History Main / DangerouslyShortSkirt

* Shiki from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

* The Succubus boss in {{Vindictus}}.

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** Riruka Dokugamine sports a minidress, but surprised fans (who thought of her as a FauxActionGirl) by being a gun-toting CombatPragmatist.

** Rukia Kuchiki one kicked Shrieker in the jaw while wearing a school uniform. The skirts' length is even lampshaded by Kon when he looks up at her after she kicks him to the ground.
** Orihime Inoue wears one in the tenth opening theme song, called Shojo S. She also wears a schoolgirl uniform, complete with ZettaiRyouiki following the TimeSkip, but when she tried to fight, she was taken by surprise and ultimately lost.
** Cirucci Sanderwicci wears a gothic lolita-style dress. Pesche Guatiche even tried to take a peek since her skirt was so high up.
** Even Senna isn't exempt from such a fashion choice, but she's never fought while in it.
** Homura from the third movie has her Shihakusho modified in such a way that the lower half is turned into a miniskirt. Like Senna, Homura herself never fights in it.
** When Nelliel turns back into her adult form, her clothes don't change with her leaving a cropped top and a miniskirt.

** Nozomi Kujo from the Invading Army filler arc.

* MobileSuitGundam00 has Louise Halevy, in the second season. She almost qualified as a DarkActionGirl, though, what with her (admittedly justified) level-upping in jerkassity.

* ''HighSchoolOfTheDead'' is a famous example, where ''every'' ActionGirl has a skirt.

** Robin also qualifies, particularly when she wore ThighHighBoots and a NiceHat.

* ''ShakuganNoShana'' has the eponymous Shana.

* In ''SoulEater'', Maka's skirt doesn't leave much to the imagination.

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* The TropeNamer and TropeMaker comes from ''{{Soundscape}}'', where a ''large'' amount of female {{Action Girl}}s wear skirts when they fight. When one of the villains [[LampshadeHanging points that out]] about his female opponent, she says that it [[ShesGotLegs makes her legs more exotic]], and a PantyShot (ideally) distracts guys enough for a slash to the neck.

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* BatmanArkhamAsylum has a subversion. Harley Quinn definitely has the short skirt down, but she's an AnticlimaxBoss.

** Trinity wore two, one with pantyhose as a member of the Six Heroes, and another as Platinum.

* {{Disgaea}} has Etna.

* ''SoulCalibur'' has Sophitia Alexandra, an Athenean maiden who habitually wears short skirts.

* Shiki from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

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* ''SoulCalibur'' has Sophitia Alexandra, an Athenean maiden who [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080304041544/soulcalibur/images/6/6d/Sophie.jpg habitually wears short skirts]]. In ''Soul Calibur IV'', not only is it short, it's practically see-through! HotMom indeed!

* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WEWYShiki1.jpg Shiki]] from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. If her skirt was half an inch lower, the game would be rated ''much'' higher.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' has Jeanette Voerman, but [[SubvertedTrope she never fights on-screen]].

* The third season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has the famous BeachEpisode with [[http://images.wikia.com/avatar/images/7/75/Charming_Ty_Lee.png Ty Lee]] and [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/azula/jacobyel/AzulaBikini.jpg?o=523 Azula]]. While both are {{Action Girl}}s, the only fighting they've done in those skirts, is by playing volleyball. [[SeriousBusiness Rather intense volleyball]], but still.

* Gender-flipped variant: Him of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had this, combined with ZettaiRyouiki, ThighHighBoots and abundant FanDisservice (unless you were [[NightmareFetishist into that sort of thing]]). Seriously, the whole design of the guy ([[AmbiguousGender ?]]) puts [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Doctor Frank-n-Furter]] to shame.
* Most of the female characters of the DCAU are {{Action Girl}}s. But one that stands out the most is [[BodyguardBabes Mercy]] [[BattleButler Graves]]. Her dress is [[http://www.batman-superman.com/superman/img/mercy.gif insanely short]], and doesn't look like it could cover her behind even when she's [[http://www.comicvine.com/mercy-graves/29-9995/all-images/108-209037/pan12/105-934104/ just standing around]], let alone [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSqI69PT0C4 fighting]]! [[http://www.comicvine.com/mercy-graves/29-9995/all-images/108-209037/71/105-934096/ It does.]]

* [[http://www.hairwigharlem.com/catalog/product/gallery/id/9842/image/13032/ That is a minidress]], with see-through cloth. It gives us a PantyShot while remaining as a MagicSkirt!
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Miami-dolphins-040201-N-2541H-001.jpg These are miniskirts]], worn by cheerleaders. A popular Italian joke states that the miniskirt is the kind of garment that makes the wearer [[AWorldwidePunomenon feel cold while looking hot]].

* ''Manga/BeetTheVandelBuster'' has Milfa, who routinely wears miniskirts that, if she leans over wrong, actually do show her panties. For that matter, Poala as well, though Milfa especially due to the tightness of her skirt.
* Almost to the point of AuthorAppeal, this regularly shows up in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Tier Harribel, after she goes OneWingedAngel, dons a more stripperific outfit, [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100708090902/bleach/en/images/e/ef/Halibel_Released_3.jpg which leads this]].
** Loly Aivirrne qualifies, particularly since she's the ''only'' Arrancar girl that wears [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100507055655/bleach/en/images/8/8c/GrimmjowInterruptsLolyMenoly.jpg a schoolgirl-themed skirt]]. Lord knows why, [[FetishFuel but we're not complaining]].
** Rangiku Matsumoto enjoys wearing one when she's in the human world, but it's particularly noticeable [[http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Orihime_Finds_Hitsugaya_%26_Matsumoto_TV.png when Orihime spots her and Hitsugaya looking at a television screen]].
** Lisa Yadomaru wore ''two'' - a ruffled miniskirt as a lieutenant, and a schoolgirl skirt as a Visored. She's fought in both outfits.

** Orihime Inoue bears one in the tenth opening theme song, called Shojo S. It shows off her butt cheek when she swirls her hips to the side (she was dancing with Rukia). She also wears a schoolgirl uniform, complete with ZettaiRyouiki following the TimeSkip, but when she tried to fight, she was taken by surprise and ultimately lost.
** Cirucci Sanderwicci wears a gothic lolita-style dress, but it's designed in such a way that she [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091128191140/bleach/en/images/0/0b/C257_cover_page_Cirucci_Sanderwicci.jpg almost wants to show off what's underneath]]. Pesche Guatiche even tried to take a peek since her skirt was so high up. Even funnier, she fights in a room full of giant pillers, so her opponents have ample opportunity to peek up.
** Even Senna [[http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/092/f/b/senna_sleeping_by_vergildvs-d3d0ses.png isn't exempt from such a fashion choice]], but she's never fought while in it.
** Homura from the third movie has her Shihakusho modified in such a way that the lower half is turned into a miniskirt. [[http://images.wikia.com/bleach/en/images/f/fb/Homura_movie_profile_%281%29.jpg It's even shorter]] than Nemu's miniskirt. Like Senna, Homura herself never fights in it.
** When Nelliel turns back into her adult form, her garbs tear apart, leaving a top that seems ready to burst open and a miniskirt that reveals her hips. In one volume cover, the exact extent of her ClothingDamage is shown further, where it's so damaged that ''bits and pieces'' almost literally cling to her figure.

** Nozomi Kujo from the Invading Army filler arc. Unlike other examples, her Shinigami miniskirt outfit was another excuse to mark her as a CreatorsPet, since FanDumb ensued.
* Lenalee of ''DGrayMan'' [[http://www.dragonsmag.net/images/news/d.grayman22.jpg deserves an entry as well]] (yes, she's wearing shorts underneath).

* Togame in ''{{Katanagatari}}'' has a ripped-up skirt so short that it is amazing how ''few'' panty shots she has over the course of the series.

* [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ino_Part_II.jpg Ino Yamanaka]] on ''{{Naruto}}'' definitely has a short skirt, and while she's proved herself to be an Actiongirl, she wears bandages under it, so no PantyShot. Temari (who's more like a LadyOfWar) could qualify as this as well, with all but one of the outfits she's worn that's incorporated a [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sunacupulakage.png a]] [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Temari,_Sasuke_Retreival_Arc_(2).jpg short]] [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Prop_temarifan.jpg skirt]].
* ''OnePiece'' has [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/6/6e/W7.jpg this as one of Nami's outfits]]. The [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/a/a6/Nami_PerfectClimaTact.JPG next one]] is even more questionable.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime has Dawn Hikari and her hip-length skirt, especially since she's only 10 years old. She's ''not'' an ActionGirl, though, since she leaves most of her fighting to her Pokémon.
* ''QueensBlade'' has [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/888894/arm_garter-belt-boken_fantasy-bow-breasts-bustier- Captain Liliana]].
* In ''RosarioToVampire'', this is the source of much of the {{fanservice}} in the anime.
** A Dangerously Short Skirt is [[http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/File:Rosario-to-vampire-group-4.jpg apparently required by the dress code]]. At one point, the MoralGuardians attempt to require all female students wear much longer skirts (ankle length), which fails due to intense opposition from the students.
** At least OnceAnEpisode, a bat flies in front of the resulting PantyShot, blocking the audiences' view and lampshading the shortness of the skirt.
** Inner Moka, whose preferred fighting style is kickboxing, has a skirt short enough that a PantyShot appears in nearly every scene she appears.
*** But ''only'' in the anime--in the manga, despite dealing out just as many high kicks, the area beneath her skirt is always in shadow.
** Kurumu rarely goes more than half an episode between upskirt shots, and BuxomIsBetter shows her skirt length in full honors. [[GoodBadGirl Not that she minds]].
** Mizore Shirayuki [[http://rosariovampire.wikispaces.com/Mizore+Shirayuki deserves a spot as well]].
* In ''SailorMoon'', the sailor scout superhero uniforms qualify, as seen [[http://emilyrajch.blogspot.com/2011/05/sailor-moon.html here]].

* ''YumekuiMerry'' has the eponymous Merry Nightmare wearing such a skirt, but she never gets a PantyShot.

* In ''DanceInTheVampireBund'', Mina wears one, as seen in the page image.

* In ''SoulEater'', Maka's skirt [[http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/assisan_2009/Soul%20Eater/Soul%20Eater%20ending%203/01.jpg doesn't leave much to the imagination]]. Played straight in her first appearance in the manga where we have this [[http://www.mangareader.net/157-10146-41/soul-eater/chapter-1.html lovely bit]]. Averted in the rest of the manga and the anime though since she mostly wears that long black coat that somehow blocks possible panty shots even when she's doing a bunch of flips and tricks.

* ''{{Shazam}}'': [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/CTDW-Cv47_solicit.jpg Mary Marvel]]

* BatmanArkhamAsylum has a subversion. Harley Quinn [[http://arkhamcity.wikia.com/wiki/File:ArkhamAsylumRenderQuinzel.jpg definitely has the]] [[http://arkhamcity.wikia.com/wiki/File:Batman-arkham-asylum_the-gang.jpg short skirt down]], [[http://arkhamcity.wikia.com/wiki/File:AAConceptQuinn3.jpg right up to a]] PantyShot in concept art, but she's an AnticlimaxBoss.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Tifa Lockhart could be the patron saint of this trope, with a leather mini [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/9/9a/Tifa-FFVII-battle.png so short she nearly flashes you while standing still!]]

** [[GoodOldFisticuffs Makoto]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Nanaya]] trumps '''''even Noel''''' in this department, where ''straps'' are the only things keeping her skirt held in place.

** [[StaffChick Trinity]] wore two, one with pantyhose as a member of the Six Heroes, and another as Platinum.

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* Terra of ''FinalFantasyVI'' is one of a long line of DangerouslyShortSkirt-wearers in the ''FinalFantasy'' series; particularly noticeable in ''{{Dissidia}}''. In her original game, it looks more like she's wearing a LeotardOfPower, but it's close enough to her official art that it may be the case that it's ''just that short''.
* ''FinalFantasyVII'''s Tifa Lockhart could be the patron saint of this trope, with a leather mini [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/9/9a/Tifa-FFVII-battle.png so short she nearly flashes you while standing still!]]
* ''FinalFantasyVIII'' gives us Selphie, who does get the occasional PantyShot when the camera zooms in.

* Ashe of ''FinalFantasyXII'' rivals Rikku for skirt shortness.
* And in ''FinalFantasyXIII'', Vanille's fur skirt-thing is like this in the front, but it's longer in the back.

* The third season of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has the famous BeachEpisode with [[http://images.wikia.com/avatar/images/7/75/Charming_Ty_Lee.png Ty Lee]] and [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/azula/jacobyel/AzulaBikini.jpg?o=523 Azula]]. While both are {{Action Girl}}s, the only fighting they've done in those skirts, is by playing volleyball. [[SeriousBusiness Rather intense volleyball]], but still.
* Starfire in the animated ''TeenTitans'' show.
* Gender-flipped variant: Him of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' had this, combined with ZettaiRyouiki, ThighHighBoots and abundant FanDisservice (unless you were [[NightmareFetishist into that sort of thing]]). Seriously, the whole design of the guy ([[AmbiguousGender ?]]) puts [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Doctor Frank-n-Furter]] to shame.

* ''CowboyBebop'' has Faye Valentine with her miniskirt, but her danger level [[FauxActionGirl switches around]] [[DistressedDamsel a lot]].

->'''JerryLawler''':"Whoever she is, I like what she's not wearing!"
->'''Coach''':"...the crowd seems delighted."
->'''JimRoss''':"[[NotDistractedByTheSexy That woman can fight!]]"

->JerryLawler:"Whoever she is, I like what she's not wearing!"
->Coach:"...the crowd seems delighted."
->JimRoss:"[[NotDistractedByTheSexy That woman can fight!]]"
-->--Mickie James debuts, ''Monday Night Raw''

* [[http://www.hairwigharlem.com/catalog/product/gallery/id/9842/image/13032/ That is a minidress]], with see-through cloth. It gives us a PantyShot [[BeyondTheImpossible while remaining as a]] MagicSkirt!

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* The TropeNamer and TropeMaker comes from ''{{Soundscape}}'', where a ''large'' amount of female {{Action Girl}}s wear skirts when they fight. When one of the villains [[LampshadeHanging points that out]] about his female opponent, she says that it [[ShesGotLegs makes her legs more exotic]], and a PantyShot (ideally) distracts guys enough for a slash to the neck.

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* An exaggerated version is conversed in the UrbanDictionary article on miniskirts.
--->A skirt that is at least 1 inch shorter than one's finger tips.
''Put your hands at your sides, if your finger tips can touch your thigh, you're in a mini.''
* Male version with WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic in SuburbanKnights. When he walks up a hill, that thing is nearly at his hip. The {{fanservice}} and the pain he was in from the cold has been lampshaded by nearly all the cast commentaries.

* The title character of ''[[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tatayoung/sexynaughtybitchy.html Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me]]'' by Tata Young.

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* ''MonsterHigh'' has Draculaura and Clawdeen Wolf. Since the franchise is targeted at kids, both have {{Magic Skirt}}s.

This trope does make a ''tiny'' bit of sense: if you're wearing a tight skirt into combat, you'd want it to be pretty short. The longer it is, the more it'll restrict your leg movements. However, wearing a looser, longer skirt would work just as well. Or wearing, ya know, ''pants''.

* ''YumekuiMerry'' has the titular Merry Nightmare wearing such a skirt, but she never gets a PantyShot.

* And Vanille's fur skirt-thing is like this in the front, but it's longer in the back.

* '''FinalFantasyVIII''' gives us Selphie, who does get the occasional PantyShot when the camera zooms in.

** [[GoodOldFisticuffs Makoto Nanaya]] trumps even Noel in this department, where ''straps'' are the only things keeping her skirt held in place.

* Male version with TheNostalgiaCritic in SuburbanKnights. When he walks up a hill, that thing is nearly at his hip. The {{fanservice}} and the pain he was in from the cold has been lampshaded by nearly all the cast commentaries.

This trope does make a ''tiny'' bit of sense: if you're wearing a tight skirt into combat, you'd want it to be pretty short. The longer it is, the more it'll restrict your leg movements. However, wearing a looser, longer skirt would work just as well. Or wearing ''pants''.

* In "SoulEater", Maka's skirt [[http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/assisan_2009/Soul%20Eater/Soul%20Eater%20ending%203/01.jpg doesn't leave much to the imagination]]. Played straight in her first appearance in the manga where we have this [[http://www.mangareader.net/157-10146-41/soul-eater/chapter-1.html lovely bit]]. Averted in the rest of the manga and the anime though since she mostly wears that long black coat that somehow blocks possible panty shots even when she's doing a bunch of flips and tricks.