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'''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''.
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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]].
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Bruno Bucciarati from ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]: Golden Wind'' not only has zippers on his outfit, but his Stand 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 Withwith 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-Manman]]'' 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.
 
 
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* 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.
 
 
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* [[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.
 
 
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*** 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.
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