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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~Donald_Duck_03~~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?''~~<br />~~▼ ▲{{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?''<br /> '''Garfield''': ''This could take months!''\|''[[Garfield]]''}} {{quote\|''"I wish I had more zippers... so I could tell you to ZIP IT."''\|'''Neku''', ''[[~~The World Ends With You (Video Game)\|~~The World Ends With You]]''}} Some costume designers are of the belief that Everything's Better With Zippers; if you add zippers to a character's outfit, then it makes them somehow intrinsically cooler. Even if the placement of said zippers makes ''no practical sense whatsoever''. Line 12 ⟶ 11: This has become rather prevalent in Japanese popular media especially in the past decade or so, and may or may not have taken cues from the Goth fashion subculture. Certain other Western subcultures have crossover into this as well (e.g. bondage pants). The cousin trope to this is [[Too Many Belts]]. Not to be confused with [[Zip Me Up]] which, while involving zippers, is about something else entirely. See also [[Chained Byby Fashion]]. A subtrope of [[Useless Accessory]]. {{examples}} == Anime & Manga == * Bruno Bucciarati from ''[[~~Jo Jo~~JoJo's ~~Bizarre Adventure (Manga)\|Jo Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure]]: Golden Wind'' not only has zippers on his outfit, but his Stand, Sticky Fingers, allows him to ''attach'' zippers '''anywhere'''. * ''[[Franken Fran]]'' takes this to a horrifying extreme -- [[Bandage Babe\|Adorea]] has zippers all over her SKIN. * Chuck from ''[[Panty ~~and~~& Stocking ~~With~~with Garterbelt ~~(Anime)~~\|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\|~~D.Gray-~~Man~~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 == Line 28 ⟶ 25: == Literature == * In Alan Dean ~~Fosters~~Foster's ''[[Glory Lane]]'', the character Seeth is described as wearing a jacket '"dripping with zippers'". == 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}}. * Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles~~\|Cameron~~]]'' [http://www.poptower.com/images/db/4422/450/500/terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles.jpg likes]{{Dead link}} her zippers and her [[Too Many Belts\|belts]] - not to mention [[Hell-Bent for Leather\|leather]]. * 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?''}} * Also poked fun of much earlier in a ''[[Not the Nine O 'Clock News]]'' sketch set in a gents' lavatory with a punk desperately zipping and unzipping his many zips, frantically trying to gain access to relieve himself. Line 42 ⟶ 39: * [[Michael Jackson]] in the "Bad" music video, also combined with [[Too Many Belts]], proving the trend is [[Older Than They Think]]. And considering the popularity of Jackson's work in Japan, possibly one of the main influences on it. ** The red jacket he wears in the "Beat It" video also counts. * The current look of [[~~Daft Punk (Music)\|~~Daft Punk]] has the classic robot helmets lose their LED light and gain formulaic jumpsuits of sorts, ''covered'' with zippers and patches. == Newspaper Comics == * Deconstructed in ''[[Garfield]]'', of all places. Jon, in an attempt to be "cool", wears a jumpsuit with dozens of zippers on it. Upon the realization that he doesn't remember which pocket contains his keys, the eponymous feline exclaims: {{quote\| This could take ''months''!}} == Video Games == * [[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''. Hell, ~~EVERYTHING~~''everything'' Nobody-related has a zipper. Zipper mouths, anyone? * 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. ''[[~~The World Ends With You (Video Game)\|~~The World Ends With You]]'' features characters with highly gratuitous zippers as well and then hangs a gigantic [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshade on it]] when the main character grumbles the quote at the top of this page. The game itself ripped on Japanese fashion trends that love to revel in [[Too Many Belts\|belts and zippers]], trends that inspired Nomura's infamous art style. It's a little known fact that Sora is almost identical to Sion from ''[[The Bouncer]]'', from whence the zippers came. ** It's almost a self-parody, as at the beginning of the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', they said they got their belts-and-zippers outfits in order to blend in to the world full of KH original characters. * Kyle of ''[[Atelier Annie]]'' wears a [[Badass Longcoat]] with a truly righteous zipper in front. * ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' side-series ''Rune Factory Frontier'' has Candy and Cinnamon, both with zippers on the sides of their hats. * Ah, ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~BlazBlue]]'': The most prominent feature of Tager's outfit is his two '''Gigantic Zippers'''! Carl wears a giant zipper-pull as a bow tie. Line 68 ⟶ 65: == Web Animation == * Referenced in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W95z1DqOIUg this] ''[[Ronin Dojo Community College DX]]'' short, when Barry's dad sees a picture of an unspecified Final Fantasy character. {{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]''. Line 75 ⟶ 72: == Real Life == * [[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. * There are [https://web.archive.org/web/20140331045445/http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/04/the-zipper-dress-a-sebastian-errazuriz-design/ clothes, too]. ** 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. ** Then there are shoes like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011004026/http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons3/632/6322040/47_2009/4e/balmain_zipper_heels.jpg this]. * [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. ---- {{quote\| '''[[The Stinger\|Waldorf]]''': That Nomura guy puts way too many zippers on his characters.~~<br />~~ '''[[The Muppet Show\|Statler]]''': I don't know, I think they could still use a few more.~~<br />~~ '''[[Statler and Waldorf\|Waldorf]]''': You do?~~<br />~~ '''[[Those Two Guys\|Statler]]''': Yeah. Over their mouths!~~<br />~~ '''[[Memetic Mutation\|Both]]''': Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh! }} }} {{reflist}} [[Category:Just for Pun]] [[Category:Everythings Better With Indexes]]▼ [[Category:Costume Tropes]] [[Category:The Great Depression]] [[Category:Turn-On Tropes]] [[Category:Zipperiffic]] ▲[[Category:~~Everythings~~Everything's Better ~~With~~with Indexes]]