't cover everything either. So yes, this game includes several male examples.
* Also shows up in [[Dragon Age]] with [[Black Magician Girl|Morrigan's]][[Distracted by the Sexy|...]][[Absolute Cleavage|outfit]] as compared to the nice modest Chantry robes [[Jeanne D'Archetype|Leliana]] shows up wearing. One of your clues that [[My Master, Right or Wrong|Ser Cauthrien]] can be reasoned with is that she wears perfectly ordinary heavy armor.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Solid Snake wears a (admittedly [[Thong of Shielding|a little revealing]], but mostly fairly sensible) [[Spy Catsuit]]. His [[Evil Twin]], Liquid Snake, walks around only in tight trousers and a coat undone at the front. He has no shirt.
* ''[[Lunar]] The Silver Star''. Luna wears a peasant dress at first, then practically nothing after her (apparent) [[Face Heel Turn]].
** While all the women of the Vile Tribe shown in ''Silver Star Story Complete'' and beyond wear rather skimpy clothes, it should not be a shock which one of them chooses to make a [[Face Heel Turn]] later in the game considering that she's the most conservatively dressed of the three.
* I-NO of ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is...improperly dressed. Works for "That Man", who appears to be [[The Man Behind the Man]]. Though this is kind of subverted because the heroine, Dizzy, is wearing ''[[Innocent Fanservice Girl|even less]]''
** On the other hand, Dizzy doesn't have a winpose where she takes her clothes ''off''... 
* Somewhat averted with the player characters in ''Champions of Norrath''. While they're all technically good guys, you can play as a Dark Elf Shadow-Night, and the female version of that class is one of the two ''most'' covered female characters. The most skimpily dressed one is the Desert Mage, who is the only one with [[Absolute Cleavage]].
* While every female in ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' is some degree of [[Stripperiffic]], Rayne's costume is somewhat protective compared to Ephemera's [[Of Corsets Sexy|skin exposure]] and Feral's [[Vapor Wear|animated tattoos]]. In the first,  {{spoiler|Rayne's mentor, Mynce, shows more leg, and later is revealed to be a traitor}}.
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' is a minor example, as [[White Magician Girl|Mia]], [[Black Magician Girl|Jenna]], and [[Mysterious Waif|Sheba]] all dress modestly, with nary a hint of cleavage to be seen (Mia's a [[Justified Trope|justified case]], as she comes from a snowy mountain region). The villainous [[Ms. Fanservice|Karst]], on the other hand, runs around in a [[Bare Your Midriff|midriff-baring top]], [[Zettai Ryouiki|mini-skirt, and thigh-high boots.]] Her big sister, [[Playing with Fire|Menardi]], however, wears [[Subverted Trope|a dress that's every bit as modest as the heroines'.]]
** ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn|Dark Dawn]]'' continues the tradition with [[Blow You Away|Karis]], [[Badass|Sveta]], and [[Shrine Maiden|Himi]] all wearing practical, modest outfits while still managing to look good. And then there's [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Chalis]], who...well, [http://goldensunwiki.net/images/b/ba/GSHeart.jpg see for yourself.]
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', as seen above in the page quote. Stryker sees [[Stripperiffic|Millena]] and automatically assumes she's a foe. Fellow cop,  {{spoiler|actually Kabal}}, says "dressed like that?" and Stryker says "''definitely'' foe."
** ''9'' (and the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' franchise as a whole) is definitely a large-scale subversion, as most of the heroines, villainesses, and neutrally-aligned females are pretty damn [[Stripperiffic]] (this became ''especially'' notable when the series [[Fan Service Pack|entered its]] [[Hotter and Sexier]] [[World of Buxom|phase]] around the time of ''[[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance|Deadly Alliance]]''), regardless of alignment, [[Token Wholesome|the main exception being]] [[Mortal Kombat Deception|Ashrah]], who is something of a [[Knight Templar]].
* [[League of Legends]] plays this trope straight and subverts it at the same time. While most of the females are [[Stripperific]], All the well-dressed female champions are good.
* Played with a bit in ''[[La Pucelle]]''. Princess Eclair normally wears a [[Battle Ballgown]], while her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] wears sexy black lingerie. However, the circumstances where Dark Eclair first shows up seems to suggest that that's just Eclair's normal sleepwear. 
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Rouge, the vain, rather selfish [[Anti-Hero]], dresses in clothes that show off everything she's got to maximum effect, while Amy, Cream, and Blaze dress modestly, and Tikal doesn't even have anything to show off.


== Web Originals ==
* In ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'', once he gets his body body back, Voldemort wears nothing but a cape, tight pants, and tap shoes for the rest of the play. [[Evil Is Sexy]], indeed. His outfit is actually far more revealing than Bellatrix's (who dresses rather modestly except for a pretty high slit in her skirt), in an unusual subversion.
* [[Whateley Universe]] examples: Bladedancer vs. Vamp, Phase vs. Vamp, Lancer vs. Lady Darke, Lady Astarte vs. Cruella...
** Although Vamp turns out to be [[The Mole]] and she still dresses like that now that she no longer has to act like a supervillainess. On the other hand, in the most famous Lady Astarte vs. Cruella battle (according to legend), Cruella had such a skimpy outfit that she had a 'wardrobe malfunction' in the middle of a superbattle. In front of news cameras.
* On ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]],'' Linkara [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/5906-top15worst notes] that while men gain more clothes from a [[Face Heel Turn]], women always become skimpier. He uses [[Characterization Tags|evil!]] [[Shazam|Mary Marvel]]'s miniskirt as a prime example.
* [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]] Agents wear bulky black military fatigues. Compare this with the skimpy or overly ornate clothing of the average [[Mary Sue]]...


== Webcomics ==
* While ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'''s lead female, Haley, usually gets by with nothing sexier than a bare midriff, her [[Evil Counterpart]] Sabine is prone to do things like engage in battle wearing a schoolgirl outfit.
** Tsukiko is the only thing identifiably female on Team Evil, and flies around in a short skirt. Belkar even lampshades it at one point, thanking her for the in-universe fan service on behalf of all (living) males in the city.
* Inverted in [[Kit N Kay Boodle]] - the heroes are nudists who have sex all the time, and the villains wear clothes.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': compare [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/White_Queen White Queen] and [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Queen Black Queen]'s outfits.
* The main characters in ''[[At Arm's Length (webcomic)|At Arms Length]]'' wear reasonable shirt and pants combos into battle, but their arch nemesis Temujin looks like she bought her outfit from the barbarian section of Victoria's Secret.
** Ally's outfit might still count as [[Fetish Fuel]], however.
** Averted with Kiley, who wears a tube top.


== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'': Compare Arcee and Blackarachnia's designs and see which parts of their bodies resemble exposed skin.
** Arguably applies to Blackarachnia all by herself in ''[[Beast Wars]]''. Compare her original body to her post-[[Heel Face Turn]] outfit and try to spot the "skin". And then there's Airazor, who seems to be a fairly modest Maximal from the get-go.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' offers what could be considered an [[Inverted Trope|inversion.]] The female villains are usually dressed more conservatively than Starfire, who flies around in a [[Bare Your Midriff|midriff baring]] shirt and a short skirt, and Raven, who, under the cloak, wears a ridiculously tight looking [[Leotard of Power|leotard.]]
** Comic book Starfire takes this a step further, they had to put more clothes ON her for the cartoon. She's even naked occasionally in the comics.

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[[Category:Partial Nudity Tropes]]
[[Category:Evil Is Sexy]]
[[Category:Goodness Tropes]]
[[Category:Evil Tropes]]
[[Category:Villainous Fashion Sense]]
[[Category:Obviously Evil]]
[[Category:Stripperiffic]]
[[Category:Women Are Delicate]]
[[Category:Good and Evil For Your Convenience]]
[[Category:Costume Tropes]]
[[Category:Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]]