History Main / BadassInANicesuit

* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'': Reviled wears a suit and bird mask for his supervillain outfit.

* Par for the course in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} series. With many characters, named or unnamed, major or minor, as long as they are a member of the Yakuza are almsot always wearing suits either cheap or expensive. The biggest example is [[TheHero Kazuma Kiryu]] with his iconic grey/white suit with a maroon dress shirt underneath. During his Lord of The Night days, Goro Majima wore a very snazzy tuxedo both in and out of work as a cabaret club owner.

* Most of the Magnificent 10 and a few of the good guys from ''Manga/GiantRobo'' take part in this trope. Alberto the Shockwave is probably the most prominent example.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue:'' [[{{Troll}} Hazama]] and [[BattleButler Valkenhayn]]. Hazama switches out the jacket and hat for a hooded cape in his [[LetsGetDangerous Terumi]] persona.

* ComicBook/AstroCity features The Gentleman, a seemingly ageless FlyingBrick whose costume is a perpetually immaculate tuxedo. [[spoiler: He may be the manifestation of a young girl's ideal image of her father, so it's not surprising he seems perfect and invincible -- how else would a little girl want to imagine her father?]]
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''s foe ComicBook/ThePenguin and his trademark tux and top hat.
** And Black Mask.
*** Let's just say that Batman's rogues gallery's most notables have a... fondness of such sort of sophisticated outfits. ComicBook/TheJoker may originally have been intended as this in the Golden Age, but by the Silver Age it was pretty firmly established that his iconic pinstripe suit, while undeniably spiffy, really was ''purple'', not just [[HairColorDissonance a comics coloring convention representation of "dark grey"]].
*** [[JustifiedTrope Possibly justified,]] seeing as more than a few of his rogues run criminal empires, and dress for the "Don" look.

* Marvel's ComicBook/TheKingpin always dresses in a white suit.

* Whenever The Minutemen from ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' take a job, expect to see all of them wearing black suits and ties.
* A cover in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' shows the Holy Knights wearing suits. It was really badass.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan
** His long-time foe ComicBook/DoctorOctopus was almost always seen in a white suit in the early-mid 90s.
** Mr. Negative, one of Spidey's newer foes post-ComicBook/OneMoreDay, wears a white suit and tie with a black shirt. [[EvilCostumeSwitch It's actually a photo-negative-colored version of his regular suit]].
* ComicBook/{{Sunspot}}, cunning billionaire, started decking himself out in a black suit once he became the leader of the [[ComicBook/NewAvengers2015 New Avengers]]. After his team switched to the ComicBook/USAvengers, they all attended a socialite party where the team (women included) were all tidied up in suit and tie.

* Nick Fury's early spy adventures had him and his fellow SHIELD agents, particularly those who followed him in from the Howling Commandos, dressed in business suits. In time, this gave way to him becoming more associated with the SHIELD blue and white catsuit, but it still pops back now and then.
** Nick Fury's first appearance the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' was in pure James Bond style. It was, however, an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. He was redesigned again in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', to the explicitly resemble Creator/SamuelLJackson with a BadassLongcoat that stuck ever since.
* In the Claremont-era ComicBook/XMen comics, Sebastian Shaw, the Black King of the Hellfire Club, always wore the height of [[FanOfThePast Eighteenth-century fashion]], complete with ruffled collars and sleeves. Most Hellfire high-rankers wore this style while meeting at the club (the men did-- the women dressed [[{{Stripperific}} less formally]]) but Shaw kept up the look ''all the time''.
* [[TheJuggernaut Walter]] from ''ComicBook/TheMask'' always wears tailored suits, at least one of which is mentioned to run into the several-thousand-dollars range. None of them last long due to the gratuitous violence inflicted by and at him each appearance, but he evidently has a tailor on call because he’ll always have a nice new one by his next appearance.

* Naturally, Film/JamesBond in Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/JamesBond007'', played by Creator/RogerMoore.

* Barney Stinson on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. [[CatchPhrase Suit up!]]

* ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'': Agent 47 across the entire series. As a ProfessionalKiller, expensive clothes are one of the few luxuries he can enjoy. In ''Absolution'', he even makes a stop at his usual tailor to get a new suit before the big finale.

** Charon with his italian suits also counts.

* Charon with his italian suits also counts.

Charon with his italian suits also counts.

->''"I like killing guys when I'm wearing a tux. Makes me feel like Film/JamesBond."''
-->-- '''Brock Samson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Most of the characters are, what with its being set in TheGreatDepression, but Ladd Russo goes the extra mile and has his entire entourage of [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]] dress in [[WhiteShirtOfDeath immaculate white suits for the sole purpose of staining them red during their train massacre]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' has Shizuo in his bartender's outfit; looking very sharp as he hurls vending machines at [[JerkAss Izaya]] and beats up punks on the streets of Ikebukuro. The outfit is associated with him and his badassery so much that he's known as Ikebukuro's "[[RedBaron God of Destruction (in a Bartender Suit)]]."

-->'''Wolf''': Although raising a bit o' hell all decked out like this is pretty sweet, I gotta say!

** Steven Stone, the Champion of the Hoenn region, wears a dashing new suit in his redesign from ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''.
** There's also [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Darach, Lucian, and Riley]] from the Sinnoh region, the latter of whom completes the suit with a fedora. Not to mention the waiters/waitresses and maids...
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The first Gym is based off of a café, so all of its trainers—including its leaders Cilan, Chili, and Cress—dress like waiters. And they don't look half-bad, either.
** Red suits are the standard dress code for Team Flare. Although in-universe, quite a few people actually ridicule them for these tacky suits. Their boss doesn't even wear one, instead wearing a black suit as a more straight example.
** For her return in ''Sun and Moon'', Anabel dons an impeccable black suit.

* In ''Fanfic/ThisAndThat'', after being made the Patron Librarian of Psychology, Powder's outfit is updated into a pink and blue tailored suit and tie, though she personally dislikes it due to it making her look like [[RichBitch a resident of Piltover]].

* Music/TheRollingStones drummer Charlie Watts was famous for wearing stylish suits. Though what lands him in this trope is an incident in a 1984 tour, where a drunken Music/MickJagger stumbled into his hotel room, then called Watts's room, asking "Where's my drummer?". [[BewareTheNiceOnes The normally chill Watts showered, shaved, and got dressed in his suit and marched to Jagger's room, where he punched him in the face, saying "I'm not 'your drummer', you're 'my singer'!", and he went back to bed]].

* Sam from ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' wears his suit with a striped tie and [[NiceHat fedora]].

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman Agent John Steed of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' combines this trope with NiceHat and ParasolOfPain.

* ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' has Touma Kamiyama, the titular hero, who's always clad in a dapper suit and NiceHat.

* Wrestling/MrFuji, topped off by his [[NiceHat/ProfessionalWrestling nice hat]].

* ''VideoGame/TheGodfather: The Game'': Almost all the mobsters wear suits with ties and [[NiceHat hats]]. The Cuneos and Barzinis stay in this trope despite using red and green respectively because they stand by dark shades. Your character initially doesn't have a suit, but you can buy several kinds of coats.

* ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'': Sirush, combined with a NiceHat and extremely formal speech as part of the usual assassin attire.

* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'': Of all the games to find on this page, amidst the medieval-fantasy armor and [[RummageSaleReject Rummage Sale Rejects]], you will find [[PsychoForHire Yuber]], in a dapper, vaguely-Chinese black suit and [[NiceHat fedora]], [[AxCrazy gleefully chopping people up]].

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Spy wears a pinstriped suit by default, but it's customizable with a plethora of cosmetic options available, and rack after rack of [[NiceHat Nice Hats]] to top it all off.

** Tying with Frost as the most well-dressed Tenno in the game is [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/warframe/images/1/14/LimboNewLook.png/revision/latest?cb=20141124023126 Limbo]]. And to add to the look, he comes with a variety of [[NiceHat helmets he can take off]], including his default helmet, which gives the appearance of a suave-looking gentleman. Even more so with the inclusion of the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/warframe/images/9/9e/SWRTenLimboVistyxioSkin.png/revision/latest?cb=20171101051149 Vistyxio Skin]] which gives him a white suit and a nicer-looking stovepipe hat.

* Same goes for the majority of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' cast, in fact it's probably easier to list any badass human or humanoid characters who ''haven't'' suited up at some point in the series. Even more so, unlike the above example, this applies to both male ''and'' female characters.