History Main / HellBentForLeather

** Buffy and Faith are both seen wearing leather pants and jackets on more than one occasion, especially Faith. ''{{Angel}}'' and Spike both go in for leather jackets. And when Wesley makes his return as a "rogue demon hunter", he's wearing all leather. It's enough that this troper could imagine a Potential assuming that black leather is standard issue clothing for demon hunter types.

* ''{{Farscape}}''. Just... ''Farscape''. John and Aeryn's Peacekeeper uniforms (with more than a touch of the [[PuttingOnTheReich Reich]]), Jool's ab-baring corset, Scorpy's ''gimp suit''; I could go on.

** He got rather Flanderized into a Snidely Whiplash-meets-ranting-loonball, alas; this troper vastly preferred his sneaky-bastard antics of before, but can appreciate his new ensemble nonetheless.
* Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII fame. I don't think he wears anything that's ''not'' leather.
** His Gackt-Expy rival Genesis shops at the same place.

* JimMorrison.
** Although this was memorably deconstructed by MitchBenn in the intro to his song "Stinky Pants":

** [[spoiler:"Siegmare"]] wears leather pannts as well but he's far easier on the eyes [[spoiler:even with a freak arm.]]

* One of Malik's motivations in ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' is to steal the Pharaoh's ability to look good in leather (which the Pharaoh claims is his and his alone).

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* The [[FanficRecs/TheLordOfTheRings Official Fanfiction University of Middle-earth]] gave us Elves in Black Leather. (There's some fanart as well.)
* According to [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Marik]], the Pharaoh's power comes from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnCcejkpjg his leather pants]]. He was half right - apparently the Pharaoh gets his power from [[spoiler:his leather shoes.]]
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*** [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready You should already know this]]

It ''will'' be ''black'' leather the vast majority of the time. Other colors just don't have the same effect in most cases, though white and red do sometimes work. For increased [[{{BadAss}} badassery]], have the black leather lit by a sodium lamp: Black leather, deep green highlights.

-- '''Judas Priest''', "[[TropeNamer Hell Bent for Leather]]"

**** Many steam-locomotive crews wore either a jacket or a vest made of thick black leather, to aid in protection from inclement weather in the open cabin and from searing-hot metal parts. Knowing [[UpToEleven how dirty one gets when dealing with coal dust and also how dirty is the job]] of lubricating the running gear of the locomotive with grease guns and oil dripper cans, they were worse than Jim Morrison.

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[[caption-width:500:CoolShades? Check. Full-body leather? Double check.]]

->''Black as night, faster than a shadow''
->''Crimson flare from the raging sun''
->''An exhibition of sheer precision''
->''Yet no one knows from where he comes''
->-- '''Judas Priest''', "[[TropeNamer Hell Bent for Leather]]"

->''You know the truth of my past? Then tell me, who am I? Why am I here? And why do I feel so very comfortable in leather?''
->-- '''Yami''', ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''.

->''"No cow was sacrificed to a greater cause."''
->-- Dave, ''DropTheDeadDonkey''

* Arnold Schwarzenegger in ''TheTerminator''.

* Future Claire in season 3 of {{Heroes}} has quite the black leather ensemble.

* When Ryu Terui first showed up in KamenRiderDouble, he always wore a leather pants/jacket outfit in either red or black. After [[spoiler: defeating Weather]], he switched to some kind of lighter material with leather patches on the shoulders and joints in red or blue.

* Ezio Auditore of AssassinsCreedII back in his younger years wore leather pants that left only a bit to the imagination. It is actually {{Lampshaded}} by one of the bystander dialogues.

* Jim Morrison.

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* The ClassyCatBurglar Alex on ''WhiteCollar'' is known to wear a black leather jacket and leather pants pretty often. [[FridgeLogic Probably too tight for a good thief to conceal anything]], [[{{Fanservice}} but we're not complaining]].

* Fate Testarossa of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has been fighting in a leather one-piece since she was ''nine.'' Before her mother, Precia, was first shown to viewers, many of them wondered why she let her child dress like that. Turns out that, besides being the [[AbusiveParents worst mom ever]], she ''also'' dresses like that, and her device's most commonly used form is a [[WhipItGood whip]], SoYeah.

** And there's {{fanon}} that he [[HoYay got the jacket from the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz]], who, of course, also wore one. As Fitz is only in the novels and one BigFinish audio, it's unknown if the jacket looks the same. Interestingly, Fitz seems to wear a leather jacket more often in {{fanfiction}} than in {{canon}}.