History Main / PaintedOnPants

* {{Disgaea3}} Clothes are decorations.

* Miranda Lawson from ''MassEffect 2'' certainly lives up to this trope. Her second outfit that you can unlock by completing her loyalty mission makes her look as if she dips herself in a bath of liquid black latex every morning.

* Fenris of ''DragonAgeII'' has very, very tight pants. One wonders what they're made of, given that his low-tech world is unlikely to have spandex; his outfit is given no more in-game description than the mystifying "Grafted Spirit Hide." (How does a spirit have hide?) RuleOfSexy probably applies.

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'''Note:''' Full skintight bodysuits are a [[SpyCatsuit different trope altogether]]. As are cases when the outfit [[BodyPaint really is painted on]]. FormFittingWardrobe is for when clothing clings like this but is made of materials that shouldn't.

* Eric Estrada of ''{{CHIPs}}'' admitted the costumers sewed in extra zippers on his pants at strategic places.

* [[http://www.consolecuties.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bloodrayne01.jpg Rayne]] in ''BloodRayne''.

* WonderWoman's sidekick, Wonder Girl, traditionally wears these.

* ScarlettJohansson. SpyCatsuit. ''Film/IronMan 2'' and ''Film/TheAvengers''. That is all.
** Don't forget Cobie Smulders. Funny how we got [[MaleGaze all those shots of them walking away after orders...]]

* In one ''NikolaiDante'' story, Lulu wears a form of latex that is literally painted on.

* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''. (Adams on donning the pants: "Hey, I ''do'' have an ass!" Men everywhere: "Hell to the yes.")

* ScarlettJohansson. ''Film/TheAvengers''. That is all.

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* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''. (Adams on donning the pants: "Hey, I do have an ass!" Men everywhere: "Hell to the yes.")

* In another male example, Dr. Spencer Reid of CriminalMinds sometimes wears pants that show off his long legs and assets.

* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''.

* In fashion fetishism, they have the concept of a second skin, where a fabric usurps the sexual role played by bare skin, see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_skin_(fetishism)]].

* Superskin, a bodystocking that fits like a second skin in RobertHeinlein's ''Friday''.

* Poor ''{{Empowered}}'''s super suit is canonically thinner than a soap bubble and so revealing it took her six months to work up enough nerve to wear it in public.

* AmyAdams' pants as AmeliaEarhart in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''.

* Half the cast in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', Avon in particular.

* AmyAdams' pants as AmeliaEarhardt in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''.

in your cowboy boots and your painted-on jeans?\\

** Male comic characters also frequently appear to have been drawn naked but with AnimeAnatomy, and then colored like a CaptainAmerica suit, to the point of details like belly buttons showing. Really, clothes hanging like actual clothes is the exception, not the rule.

** It could be that drawing bodies (one of the first things one learns to draw) is easier than drawing realistic-looking clothing, and you've got 20 pages to fill on a deadline. The level of detail and care it'd take to make Storm ''or'' Wolverine look like their clothes are made of what yours are made of tends to be reserved for [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]], [[HumongousMecha Sentinels]], [[CoolPlane the Blackbird]], [[{{BFG}} futuristic guns]], etc.

* DC uses this less frequently, but it comes up occasionally. One particular example: WonderWoman's sidekick, Wonder Girl, traditionally wears these.

* [[{{Deconstruction}} Literally done]] in ''TopTen'' by "Girl One" -- she's the ArtificialHuman victim of AbusivePrecursors in the form of 2 rich, horny, teen geniuses, who designed her with Fanservice tropes in mind. Namely, she's incredibly beautiful and has a genetically programmed [[InnocentFanserviceGirl compulsion to stay nude at all times]] (but [[NightmareFuel not the lack of a nudity taboo]]). Her designers had the brilliant idea to give her chromatic skin to let her get away with the former: She can change her skintone at will like a cuttlefish, with the default being purple; she gets away with staying nude by making it very, very hard to look at her and notice her nudity. The comic doesn't explain this for several chapters, so you assume this trope is in play, but [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar in reality...]]
* Poor ''{{Empowered}}'''s super suit is canonically thinner than a soap bubble and so revealing it took her six months to work up enough nerve to wear it in public. Unfortunately, as soon as it tears, her powers vanish - and it tears ''very'' easily.

* As seen above, AmyAdams' pants as AmeliaEarhardt in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''.
** Although if those pants are made of the same material that is used for horseback riding pants (jodhpurs or breeches), they would actually be very easy to move around in (see Real Life)

** The pants were actually vintage 1950's and were obtained from a second-hand store. The original zippers were broken, so the costumers resorted to sewing her in.

* Jenny, the Doctor's daughter in the new ''Series/DoctorWho''. Holy moly.
* Kurt Hummel from ''{{Glee}}''. His pants are sometimes so ridiculously tight you have to wonder how he can even walk in them at times.
** And he ''does'' do high kicks in them. Check out both 'Rose's Turn' and 'Time Warp' for proof.
* In another rare male example, [[CriminalMinds Dr. Spencer Reid]] sometimes wears pants that show off his long legs and [[IncrediblyLamePun ass]]ets. Like this picture [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltzzzhhTH61r5zu2ao1_500.jpg for example]]

* Music example: Of all people, Music/ArethaFranklin. From the song ''Pink Cadillac'':

** Not surprisingly, so did his high singing voice.
*** Many Arguements have been held over what exactly he was trying to smuggle into the stadium in those jeans.
*** [[ThisIsSpinalTap Probably a cucumber wrapped in tinfoil.]]

* Any picture taken of [[Music/{{ACDC}} Bon Scott]] is certain to draw one's gaze to the [[GagPenis "area"]].

* Music/DollyParton's "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That" with the lyrics Why'd you come in here lookin' like that, in your cowboy boots and your painted on jeans?

* Mimi's famous blue "Out Tonight" pants in ''{{Rent}}''. Note that the actress wears them while dancing ''on a railing''. Not to mention that they -- in fact, all of Mimi's original costumes -- actually belonged to actress Daphne Rubin-Vega.

* Trish from ''DevilMayCry''. [[http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6563/devilmaycrytrish.jpg Seriously]].

* [[{{Disgaea3}} Clothes are decorations. You just don't get it.]]

* Old Snake from ''MetalGearSolid 4'', ''damn my bleeding eyes.''
** Semi-justified, as loose clothing would hamper his sneaking ability
*** It's also a muscle suit about an inch thick, to make up for his old age, so it's pretty much completely justified. His suit from [=MGS2=] on the other hand...
* Sieg Warheit ''ChaosLegion'' doesn't appear to wear a shirt. Apparently, he's just painted grey from the neck down.

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* They have spray-on bikinis on ''{{Futurama}}''.
* A ''CampLazlo'' episode had Scoutmaster Lumpus painting clothes on everyone in the camp to avoid laundry expenses. The idea's popularity kept increasing until a rain stopped it all.
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* In fashion fetishism, they have the concept of a second skin, where a fabric usurps the sexual role played by bare skin, see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_skin_(fetishism)]]. This might be one source for a name.
* TruthInTelevision--"skinny jeans" are all the rage, and for good reason--when it comes to attracting the [[MaleGaze desired]] [[FemaleGaze gaze]], ''they work''.
** Leggings even more so. Now there's even faux denim leggings(jeggings), complete with [[WeWillNotHavePocketsInTheFuture false pockets]].

** Of course, if you're [[FanDisservice not an athlete...]]

* In the 70's and 80's rock musicians often wore very tight jeans.
* Spray on clothing now exists in the lab. [[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19462-real-sprayon-clothes-to-hit-the-catwalk.html Yes, with a spray can.]]

* ''CityOfHeroes'', saying as how it's of the superhero genre, has a multitude of shiny tight pants options, from spandex to leather to metal.
** ''ChampionsOnline'' meanwhile seems to have few options other than that.

* [[http://img199.imageshack.us/i/w03zwz.jpg/ Amy Adams' pants]] as Amelia Earhardt in ''NightAtTheMuseum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian''.