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* ''ComicBook/{{Incandescence}}'': Audrey's wardrobe, which consists of a lot of SpandexLatexOrLeather, alludes to her background in dance and secret identity as Incandescence.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Alicorn}}'': After being revealed as an alicorn and Celestia's daughter, Rainbow is scared that from now on her alicornhood and royalty will be all anyone cares about and no one will look past it and see who she really is. As an alicor, her horn is longer and thinner than a unicorn's, making it both impossible to hide and the first thing anyone will noyice about her. Combined with her pre-existing StrongFamilyResemblance, it also makes it extremely obvious who her mother is, which she would prefer to forget.
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* In the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'', the Bitter Gourd King wears a sheet of paper on his face bearing the Chinese symbol "苦", meaning "bitter".

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* In the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'', ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure Moon Castle: The Space Adventure]]'', the Bitter Gourd King wears a sheet of paper on his face bearing the Chinese symbol "苦", meaning "bitter".
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* PosthumanNudity: Superhumans often go naked to demonstrate that they're above physical discomfort and social conventions.

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* PosthumanNudity: PosthumanNudism: Superhumans often go naked to demonstrate that they're above physical discomfort and social conventions.
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* KiddyCoveralls: Kids wear overalls to keep clean and be rambunctious.
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* RoughOveralls: Overalls tell you a character's a WorkingClassHero or [[OverallsAndGingham a farmer]].
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* HereditaryWeddingDress: A bride wears a wedding dress to honour her mother.


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*StylishSunhats: A lady with a sunhat is a fashionista or someone important.
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* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': I-no the [[HotWitch smoking hot guitar witch]] has a distinctive beauty mole on her upper lip. [[spoiler:The fact that Axl's LostLenore [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megumi_ggst.png Megumi]] has an identical mark in the same spot foreshadows the reveal that I-no is an older BrokenBird version of Megumi from an AlternateTimeline.]]
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* BoyishShorts: Young boys wear shorts to display their youth and/or immaturity.
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* MartialArtistsAreAlwaysBarefoot: Martial artists are portrayed as being habitually barefoot even in non combat situation.

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* MartialArtistsAreAlwaysBarefoot: Martial artists are often portrayed as being habitually barefoot even in non combat situation.non-combat situations.
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* MartialArtistsAreAlwaysBarefoot: Martial artists are portrayed as being habitually barefoot even in non combat situation.
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* In the original ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' manga, female lead Deunan Knute is drawn as a blonde with bronze skin, which she explains is because her father is European and her mother is Sudanese after Hitomi comments she's darker-skinned than most Caucasians she's met. In most adaptations [[ButNotTooBlack she's drawn with pale skin]], though her Sudanese parentage is brought up in ''Anime/AppleseedXIII'': Briareos mentions in an InternalMonologue that Deunan's mother was [[PoliceBrutality murdered by a soldier for violating a racial segregation law]], which caused her father to go KnightTemplarParent and train his daughter into a soldier.

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* In the original ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' manga, female lead Deunan Knute is drawn as a blonde with bronze skin, which she explains is because her father is European and her mother is Sudanese after Hitomi comments she's darker-skinned than most Caucasians she's met. In most adaptations [[ButNotTooBlack she's drawn with pale skin]], skin, though her Sudanese parentage is brought up in ''Anime/AppleseedXIII'': Briareos mentions in an InternalMonologue that Deunan's mother was [[PoliceBrutality murdered by a soldier for violating a racial segregation law]], which caused her father to go KnightTemplarParent and train his daughter into a soldier.

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* SexySweaterGirl: She may be attractive, but she likely won't flaunt it.



* SweaterGirl: She may be attractive, but she likely won't flaunt it.
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* SultryBangs: The use of eye-covering bangs to denote sensuality or seductiveness.

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* BarefootLoon: [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Eccentrics]] and crazy people often go barefoot in public because they are either flouting societal conventions or are simply oblivious to them.
* BarefootSage: Sages, mentors and enlightened characters frequently eschew footwear for reasons of religious asceticism, [[EarthyBarefootCharacter connection to nature]], or because [[EccentricMentor they're too wise to care about social conventions]].



* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Characters who have a spiritual connection to nature (or just rural characters) usually enjoy going barefoot. The NatureHero, BarbarianHero, NobleSavage, HotGypsyWoman, JunglePrincess and TarzanBoy are almost always barefoot.



* MagicalBarefooter: Characters with magical powers sometimes go barefoot — this may be because they need contact with the soil for their powers, because they are invulnerable to injury or soiling, to demonstrate their lack of interest in social conventions, or to demonstrate their "higher being" status.



* NakedNutter: No clothes = crazy.



* PosthumanNudity: Superhumans often go naked to demonstrate that they're above physical discomfort and social conventions.



* UndeadBarefooter: Undead characters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, mummies) are often barefoot as a way to let the viewer know there's something off about them (especially if they look human otherwise). This may be because they no longer feel pain or cold, or just because [[BarefootSuicide they died]] or were buried without shoes.



* BaldOFAuthority: Bald = authoratative.

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* BaldOFAuthority: Bald = authoratative.authoritative.


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* BaldMystic: Bald = spiritual.
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* GoldToothOfWealth: Gold teeth used to signify wealth and/ or used as a status symbol.


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* VillainousGoldTooth: Gold teeth used to signify villainy and/or amorality.
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* StaffOfAuthority: Carrying a staff as a symbol of office or authority.


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* WhipOfDominance: Carrying a whip as a symbol of dominance, control, authority, or sadism.
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* CarpetOfVirlity: A man's chest hair underscores his masculinity.

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* CarpetOfVirlity: CarpetOfVirility: A man's chest hair underscores his masculinity.
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* ''Webcomic/TheSecretKnots'': In-universe in "Glitches". Xeni can make herself look like anything she wants inside the virtual reality memorial that she spends most of her time in, and gives herself a jarringly ugly, expressionless mask that covers her entire head, saying that she wants to look the way she feels after the death of her friend.
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* HighClassFan: Used by noble ladies to give them an air of elegance and sophistication.
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* LasciviousBeautyMark: Beauty mark means they are flirty, seductive, or sexually forward.

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* LasciviousBeautyMark: Beauty mark means they are flirty, seductive, or sexually forward.forward, or very desired InUniverse.
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* CarpetOfVirlity: A man's chest hair underscores his masculinity.



* In ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'', David Lo Pan, the Big Bad, has to sacrifice a woman with green eyes in order to undo a curse that keeps his true form immaterial. Un/Fortunately [[spoiler:the love interests of both the main protagonist and his kung fu buddy have green eyes, so they have to go defeat Lo Pan's crew in a wire-fight to the death.]]

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* In ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'', David Lo Pan, the Big Bad, has to sacrifice a woman with green eyes in order to undo a curse that keeps his true form immaterial. Un/Fortunately [[spoiler:the love interests of both the main protagonist and his kung fu buddy have green eyes, so they have to go defeat Lo Pan's crew in a wire-fight to the death.]]death]].
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* In the third ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, the Bitter Gourd King wears a sheet of paper on his face bearing the Chinese symbol "苦", meaning "bitter".

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* In the third ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, film ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'', the Bitter Gourd King wears a sheet of paper on his face bearing the Chinese symbol "苦", meaning "bitter".
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* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: The way they (incorrectly) wear an accessory really says something about them.

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* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: The way they (incorrectly) wear an accessory really says Showing something about them.a character's personality via giving their clothes a small imperfection.
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->''"In real life, you can't judge a book by its cover, but in fiction that is what the cover is there for."''
-->-- '''Red''', ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', "Trope Talk: Are We The Baddies?"

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