History Main / LatexSpaceSuit

** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' take this further with the [[http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Vintage_RIG Vintage RIG]] which shows that all the other R.I.G are far more streamline than their predecessors.

** ALL Gundam series since the first one. However, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro]], ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Camille]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Juudau]]''... suits were less ornate and more practical than the ones SuperRobotGenre pilots wore, and female suits were not tightier and sexier than the male ones.

* ''Anime/{{Zambot3}}'': Kappei and his two cousins.
* ''Anime/{{Daitarn3}}'': Banjo Haran when he was not wearing a JamesBond style suit.

It is a very frequent trope in SuperRobotGenre and RealRobotGenre HumongousMecha {{Mecha Show}}s.

* In DanSimmons' ''Literature/{{Illium}}''/''Olympos'' books, the Old-style humans use Thermskins to protect them from all manner of hostile environments, space, extreme cold, low oxygen environments, underwater, etc. It's explained that the thermskins are a single molecule thin paint-like substance which is only functional if in direct contact with the skin. This creates a justified extreme of this trope, as all anatomical details are perfectly visible.

--> '''Ken:''' The whole suit is lovely; snug in all the right places...
--> '''Tali:''' [[ImStandingRightHere You know I can hear you.]]

* The StargateVerse averts this. On the handful of occasions that anyone ventures into space on ''Series/StargateSG1'' or ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', they wear bulky NASA-style suits. ''Series/StargateUniverse'' used Ancient space suits, but those are only slightly less bulky.

* ''SuperRobotWars: Divine Wars'' has surprisingly realistic pilot and space suits - while Personal Trooper pilots wear fairly thin ones that might match the trope, they're not made for space combat and do not have great speeds. However, Armored Module pilots wear a very bulky combination of a g-suit and a space suit as they are main for high-speed assaults and space and air combat. Fighter pilots wear a modified g-suit that's a combination of both. The Playstation 2 remake of the Original Generation game series reuses the pilot suits portrayed in Divine Wars, mainly because few were even seen in the first two Original Generation games (not to mention the Super Robot Wars series in general).

* Another of the earliest Anime examples are ''MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'', also from 1972.
* It is a very frequent trope in SuperRobotGenre and RealRobotGenre mecha shows.
** ''{{Mazinger}}'' saga:
*** ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Unsurprisingly, one of the earliest examples (but not the first one, for once). Kouji began to wear a LatexSpaceSuit in the third episode, and Sayaka always wore one while piloting [[FemBot Aphrodite A]]. Sayaka's was one-piece and tighter than Kouji's though.
*** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Tetsuya and Jun (again, the female character's suit was tighter)
*** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Duke, Kouji, Hikaru and Maria. Duke's suit was a completely literal example, since he wore it to travel across space in his spaceship/HumongousMecha.
** ''Manga/GetterRobo'': Ryoma, Hayato and Michiru wore one. Musashi and Benkei's uniforms were subversions. It was reinforced in later manga seasons: if a pilot does not wear a protective uniform, his or her body can get seriously harmed due to the enormous strain the body suffers.
** ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'': Miwa always wore a tight LatexSpaceSuit when she piloted her support unit. However Hiroshi never wore a suit, since he transformed into the HumongousMecha.
** ''Anime/{{Gaiking}}'': Sanshiro Tsuwabuki and his crew.
** ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'': Akira Hibiki.
** ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'':
*** ''Anime/CombattlerV'': Hyoma and his FiveManBand wore ColourCodedForYourConvenience space suits.
*** ''Anime/VoltesV'': Ditto with Kenighi and his FiveManBand.
*** ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': Kazuya Ryuuzaki.
** ''Anime/{{Zambot3}}'': Kappei and his two cousins.
** ''Anime/{{Daitarn3}}'': Banjo Haran when he was not wearing a JamesBond style suit.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': ALL Gundam series since the first one. However, Amuro, Camille, Juudau... suits were less ornate and more practical than the ones SuperRobotGenre pilots wore, and female suits were not tightier and sexier than the male ones.
** ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': The pilots carried them during interplanetary travel and space battles.
** ''Anime/GoLion'' (or ''{{Voltron}}''): Akira and his FiveManBand.
** ''Anime/GunBuster'': Noriko and her friends' costumes are specifically designed for space combat.
** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the sexy pilot suits variant. It is notably subverted in the episode "Magmadiver", where Asuka has to wear a special plugsuit that swells like a balloon. Lampshaded, too, as she complains about how unsexy it is.
*** Played with a bit early in the series, when, in an emergency, Shinji has to wear the female variant of the suit (Asuka's spare suit, to be precise). While male variants are also more or less skin-tight, the female version is tighter in the crotch and has vague sculpted breast elements and a curvier hip/waist ratio.
*** ''RebuildOfEvangelion'' has Asuka donning a special plugsuit that has a [[{{Stripperific}} translucent torso]]. She finds it a bit much.

* ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' had these in spades. On pilots, on cosplayers, on cosplaying pilots...and like some parts of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', they're equal-opportunity FanService.

* InfiniteStratos: the so called PoweredArmor of the series is better described as this trope plus some machinery covering the lower half of limbs and maybe some more machinery floating around them unattached to the suit. The {{handwave}} is they have DeflectorShields protecting them, all powered by cold fusion. It takes place in 2016 ...yeah.

Because existing spacesuit designs have so many drawbacks, and are so expensive (each custom-fitted suit costs over a ''million dollars'' and can only be constructed by subsidised industries), there are a number of (similarly subsidised) research projects trying to make skin-tight spacesuits TruthInTelevision. The proponents of such projects as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit Space Activity Suit]] and [[http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/ MIT Biosuit]] ''claim'' that they could be built by wet-suit manufacturers at a cost of only a few hundred dollars. They also suggest that these flexible skintight suits would permit the occupant to regulate body temperature simply by sweating, and that while they might not be terribly protective, armor is less of an issue when it doesn't have to be pressurized - {{Bullet Proof Vest}}s can be worn over the suits[[hottip:*:That does introduce a new problem, namely that anything worn over the suit will make it harder to find and patch any leaks. On the other hand, a small leak in such a suit will generally cause a frostbitten hickey, rather than rapid death.]]. So far however, practical spacesuits based on Space Activity Suit/Biosuit technology have yet to be tested in space[[hottip:*:Although the original SAS was successfully tested in a vacuum chamber]], so currently they remain VaporWear-- [[IncrediblyLamePun erm, sorry]], {{Vaporware}}.

* The ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise uses both the skintight version and the bulkier version. [[HumongousMecha Mobile Suit]] pilots wear form-fitting flight suits which don't interfere with their movements but aren't meant to go out in space except in an emergency; regular space suits are worn by civilians and battleship crew. A few characters like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Karn]] eschew any kind of suit entirely as a matter of preference, though in Char's case it actually became a plot point[[hottip:*:the first time he takes Lalah Sune's advice and actually wears a flight suit is the time that doing without would have killed him. He wears pilot suits from then on in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]''. Not to mention, a few pilots actually do wear the standard space suit while piloting, including [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau Ashta]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] (though Heero does get a pilot suit in the final arc of his show.

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* Worn by Quorra and Gem from ''Pinball/TronLegacy''.
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* Quorra and Gem from ''Pinball/TronLegacy''.

* One bit of pre-melding plague tech in AlastairReynolds' ''RevelationSpace'' universe is a membrane of nanomachines stretched over a hole in a spacecraft's hull. Replacing both airlock and spacesuit, all you have to do is pass through the membrane and it wraps you in a spacesuit, and removes it on your way back in.

* ''CowboyBebop'' keeps the large helmet, but does features the iconic skin-tight suit.

* The SMS pilots in ''MacrossFrontier'' wear form-fitting suits that are little more than longjohns with bulky shoulderpads, and a helmet. Although these are designed to interface with the exoskeleton control units in the cockpit, it's extremely jarring when they're forced to eject and float around in space during a nuclear exchange.

* ''CodeGeass'': Suzaku's battle suit when piloting the Lancelot is a male example. The Black Knights' ace pilots end up receiving similar suits, whose creator insists they improve survival rates; in the second season, the Knights of the Round all wear designs similar to Suzaku's except personalized, making this trope apply to both men and women.

** Her future self, [[MostCommonSuperPower however..]]

** The ballistic properties of space suits in ''Mass Effect'' are down-played due to relativistic speeds of projectiles. Since personal scale mass effect fields are used to slow/stop projectiles, the light armour suits they wear can focus more on environmental protection rather than being combat capable. Heavier armour features less ''LatexSpaceSuit'' and more ''AwesomeYetPractical'' with bulky (yet fitted) armour plating.

See also SpaceClothes, GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe, BridgeBunnies, SpyCatsuit, ChromeChampion. Compare its 19th century counterpart, the AdventurerOutfit.

** [[{{Roma}} Quar]][[RecycledInSpace ians]] live nearly their entire lives inside latex space suits because of their [[BizarreAlienBiology atypical immune systems]] had [[IllGirl atrophied]] due to the extended period aboard sterile environment spaceships due to their [[AIIsACrapshoot exile]]. Interestingly, they play this trope straight:

* Girl One of ''TopTen'' appears to be wearing a color-changing version of this, but it's later revealed [[AuthorAppeal that really is her skin, and she's]] [[strike:a closet nudist]] [[NightmareFuel been]] [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel bio-engineered]]]] [[NightmareFuel with an uncontrollable nudity compulsion by the]] [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel fanboys that created her.]]]]

** Sergei Pavlov's ''Moon Rainbow'' series feature in later installments the "spacesuit" that is literally ''secreted'' from the body, turning the wearer into a ChromeChampion. It's actually a layer of a symbiotic living {{nanomachines}} that could be [[PsychicPowers psychically]] controlled by their host.

* In LarryNiven's ''KnownSpace'' stories, the state of the art is "skinsuits" similar to the real-life SAS described above. The suits must be specially constructed to fit each individual, and are usually painted with distinctive personal designs. Anyone wearing a bulky and generic "bubble suit" marks himself as a newbie (or an Earthling) and is not to be trusted on his own in vacuum.

* ''TheMoteInGodsEye'' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Lady Sandra Bright "Sally" Fowler is specifically noted to be wearing a suit like this during her zero gravity training.

* In John Ringo's ''[[CouncilWars East of the Sun, and West of the Moon]]'', these suits are {{justified|Trope}} as being necessary for proper heat exchange, not to mention the importance of leaving no space for trapped air to inflate the suit in the low atmospheric pressures of space, rendering the suit too stiff to move. In this case, the suits are so skin tight that the wearers have to prepare themselves with a depilatory cream to remove ''all'' of the hair from their bodies, with the suits being made with molds made of the wearers' bodies.

** ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': Kazuya Ryuuzaki.

** ''{{Mazinger}} saga:

** ''AnimeRobotRomanceTrilogy'':

* ''StarBlazers'' (or, if one prefers, ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'') from 1972 is one of the earliest appearances in anime of this trope. Nurse Yuki Mori, the only recurring female character, provides continuous FanService and is very fetching indeed in a yellow space suit that leaves [[{{Stripperiffic}} so little to the imagination]] that it's hard to imagine it providing any protection against a stiff breeze, much less the vacuum of space.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the sexy pilot suits variant. It is notably subverted in the episode "Magmadiver", where Asuka has to wear a special plugsuit that swells like a balloon. Lampshaded, too, as she complains about how unsexy it is.
** Played with a bit early in the series, when, in an emergency, Shinji has to wear the female variant of the suit. While male variants are also more or less skin-tight, the female version is tighter in the crotch and has vague sculpted breast elements and a curvier hip/waist ratio.
** ''RebuildOfEvangelion'' has Asuka donning a special plugsuit that has a [[{{Stripperific}} translucent torso]]. Even Asuka finds it a bit much.
* It is a very frequent trope in SuperRobotGenre and RealRobotGenre mecha shows. One of the earliest examples -but not the first one, for one change- unsurprisingly was ''MazingerZ'': Kouji began to wear a LatexSpaceSuit in the third episode, and Sayaka always wore one while piloting [[FemBot Aphrodite A]]. Sayaka's was one-piece and tighter than Kouji's though. More mecha examples are:
** ''GreatMazinger'': Tetsuya and Jun (again, the female character's suit was tighter)
** ''UFORoboGrendizer'': Duke, Kouji, Hikaru and Maria. Duke's suit was a completely literal example, since he wore it to travel across space in his spaceship/HumongousMecha.
** ''GetterRobo'': Ryoma, Hayato and Michiru wore one. Musashi and Benkei's uniforms were subversions. It was reinforced in later manga seasons: if a pilot does not wear a protective uniform, his or her body can get seriously harmed due to the enormous strain the body suffers.
** ''KotetsuJeeg'': Miwa always wore a tight LatexSpaceSuit when she piloted her support unit. However Hiroshi never wore a suit, since he transformed into the HumongousMecha.
** ''{{Gaiking}}: Sanshiro Tsuwabuki and his crew.
** ''{{Raideen}}'': Akira Hibiki.
** ''CombattlerV'': Hyoma and his FiveManBand wore ColourCodedForYourConvenience space suits.
** ''VoltesV'': Ditto with Kenighi and his FiveManBand.
** ''{{Zambot3}}'': Kappei and his two cousins.
** ''{{Daitarn3}}'': Banjo Haran when he was not wearing a James Bond suit.
** ''{{Daimos}}: Kazuya Ryuuzaki.

** ''GoLion'': Akira and his FiveManBand.
** ''{{Gunbuster}}'': Noriko and her friends' costumes are specifically designed for space combat.

* The various combat suits in ''MassEffect'', also known as hardsuits, are relatively form-fitting but can function in a vacuum. That being said, they do not provide significant protection against extreme temperatures, extreme pressure, or highly corrosive environments, unless you use models specifically designed for that purpose. Otherwise, the suits actually do look functional and realistic, being covered in plates of ceramic armor, compared with other examples of {{Latex Space Suit}}s.

** The ballistic properties of space suits in ''MassEffect'' are down-played due to relativistic speeds of projectiles. Since personal scale mass effect fields are used to slow/stop projectiles, the light armour suits they wear can focus more on environmental protection rather than being combat capable. Heavier armour features less ''LatexSpaceSuit'' and more ''AwesomeYetPractical'' with bulky (yet fitted) armour plating.

--> '''Ken''': The whole suit is lovely; snug in all the right places...

* ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' had these in spades. On pilots, on cosplayers, on cosplaying pilots...and like some parts of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', they're equal-opportunity FanService.

* ''{{Stratos 4}}''. One of the pilot teams is the main four characters, who are all 16-year-old girls. Oh, and the commander (who looks like an {{expy}} of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Misato]]) also gets to fly some missions too.