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Wanna spruce up the look of your fantasy/RPG character? Just add an extra belt, preferably one with a nice, big buckle. What? Your character already has one? Just add another, draped casually across their hips! While you're at it, wrap two or three of them around their shin, and another four over their sleeves. Oh, and we can't forget two more making a big X on their chest... So what if they're not attached to anything? Decorate the belts with [[Power Crystal]]s or [[Spikes of Villainy]], and now even the skimpiest [[Spy Catsuit]] can be [[Armor Is Useless|stronger than plate mail!]] Maybe they keep your guts from spilling out or something.
You're done! Well... maybe just
Many characters in [[Fantasy]], [[Steampunk]], [[Anime]] and even a few [[Science Fiction|sci-fi]] settings will sport more belts than they really need. Either they were having a clearance sale at JCPenney or they have [[Why Don't You Marry It?|some weird obsession with belts that borders on the fetishistic]], especially when they don't even
This also goes well for [[Zipperiffic|zippers]] - zippers on your shirt, on your sleeves, on your pants, on your coat, on your ''[[Kingdom Hearts|hat]]''...
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** The first Reinforce, on the other hand, had red belts all over her legs and one arm.
* Mizore in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' has a couple of extra belts connecting her waist to her [[Zettai Ryouiki]] for no discernible reason.
** Those are garter belts, which are intended to hold stockings up. What makes them count is that
* [[Gundam Seed|Kira Yamato]] always was partial to a snappy outfit, so even his SEED suit had some gratuitous belts, but when the things moved to [[Gundam Seed Destiny]]...
* Lady Emmaniel's outfit in ''[[My Balls]]'' is all belts, including one big one with a hook clasp occasionally managing to stay fastened across her chest. Strategically placed shadows manage to provide whatever modesty she feels she needs to keep; [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] and censorship take care of the rest.
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** He also had a belt round one leg, for some reason.
* A hallucination sequence in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' had Cyclops wearing a variant of his 90s costume. Only with ''even more'' belts than it had originally - tons, most of them with X-symbols attached somewhere. Oh, and a tutu.
* Penance - the [[Generation X]] character, not [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Bleedball]] - has an outfit made almost entirely of belts. They might be a part of the body itself, given its [[
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/ghostrider20997.jpg Ghost Rider 2099].
* DC's The Huntress has a lot of belts.
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* [http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2499/ogsaga.png Folka Albark]{{broken link}} from ''[[Super Robot Wars Compact 3]]'' sports a lot of belts, and still does a lot of ass kicking... inside his [[Motion Capture Mecha|Kung Fu Mecha]].
** [[Memetic Mutation|The belts are there to stop his shirt exploding.]]
* The [[Contemptible Cover|cover art]] for ''[
* Gado from ''[[Bloody Roar]]'' wears three belts in the first game.
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'': Iori Yagami only has one belt...but its placement is what makes it so bizarre. It links together his two pant legs, which would be a concern considering how often he fights.
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** Trish has only one belt, but it does have ''two'' buckles. "Too many buckles"?
* ''[[Castlevania]]: Judgment'' features characters from all across the Castlevania series. Unfortunately, they've all been given makeovers by [[Death Note|Takeshi Obata]], who decided that Dracula had two columns of golden nipples down his torso, Death was constructed out of discarded orthopedic braces, and the Belmonts were great big fans of belts. Oddly, the redesigned Alucard wears ''fewer'' belt buckles than he used to have.
* Virginia of ''[[Wild ARMs 3]]'' may be wearing [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501115551/http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/wildarms3/art-char-04.jpg too many belts] for a western setting. For that matter, Clive's [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501055611/http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/wildarms3/art-char-03.jpg jacket] pushes overkill with the belts in place nobody would ever want to buckle, and Janus seems to have that problem and also the problem of [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501054337/http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/wildarms3/art-char-05.jpg trying to use a belt in place of a holster].
* Many of the class designs in ''[[Trickster Online]]'', although the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100618014837/http://www.mytrickster.net/wiki/index.php/Image:Warrior.jpg Warrior] and [http://www.mytrickster.net/wiki/index.php/Image:Thief_Master.jpg Thief Master]{{Dead link}} may take the cake.
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'''s lead character Vyse uses belts to hold his sleeves together. He's also got belts on his cuffs. Combined with the ''necessary'' belt on his waist, that brings him up to five. He also has two belts on his shoes, as does his friend Aika. Aika's evil doppelganger, Anita, has extra belts, one on each shoe and one on her thigh. Interestingly, Vyze's doppelganger Vize has ''less'' belts.
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* The Prince from ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' seems to have picked up [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129053846/http://www.gogaminggiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wallpaper_prince_of_persia_warrior_within_10_1600.jpg quite a few belts] between Sands of Time and Warrior Within.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'''s NCR Ranger Combat Armor has five, as well as some bandaging/etc. being used to tie down a medical kit, the leather armor (Go figure) having 8 for men, and 3 for women.
* Kent from ''[[Amnesia: Memories]]''; his standard attire is leather pants, shirt, and a trenchcoat with at least twenty belts on his left arm and torso. Oddly, he wears this odd outfit to bed when he sleeps, but does take it off when swimming.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100310193231/http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=286 This MMRPG character] in Chugworth Academy.
** Although it could be argued that that character (two belts, both around the waist-to-hip area) has 2/3 of a belt less than she needs (since she [[Sticks to the Back|probably]] uses half a belt apiece for each swords, and just over [[Stripperific|a third of a belt total to keep her skirt up]]).
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100206071845/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20020228.html this] ''[[Adventurers!]]'' strip.
* Favored by [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-12-08 Diane and her posse] in [[El Goonish Shive]].
* [http://samandfuzzy.com/464 This] outfit of Candice's from [[Sam and Fuzzy]].
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