History Main / PaintedOnPants

* Poor ''Comicbook/{{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.

** In "Him", Xander and Willow make snippy comments about a girl doing a MatingDance at the Bronze in really tight jeans, [[SheIsAllGrownUp only to realise it's Buffy's little sister, Dawn]].

''Unless'' they're spandex, the "fight" part doesn't really work. Seriously. Female characters with nice legs and buttocks almost always feature a {{fanservice}}-heavy [[SheFu fighting style]] with [[KickChick lots of high kicks]]. Ask your local tae kwon-do coach to teach you some high kicks. Now put on some skin-tight leather or denim pants. Now do your high kicks. See the problem? That problem arises only if we're assuming our super woman hasn't broken an ankle running about in [[CombatStilettos stiletto heels]] or thrown herself to the ground from her own [[JigglePhysics forward momentum]], of course.

* DynastyWarriors: Wang Yi's armored leggings are really rather close-cut.

If you're looking for something comfortable, [[{{Fanservice}} sexy]], aerodynamic, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sexy]], smooth, and [[RuleOfThree sexy]] for your characters to fight in, party in, or just walk around in, look no further than skintight pants, preferably spandex or leather so that they can be shiny too.

* Jareth wears these in ''{{Labyrinth}}''.

* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum: Battle of the Smithsonian''.
* "Sandy II" in ''{{Grease}}''. Olivia Newton-John had to have the pants sewn around her legs, so tight were they.

* Peter Vincent, David Tennant's character in the ''FrightNight'' remake, wears nearly painted-on leather pants. They become the source of a [[{{Squick}} Squick-inducing]] CrowningMomentOfFunny in the HilariousOuttakes.

* Mimi's famous blue "Out Tonight" pants in ''{{Rent}}''. Note that the actress wears them while dancing ''on a railing''.
** ForbiddenBroadway's ''Rent'' parody included a song called "Ouch, They're Tight!"
* In ''TheRoseTattoo'', Serafina examines her daughter's sailor boyfriend from the front and back and asks him why they make Navy pants so tight. "That's a question you'll have to ask the Navy," he tells her.

* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum: Battle of the Smithsonian''. * "Sandy II" in ''{{Grease}}''. Olivia Newton-John had to have the pants sewn around her legs, so tight were they.

* Quite a few PunkRock and Music/HeavyMetal musicians in TheSeventies and TheEighties, too. Music/{{Megadeth}} [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1411 in 1988]] [[http://www.megadeth.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=4009 and in 1990, for example.]]

* The page image is AmyAdams as AmeliaEarhart in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum: Battle of the Smithsonian''. (Adams on donning the pants: "Hey, I ''do'' have an ass!" People everywhere: "Hell to the yes.")
* "Sandy II" in ''{{Grease}}''. Olivia Newton-John had to have the pants sewn around her legs, so tight were they.

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

* In an attempt to appear younger, Dick Solomon of ''Series/3rd Rock from the Sun'' dyed his hair, and bought a new pair of pants. A very tight, and very squeaky pair of pants.

--> '''Chandler:''' My Lord, those are snug!

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' gives us Faith, a sexy [[DarkActionGirl badgirl]] who definitely enjoyed flaunting her assets with her signature skintight leather pants. Buffy also got in on the action occasionally with ultra-snug leather pants of her own, though hers tended to be either red or ''[[GirlyBruiser pink]]''.

* In ''Webcomic/Terinu'' this is SpacePirate Mavra Chan's default wear.

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* Robert Conrad in ''TheWildWildWest'' - his legwear of choice is so tight that in fight scenes they were prone to splitting (and not always off-camera, as "The Night of the Pistoleros" demonstrates).

* Miranda Lawson from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' 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.

** Taki's ''entire outfit'' seems painted on. She's basically modelled as though she were naked but coloured red.

* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' presented a variant with Morticia, who essentially had a full-length dress of that tightness. The actress, poor Anjelica Huston, must have found it almost impossible to move. It was lampshaded in the sequel:

** An urban legend tells of how a vain person sat in a hot tub with jeans on in order to shrink them into skintight-ness, unfortunately the jeans shrank so much that it ended up killing the person from loss of circulation.

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] occasionally wears stuff like this. Not to mention that she has thigh high stockings literally built into her synthetic skin.

* ''NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' has the titular princess in form fitting white leggings however as Miyazaki is a feminist they aren't really played for fanservice. However the film did once have a reputation for having viewers think that Nausicaa was flying around pantsless and underwear free due to old VHS fansubs where the footage had degraded so much through multiple copying that they looked more skintoned in colour.

If you're looking for something comfortable, [[{{Fanservice}} sexy]], aerodynamic, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sexy]], smooth, and [[RuleOfThree sexy]] for your characters to fight in, party in, or just walk around in, there's no reason to look no further than skintight pants, preferably spandex or leather so that they can be shiny too.