To-do list:
- Bare Your Midriff was turned into a disambiguation page. It's possible that some wicks fit at least one of the tropes listed there, but Zero Context Examples and examples that simply involve the midriff being exposed can simply be deleted.
Like other appearance-based tropes that were cut or disambiguated, Bare Your Midriff mostly consists of chairs and ZCEs.
While there are tropes that tie into a bared midriff i.e. the Ms. Fanservice, No Dress Code or Exposed to the Elements, a crop top/half shirt on its own isn't a trope. Most examples aren't referred to in the work of question, leading to several one-handed troping examples.
Summary of Bare Your Midriff Wick Check:
- A character is wearing a short shirt (35/77)
- ZCE (36/77)
- Applies to another trope (6/77)
Wick check:
The problem with Bare Your Midriff is that like other appearance-based tropes that were disambiguated, it attracts a lot of potholes or ZCEs that state "this character's midriff is exposed".While there are several tropes that tie into an exposed midriff i.e. No Dress Code for when a character wears a crop top/half shirt in a school setting, Exposed to the Elements when a character wears a crop top in cold weather, or Age-Inappropriate Dress if a character is too old or young to wear said crop top, an exposed midriff on its own isn't a trope.
Wicks checked: 77/77
- Carole & Tuesday: Angela's casual clothes show her navel. Crystal's performing outfit shows her midsection too.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Misato's crop top. Not exactly appropriate attire for lounging around the house with two teens around (especially combined with short shorts), but that's Misato.
- Yes! Pretty Cure 5: Cure Dream in Yes! shows off her midriff. This disappears in her new costume when Go Go comes around.
- Aladdin Titular Protagonists: As part of her Bedlah Babe look. A good majority of Jasmine’s outfits expose her stomach, even her sleepwear.
- Arcane: Jinx: She wears a cropped tank top and low-sitting pants.
- Animal Crossing - Other NPCs: He wears an off-white tank top with multicolored dots matching the rest of his outfit, with his lower torso exposed. While camping in his RV, he wears a black tank top with the same effect.
- Ben 10: Villains (Alien Force): Her top shows her bellybutton.
- BoJack Horseman - L.A. Residents: All of her outfits show her stomach in some way.
- Drawn Together: "His outfit exposes his stomach."
- Eclipse: Kyrie wears an orange crop top that exposes her stomach.
- Eddsworld: Her outfit prominently displays her belly.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Main Characters: The t-shirt she's always wearing stops just short of her belly. It's more noticeable when her jacket isn't on.
- Fresh Off the Boat: The majority of her outfits sure show it off.
- Gorillaz: She occasionally wears outfits that show her stomach in Phase 2 and Phase 4.
- Girl Genius Protagonists: Her normal outfit isn't buttoned up around her belly.
- Grrl Power Antagonists: Her initial outfit consists of a pair of pants and a belly-baring tank top.
- Hazbin Hotel: Her show design has her wearing a black top that exposes her midsection.
- Infinity Train Boiling Point Boiling Isles: The outfit she wears for her, Skara, and Amity's dance exposes her navel, among other things.
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? — Evilus: Her outfit is cut to show her midsection.
- Magical Girl Ore: Their magical girl forms wear midriff-baring tops.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: Other Heroes: Batgirl's/Captain Selene's outfit has multiple parts exposed, including her midriff.
- Pokémon: The Series — Team Rocket Trio: Her standard outfit reveals her midriff for fanservice.
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Gang: Her Hex Girl outfit where she wore a black mini-skirt and corset (revealing her midriff).
- Splatoon – Idol Groups: Both Shiver and Frye wear midriff-exposing outfits.
- Steven Universe — Humans: "She has a white top that exposes her navel."
- Tokyo Mew Mew: Her Mew uniform consists of a crop top and hot pants, leaving her midriff bare.
- Totally Spies!: She generally bares her midriff in larger amounts than Clover and Alex, but not as frequently.
- Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches: The Other Witches: Her stomach is exposed in her Masked JK costume.
- The Simpsons: Most of Lisa's swimsuits are midriff-baring.
- Elemental Flux: Calvin lampshades this with the uniforms of the female guards at the Boiling Rock, pointing out how it leaves several important organs undefended, something the guard he asked had wondered herself.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Doesn't go very far, but Amber's shirts are a bit short.
- My Boss's Daughter: Both Lisa and Tina wear clothes that bare their midriffs.
- Tammy and the T-Rex: Tammy and Michael are introduced wearing crop-topped shirts.
- Troop Zero: Smash is seen wearing a shirt that bares her belly button.
- Tropes A to H: Kuja wears a sort of crop top that puts his abs on full display. This turn out to be true for all the Genomes aside from Zidane.
- Tomb Raider: Lara seems to be quite fond of wearing clothes that show her stomach. They don't in the 2013 reboot, though.
- Touhou Project: "Fanart often shows the blouses worn by characters such as Reimu, Marisa, Flandre or Sanae riding up when they raise their arms."
- Tropes A to E: Wendy wears an ensemble of this type to the Wood Stick Festival in "The Love God".
- Henneko The Hentai Prince And The Stony Cat: The school uniform's top is just long enough to reach the skirt, which means the girls will show some skin with the slightest movement.
- Villains Don't Date Heroes!: Fialux's costume leaves her stomach bare, as Night Terror notes approvingly.
- TabletopGame.Infinity: Quite a few of the female soldiers, especially those from the Ariadna faction, who invariably wear crop-tops and military-style short shorts to go with it.
- Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura has two outfits that shows her belly button. Weblinks Are Not Examples
- Itoshi no Karin: The Meln-costume exposes quite a bit of Karin's tummy.
- Joan Jett: A few of her outfits show off her midsection.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Wearing a workout top or a tube top (or gifting one to a villager) has the character's lower stomach showing.
- Last Cloudia: All of the female summer units wear two-piece bikinis, thus exposing their stomachs by default.
- Tokyo, Mobius, and Mystic Ruins 15 years later: Rouge's casual grown-up outfit consists of a high-cut top and skirt.
- Animalympics: A gender-inverted example with René Fromage. He spends the entirety of the movie in a cropped sleeveless shirt that exposes his bare stomach.
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: A male example, Captain Planet's outfit seems to do this (Though it isn't known whether this is because animation of cartoons at the time was still getting there.) Linka in at least 2 episodes has her wear a shirt that shows her stomach.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship: The swimwear worn by Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Sunset Shimmer and Trixie include bared midriffs.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
- Bow's regular outfit exposes his abdomen. When dressed in a tuxedo, he deliberately removes his cumberbund to bare his midriff (which he then regrets as they are in an ice palace). And Adora and Glimmer panic in response to him covering up for his parents. Taken to a ridiculous extreme when even Bow's spacesuit has a little belly window.
- Huntara wears a crop top that shows off her imposing abs (plus she lives in a hot, dry environment).
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Princess Mindy wears a pink top that leaves a bit of skin above her tail exposed.
- The Wild Thornberrys: Debbie, in most of her outfits.
- Bakugan: Julie and Runo. Runo stops after season 1 while Julie continues until season 4.
- Cowboy Bebop: Faye, Ed, and Judy (the host of Big Shot).
- Danganronpa: The Animation: Sayaka's idol outfit gets changed to this.
- Love Live!: Some of the performance outfits fall under this.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Panty and Scanty's transformation.
- Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys: "Rebecca."
- Rolling Girls: Ai, who wears her jacket open.
- Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure: "Cure Summer, Cure Flamingo and Cure La Mer."
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Katara: "Her Fire Nation disguise. Along with her swimming attire."
- Fairy Tail – Celestial Spirits: To go with her Belly Dancer motif.
- Freedom City: The Beth Walton incarnation.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Due to how his sweater is designed. Helps when Diavolo needs a quick switch.
- Last Cloudia: Graphel and Phal
- The Most Popular Girls in School - Overland Park Students: Same goes for her back when she turns around.
- Characters/Motorcity
- Pokémon Adventures - Hoenn: In his contest outfit he does this.
- Pokémon: The Series — Serena: "Her Fennekin outfit and her contest uniform in JN105 and JN132 come to mind."
- Pokemon XY Gym Leaders: Korrina's pajamas, See for yourself.◊. Weblinks Are Not Examples
- Puyo Puyo 7: In Quest with the ver. Ulala costume.
- Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld: Princess Ingvie and her archers of House Citrine.
- Shining Pretty Cure: Cure Peridot and Amazora.
- Superwomen Of Eva 2 Soaring High: "Hawkgirl's costume."
- Uber Drama Island: Aubrey.
- American Beauty: On the poster. Oddly, the belly button in question doesn't belong to any of the movie's stars.
- Catwoman (2004): Whenever Patience Becomes Catwoman. Probably the only thing to admire in this movie. One-handed troping and no context.
- Dirty Dancing: Some of Baby's outfits.
- Shin Angyo Onshi: Hwang and Sando.
- How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?: Everyone on occasion when they workout.
- A-Teens: "The girls both do this in "Sugar Rush" as well as in Upside Down and Perfect Match. Marie does this in Halfway Round the World, Floorfiller and I Promised Myself."
- Angry Gran: The young women granny beat the living daylights out of.
- Pump It Up: Plenty of females in the BGAs do this.
- Love Is Strange: Rachel.
- Final Fantasy VII Abridged: Tifa and Yuffie.
- Sym-Bionic Titan:
- Kimmy in the "Ballad of Scary Mary".
- Also Ilana's P Js in "Tashy 497".
- Daria:
- Quinn nearly all the time, and it's notable since she changes wardrobes a bit.
- Kevin in a rare male example.
- Jane's outfit when she tries to look "normal" for an assignment.
- Daria's costume when she was in personality drag as Quinn.
- Several of the outfits chosen by the Fashion Club, especially Sandi's outfit for the party at the end of Is It College Yet?
- Neo Yokio: DarlaThe Demon from episode 5.
- Sym-Bionic Titan:
- Kimmy in the "Ballad of Scary Mary".
- Also Ilana's P Js in "Tashy 497".
- Mean Girls: "Most of her tops show off her belly button. How she gets away with this at school is anyone's guess." This is an example of No Dress Code.
- Sly Cooper: Allies: ...and what a midriff it is. Especially when made to dress as a belly dancer in Thieves in Time. This sounds more like Bedlah Babe, also one handed troping.
- The Man Who Sold the World: Huntress's outfit. The Hunter lampshades this, wondering how the hell nobody shot her there and calling it dangerous (and indecent). Sounds more like Chainmail Bikini since he's pointing out armor that doesn't protect her rather than the midriff.
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Nausicaä at the end of Book 6 and part of Book 7, thanks to Heedra tearing her shirt off during an attack. This is more applicable to Clothing Damage.
- Clone High: "Joan of Arc wears a black T-shirt that reveals her midriff. Even in the winter, she still wears outfits that show off her midriff." The later is more applicable to both Exposed to the Elements and No Dress Code.
- Tropes A to C: Vicky's shirt exposes her bellybutton.
- Along with Trixie in her Wonder Gal outfit, Veronica in her Wardrobe Malfunction, and few of the female students in Dimmsdale Elementary are like this too, the school itself has rather lousy dress code for allowing ten year olds walk around with their belly buttons revealing.
- The former is a ZCE while the latter is another example of No Dress Code.
- Along with Trixie in her Wonder Gal outfit, Veronica in her Wardrobe Malfunction, and few of the female students in Dimmsdale Elementary are like this too, the school itself has rather lousy dress code for allowing ten year olds walk around with their belly buttons revealing.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 7th 2023 at 2:58:47 PM
No problem.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.I think we can leave it disambiguated now. I am sorry for the trope's decline into misuse.
If it's any consolation, Bare Midriffs Are Feminine is soon to be launched, that can catch most of the meaningful examples that are not ZCE and don't fit the other tropes.
Bare Midriffs Are Feminine is launched now.
That's good news.
What's going to happen with Navel Window? If we're keeping it, it can be added to the Bare Your Midriff Disambiguation, but isn't it a similarly chairs-y costume trope?
Snicka, we’d have to do a separate wick check for Navel Window.
What MAL said, but since it's (currently, at least) a trope, if there's a chunk of BYM wicks that fit it, it can go on the disambig page.
Vehicle-Based Characterization | Grief-Induced Split | Locker MailI TLP'd Navel Window, but I always suspected that it would come under scrutiny eventually. I think the idea of "conspicuous navel exposure" has merit as a trope, but I'll chalk it up to the shifting tides of TRS if it can't be salvaged.
Right now, Bare Midriffs Are Feminine is launched at the TLP, but I wondered if a similar worthy concept would be the "Muscular Bare Midriff". As in, a fit character shows off their impressive abs.
Edited by Mysterium on Mar 13th 2023 at 10:20:54 AM
^ Good idea, it could catch obviously masculine characters (like the cast of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Lion-O or Huntara) who wear midriff-baring clothes.
In the Sandbox, the opposite of that concept was suggested: Fat Midriff, where an overweight character wears a small shirt to draw attention to their large gut (and perhaps their inability to find shirts that suit them). Mr. Smee is one such character that comes to mind.
Edited by Snicka on Mar 13th 2023 at 10:39:52 AM
Yeah showing abs for manliness can totally be a thing.
Would this "manly abs" idea cover (or rather, expose) other kinds of display of abs beside crop tops, such as unbuttoned shirts or open vests? What about a full Shirtless Scene?
EDIT: No Shirt, Long Jacket already has a variant of this.
Edited by Snicka on Mar 13th 2023 at 4:46:42 PM
Which should be unisex, I think, and include the Amazonian Beauty.
I don't think muscular abs exposed by a crop top are significantly different from muscular abs exposed by shirtlessness.
Or rather, "muscular abs show physical strength and sex appeal" and "clothing that specifically exposes the midriff indicates femininity" are orthogonal tropes. They're both elements of character design, but one is about the body and the other is about the clothing. An Amazonian Beauty (or, for that matter, Macho Camp, I guess?) character could be both.
The Revolution Will Not Be TropeableThe cleanup is going pretty well, almost 80% of the wicks have been cleaned up in about a week.
Edited by Snicka on Mar 19th 2023 at 11:36:33 AM
Unfortunately, the trope was just readded to Characters.RWBY Salems Faction by Daniel Benner 8891, after I removed it ten days ago (history is here). What's the best way to deal with this situation?
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.You can send them a "not a trope" notifier and remove the example again. You are following wiki policy as disambiguation can't be used as tropes so it wouldn't be edit warring on your part.
Macron's notesThanks. I've just reverted the example, citing this thread.
Edited by gjjones on Mar 19th 2023 at 2:12:21 PM
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.<500 remaining. This project's gone by speedily.
Vehicle-Based Characterization | Grief-Induced Split | Locker MailThe Bulletin really helped.
I remember Those Two Bad Guys taking several months to get cleaned up, not helped by the fact that people constantly added new wicks.
I'm considering asking the other mods about swapping the bulletin for this project out for one with A Date With Rosie Palms since it's another project that's more time-consuming instead than difficult because it was also Chairs-y, but I'm not going to do that unilaterally. (As a side note, we prefer to only have one dewicking bulletin up at a time if we have one up at all, which is why there's only one right now.)
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.You know, I've no problem with disambiguating, but I'm just curious: Why was there even a crowner if there was only 1 option?
CM Dates; CM Pending; CM DraftsBecause gauging consensus via posts wasn't sufficient, so we needed another way to gather votes. Crowners with only a single option are nothing new (they're frequently used to vote on whether to rename a trope); the old crowner system even had a "Single Proposition" type that only allowed one option at a time.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 21st 2023 at 10:27:16 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Crown Description:
Bare Your Midriff attracts Zero Context Examples and examples that have no meaning beyond a character wearing a short shirt. What should be done with it? Note that tropeworthy concepts related to midriffs can be taken to the Trope Launch Pad independently of this thread.
Gaston, thank you for pinning this to the bulletin