Fan Works
Leather pants, leather pants of evil
If you don't wear them, someone more naive will
When will you learn if you haven't learned by now?
— Filk Song by Nancy Freeman
"Look, mommy, his pants are tighter than yours!"
— Duck on Mello, All You Need Is Love.
Live-Action TV
I don't like leather, I love leather. There's nothing better than shooting an animal,
chopping off its head, stringing it up, strippin' the skin from its carcass with a curved knife,
boiling its hide, dipping it, treating it with chemicals, stretching it,
and making it into a garment for a fine lady such as yourself.
chopping off its head, stringing it up, strippin' the skin from its carcass with a curved knife,
boiling its hide, dipping it, treating it with chemicals, stretching it,
and making it into a garment for a fine lady such as yourself.
— Leatherman, Saturday Night Live
Elle: If I'm going to root for someone who skirts the law and lacks accountability, it's gonna be Batwoman, and the head-to-toe black leather certainly doesn't hurt.
Sophie: It's not leather actually. It's bulletproof nanotech.
Sophie: It's not leather actually. It's bulletproof nanotech.
— Batwoman (2019), "Drink Me"
Music
Black as night, faster than a shadow
Crimson flare from the raging sun
An exhibition of sheer precision
Yet no one knows from where he comes
Crimson flare from the raging sun
An exhibition of sheer precision
Yet no one knows from where he comes
— Judas Priest, "Hell Bent for Leather", the Trope Namer
Friday night, dressed to kill, hell bent for the show
Shiny leather like a second skin, ready for the first row
Shiny leather like a second skin, ready for the first row
— Running Wild, "Raise Your Fist"
Everything is meat, meat, meat!
Careful what you put on your feet.
Once it lived on an ani-mule.
Now it walks along with you.
Careful what you put on your feet.
Once it lived on an ani-mule.
Now it walks along with you.
— Harry Nilsson, "Everything Is Food" (from the Popeye soundtrack)
We wear black leather in the hottest weather
Ya can't imagine the smell
— "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Young, Dumb, & Ugly"
A little bit older, a black leather jacket
A bad reputation, insatiable habits
He was onto me, one look and I couldn't breathe
I said, if he kissed me, I might let it happen...
A bad reputation, insatiable habits
He was onto me, one look and I couldn't breathe
I said, if he kissed me, I might let it happen...
— Camila Cabello, "My Oh My"
Web Original
"You know the truth of my past? Then tell me, who am I? Why am I here? And why do I feel so very comfortable in leather?"
— Yami, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
"When you are wearing a leather jacket on Red Widow... Shit is about to go down."
— Sterling Beaumon on Twitter
Adam: I find it kind of funny that Psychopath Rachel feels contractually obligated to go buy a leather jacket
Adam: It's part of the stereotypical badass uniform, I suppose.
Adam: It's part of the stereotypical badass uniform, I suppose.
— Cinnamon Bunzuh! on Animorphs, "The Separation"
Western Animation
"Where do these guys get all their shiny pants?"
— Butt-head on the "March Of The Pigs" music video, Beavis And Butthead
