Zipperiffic: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Donald Duck 03.jpg|link=Kingdom Hearts|frame|Even his ''hat'' has zippers.]]

 

{{quote|'''Jon''': ''Garfield, the more zippers a man has, the more macho he is. Take a gander at this outfit. It has six gajillion zippers! ...Now where did I put my keys?''

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' takes this to a horrifying extreme -- [[Bandage Babe|Adorea]] has zippers all over her SKIN.

* Chuck from ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' is basically [[Invader Zim|GIR]] with Zippers for ears and his tail.

* While most of the exorcist uniforms in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' have zippers (and relatively large ones at that) Allen's second uniform probably takes the cake. The longest zipper winds around his whole left arm right down to the back of his hand.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Literature ==

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[Project Runway]]'' Season 3's finale, Jeffrey's best outfit - a green and white dress - had a lot of decorative zippers. {{spoiler|He won}}.

* Lampshaded on ''[[Peep Show]]'' when Mark goes clothes shopping and starts ranting about pocketless zips and [[Symbology Research Failure|gratuitous symbolism]].

{{quote|''So that's the way it is, is it? Let's just put a zip here, a swastika there. Who knows what these things once stood for? Who even cares?''}}

* [[Square Enix]] in general, and [[Tetsuya Nomura]] in particular, are overly fond of this trope to levels that would have made Freud proud.

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''' Sora is the reigning king of this trope and probably the first person to come to most people's minds when this trope is mentioned. Even though his KH2 and KH3D outfits only features zippers on his jacket and zippers on his shoes, which really isn't all that weird when it comes to placement of zippers. Kairi features a pretty zipperific dress as well. In the same game, [[Donald Duck]] has a zipper on his ''hat''.

*** It might even be said that the dynamic between the Nobodies and Heartless could parallel Nomura's use of [[Memetic Mutation|zippers and belts]].

** A fan nickname for Pete in Kingdom Hearts 2 is ''Captain Ass Zipper.'' Guess why.

 

== Web Animation ==

{{quote|'''Dad''': What's with all these zippers? No person should have this many zippers. I don't care what fantasy it is.}}

* Parodied in ''[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/jrpg Boy and Robot's Epic jRPG Quest]''.

* [[Truth in Television]]; just walk into your local Hot Topic store (or similar "Goth" clothing shop), and behold.

** Though not clothes, there are pencil cases and bags made entirely out of zippers.

** Not only goth stores anymore as of 2009 or so, it seems to be a fad that's catching on even in higher-end, more fashion-forward stores as well as places like Forever 21.

* In a more universal way, zippers were originally invented as a shoe fastener, to replace ''20+ tiny buttons'' as fasteners for non casual shoes (and thus ineligible by current fashion for laces). You'd better believe that zippers are better than tens of buttons when you need to get dressed in a hurry.

* [http://www.infmetry.com/coolstuff/zip-itself-tetrahedral-coin-purse/ These purses], which are basically each just one long zipper.

* Many motorbike jackets and pants have a lot of zippers that, when open, provide ventilation. It's very useful on a hot day, but can look ridiculous.

 

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'''[[Statler and Waldorf|Waldorf]]''': You do?

'''[[Those Two Guys|Statler]]''': Yeah. Over their mouths!

 

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