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{{quote|''"If Batman is so smart, why does he wear his underwear ''over'' his pants?"''}}
[[Sister Trope]] to [[Leotard of Power]],
For most super heroes this was initially a reference to the Strongman uniform (i.e. a bathing suit) from the day, although then it became iconic of super heroes, mostly due to Superman, which the rest of the heroes then drew upon.
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* ''[[Astro Boy]]''
* Franky from ''[[One Piece]]''. 'nuff said.
* Parodied by the manga ''[[Miracle Lingerie]]'', in which the heroine's powers derived from her [[Applied Phlebotinum]]
** Hilariously, besides the heroine and her rival, there's a 3rd character with the magic bra and
* Similar to the above, the OVA series ''[[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]]'', wherein the title character's literal
* Hiromu Arakawa, mangaka of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', depicts herself as a cow with glasses. Early in the series, she drew her cow self with [http://i7.tinypic.com/20zbpcg.jpg "Fighting Panties,"] and has since commented that so many people associate her with that image over all the others.
* Lina Inverse appears to be wearing this over her clothes in the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime.
* Taken to the extremes with the shounen manga ''[[Hentai Kamen]]'', a superhero who fights with a pair of panties to cover his face and a really small pair of underwear to cover everything else.
* In a direct reference to ''[[Hentai Kamen]]'', the ''Magical Girl [[Lyrical Nanoha]] [http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] has [http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5206/asnano18.jpg this] probably Safe For Work but probably not Safe For Eyes costume decision for the [[Mysterious Protector]].
** [[Brain Bleach|* Glasses explode*
* Arguably a lot of early [[Super Robot|super robots]], such as the ''[[Mazinger Z|Mazinger]]'' and ''[[Getter Robo]]'' families, where the mecha featured colourful, underpants-like waists.
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': Unicorn Jabu has metal Underwear of Power.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The Battlizer from ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' has a thong. [[Fan Nickname
* [[Kamen Rider Black RX]] in his main and Biorider forms, [[Kamen Rider ZX]], and all of [[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]'s Oni are obvious examples. Black, RX Roborider, ZO, and J have this as well, but it's part of the armor design and not as obvious.
* One memorable [[Round the Twist]] featured underwear that actually gave superpowers after being heated up in the microswave. Unfortunately, they were not pre-shrunk, and sharnk when they got wet.
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== Music ==
* The [[Heavy Mithril]] band Manowar often performs in
* Surely [[Lady Gaga]] counts for singing and dancing in panties? In fact, it's been somewhat of a trademark for her (when was the last time we've seen her in pants?).
** "Alejandro." Her fandom was astonished.
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* The ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' incarnation of Roll also qualifies. Also a rare example of a female who gets a full-body suit for the Speedo to go over.
** [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] ([[Brental Floss|he's blue and cyan!]]), Proto Man (with added [[Scarf of Asskicking]]) and several Robot Masters have this look. Theirs even change color, based on the weapon in use.
* ''[[Soul Calibur]] 3'' and ''4'' allow you to do this in their character creation, and, in fact, you generally have to do this in ''Soul Calibur 4'', since [[Clothing Damage]] is almost assured anyway. The only four real options for underwear are [[Furry Loincloth
** For those who prefer their fights in [[Soul Calibur]] 4 to look less ridiculous by having your character actually be wearing something by the end of it, there are full suits of mail armor for both genders.
* Dawn Star and one of the female player character models in [[Jade Empire]] don't exactly have pants...
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Sockbaby|Sockb4by]]'', the mooks all wear black wetsuits with white briefs on the outside.
* Pretty much every other superhero in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' wears
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* Xandir of ''[[Drawn Together]]''.
* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'', and, really, any barbarian hero/heroine wears a variant of this if they aren't using a loincloth.
** Loincloths are the male
* Spoofed with Goofy's superhero identity Super-Goof, whose costume is a pair of long johns.
* [[Doug]]'s superhero [[Author Avatar]] Quailman spoofs this trope by wearing white briefs over his trousers.
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