Spy Catsuit: Difference between revisions

See also [[Superheroes Wear Tights]], [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]].

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* Erin eSurance, the female agent in the inescapable ''eSurance'' commercials, frequently sports one.

* Ali Larter sports a bright-yellow suit in the Absolut Citron advertisements/short films as her alter-ego Lemon Drop.

* In the first ad of T*Mobile's most recent ad campaign, their mascot-spokeswoman trades in her girl-next-door pink dress for a pink-and-black motorcycle jumpsuit. Justified in that she's going motorcycle riding (as a metaphor for the company's high-speed wireless network).

* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', Major Kusanagi wears a spy catsuit that really is a stealth device, called thermoptic camouflage. In the movie at least, this technology is used fairly extensively, although she has to be ''nude'' to use it (or rather, a flesh-colored skinsuit. The suit leaves a noticeable neckline where her skin color contrasts with the suit's.) It's somewhat less drastic in other iterations, which look more practical.

** While the Major's normal combat wear shows more curves than the standard models, it's generally quite practical. The major exception to this is in the ''Stand Alone Complex the 2nd Gig'' episode ''Cash Eye'', which plays with the infiltration and espionage tropes, and repeated references to ''Ocean's Eleven'', and has her wear a catsuit that fits this trope to tee with little purpose. Perhaps the outfit let the android fetishist [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] to mistake her for a combat android.

* Celty from ''[[Durarara!!]]''.

* [[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]] ([[DC Comics]]) often, but not always, wears these.

** Subverted in a ''[[Batman Adventures]]'' tie-in comic that introduced Catman as a villain inspired by Catwoman. So much that he wears Catwoman's rather feminine-looking catsuit, which looks rather comical on a male figure.

* Femme Appeal from the ''[[Darkwing Duck (comics)|Darkwing Duck]]'' comic wears one. Hardly surprising, considering that she's a furry [[Captain Ersatz]] of Emma Peel.

* The Kensington ladies and Foxy Cleopatra from ''[[Austin Powers]]'', obviously.

* If there was a point to the movie ''[[Entrapment]]'' beyond showing Catherine Zeta-Jones in one of these as she slinked through a maze of trip beams, it's not clear.

* The likely [[Trope Maker]] is Irma Vep in the 1915-16 French serial ''[[Les Vampires]]''. Musidora, the actress who played Irma had been a circus acrobat and the catsuit is probably derived from her leotard and tights.

* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Star Wars]]: Legacy of the Force: Invincible''; [[Action Girl|Jaina Solo]] more-or-less complains about how the suit she stole from a GAG soldier is more suitable for someone trying to draw some attention to themselves: ''...a full size too small, and snug in all the wrong places for a woman trying to avoid attention.''

** We also have a straight example in [[Action Mom|Mara Jade Skywalker]] - made even more obvious in the Japanese covers for the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' novels as well as that of ''Sacrifice''.

* Kochanski in the [[Red Dwarf]] Season 7, Episode "Ouroboros" (later destroyed in "Duct Soup").

* [[Britney Spears]] sports this in music videos, "Oops I Did It Again" and "Toxic".

* September's backup dancers in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qux6PhqbBBU Cry for You].

* Seen occasionally in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. Several Eldar have one, but it's pretty much standard issue for the Officio Assassinorum agents of the Imperium. Some employ chamaeleonic mimicry abilities, others have no special reason apart from being [[Fetish Fuel]]. In one of the newer novels, this tendency is repeatedly lampshaded when several characters can't keep their eyes from the girl-assassin brought up by a rather [[Kill It with Fire|puritanical]] [[Chainsaw Good|sect]] who would most likely kill them if she had any idea why they looked at her like that...

** And, of course, there's the Harlequins in their skin-tight acrobat leotard that emits hologram fields.

* Maureen in ''[[Rent]]''.

* ''[[Half-Life]]'''s Black Operations females wore skintight suits. In fact, in ''Half-Life 1'', their breasts jiggled when they walked. It was removed in ''Opposing Force'', an expansion. It's also worth noting that the ''males'' wore skin-tight black, too.

* Strangely enough, in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' games, the Spy Catsuit is the domain of [http://i11.tinypic.com/4ujta9j.jpg male spies]. The female spies get to wear [http://i17.tinypic.com/5xz6dz6.jpg proper camo], suits, military uniforms or flight suits. The Boss starts out in a proper BDU, but switches this for possibly the [http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/celtic1962/THEBOSSsnakeeater.jpg a more "space age" type outfit]. Eva in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' plays this pretty straight though, complete with the front-zipper cleavage, which features prominently in first-person cutscenes.

* [[Catwoman]] in [[Batman: Arkham City]] gets special mention for sporting one of these with the [[Absolute Cleavage|zipper down]], showing off her [[Most Common Superpower]] in sub-zero weather.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' uses the second type of subversion during the ''Painted Black'' arc, where three female characters are put into brightly-colored catsuits for a infiltration / rescue mission. This is only clear in the colored strips, though, not the standard black-and-white artwork.

* In the Future Developments arc of ''[[SSDD]]'' Tessa wears a dark grey catsuit that's implied to provide some protection (though an Inlay's bullet penetrates it easily), and as she's putting it on she complains about how tight it is and that Dr. Cook only designed it so he could see her tits when she wore it.

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