History PlayingWith / TooManyBelts

* '''Straight''': Bob wears four belts as part of his typical outfit.

** Bob's normal outfit contains belts around his arms, across his chest, a few around each leg, on his shoes...
** One around his head...

* '''Downplayed''': Bob's outfit could stay together without a belt. He has two of them anyway.

** Bob's outfit is very baggy in several places, and belts are the quickest way for him to solve this.
** Bob's belts have magic effects, store ammunition, or otherwise provide a useful function.
** Bob's belts do all these things, ''and'' his people use belts instead of drawstrings.

** Bob is a professional wrestler who's won four separate championships, and he needs some way to display this.

** Bob wears no belts, even though it looks like he needs one.
** Bob wears a sweatshirt through his belt loops. No belt anywhere.
* '''Subverted''': Bob prepares to get dressed in his battle outfit, with four belts... but it turns out that three of them are actually parts of other outfits accidentally stored with it.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But Bob wears all four belts anyway.
* '''Parodied''': Bob's outfit consists of nothing but many, many belts due to his effort to seem "stylish", and he trips on one whenever he tries to move.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The number of belts on Bob's outfit changes every scene.
* '''Averted''': Bob's outfit has one belt, and it's just to hold up his pants.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Are you sure you need that many belts, Bob?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob wants to look stylish, so he buys some extra belts to add to his usual outfit.
* '''Exploited''': Bob starts a belt shop knowing that adventurers are on the rise and they love that sort of thing.
* '''Defied''': Bob buys an outfit that comes with quite a few belts, but decides they look ridiculous and discards them, wearing the outfit without them.
* '''Discussed''': "Bob, why do you have that many belts? If anything, they'll probably restrict your movement!" "...So? They look cool!"
* '''Conversed''': Bob puts on his belt and comments that if he was a fictional character, he'd probably be wearing about ten of them.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's ability in combat is hampered by the many oddly-placed belts he wore for fashion, and he takes serious damage because of it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Even though he wears several belts, Bob makes sure to put them in places where they won't restrict his movement or combat ability.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob freaks out when he realizes he's lost one of his belts. He wears so many that nobody knows the difference.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's normal outfit contains belts around his arms, across his chest, a few around each leg, on his shoes...

* '''Justified''': Bob's outfit is very baggy in several places, and belts are the quickest way for him to solve this.

* '''Inverted''': Bob wears no belts, even though it looks like he needs one.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's ability in combat is hampered by the many oddly-placed belts he wore for fashion, and he takes serious damage because of it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Even though he wears several belts, Bob makes sure to put them in places where they won't restrict his movement or combat ability.

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** In the future, people keep so many gadgets on them they need dedicated holster rigs to store them all.