No Shirt, Long Jacket

Hello, ladies.

"Still haven't found a shirt that goes with your labcoat?"

— Olivia to Professor Kukui, Pokémon Sun and Moon

Badass Longcoat and Walking Shirtless Scene, two tropes that both represent the paragon of manliness and hotness. It might seem like the two are fundamentally incapable of being combined, but they can, as these brave men (and braver women) will show us below. This is a good way of showing off a Carpet of Virility.

Spear Counterpart to Naked in Mink. See also Navel-Deep Neckline for when a character's neckline is so deep it reaches their abdomen. Compare and contrast Bare Midriffs Are Feminine, a form of partial torso exposure that signifies femininity instead of masculinity.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• The title character of Black★Rock Shooter. With a black bra to cover up her breasts.
• In Brave10, Seikai sports this look, which means his muscles are on constant display.
• Alphard from Canaan. Also, she's a girl, yet this manages not to feel like a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• Awaki Musujime from A Certain Magical Index is another girl who dresses like this, using Sarashi for her breasts. She actually takes it a step further and wears the coat as a Coat Cape.
• Colonel Silver in Dragon Ball sports the attire.
• Kokojo in Duel Masters. The dub mentions that because he didn't wear a shirt he got a pretty nasty sunburn. "So always wear a shirt! It's just good sense!"
• Goku in Goku: Midnight Eye wears no shirt with his black suit with tie.
• Hellsing has the Captain, though he ditches the coat as well, eventually.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Golden Wind: Fugo does not wear a shirt under his jacket, only a necktie.
  • Stone Ocean: Rikiel doesn't have any additional clothing beneath his's.
• This is how Kill la Kill's Aikuro Mikisugi goes about wearing labcoats. However, unlike other examples, pants are also absent from the ensemble, as is underwear. Uzu Sanageyama neglects to wear a shirt under his longcoat during his rematch with Ryuko, to show off his bandaged torso.
• A few Cappies from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! do this with a waistcoat. There's also Rip from the biker gang in "Born to be Mild".
• Harry Tribeca of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid is another female example. She has a Sarashi for the breasts.
• Naruto:
  • Anko wears a jacket over a sort of skintight mesh shirt. She's also manlier than most of the men in the show.
  • Hidan has no shirt under his Akatsuki cloak.
  • A, the Fourth Raikage, wears the traditional Kage white robe with no shirt underneath.
• One Piece: Captain Smoker, though not really a longcoat, it's the same aesthetic.
  • Not just Smoker. Eustass Kid, X. Drake, Blackbeard, Mihawk... This is actually pretty common.
  • There's even a woman, Rindo of the Kuja Pirates, who adopts a look like this.
  • Franky always has this look. Notable in how it's one of the manly things not parodied.
  • Luffy himself borders on this after the timeskip.
  • Law dons this outfit while trying to be incognito within Dressrosa. What's odd is that he has a huge chest tattoo which is obviously styled after his Jolly Roger/crew name.
• In Rurouni Kenshin, whenever Sanoske isn't like this he's shirtless.
• Masami Eiri in Serial Experiments Lain. With what appears to be a labcoat, no less.
• Blair from Soul Eater becomes this once she gets turned into a guy.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Kamina does it with a Badass Cape, but the thought is the same. Simon as well, with an actual coat. Kamina's High-School alternate-universe counterpart plays this trope straight.
• In Tokkô there is Suzuka Kureha, who is an odd female example as she wears nothing underneath her leather jacket that covers up her breasts.
• Kuwabara of YuYu Hakusho wears this during the Dark Tournament. Played With for Hiei. He never wears his jacket open but it appears in the first half of the show he doesn't wear a shirt under his jacket.

Comic Books

• Hellboy wears a trench coat and shorts, no shirt, showing off his muscular red torso.
• Daimon Hellstrom of Marvel Comics — at least in Journey into Mystery (Gillen), where his constant shirtlessness is a Running Gag. It does allow us to see the giant pentagram birthmark on his chest.
• Raptors: Both Drago and Aznar Akeba wear long leather trenchcoats (red and black respectively) without a shirt of any sort.
• Sabretooth has sported this look on occasion◊, this is just part of all his shirtless scenes.
• In the Sin City story The Big Fat Kill, the main character Dwight starts the story in the buff since he's over at his girlfriend's house where they are post-coital. Her ex-boyfriend comes over to start trouble and he has enough time to pull on a pair of pants and throw on his long coat but does not wear a shirt under it Since the entire story takes place over the course of a single night, he has this look throughout the miniseries.
• Manchester Black in the Superman comic "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?", as well as its animated adaptation, Superman vs. the Elite. The man wears a full black trench coat and is shirtless, but he's got a full Union Jack tattooed on his chest that hides his shirtlessness.
• Transmetropolitan: Spider's iconic outfit (when he's not cavorting naked) includes wearing a black jacket over his otherwise bare upper body, showing off his lean frame and edgy tattoos. When he starts wearing shirts, it's serious business.
• This is Nate Grey's look during his return in the Dark X-Men miniseries, and like Hellstrom, it shows off his own distinctive mark, the X shaped genetic brand on his chest.

Films — Live-Action

• Barbie (2023): Ken puts on a long, oversized mink coat with no shirt underneath after his hypermacho "patriarchy" infects Barbieland. The film notes that this look is patterned after men like Sylvester Stallone doing the same, and it stands in contrast to his prior wardrobe of pastel beach coords.
• In Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hellboy often wears a baggy trenchcoat over his otherwise bare torso, the better to expose his muscular frame, complete with odd swirling sigils on his skin. He does sometimes wear a tight black shirt.
• Spider-Man 2: Otto Octavius has no choice but to dress this way because his tentacles are welded onto his body, making it impossible to wear regular shirts.
• Underworld (2003):
  • Viktor in the first film after regaining his strength but before setting out for the raid.
  • Marcus Corvinus and Andreas Tanis in Evolution.

Literature

• At one point in Clive Barker's 1988 novella Cabal (adapted into the 1990 horror film Nightbreed), Boone takes off his dirty white shirt to feel his beloved leather jacket on his skin.
• Hurog: In Dragon Blood, Tisala only wears a long coat after escaping from a torture bench. The coat was the only item of clothing that could be conveniently stolen at the time.
• In Pierre Bordage's Wang series, the blood-crazed Mongol mobsters of Assöl (not a typo) in sub-zero Wroclaw embody this trope. Long leather jackets for the awesome, bare chests to show off their resistance to cold.

Live-Action TV

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: When Dennis takes Mac's leather duster, he wears it without a shirt and vainly explains its appeal to women.
• Kamen Rider Build: When Killbus, the Big Bad of the sequel movie Cross-Z: New World, arrived into the next reality over from Build's original world, he first saw Sento and copied his appearance. After a while he decided that it doesn't suit him and took on the appearance of a professional dancer, who was on the TV at the time. Said dancer is known for dressing in red pants, short jacket and no shirt when on the job.
• Kamen Rider Saber: Bahat, the Big Bad of the movie Phoenix Swordsman and the Book of Ruin wears a long, overlapping coat, so it might not be immediately obvious that he has no shirt on.
• A December 1973 telecast of Match Game '73 had McLean Stevenson at the celebrity introduction opening with no shirt or jacket on whatsoever — just a tie-around bow tie, much to the audience's hilarity. Host Gene Rayburn was completely dumbfounded, and called for wardrobe to fetch out a jacket for McLean to wear for the show.

Music

• Lady Gaga in the video for "Alejandro", along with shades at night, white hair, a leather jacket and of course, panties, while singing in front of a cross, yeah, she hit everything for that one.
• Joe Perry, the lead guitarist for Aerosmith, frequently pulled this off on stage in the past. Now, not so much, but you can still occasionally catch him sporting this look.
• Seal in the video for "Crazy".
• Bobby McFerrin, in the video for "Don’t Worry, Be Happy."
• Both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did this a lot on stage in their Led Zeppelin days.
• Yoshiki Hayashi tends to sport this look during X Japan concerts when he isn't drumming.

Pro Wrestling

• Edge till retirement
• John Morrison, and the coat is fur too.
• Matt Hardy starting 2009.
• Wade Barrett, before his Nexus days, would come to the ring wearing a long black coat with an English rose on the lapel, It disappeared after the formation of The Nexus, But the coat made a comeback after his return from an arm injury in 2012.
• Even The Undertaker has been in it before.
• The Miz has worn one to the ring ever since his WWE Title win in 2010.

Video Games

• The male version of "Marra's Party Dress" costume in Aion.
• ANNO: Mutationem: Absalom primarily wears an open black jacket, that fully shows his upper body with glowing tattoos etched all over.
• In ATOM GRRRL!!, Big E's signature outfit is a purple pair of lingerie and a long jacket over it.
• Player Character and Mr. Fanservice Enzo from Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan runs around with his Badass Longcoat perpetually open to show his eight-pack abs.
• Lucid from The Caligula Effect Overdose has this as their outfit. Though due to Lucid having Invisibility as part of their design, it can be difficult to think of their invisible body being a naked chest.
• Castlevania
  • Adult Malus in Castlevania 64
  • Dracula and Alucard from the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow timeline sport this look.
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Dante, only in this game. He starts the game with no coat at all, which can be defended on principle that he just got out of the shower. He doesn't manage to get a coat until the second mission and he barely gets much downtime to actually get proper clothes on thanks to the game's events. While this is the look he sports in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, for the other DMC titles, he wears shirts under his red coat.
• Kaptain K. Rool from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Kutlass can also count although wearing a black vest.
• Slade in Dungeons of Aether wears an open jacket with no shirt underneath, to fit with his pirate look.
• Ruvik, the Big Bad of The Evil Within appears this way when not in flashbacks.
• Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth. It's hard to tell, however, because he does wear something around his midsection (with a pair of leather straps crossing his upper chest) and keeps the jacket belted shut.
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake brings back Weiss the Immaculate, who has taken to wearing a long, white coat - but he still hasn't found a shirt.
• Guilty Gear has Johnny. Overture also gave us Sin, subverted in that he has some sort of weird stomach-warmer... Thing.
• Kingdom Hearts: "Ansem" / Xehanort's Heartless. He ditches the jacket for his One-Winged Angel form.
• Yashiro Nanakase from The King of Fighters. Ash Crimson◊ is also shown to use this look when he's not rocking the regular outfit.
• The Legacy of Kain series has Janos Audron. Except in Blood Omen 2, where he is shirtless all the time.
• Goro Majima from the Like a Dragon series walks around town in an open snakeskin jacket that doesn't conceal his yakuza tattoos. The exception is in Yakuza 0, where he's instead a Badass in a Nice Suit (as appropriate for a nightclub manager).
• Live A Live: Akira Tadokoro, the protagonist of Near Future chapter, wears a Badass Longcoat to go with his delinquent look, but flashes his abs all the time.
• In Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, Dosgoro doesn’t wear a shirt with his pants and trench coat. This leaves his scaly gut on display at all times.
• Thane Krios from Mass Effect, though he surprisingly has a justification for it. Exposing his chest to open air helps with his lung disease.
• Metal Gear has Vamp and Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid wears an open brown duster over his bare torso, showing off his chiseled physique. Ocelot takes it up as well after being permanently possessed by Liquid in MGS4.
• Shiba Miyakaze from NEO: The World Ends with You. With his black blazer and a gold butterfly necklace adorning his bare chest; he looks like he stepped out of a nightclub.
• Dedan from OFF. His overworld sprite as well as official art of him depicts him with his coat buttoned up, implying that he unbuttoned his coat to fight the Batter.
• Professor Kukui from Pokémon Sun and Moon, wears his lab coat over a bare chest and is a boisterous and energetic wrestler. His lack of a shirt is noted by Olivia as her first sentence of her first appearance of the game:
  ???, a.k.a Olivia: Still haven't found a shirt that goes with your labcoat?
• Soul Series: Kilik from Soulcalibur II wears a long red jacket that exposes his abs. Supposedly, Dante was planned to appear as a guest character in Soulcalibur III (wearing his DMC3-era abs-exposing red long jacket shown as the page picture), but ended up getting cut because his costume looks too similar to Kilik's.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Unfettered Trench Coat outfit consists solely of a Badass Longcoat that leaves the chest completely bare on male characters (female characters add a bandeau bra).
• One of Luke's alternative costumes in Tales of the Abyss. His default outfit (which includes a midriff baring longcoat) is more restrained but has a similar effect.
• This is Bam Margera's outfit in Tony Hawk's Underground 2.

Web Comics

• In El Goonish Shive, Hedge is usually seen with a fishnet shirt (effectively making him shirtless) and a long brown coat.
• The neighbour in Flaky Pastry does this with a long red jacket, in what's probably a Shout-Out to Devil May Cry.

Web Original

• GoodTimesWithScar seems to be in fond with this trope alongside with Walking Shirtless Scene.
  • In MCC 29, he wore a jacket combined with a feathered boa and pink shades for the Pink Parrots team.
  • In Double Life SMP, once he and Grian became Red names thanks to an explosion he fell for, Scar wore a black jacket, already opened to expose his chest.
  • Although this trope covers his pecs, his tendency to go shirtless in-game has since reached memetic status in the greater MCYT fandom, who would often either be jokingly exasperated by or fawn over his characters' "Scitties".
• RWBY: Sage Ayana from Team SSSN wears a long white jacket over a tattooed chest.
• SuperMarioLogan:
  • Chef Pee Pee subverts this trope in the episode, "Bowser's Salad Wrap" by slapping his jacket once, opening its buttons, and leaving it that way for a moment. Bowser Junior is disgusted, while his father admits he's too sexy.
  • The Brooklyn Guy appears at the end of "Chef Poo Poo's Kitchen Disaster!", and is suggested to strip himself. He only does it part way, with his jacket open (and of course, not being taken off) for the rest of the ending.

Western Animation

• The Cucaracha and Oggy's father from Oggy and the Cockroaches.
• Buddy Boar and Bull Gator from Taz-Mania. The former uses a blue jacket, while the latter wears a brown vest.

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