History Main / BadassLongcoat

* Leonard Testarossa's auto-guarding coat from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is a good example of one. It repels [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/full_metal_panic_sigma/v02/c006/21.html throwing knives]] and [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/full_metal_panic_sigma/v05/c018/10.html bullets]] by fluttering around for a bit while all you need to do is standing there with your hands in your pockets looking smug. It does not seem to protect him from [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/full_metal_panic_sigma/v02/c006/27.html bitchslaps]] however.

* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a huge fan of this trope so far - nearly every character gets their own. There's Newt's off-grey and blue coats, Tina's grey one in the first film, and then her badass black leather trench in the second, Queenie's pink floor-length, Jacob's brown one, Grindelwald's black, the leather trench coats of the aurors, Dumbledore's corduroy number, Seraphina Picquery's black coat with the bedazzled thunderbird insignia on the back, and the velvet and leather long coats of Grindelwald's acolytes, namely Vinda Rosier, Krall, Carrow, and Abernathy.

** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ComicBook/ScarletWitch sports a new outfit with a long red coat and corset.

* In ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', once he begins his vendetta ride, Wyatt Earp takes to wearing a tan duster. It's most noticeable when he blows away "Curly" Bill Brocis and a half dozen other Cowboys.

** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'',ComicBook/ScarletWitch sports a new outfit with a long red coat.

* A ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5127152/1/Chess fanfiction]] featured a pine marten in an embroidered black trench coat. [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Who cares that trench coats are a bit out of place in Redwall,]] [[RuleOfCool IT'S AWESOME.]]
* The first thing [[Roleplay/DCNation Travis Grey]] did upon pickpocketing a Franchise/GreenLantern ring was to create a costume for himself; black shirt, black leather pants, and one Badass Longcoat of black leather. The only green on him is his ring and Corps symbol. (This might be because Travis is blind). The ''second'' thing he did was start rounding up crack dealers and scaring the shit out of the local gangs.
* Kyon's greatcoat in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[InMediasRes first in the prologue and gaining it about twenty chapters later]].
* The entirety of the Oogakari clan from ''Fanfic/YetAgainWithALittleExtraHelp'' wear these, with only [[GenkiGirl Shadow]] not having flames at the bottom.

* Takeru Takaishi wears one of these in the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries''.
* During the third story of the ''Fanfic/MyHostageNotYours'' series, Zim starts wearing an Irken longcoat when he begins conquering Earth.
* InvokedTrope in ''Fanfic/JerichoMLP''. [[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]] himself wears a leather duster because cowboys wear them and cowboys are cool, thus wearing one should also make him cool. [[spoiler: It doesn't make him cool. At all.]]
--> “One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’ve been thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. But until the day that happens, I’ll just stick to wearing awesome outfits; [[LampshadeHanging they make me feel cool]].”
* [[ClockKing The Sacred Order of Timekeepers]] from ''Fanfic/ChronomistressOutOfTime'' wears double-breasted coats, apparently color-coded to indicate rank.

* Pretty much the entire cast of ''Fanfic/DigitalHigh''. Noticeably, the author dresses Shadow in it, which is a trait usually used by a different EvilCounterpart. Sans also uses his sweatshirt as a CoatCape.
* By the same author as ''Fanfic/DigitalHigh'' is ''Fanfic/FalloutNewWorldHope'', which has all three protagonists use a different one. One wears a duster, one wears a trench coat, and one wears a lab coat. The third even switches it out for a leather jacket eventually. [[spoiler: And he appears to be getting the old lab coat back post-HeroicSacrifice]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheRainsverse'', the Elements of Harmony provide their Bearers with very nice all-weather cloaks in colors matching the Elemental gems.

* ''Fanfic/{{Dial}}'' has Hawkeye wear one with his version of BRIDGE's standard-issue [[AdaptiveArmor Armor Gear]].
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', The Admiral is a ranking officer in the White Fang who wears a tattered old Atlesian Navy uniform as a trophy from his past raids on Atlesian ships during the Faunus Rights Revolution.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', the Prowler wears a longcoat compared to her comic counterpart's cape. It's emblazoned with the kanji for "risk" and danger" to emphasize her ThrillSeeker tendencies.
* [[CoolOldGuy Big Boss]] wears one of these in ''Fanfic/{{Stray}}'', and another character comments on the garment's dramatic value.

* In 'Film/InTime', the Timekeepers, and most prominently the antagonist Raymond Leon, wear longcoats.

* Invoked in ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}''. [[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]] himself wears a leather duster because cowboys wear them and cowboys are cool, thus wearing one should also make him cool. [[spoiler: It doesn't make him cool. At all.]]

Like capes, longcoats capitalize on the [[DramaticWind dramatic effect of having something that flutters behind you]]. A variant involves jackets and excessively long shirts, but having less material to billow in the gusts necessarily makes such people seem less badass. And of course, when the wearer of a Badass Longcoat [[TheCoatsAreOff takes the coat off,]] it's a sign that he's about to do some major damage - he just doesn't want to get your blood on his coat. Additionally, a longcoat in fiction is rarely worn closed, and many are cut in such a way that closing them is impossible, giving the illusion of a broader chest and more masculine figure.

* Cyclops from ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' wears one in costume. Gambit also has his traditional coat.

* Seems to be common in the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' for a MasterSwordsman to wear this outfit. Examples include [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Loewe]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Arios MacLaine]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesHajimariNoKiseki Schwarzer]].

* Donovan Deegan of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' has a badass long coat...made even more badass in that said long coat is ''[[RealMenWearPink pink.]]''

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': Malcolm Tucker wears a flowing black coat, most notably when vowing to his [[{{Whitehall}} Number 10]] colleagues "YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN" and then walking out of Number10 as it billows after him.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon''

* In [[Music/{{EmpireoftheSunBand}} Empire of the Sun's]] video for "Alive", Nick "Lord" Littlemore, gets to wear a very nice brown one with tons of zippers.

* Ganondorf in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' wears a pretty cool longcoat, the sleeves being so large that he actually [[spoiler:has a sword hidden in each.]]

* The titular Dude of the ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' series wears a knee-length black trench coat over a blue Roswell T-shirt in the first and second games. This is replaced by an ankle-length brown duster, complete with bullet holes in the collar, for Postal 3.

* ''[[VideoGame/SpaceStation13 Space Station 13's]]'' Head of Security usually starts with a great coat. It's understandably both one of the best non-metal armor items in the game and the most ridiculously badass.

** And speaking of the Edgeworths, Gregory Edgeworth seems to favour a long overcoat [[spoiler:in his appearance in VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2]], which he then passes on to his student after his death.

** ComicBook/{{Jubilee}}

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* [[BlackMagicianGirl Reina]] in ''LightNovel/DidntISayToMakeMyAbilitiesAverageInTheNextLife'' has a Baroque-era frock coat, which is black with gold trim and cut away at the front. It's a lot lighter than other mages' heavy robes, but still gives her the typical conical silhouette of a mage.
* The first set of uniforms for the Exorcists in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' were longcoats (cross out Lavi and Lenalee, who wore a jacket and a miniskirt, respectively). The well-known black and white (silver-buttoned) longcoats were abandoned after the journey in Noah's Ark, and the Exorcists wore red and black jackets instead (save for Kanda, who just has to keep the longcoat outfit).

* Re-L Mayer, fitting with the cyberpunk setting, wears a black duster throughout the entirety of Anime/ErgoProxy.

* Rika/Ruki in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' (WordOfGod: one of her early character models was a character from ''Film/TheMatrix''), and Captain Sampson/Satsuma and [=BanchouLeomon=] in ''Anime/DigimonSavers''.

* ''Anime/MaiOtome'' with Garderobe headmistress Natsuki Krüger and her dark-blue longcoat.
** The trope also applies to a handful of Robes, chief among them Natsuki's, Haruka's, and Shizuru's.

* When Seishirou and Subaru are introduced in ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', both sport badass longcoats, with Seishirou's in black and Subaru's in white.

* In all ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, the main Rival (and some arc villains) will have an incredibly badass coat that has the innate ability to [[RuleofCool defy the laws of Gravity and flare out even with no wind]].

** Manjoume in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' wears a black trenchcoat. In the first season, despite it being the school uniform, only his coat has the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' Rival requisite [[RuleofCool gravity-defying flare]].

** ComicBook/TheJoker has been wearing a purple or black trenchcoat since Marshall Rogers first drew the character with one in the mid-1970s. Much of the time he wears it as an overcoat and removes it when he’s indoors or relaxing but some works like Brian Azzarello's Comicbook/{{Joker}} feature the badass longcoat as a staple of Joker's outfit.

* Comicbook/{{Blade}} is known for wearing a black leather duster. This even extended to his time as Ronin in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers2013'', where he actually wore one over his ninja duds.

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange wore a tan trenchcoat or a green duster in ''New Avengers''. Back when he had his own title, he once modified the Cloak of Levitation into a flowing red trenchcoat with a broad collar.

* The title character of the Creator/SamuelLJackson ''Film/{{Shaft 2000}}'' wears a black leather trench coat that's every bit as badass as he is.

* Creator/MichelleYeoh sports a white metallic finished trenchcoat as the titular motorcycling vigilante in ''SilverHawk'', a Hong Kong martial arts/superhero hybrid.

* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' Rose wears a floor-length pink jacket once the ship starts sinking that looks pretty badass on her. She even [[TheCoatsAreOff takes it off just as she is about to wade into the water with the axe to free Jack]] in typical action-heroine fashion. Later, Cal's jacket, which looks merely okay on him, looks badass on her once she starts wearing it, perhaps because it is a few sizes too big for her and thus looks longer and thicker on her. The ship's officers and Thomas Andrews also look pretty badass in their full-length overcoats.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''

* In [[Creator/TherinKnite Therin Knite's]] Literature/{{Echoes}}, Dynara and Murrough wear long white coats to signal their positions as head of EDPA departments. Dynara is the Commissioner of the Field Agents' Corps, and Murrough is the Captain of EDPA Security.
* Literature/ElsabethSoesten sports a long brown leather coat over her shirt, doublet and hose.

* A ''civilization'' of them in Sherwood Smith's ''Inda'' series. All Marlovan warriors wear long, gray dusters designed for riding.
* In the ''Literature/{{LockwoodAndCo}}'' books, the eponymous Lockwood often wears long coats that billow in the wind and generally make him look cool.

* The coat quixotic Ariane wears in Greer Gilman's novel ''{{Moonwise}}'' is described thus:

* Literature/{{Percy Jackson|AndTheOlympians}} sported this look temporarily in ''The Titans Curse'' after defeating the Nemean Lion ([[ItMakesSenseInContext the pelt turning into a golden, bulletproof duster]]). [[spoiler: He ends up sacrificing it to Poseidon so Bessie the Ophiotaurus and Grover back to camp, sadly. But it still counts.]]

* Literature/SherlockHolmes was known to pull this off, so much so that a billowing Inverness cape is frequently associated with images of him.

* Literature/TruemanBradley has inherited the trenchcoat and fedora his grandfather used to wear while doing detective work. Later, he gets a yellow trenchcoat and hat so he can look like ComicStrip/DickTracy.

* ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' and ''Series/{{Crusade}}'': All of the Ranger characters wore long dusters, usually black or at least dark in color. Chiefly seen worn by the character Marcus Cole.

* ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'' has long coats or robes as part of the defining visual for the Warlock class.

*** One cannot forget about Dante's alternate universe counterpart, [[http://i.imgur.com/jLFr7qF.jpg who does possess a pretty cool looking and slick]] trench-coat of his own.

* ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' has quite a few examples, but the most prominent examples are [[RebelLeader Ulfric Stormcloak]], who wears a long coat made of ''chain-mail'' under an animal pelt, and the Thalmor (think evil [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]]), who wear [[PuttingOnTheReich long black often-hooded robes which look like standard long-coats]].

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' gives you the chance to wear at least two different types of dusters, both of which look badass.

** Continuing the tradition, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' offers a number of different longcoat options.

* For a while, the standard garb for Swordmasters in ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' gave them the appearance of a Badass Longrobe (or [[BreastPlate Long-Slitted-Skirt]] for female characters), until Lloyd from ''The Blazing Blade'', whose sprite was edited to reflect the longcoat he wears in his character art. As of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Radiant Dawn]]'', the longcoat is the signature garb of the Trueblade. Also, the alternate sprite used for the Hero class unit is depicted with a longcoat in the GBA games. Notable Mercenary/Hero units include Raven, Callech, and most notably -- [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Linus Linus]].
* Antonio Guster in the ''Videogame/{{FZero}}'' games wears a long lab coat over his combat outfit.

* Appears throughout the ''Videogame/{{Growlanser}}'' series. Crevaniel, the protagonist in ''Wayfarer of Time'' is always wearing his longcoat.

* The titular Dude of the ''Videogame/{{Postal}}'' series wears a knee-length black trench coat over a blue Roswell T-shirt in the first and second games. This is replaced by an ankle-length brown duster, complete with bullet holes in the collar, for Postal 3.

* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'':
** Aden from ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans'' wears what appears to be an older version of this.

*** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', the Masquerade bosses sport these.

* [[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2 Karell Berselius]] wears an awesome dark red one with laces up the sleeves and fur along both the sleeves and hood. It doubles as CoordinatedClothes with his sister Harold's attire.

* ''Vermintide'' 's Victor Saltzpyre sports this as part of the typical attire of a Witch Hunter for both practical traveling and intimidation purposes.
* [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110126141912/dow/images/f/fa/Rt_ig_heroes_castor.jpg Lord General Castor]] of The Imperial Guard in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' ''II: Retribution'' wears a very spiffy dark-red-trimmed tan-coloured greatcoat, and ups the badass factor by only wearing ''one'' sleeve; he leaves his [[{{Cyborg}} augmetic arm]] uncovered. This is the same augmetic arm he uses to wield a sniper rifle (or other special weapon) ''one-handed''. In multiplayer, the Lord General Hero's greatcoat takes on colours set in the Army Painter, so you can have a [[BlingOfWar gold or silver-trimmed black greatcoat]]. Or perhaps neon purple with metallic green trim, if that's more your thing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 1}}'': One of the signs that Shinji TookALevelInBadass after the TimeSkip is that he starts rocking a very stylish black leather longcoat.

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* Flint Henry's reincarnation of ''Grimjack'' has John Gaunt aka Jim Twilly making his entrance in a dark purple greatcoat with gold embroidery. The coat is later shown to hold about 50 lbs. of guns and edged weapons when he is busted by robot cops.

* From ''Mugen no Frontier: VideoGame/SuperRobotWars OG Saga'', we have Haken Browning, with his black and red longcoat.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Alpha}}'', we have Sänger Zonvolt, the infamous Sword That Cleaves Evil -- he wears a red longcoat that resembles the justaucorps variety. He manages to make it billow, [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120817095242/superrobotwars/images/4/4e/Srtog-sanger-zonvolt.jpg even if it's a rather short coat]]. His rival Wodan Ymir also wears a blue version of the same coat.

* In Film/BladeRunner the replicants wear them.

* ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza1}}'': One of the signs that Shinji TookALevelInBadass after the TimeSkip is that he starts rocking a very stylish black leather longcoat.

* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'': Ren was never without his black leather coat, whose billowing was even seen as part of his transformation. Actually mocked in an interview where all the riders did their transformation poses, and Shinji's actor waved the bottom of his shirt around for the same effect.
* ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': The titular hero has one built into his suit when transformed. Later Riders who use Wizard-themed "Legend Rider" powers also gain the longcoat.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': As mentioned above, Genm's Wizard costume has the longcoat. The costume was later [[PropRecycling recycled]] into suits for Chronus (the series' BigBad) and Ex-Aid's movie-exclusive VRX Gamer form.

* Also very popular among players in ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' games, to the point that someone appearing in one, particularly if he uses a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana sword]], is such an utter, utter cliché that [[DeaderThanDisco almost nobody does it anymore]].

* In ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'', [[VillainProtagonist Yoshimura Kaneki]] eventually gets his hands on one of the Marine officer coats from the Manga/OnePiece example above, and immediately replaces the [[LawfulStupid 'Justice' (正義) insignia]] with [[PayEvilUntoEvil 'Retribution' (冥罰).]]