Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females: Difference between revisions

 

Subtrope of [[Appropriate Animal Attire]]. See also [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]], and [[Humanoid Female Animal]].

== Comics ==

* In a variant, the males of ''[[Fish Police (Comic Book)|Fish Police]]'' are pantsless, while the females wear swimsuits or bikinis.

* ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'' does this, Russell the hedgehog being the only male character who wears pants but no shirt. Abigail wears tomboyish overalls while Michelle wears a little dress.

* Inverted in ''[[The Rescuers (Disney)|The Rescuers]]'' where Miss Bianca actually wears less clothing than Bernard.

 

== [[Film]], Live-Action ==

* In the ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' games, most of the male characters are routinely pantsless, but almost all the female characters are fully dressed. The exception is The Contessa from ''Sly 2'', but she's a spider-centaur-thing with no humanoid legs.

** In a behind-the-scenes unlockable in ''Sly 2'', one developer comments that Sly is "a universe in pantsless-ness".

** But in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' cartoons and comics, a sort of flip-flop in dressing code happens between the genders. With little exception, young male characters are mostly naked and young female characters are almost always fully dressed, but as they mature, the ''males'' start wearing more clothing, while the females start wearing much ''less''. Amy Rose and Cream the Rabbit, for example, are not yet into their teens, and wear full dresses and panties, while their much older counterpart Sally Acorn wears only boots and a vest; similarly, Knuckles is almost completely nude in his teenage years, while his much older family members (and eventually himself, as revealed in the latest "25 Years Later" [[Story Arc]]) all wear some form of full bodysuit or cloak.

* In the third ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' game, ''Spyro: Year of The Dragon'', Hunter wears nothing at all, whereas Bianca wears a robe.

** Though whenever Ozy is shaved he has to wear pants, was actually the subject of one mini-arc. And there are numerous occasions where Millie dances naked in the rain.

* Invoked in [http://www.dorktower.com/2011/11/16/ this] ''[[Dork Tower]]'' comic.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

** In an older cartoon, ''Hare Splitter'', Bugs and his romantic rival only wear gloves, while Daisy, their love interest, is in sweater and skirt. What's more, she lives in an above-ground bungalow, and they live in holes in the ground. Perhaps she just has more style.

** Porky Pig is pantless, but Petunia Pig is fully dressed.

* In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', all the male rangers wear shirts but no pants (actually, Chip doesn't even have a shirt, just a coat). Gadget wears a full jumpsuit. While this is partly justified normally since she's a mechanic, even when the rangers wear something other than their usual outfits, Gadget is always fully clothed.

** There was a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] in one episode: When Dale and Gadget [[Body Swap|swap bodies]], she says, "Is it drafty in here?" and quickly makes a skirt out of a toothpaste cap.

* Rebecca and Molly Cunningham from ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' are fully dressed, but Kit Cloudkicker and Baloo are pantsless. [[Averted]] in that most male characters in the show are fully dressed.

* [[Classic Disney Shorts|Mickey and Minnie]] follow this trope in more modern appearances like in ''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]'', where [[Mickey Mouse]] remains shirtless but Minnie is wearing a full dress.

** In ''[[House of Mouse]]'' and in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' this is averted for [[Mickey Mouse]] having him wear full clothing. Donald still wear no pants though.

* On ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'', Kitty Katswell is fully clothed, but Dudley Puppy wears only a shirt.

* In ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'', Squidward seems to be the only one that doesn't wear pants, and this is often lampshaded.