History Main / SensualSpandex

* Heero Yuy from ''GundamWing'' is spandex king. He even manages to keep a gun in there.

* ''PowerRangers'': They embody this trope. In every season, beginning to end, the rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. These suits are so tight, in fact, some of the male rangers have buldges, and the female rangers wouldn't even need to wear a bra due to the tightness. Not to mention the franchise encorperates a lot of FetishFuel in its seasons.
** '''[[PowerRangersRPM THAT IS NOT SPANDEX!!!]]'''

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Compare FormFittingWardrobe, LeotardOfPower, WalkingSwimsuitScene.

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* Mimi Marquez in ''RENT''. Any rendition of the play. Particularly for the song "Out Tonight".

* ''G Gundam '': All of the pilots wear skin-tight body suits as part of the interface for their mobile suits. The substance is sort of like spandex, but they actually have transformation sequences (not always shown) that make it look like plastic wrap. Nearly all of the pilots are male, but there is one point where Rain goes through the process.

->"By the way, [[FieryRedhead I like the red color]], [[LampshadeHanging but isn't this]] Test Plug Suit a [[VaporWear little too... revealing]]?"
-->-- '''Asuka''', ''{{Rebuild of Evangelion}}''

Compare FormFittingWardrobe, {{Leotard of Power}}.

* Averted in ''{{Naruto}}'': the only two characters that wear spandex are [[{{Gonk}} not]] very fanservicey at all.

* [[GenderBender Female!Ranma]] and Kodachi wear tight, bottom(and bosom)-hugging leotards in ''[[{{ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]]'''s [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics]] tournament. Akane also wore one during training, but didn't get to compete.

* Nena Trinity's season one outfit in ''{{Gundam 00}}''
** Not to forget her brother Johann, who wears a midriff-baring top and short shorts.

* This is regularly played up for gymnast Makie in ''MahouSenseiNegima!''

* ''{{Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple}}'': Miu. So much.

* Female plugsuits from ''{{Evangelion}}''. Remember, [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Clothes Make]] '''[[MemeticSexGod Teh Rei]]'''.
** Especially Asuka's TEST suit (80% of the torso is '''transparent''') from ''Rebuild 2.0''.

* Ryoko's skintight battlesuit from ''TenchiMuyo!''

* ''{{Gladiators}}''
** And on that note, ''AmericanGladiators''. Especially the revival (Hello, Crush!).

* Subverted in a ''Futurama'' episode in which the robot Bender steals lots of stuff from a public swimming pool in an attempt to gain notoriety; he also stole a banana hammock of sorts, which he wears. Amy Wong cringes and says, "They don't leave much to the imagination." Hermes: "Actually, on a robot they sort of do."

** In Japan, high school swimsuits are MoeMoe, and seeing them in {{H-Game}}s is actually common.
* "Leggings as pants". Are there laws against this in certain areas?
** There's a whole facebook page as well as a site dedicated to ''hating'' that look. Justified, when the girl is [[FanDisservice rather unshapely]], but say a girl with a certain physical plus walks by...

* Inversion: Full-body swimsuits. In Japan, high school swimsuits are MoeMoe, and seeing them in {{H-Game}}s is actually common.
** And Competition Swimsuit too.

* ''PowerRangers'': They embody this trope. In every season, beginning to end, the rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. These suits are so tight, in fact, some of the male rangers have buldges, and the female rangers wouldn't even need to wear a bra due to the tightness. Not to mention the franchise encorperates a lot of FetishFuel in its seasons. This troper is too busy drooling over the Pink Ranger to even care about the plot.

** I heard there was a ''minimum'' amount of body area the uniforms were allowed to cover in Olympic beach volleyball.
*** Did you mean ''maximum''? Think about it.
*** (Un)Fortunately, this rule only applies to the [[DoubleStandard female competitors]]. Men get to wear boardies.
** For that matter, ''all'' types of Volleyball. Not AllGuysWantCheerleaders.

** Unlike the skirts, clearly those limits aren't very high.
*** Oh, they're [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean very high indeed]]...

** There's a whole facebook page as well as a site dedicated to ''hating'' that look. Justified, when the girl is [[FanDisservice rather unshapely]], but say a girl with [[HourglassHottie a certain physical plus]] walks by...

** There's a whole facebook page as well as a site dedicated to ''hating'' that look. Justified, when the girl is [[FanDisservice rather unshapely]], but say a girl with [[HartmanHips a certain physical plus]] walks by...

->"By the way, I like the red color, but isn't this Test Plug Suit a [[VaporWear little too... revealing]]?"

*** Unfortunately, this rule only applies to the [[DoubleStandard female competitors]]. Men get to wear boardies.

** [[PowerRangersRPM IT'S NOT SPANDEX!!!]]

* [[GenderBender Female Ranma]] and Kodachi wore tight, bottom (and bosom)-hugging leotards in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'''s [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics]] tournament. Akane also wore one during training, but didn't get to compete.

** And in MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Numbers']] skintight jumpsuits, in a blatant ShoutOut to Evangelion.
* Ryoko's skintight battlesuit from TenchiMuyo.

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** And on that note, ''AmericanGladiators''. Especially the revival (Hello, Crush!)

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* Nearly ''every single'' superhero/heroine that isn't wearing full body armor or normal street clothes dresses in this. It's also somewhat of a case of a justified trope, especially those who are brawlers (hard to grab hold of, if not wearing a cape) or rely on flexibility and agility (there's a REASON that gymnasts wear it.) That's not to say that functionality is [[MostCommonSuperpower the]] [[MaleGaze only]] [[FetishFuel reason]] though..
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* Speed Skating and Short Track

* In Warhammer40000 Imperial Assassins (of all schools, but especially the majority-female Callidus), wear uniforms that are quite literally sprayed on - the substance (called [=SynSkin=]) comes in large aerosol cans and provides whole-body protection from various airborne toxins and temperature variation whilst allowing the skin to breathe properly, but only if applied ''directly'' to naked flesh.

* [[http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/taki-in-soul-calibur-4.jpg Taki]] from the ''SoulSeries''. Outfits in this series tend to go BeyondTheImpossible.
* Chloe from TalesOfLegendia

* In ''CodeLyoko'' Season 4, the new avatars of the heroes -- boys and girls alike -- have a serious Sensual Spandex look. Being virtual costumes, they don't have to be realistic... but still, they're supposedly designed by Jérémie, a 13-year-old TeenGenius (except for William up there, who got his custom-made by ''XANA''). You have to wonder what was going through their minds... (though on the other hand, maybe that makes it a JustifiedTrope).
** And has led to a few StupidSexyFlanders reactions.

* [[GenderBender Female Ranma]] and Kodachi wore tight, bottom(and bosom)-hugging leotards in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'''s [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics]] tournament. Akane also wore one during training, but didn't get to compete.

* This troper was very relieved to note that an online store that sold spandex catsuits had a weight limit. Of 150 kg.
** You realize that 150 kg is over 300 lbs, right? 'Cause that's just sick.
*** But thank the emperor it's not higher.

->''By the way, I like the red color, but isn't this Test Plug Suit a [[VaporWear little too...revealing]]?''
->Asuka, ''RebuildOfEvangelion''

Compare FormFittingWardrobe, LeotardOfPower.

* ''PowerRangers'': They embody this trope. In every season, beginning to end, the rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. These suits are so tight, in fact, some of the male rangers have buldges, and the female rangers wouldn't even need to wear a bra due to the tightness. Not to mention the franchise encorperates a lot of FetishFuel in its seasons. This troper is too busy drooling over the pink ranger to even care about the plot.

** It's worth pointing out that in the U.S., "Speedo" has become a catch-all term for a particular style of briefs, which is not entirely accurate, since similar briefs are manufactured by Nike, truWest, Turbo, Tyr, Dolfin, Arena, Kiefer, and Adidas, to name a few. In Australia, however, where Speedo's headquarters are, the style is called a ''budgie smuggler'' because it looks like you're trying to smuggle a small bird in your briefs, [[OrSoIHeard or so I heard]].

** And has led to a few StupidSexyFlanders reactions... [[OrSoIHeard apparently]].