History Main / TheCoatsAreOff

* In the ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, most of the major boss fights are precluded by the characters throwing off their shirt in a single swoop so that they can show off their [[TattooedCrook Irezumi]].

Bonus badass points if you are {{shirtless|Scene}} beneath the coat, or if you're wearing pants with suspenders. Badassness levels will also increase exponentially if you're wearing [[BadassInANiceSuit business-like attire]] underneath -- the nicer, neater, and more expensive the better. Heck, the badass level increases even if you're wearing [[SleevesAreForWimps a sleeveless shirt]]. [[SerialEscalation EXTRA]] [[RunningGag bonus points]] if the coat is revealed to be [[IAmNotLeftHanded weighted clothing]].

* Franchise/WonderWoman wore a black leather jacket during the J. Michael Straczynski run, which she takes off in one issue before she goes to battle, before she gets rid of it for good in later issues after it receives ClothingDamage. [[SleevesAreForWimps Bonus points for always going with her shoulders bare.]]

* In ''Jackie Chan's Who Am I?'' the final fight features Chan in a tag-team battle with two skilled martial artists. When Chan uses the first one's jacket and tie against him, the second one sensibly removes his before he jumps into the fight.

* There is an entire category of dress that serves this purpose known as "entrance attire". It has its roots in warmup gear. Before competition, athletes would be expected to perform cardio drills and stretches to "limber up" and then wear fairly heavy clothing to keep their muscles from "cooling down" while they rested. This was to reduce the risk of injury, but over time warmup gear became increasingly thematic as wrestlers sought to look distinct among their peers and increase their marketability, to the point of robes that cannot even be manually removed in a timely manner (Wrestling/DaltonCastle), headgear that couldn't possibly serve towards staying limber (Wrestling/StanHansen), and potential weaponry that really shouldn't have been allowed at ringside (Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors).
* On Gnarly Pop's ''Life Love And Lady Wrestling'', Kikyo parodied Kiera Hogan's routine(wearing her merchandise around her waist before the bell) but wearing multiple shirts over her singlety and slowly removing them to spell out "Hi, My Name Is Kikyo, And I'm Gonna Kick Yo Ass". Hogan {{a|ctuallyprettyfunny}} dmitted it was clever.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Kokushibou already seemed to be too much trouble with his clothes fully on, Kokushibou was making Muichirou, Himejima and Sanemi, three Pillars, break a sweat against him, then Himejima and Sanemi manage to rip Kokushibou's haori (coat) off and that's where Kokushibou stops playing around, Himejima and Sanemi went from trying to go on the offensive to then struggling not to die against Kokushibou's devastating long range attacks.

* There is an entire category of dress that serves this purpose known as "entrance attire". It has its roots in warmup gear. Before competition, athletes would be expected to perform cardio drills and stretches to "limber up" and then wear fairly heavy clothing to keep their muscles from "cooling down" while they rested. This was to reduce the risk of injury, but over time warmups gear became increasingly thematic as wrestlers sought to look distinct among their peers and increase their marketability, to the point of robes that cannot even be manually removed in a timely manner (Dalton Castle), headgear that couldn't possibly serve towards staying limber (Wrestling/StanHansen), and potential weaponry that really shouldn't have been allowed at ringside (Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors).

* Once ThePunisher is ready to get messy he tends to remove his coat, revealing the black, skull-adorned T-shirt underneath.

* In ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', Jiminy takes off his coat when he tries to pick a fight with Lampwick.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' has an excellent example: Gandalf sheds his grey cloak in Théoden's hall, revealing himself to be Gandalf the White, and all that goes with that name. He proceeds to be a badass wizard.

* In ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing: Blood and Honor]]'' Plourr is tasked with fighting someone and removes her coat to hand to one of her squadmates. Things go sour after she drops the goon, and she's not seen with it again.

** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Knight Nahdar Vebb drops his outer robe before using the force to clear the path to the Sepratist hideout that the Jedi have been lead to belive Nute Gunray is hiding at and which they've come to in order to retrive him. The actual opponent who awaits them is far more dangerous than they'd been led to believe.

* When [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars General]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Grievous]] takes off his heroic awesome cape when he fights Jedi and other random villains.

** Also downplayed in 'Snow Day.' After the BigBad shoots the sprinklers so they kick on, Mac removes his jacket, quietly balls it up and sets it aside while discussing tactics with Sheldon & Stella. Ostensibly, it would be uncomfortable if soaked, but he'll need that range of motion again before it's over.

** Lab coats are normally worn while processing evidence and/or doing reconstructions, but in 'Corporate Warriors,' Mac is seen brandishing bladed weapons, including a katana, without one because it would impede his range of motion.

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* [[spoiler: Saya]]'s final part of her support attack in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' has her tossing her coat revealing quite [[{{Fanservice}} the eye-candy]] before catching her two swords in the air and slashing them to her enemy.

* After you cut away the first two health bars of [[spoiler: Lord Genichiro]] when you meet [[spoiler: him]] atop Ashina Castle in ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'', [[spoiler: Genichiro sheds his armor in order to wield the [[ShockAndAwe Lightning of Tomoe.]]]]

* There is an entire category of dress that serves this purpose known as "entrance attire". It has its roots in warmup gear. Before competition, athletes would be expected to perform cardio drills and stretches to "limber up" and then wear fairly heavy clothing to keep their muscles from "cooling down" while they rested. This was to reduce the risk of injury, but over time warmups gear became increasingly thematic as wrestlers sought to look distinct among their peers and increase their marketability, to the point of robes that cannot even be manually removed in a timely manner (Dalton Castle), headgear that couldn't possibly serve towards staying limber (Wrestling/StanHansen), and potential weaponry that really shouldn't have been allowed at ringside (Wrestling/LegionOfDoom).