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* Compare Rinoa and Ultimecia in ''FinalFantasyVIII''. Rinoa may be prettier, but evil gets [[AbsoluteCleavage a dress where the neckline ends at the]] ''[[AbsoluteCleavage crotch]]''. And then it's slit up [[BeyondTheImpossible a little further for good measure.]]
** Also, Edea's dress shows a fair bit of cleavage while she is the villain. But when she turns good, her dress changes to something that covers her chest.
** Sorceress Adel wears nothing but a skirt.
*** To be fair, Adel has the body of a man.
** This is a trend in ''FinalFantasy'' games: ''FinalFantasyX'' follows it perfectly. Although many of the male protagonists aren't wearing full shirts, Seymour is showing ''even more'' than that. [[spoiler:Yunalesca is just wearing a bikini, and then there's Jecht...]]

* Also shows up in DragonAge with [[BlackMagicianGirl Morrigan's]][[DistractedByTheSexy...]][[AbsoluteCleavage outfit]][[DistractedByTheSexy...]]as compared to the nice modest Chantry robes [[JeanneDArchetype Leliana]] shows up wearing. One of your clues that [[MyMasterRightOrWrong Ser Cauthrien]] can be reasoned with is that she wears perfectly ordinary heavy armor.

** It gets a little amusing in the [[Prequel]] game, ''Dissidia 012'', in which some of the characters who were on Cosmos's side in the original are now fighting for Chaos. [[spoiler:Terra]] loses the leggings and skirt in favor of a white leotard and a hip scarf, and [[spoiler:Tidus]] seems to have developed an [[WalkingShirtlessScene allergy to shirts.]] [[spoiler:Runs in the family, I guess]]. [[spoiler:Cloud]] seems to have retained most of his clothes after switching sides.

* Back when she first debuted in the late 90s, Stephanie [=McMahon=] wore tasteful formal and semi-formal outfits. When she first turned heel to join up with Triple H and D-Generation X, she switched that look for tank tops and leather hot pants.

* Inverted in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2, in which the more light-side of your female party members (Mira and the Handmaiden if the player is male) expose a lot more skin over the course of the game than the darker pair (Visas and Kreia). The Twin Suns, two female Twi'leks that are minor bosses on Nar Shadda, play this trope straight by wearing less than any female party member.

The exact way an outfit is skimpier can vary. It could be anything from more revealing necklines to being outright {{Stripperific}}.

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* [[DefiedTrope Warned against]] (of course) in EvilOverlordList. "33. I won't require high-ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless-steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress-code. Similarly, outfits made entirely from black leather will be reserved for formal occasions."

** Likely just the [[AuthorAppeal author's tastes]] though. Plus it isn't really skimpy in the sense its actually trying to show off her body or anything (when you pay attention to how shes rather...[[{{Pettanko}} flat]].)

* ''{{Yaiba}}'', where the [[MoonRabbit moon]] [[EvilOverlord empress]] dresses like a PlayboyBunny (she's apparently an anthropomorphic rabbit possessing a human), while the heroes dress sensibly.

* In MassEffect, your teammate Liara wears a perfectly ordinary tunic of the sort many female NPCs are comfortable wandering around in public wearing. Her mother Benezia, suffering from a case of MoreThanMindControl, has an ImpossiblyLowNeckline to show off her [[BoobsOfSteel huge...]][[BuxomIsBetter tracts of land]].

[[caption-width-right:320:The lady on the right is evil, because [[AbsoluteCleavage I see more of her boobs]].]]

** In the second game, the nicest female romance option (Tali) is covered from head to toe by her outfit, [[FemmeFatale Miranda's]] jumpsuit exposes strategically-placed patches of skin while being much closer-fitting, and [[AxCrazy Jack]] [[FetishFuel wears tattoos from the waist up]].

* In ''MetalGearSolid'', Solid Snake wears an (admittedly [[ThongOfShielding a little revealing]] but mostly fairly sensible) SpyCatsuit. His EvilTwin, Liquid Snake, walks around in tight trousers and a coat undone at the front.

* StargateSG1 played with this trope a bit. While Carter and Dr. Frasier were always well covered up, the female Goa'uld were generally pretty {{Stripperific}}. However, so were some of the female Tokra (or maybe just Anise/Freya) and all of the female Jaffa of the Hak'tyl.

* In X-MEN, Jean Grey is always dressed conservatively (she's a doctor). However when she becomes Phoenix we see her in her underwear. Rogue's inability to be sexual, and her need to cover up (she wears long sleeves, pants, and gloves mostly) is a plot point, while Mystique is naked.

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[[caption-width:320:The lady on the right is evil, because [[AbsoluteCleavage I see more of her boobs]].]]

** In all fairness it wasn't so much that he was evil as that his wanton, libertine sexuality is what largely made him "evil" compared to the white bread Brad and Janet.

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* Compare Rinoa and Ultimecia in ''FinalFantasyVIII''. Rinoa may be prettier, but evil gets [[AbsoluteCleavage a dress where the neckline ends at the]] ''[[AbsoluteCleavage crotch]]''. And then it's slit up to the crotch.