Basic Trope: A character wears an absurd amount of belts.
- Straight: Alice wears four belts as part of her typical outfit.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's normal outfit contains belts around her arms, across her chest, a few around each leg, on her shoes...
- One around her head...
- In fact, it's entirely made of belts. Somehow.
- Downplayed: Alice's outfit could stay together without a belt. She has two of them anyway.
- Justified:
- Alice's outfit is very baggy in several places, and belts are the quickest way for her to solve this.
- Alice's belts have magic effects, store ammunition, or otherwise provide a useful function.
- Alice's belts do all these things, and her people use belts instead of drawstrings.
- In the future, people keep so many gadgets on them, people often wear bandoliers to hold on to them all. People with even more stuff often wear 2.
- Alice is a professional wrestler who's won four separate championships, and she needs some way to display this.
- Inverted:
- Alice wears no belts, even though she needs one.
- Alice wears a sweatshirt through her belt loops. No belt anywhere.
- Subverted: Alice prepares to get dressed in her 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 Alice wears all four belts anyway.
- Parodied: Alice's outfit consists of nothing but many, many belts due to her effort to seem "stylish", and she trips on one whenever she tries to move.
- Zig Zagged: The number of belts on Alice's outfit changes every scene.
- Averted: Alice's outfit has one belt, and it's just to hold up her pants.
- Enforced: "This character's outfit looks boring! Come on, just throw in a few belts."
- Lampshaded: "Are you sure you need that many belts, Alice?"
- Invoked: Alice wants to look stylish, so she buys some extra belts to add to her usual outfit.
- Exploited: Alice starts a belt shop knowing that adventurers are on the rise and they love that sort of thing.
- Defied: Alice buys an outfit that comes with quite a few belts, but decides they look ridiculous and discards them, wearing the outfit without them.
- Discussed: "Alice, why do you have that many belts? If anything, they'll probably restrict your movement!" "...So? They look cool!"
- Conversed: Alice puts on her belt and comments that if she was a fictional character, she'd probably be wearing about ten of them.
- Deconstructed: Alice's ability in combat is hampered by the many oddly-placed belts she wore for fashion, and she takes serious damage because of it.
- Reconstructed: Even though she wears several belts, Alice makes sure to put them in places where they won't restrict her movement or combat ability.
- Played For Laughs: Alice freaks out when she realizes she's lost one of her belts. She wears so many that nobody knows the difference.
- Alice’s outfit is so baggy that her pants keep falling down after losing only one of her many belts.
- Played For Drama: There can never be... too many bandoliers.
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