History Main / TooManyBelts

* [[TheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron]] [[http://www.poptower.com/images/db/4422/450/500/terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles.jpg likes]] her belts and her [[EverythingsBetterWithZippers zippers]] - not to mention [[HellBentForLeather leather]].

* A number of [[{{Batman}} The Scarecrow's]] costumes across media have featured a large amount of belts. Sometimes this is because a costume will be made out of a [[http://www.brokenfrontier.com/img/2005/mar/DC/BatmanScarecrowYearOneCv2.jpg strait]] [[http://nerdapproved.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/scarecrow-3.jpg jacket]] which actually ''needs'' a lot of belts in its intended use, but in examples such as his ''ArkhamAsylum'' design, [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zzfgs8VTa74/TRDo1ITD6oI/AAAAAAAAIi4/3hWDQ8numRw/s1600/Scarecrow_concept_by_Chuckdee.jpg it's just for the hell of it.]]

* [[TheForceUnleashed Starkiller's]] starting outfit has about five belts.

* Penance - the Generation X character, not [[Comicbook/CivilWar Bleedball]] - has an outfit made almost entirely of belts.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Crown J-Crown]], the union of 8 different light-heavyweight ProfessionalWrestling championships from eight different companies MPW, NJPW, WDF, CMLL, UWA, WAR, WWA and WWF, which was represented by [[http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/graphics/J-Crown.jpg the champ wearing all eight belts. At once.]] As if this wasn't enough to lose the average wrestler in a sea of leather and gold, Ultimo Dragon (pictured above) was already the NWA World Middleweight Champion and won both the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship and the {{WCW}} Cruiserweight Championship while also holding the J-Crown, giving him ''11'' championship belts to schlep around. Interestingly, one of the belts in the J-Crown was the {{WWF}} Light-Heavyweight Championship, making Ultimo Dragon the only man to hold both a WWF and WCW championship simultaneously until the latter was bought out by the former in 2001, although the WWF did not acknowledge the Light-Heavyweight Championship at the time.

* Anything Tetsuya Nomura has worked on is likely to invoke this. His work on ''FinalFantasy'' has the most belts, particularly [[FinalFantasyX Lulu]] who has a skirt composed ''entirely'' of them as you can see in the above picture. The outer dress is lovely and creative by itself, so it didn't really need the belt-dress. In an interview, Nomura explained Lulu's design by saying that he wanted to provide "[[{{Understatement}} a challenge]]" to the character model and CG departments: namely, having to reproduce the exact layer order of every belt worn. [[AuthorAppeal Of course, there's probably more to it than that, but who can really say?]] (Or maybe he really hated someone in the CG dept). Oh, and the animators got around the problem by showing Lulu from the waist-up in most of the CG scenes.

[[FinalFantasyX http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smallerlulu.png]]
[[caption-width:210:Lulu doesn't just wear belts ''with'' her dress. She wears belts ''as'' [[PimpedOutDress her dress]].]]

* During ''{{Knightfall}}'', Azrael-Batman, when he first donned the armor he used during his tenure, sported an utility belt on his leg in addition to a normal one, but he ditched it during one of his modifications to the armor.

*** A partial justification, a gun belt and a regular belt have very different purposes - the regular belt holds up your pants, and generally sits at the waist, while a gun belt sits much lower, over your hips, so your hand naturally falls level with the butt of a gun. Both would be worn at the same time. Also, the holster would have some sort of tie-down, usually a simple leather string but conceivably a small belt in it's own right, to keep the holster in the correct position. However, with the weight of a gunblade, you'd figure there would be some other easier method of carrying it around than on your hip. And none of this excuses later iterations of the art.

** Well yeah, but Etna can pull it off, her being a demon and all, plus the whole bondage FetishFuel issue it probably helped.

* The Big Sister in ''BioShock 2'' wears a suit that possesses no less than [[http://i44.tinypic.com/25ov4ig.png thirteen belts.]] Semi-justified in that she ''is'' wearing a diving suit and the belts appear to be trying to keep it properly secured.

* Voldo from ''[[SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]''. Perhaps justified, because...[[FetishFuel you know.]]

* Lloyd from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' wears four belts, in the oddest places. Kratos wears six (and even more in his alternate outfit).

* As more details of ''BioShock 2'' leak, the design for the Big Sister enemy has revealed her suit to possesses no less than [[http://i44.tinypic.com/25ov4ig.png thirteen belts.]]
** You just know that forearm and logo are hiding ten more.
** This may actually be justified in that the belts are required to tightly secure her suit's pieces to her body.

* Yugi from ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' wore a multi-belted shirt during Duelist Kingdom. After that arc, he changed to a black sleeveless shirt, but still wore a belt around his neck. Kaiba donned eight belts, two on each of his arms and legs, from the second season on, in addition to the normal belt on his pants.

* For about a month in 2007, KurtAngle simultaneously held the TNA heavyweight, X Division, and tag belts [[hottip:*:by himself, due to a couple of GimmickMatches; Sting won another one to become Angle's partner]] and the (IGF) IWGP title.

* Subject Zero from ''MassEffect 2'' is using belts to make a bra. [[http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/92374/Mass-Effect-2/ It looks about as comfortable as it sounds]].

* In BuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension, Reno wears a two belts.

Many characters in {{fantasy}}, {{steampunk}}, {{anime}} and even a few [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] settings will sport more belts than they really need. Either they were having a clearance sale at JC Penney or they have [[WhyDontYouMarryIt some weird obsession with belts that borders on the fetishistic]], especially when they don't even NEED a belt where it is, or even use it to carry things, and wear one anyway. One of the last places you will often see these people wearing a belt is tight around their waist.