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wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
2023-09-26 11:01:23

The Draco Trilogy started the trend of portraying Draco as a tormented emo boy (instead of the racist schoolyard bully he is in canon) and is the source of many associated fanons. It includes one scene where he wears some borrowed dragon-leather trousers, which for whatever reason was seen as so iconic as to become a metonym for the flattering portrayal as a whole.

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MyFinalEdits (Spin-off Series)
2023-09-26 12:24:18

That "whatever reason" probably being Hell-Bent for Leather, a trope where leather attire is worn by a character to be coded as appealing, cool or even sexy.

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Javertshark13 Since: Mar, 2011
2023-09-26 13:34:09

I don't think it's aged too well as a trope name. It depends on you being familiar with that fanfic back when it was popular but a lot of newer tropers probably wouldn't know what it's referring to.

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ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
2023-09-26 13:41:25

Yeah, it's just because leather pants are seen as sexy. When a guy wears tight leather pants, they accentuate his bulge and his butt. That's it.

The part that's fanfic specific is Draco, not the pants themselves.

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
2023-09-26 14:57:47

DILP is about trends of the works fandom to whitewash characters (sexiness is one reason hence "Leather Pants") which goes under the original works page. Specific works doing it are Adaptational Heroism or Adaptational Nice Guy.

NoUsername Since: May, 2012
2023-09-26 15:31:27

i'm not familiar with harry potter, but the trope name reads fine to me. "draco" sounds like "dragon" or "draconic" (which evokes evil, like The Dragon), and "in leather pants" indicates that the "draco" looks cool, classy, sexy, etc. in this situation. it doesn't quite evoke the full idea of "evil character is glamorized and their misdeeds are glossed over", but i think it gets most of the point across. (honestly Ron the Death Eater has a similar problem but worse for me, since if not for it being a YMMV trope i'd imagine it as a counterpart to Tom the Dark Lord.)

DoktorvonEurotrash (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-09-27 05:29:43

The name is a bit annoyingly narrow (or tight?), since the "leather pants" thing makes it seem overly focused on "this character is sexy, therefore they can't be a villain," even though the sexiness factor is only one possible reason for DILP.

Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-09-27 08:04:14

The question's been answered, further opinions on the trope are for Trope Talk. Bear Trope Renaming Guidelines in mind.

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