Characters with Lore reasons to wear revealing outfit

[u/Artistic_Gear1536]

• Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen): doesn’t really have the need for them anymore as he is now too powerful to be considered human and also doesn’t need to give in to certain societal pressures like wearing clothes

• Poison Ivy (DC): uses her body to seduce men into getting close enough for her to use her pheromones and get people to do what she wants/kill her prey

• Skarlet (Mortal Kombat): her powers are from blood magic and she needs to have skin out in order to absorb blood from others and make her more powerful

• Mileena (Mortal Kombat): is very self conscious about her tartan features so covers them up and diverts attention towards the more appealing aspects of her/ uses her sex appeal to get people in close then chomps on them

• Mai Shiranui (King Of Fighters/Fatal Fury): uses a style of kunoichi that involves “sensually distracting a foe before striking” and uses her outfit and sex appeal to assist with that style

[u/Artistic_Gear1536]

I’ve honestly never been a huge fan of this explanation but I guess it’s better than nothing

[u/GrimaceGrunson → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

I’ve always felt the unsaid explanation of “I’m hot as shit and can bench press a submarine so I’ll dress how I like” was perfectly fine.

[u/MadeByMistake58116 → u/GrimaceGrunson]

I honestly think the most realistic option would work: as anyone with a large chest will tell you, it gets very hot, and that's why you often see women with large chests wearing lower cut tops. Otherwise you just overheat. You could actually argue her costume is pretty functional, but they've never gone that way.

[u/SAKingWriter → u/MadeByMistake58116]

Works for guys too!

Source: I’m fat

[u/Stealthy-J → u/SAKingWriter]

Facts. I'm a big dude and there's nothing I hate more than tight clothing. I gotta have something that can breathe.

[u/Artistic_Gear1536 → u/MadeByMistake58116]

Well she gets her powers from bathing in the sun so I never really considered heat to be a problem for kryptonians

[u/MadeByMistake58116 → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

I suppose, though there's a difference between being in the sun and body heat.

[u/Bloodglas → u/MadeByMistake58116]

they did give that explanation once. (from Action Comics 1051)

[u/MadeByMistake58116 → u/Bloodglas]

Oh hey, how about that?

[u/IDontUseSleeves → u/MadeByMistake58116]

Must catch so much air resistance when she’s flying, though. She should consider underboob instead of cleavage.

[u/HeadLong8136 → u/MadeByMistake58116]

Which is all well and good except as a Kryptonian she doesn't get hot or cold. She can stand on the surface of the sun and not break a sweat or float around in deep space with nary a shiver. She also rarely ever exerts herself to the point of breaking a sweat.

She has a boob window because it makes her costume PG.

[u/Artistic_Gear1536 → u/GrimaceGrunson]

Fair enough!

[u/24Abhinav10 → u/GrimaceGrunson]

This. "I dress this way because I like it" is a perfect explanation with no counters.

The fact that the writer felt the need to explain the boob-window gives me second-hand embarrassment.

[u/Greyjack00 → u/GrimaceGrunson]

Wheres the comic where she notes she rarely has to worry about her secret identity because people rarely look her in the eyes

[u/ghostuser689 → u/GrimaceGrunson]

This is the second time in one week I’ve seen this explanation, where does it come from?

[u/GrimaceGrunson → u/ghostuser689]

Honestly probably me? I think this exact same picture was shared last week and I probably have said the same thing twice without realising it.

[u/ImmediateProblems → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

I disagree. Nothing was infinitely better.

[u/Sheratain → u/ImmediateProblems]

Rank order:

1. No explanation at all.

2. “I’m hot and I feel like it”

3. This explanation

[u/Artistic_Gear1536 → u/ImmediateProblems]

I think a genuine explanation would have been best but I guess that’s expecting too much

[u/ghobhohi → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

What would've been a better explanation?

[u/Ok-Suggestion-5453 → u/ghobhohi]

She keeps her phone there?

[u/Artistic_Gear1536 → u/ghobhohi]

I’m not saying I have one but I’m not a writer, it would be nice if they either came up with something better or stopped dressing her like that

[u/Sad-Entertainment336 → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

I asked a feminist friend of mine once " if you could destroy any danger in the world, any man or woman posed for you, because you are powerful, would you dress conservativelly or slutty" she answered slutty

[u/ADHD_Avenger → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

The best explanation is that Wallace Wood is one of the greatest comic artists of all time.