History Main / Stripperiffic

* BareYourMidriff

** There was even an episode based around how one guy reacted to Xena's leather outfit (and how upset it made his girlfriend). Xena considers switching to chainmail, but Gabrielle points out this would probably only attract a kinkier kind of guy. The girlfriend recaptures the guy's attention in the end with her own (much simpler) leather outfit.
** And what about Callisto? BareYourMidriff, indeed!
** Possibly justified beyond the fanservice. Xena was quite acrobatic; if she wore actual heavy body armor it would likely have restricted her ability to move. After all, Joxer did wear a lot of armor and he could barely fight.
*** On the other hand, they never pretended that the stuff was very good armor. In one of the early episodes, she was shot with an arrow, punching right through the leather, and came close to death. It also failed to do anything against that giant log.
** ArmorIsUseless in this setting anyway. Most of the best fighters don't bother with it at all; Hercules and Iolaus over on ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' were generally showing more skin than Xena's outfit does. Iolaus, in particular, [[WalkingShirtlessScene doesn't seem to own a shirt]].

* In the ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' episode "Karate Kid-tastrophe", [[http://peytonlist.ru/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Jessie_S04E05_Karate_Kid-tastrophe5B12-05-005D.jpg Emma comes into the kitchen wearing rather inappropriate attire]], complete with her [[BareYourMidriff midriff exposed]] and extremely short shorts. According to her, "Everybody wears this." When Jessie tries to get her to change, she just stays where she is with her arms folded and smirks, as if to say "Make me."

* Meibo's thief outfit from ''Manhua/InfinityGame'': a BareYourMidriff shirt, a bare back, and detached sleeves.

* Downplayed, but still present in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' because this is a comic book game and that sort of thing's a requirement. Almost none of the women are indecently dressed, but among the heroes, The Wraith's outfit has a cleavage window, the Visionary's various costumes are essentially corsets with a belly-button window, Tachyon's default costume only covers one shoulder, Expatriette [[BareYourMidriff bares her middriff]], and Unity's wearing a very short tank top. Of the men, Haka and Ra are bare-chested. For the most part, the villains avert this, although Ermine does wear an outfit that exposes a fair bit of cleavage, Friction has a bare shoulder in a deliberate mirror of Tachyon and Fright Train's outfit is basically a pair of pants and his mask. Parodied with Guise's Total Beefcake card, which depicts him in a bikini -- which is worn over his normal superhero tights. Which are, in fact, part of his shapeshifted skin. Guise is ''weird''.

* Scarlet in ''WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak'' get several stripperiffic outfits throughout the series. In the original movie it's a BareYourMidriff top and short-shorts. Through the first season and first half of the second it's a different midriff baring top with tight pants before switching to a [[PimpedOutDress pimped out, by Wasteland standards anyway wedding dress]] with seriously low cleavage.

* From ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Amalia's attire for trekking all over the world consists of a [[FlowersOfNature flower in her hair]], a small top [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]], plus a tiny skirt and leg warmers apparently made of leaves ([[DoesNotLikeShoes with no shoes]]). Granted, most of her people, the Sadida, doesn't wear much (maybe [[PlantPerson they need it for photosynthesis?]]). However, Amalia is otherwise supposed to be a fashion-conscious princess, but [[LimitedWardrobe never keeps new clothes]]. And if that wasn't Stripperiffic, there was an episode where they went shopping. The outfit was covered by the scenery but Eva refers to Amalia's new outfit as "[[TakeOurWordForIt revealing]]".

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Jasmine's outfit is probably drawn from Turkish belly-dance costumes. It's improbable that a princess would ever wear this, but then, she is mostly seen confined within the palace- and it's normal for Muslim women not to wear hijab in their own homes. When she goes out in public, she covers up appropriately. (Also, in [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries the spin-off series]], she usually dresses far more modestly if she and Aladdin are going somewhere where they expect a fight.)

* ''Fanfic/SOE2AmazingAmazon'' explains Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}}'s classic LeotardOfPower (even if it's a ceremonial armor) as Hepaestus [[AllMenArePerverts having been very lonely]] when he designed it. [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Rei Ayanami]] is more puzzled about why [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead the suit has the colors of the flag of the United States]] when she's a Japanese girl (answer: Hepaestus was awed by the Americans' advancements during UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace).

* Being a gravure model on the side, Anime/SuperSonico naturally has a few of these outfits as promotional wear. Her regular outfit is actually pretty modest; it only becomes sexual thanks to her [[BuxomIsBetter large chest]] filling her shirt out.

* ''Series/TotalDivas'' actually shows the behind the scenes side of this trope. Wrestling/SummerRae and Wrestling/EvaMarie are frequently at odds with Sandra the seamstress - trying to get their outfits as sexy as possible while still conforming to WWE's PG restraints. Likewise Wrestling/{{Cameron}} wants HotterAndSexier ring gear for Wrestling/TheFunkadactyls - but disaster strikes when she doesn't get Wrestling/{{Naomi}}'s measurements. Naomi then also subverts BuxomIsBetter as - while she is naturally well-endowed - she says she frequently has to worry about breasts and ass popping out if she goes too skimpy.

* MiniDressOfPower

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' firmly averts this at every point, with the author irritably pointing out how absurdly impractical such clothing is for actual combat, citing [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers']] canonical Ms Marvel/Warbird suit, lightning bolt and all, as an example, contemptuously referring to it as a swimsuit... then having it turn up as an actual swimsuit, just to underline the point.

* ''Fanfic/SOE2AmazingAmazon'' explains Franchise/WonderWoman's classic LeotardOfPower (even if it's a ceremonial armor) as Hepaestus [[AllMenArePerverts having been very lonely]] when he designed it. [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Rei Ayanami]] is more puzzled about why [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead the suit has the colors of the flag of the United States]] when she's a Japanese girl (answer: Hepaestus was awed by the Americans' advancements during UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace).

* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} recognizes an older [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Shadow Lass]] because of her black, barely-covers-anything-at-all, bikini-like black suit.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Fanfic/TheLastWar'' when the designer dress Harry bought Ginny is described as "incredibly stripperiffic".

* Creator/AliciaSilverstone as "ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}" in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. The male costumes were somehow ''more'' gratuitous.
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' was also full of this. ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} covers herself up (though her suit is quite form-fitting), but a few of the {{Dark Chick}}s in the Penguin's Red Triangle Gang are running around in skimpy attire - in one case, one of them baring her legs - in a northeastern American city. ''[[ExposedToTheElements In the middle of December]].'' (Worse, the henchmen spend most of their time in an Arctic wildlife exhibit at the Gotham Zoo, which has an air-conditioning unit running to make the atmosphere even ''colder''.) The Ice Princess, meanwhile, at least wears fishnet pantyhose that give her good lower coverage, but her fur-lined top still leaves a lot of skin exposed to the wintry Gotham City air.

** ComicBook/EmmaFrost also walks around wearing lingerie and sexy dresses a lot. Granted she's a seductress who uses her telepathy to attack - and she can turn into diamond if she wants to defend herself.
** Averted for both ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and [[Characters/XMenMutants Moira MacTaggert]] in the final battle. They both wear the same jumpsuits as the others (though Moira's is grey).
* Invoked in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. Creator/BryanSinger wanted ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} to have a more modest black costume. But Creator/OliviaMunn - a fan of the character - insisted on having the famous LeotardOfPower, joking that they had to "lube me up" to get her in there.

* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':

** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyBattles'': Witch elves and sorceresses of the dark elves typically only wear metal bikinis and loincloths and, in the witch elves' case, thigh-high boots.

* In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'''s "Comicbook/{{Rogue}} vs. Franchise/WonderWoman" match, [[DeconstructedTrope this is argued as a disadvantage for Wonder Woman]], as Rogue possesses the ability to steal powers on skin contact and Wonder Woman quite famously wears a very revealing outfit. [[spoiler:Sure enough, because there's no preparation time or pre-fight knowledge in Death Battles, Wonder Woman doesn't know about Rogue's power and easily falls victim to this, allowing Rogue to kill her.]]

** It didn't help that the coloring of ComicBook/JeanGrey's outfit made it sometimes hard to know which part were skin and which part were from the outfit.
** Neither did the coloring for ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}'s outfit. Half the time it looked like he was plain moonlighting us.

** ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' is made of this trope, for both males and females. Designers who'd worked on its initial development have openly admitted choosing a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert setting]] (as opposed to, for instance, an arctic one) because of the ample beef-and-cheesecake opportunities afforded by the artwork. [[CriticalResearchFailure Though in real deserts, people cover up to prevent dehydration and sunstroke]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'''s Taarna, pictured above. Can't get a lot more Stripperiffic than that (although they tried in ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000'' -- [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain but the less we mention that, the better...]]).

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'''s PerkyGoth and resident HotScientist Abby Sciuto wears shorter skirts than everyone else in the cast and ''really'' strange outfits. When Jenny Shepard takes over as director, she hands her a copy of the dress code. When a clearly very unhappy Abby then totters into work in a suit, Gibbs tears up the dress code in front of her -- because he's not having an unhappy Goth as his lab tech.

* On ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'', the Martian Queen wears a metal bra, an incredibly sheer skirt, slit up the side to [[ShesGotLegs show off her gams]], and absolutely no evidence of the standard bikini bottoms that usually accompany such a sci-fi outfit.

* Considering it was a kids' cartoon, the early '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' series allowed some characters to get pretty darn Stripperiffic, and combined it with some great angles.

* Most of the female heroes' and sidekicks' costumes in ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}''. The villain Iblis probably wins with her AbsoluteCleavage outfit though.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' firmly subverts this at every point, with the author irritably pointing out how absurdly impractical such clothing is for actual combat, citing [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers']] canonical Ms Marvel/Warbird suit, lightning bolt and all, as an example, contemptuously referring to it as a swimsuit... then having it turn up as an actual swimsuit, just to underline the point.

* Invoked in ''Fanfic/TheLastWar'' when the designer dress Harry bought Ginny is described as "incredibly stripperiffic".

* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' cranks this UpToEleven with the gladiators. What they wear normally consists of loincloths with maybe knee pads while in the arena they all go in with their chests completely exposed. In a twist, the women on the show have fairly modest clothes apart from the slave girls who frequently have to walk around naked. A certain amount of TruthInTelevision on this. Gladiators were very much sex symbols in Rome (and in some periods, at least, wealthy women were known to pay substantial sums to bed them), and often wore stylized armor that was much more esthetic than practical when they wore armor at all. Most Roman women did wear fairly conservative clothing most of the time, as Rome was a pretty conservative place for most of its history. While the famous orgies occurred, these were definitely ''private'' parties. Blatant public displays were usually limited to slaves and similarly low-classes people in the arenas. (Rome had, at some points, some extremely NotSafeForWork public entertainments.)

** Megurine Luka and Gumi don't have these qualities in their default outfits (unless you count Luka's side slit), but their alternate outfits leave them with bare midriffs and a large emphasis on the legs. Taken UpToEleven for the latter with Gumi Extend, who has a halter top (complete with underboob) and a very short skirt.

* Women in WWE are almost always there to be Stripperiffic given that most of the WWE divas are former models. Wrestling/{{Maryse}}, Wrestling/{{LayCool}}, Wrestling/GailKim and Wrestling/KellyKelly are the most exposed.

Spies will dress in a SpyCatsuit, even when the mission explicitly calls for them to ''not'' [[HighlyVisibleNinja draw attention to themselves]]. Female warriors will charge into battle wearing a ChainmailBikini. BridgeBunnies on a military starship will be issued [[CustomUniformOfSexy go-go boots and miniskirts]] with their uniforms. And then you have RolePlayingGames and the oft-parodied practice of having outfits that look practical on a male hero, but turn into lingerie if a female puts it on.

* Husband-wife team Creator/BorisVallejo and Julie Bell are well known for their paintings of scantily-clad female characters in fantasy settings. Some well-known examples of Vallejo's work are movie posters for ''Film/BarbarianQueen'' and ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', while Bell designed the Temptation Riders sculpture series for the Franklin Mint and painted the art for Music/MeatLoaf's album ''Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose''. They also release a calendar of such work annually.
* Creator/FrankFrazetta is about as notable for his incredibly skimpy designs. In fairness to Frazetta, he was very equal-opportunity on the subject; it's rare to find a Frazetta hero who has both a shirt and pants (and more common to find one with neither).

* ''Fanfic/BloodThatFlows'': In her first appearance, the human form of Earth Lord Rangort is described as a dark skinned, light haired, top heavy female wearing a bikini-like outfit.

* Oh good God, Creator/HalleBerry's costume in ''Film/Catwoman2004''. Showing just how impractical the costume would be, the top kept coming off the stuntman during action scenes. Creator/RogerEbert was noted in saying it was the only thing he liked about the movie.

* Lampshaded at the Halloween party in ''Film/MeanGirls'', where Cady comments on how in Girl World, Halloween is the one night of the year a girl can dress like a total slut and no one can say anything. Gretchen wears a cat costume made of skintight leather, Karen wears a skimpy, cleavage-revealing teddy (only the ears give it away as a costume - "I'm a mouse. Duh."), while Regina wears a "rabbit" costume that's nothing more than a PlayboyBunny suit. Cady, not knowing this and thinking that Halloween costumes are meant to be scary, wears pale makeup, novelty rubber teeth, and a BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ("an ex-wife").

* Played with in the sense of all the heroines' costumes in ''Film/SuckerPunch'' once the dream sequences start, not to an over the top semi-naked extent but not too covered. As it's a fantasy thought up by Baby Doll, it just ties into the RuleOfCool for the action scenes. Justified for the skimpy costumes in the brothel world because...well it's a brothel. Whenever the girls aren't performing, their clothes are quite modest.

* WhoWearsShortShorts

** It's indoor cousin for women, while much more conservative in terms of skin coverage, still is no slouch when it comes to showing off the [[StatuesqueStunner tall]] and [[MsFanservice shapely]] figures of its' players. For one, the bottom part is a set of [[WhoWearsShortShorts shorts that border on being bloomers]], the top is a shirt with extremely short sleeves that are a step from being a tanktop, and both are [[SensualSpandex made of spandex]]. There is a reason ''why'' volleyball is advised for girls who'd like to take up a sport and want the DudeMagnet status.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' plays with this rather hypocritically. When trying on costumes in the first episode they bring her out in a crop-top and booty shorts which she rejects but the costume she settles on consists of a tight top, a DangerouslyShortSkirt, and hooker boots. The latter two combine for a Grade B ZettaiRyouiki.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt

* The first outfit of Ahsoka Tano from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' consisted of a tiny tube-top, and a {{Dangerously Short|Skirt}} [[ProperTightsWithASkirt Skirt]]. Her second out-fit is much more reserved, but still is a SexyBacklessOutfit, with a CleavageWindow, and her tights have diamond shaped cutouts on their outer sides.

** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has the Sisters Repentia, who wear little more than scraps of parchment covering key areas; and Dark Eldar Wytches, who are best described as wearing leather bikinis with armoured, high-heel boots. With the Sisters Repentia, it's justified by them being [[DeathSeeker DeathSeekers]], and with the Wytches it's justified by them being gladiatrices in Commorragh, the Milky Way's ultimate wretched hive of scum and villainy. Any Wytch who isn't sexually appealing enough for the crowds inevitably gets stuck in a HopelessBossFight at the arena.

** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has the Sisters Repentia, who wear little more than scraps of parchment covering key areas; and Dark Eldar Wytches, who are best described as wearing leather bikinis with armoured, high-heel boots. With the Sisters Repentia, it's justified by them being DeathSeeker|s, and with the Wytches it's justified by them being gladiatrices in Commorragh, the Milky Way's ultimate wretched hive of scum and villainy. Any Wytch who isn't sexually appealing enough for the crowds inevitably gets stuck in a HopelessBossFight at the arena.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/files/images/VolTurnWeb.jpg Princess Voluptua.]] 'Nuff said.

** Averted for both ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and ComicBook/{{Moira|MacTaggert}} in the final battle. They both wear the same jumpsuits as the others (though Moira's is grey).