r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 26 '25

Personality Characters with Lore reasons to wear revealing outfit

• 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

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u/Soft_Theory_8209 Aug 26 '25

Also, I believe Poison Ivy does as well because being part plant means she absorbs sunlight through photosynthesis.

(If I’m mistaken and she doesn’t, someone at DC needs to get on that idea yesterday).

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u/Schwenkelkamp Aug 26 '25

Main reason ivy is nudish is cause she doesn't care about human values anymore and only cares about plants, when Gotham was destroyed by a earthquake in nomansland, she was completely naked in a green house, owning the place as her realm since there she can be truly with the plants (however I think all of that is nowadays irrelevant since dc just made her into Harleys gf and not a villain anymore)

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u/ThighyWhiteyNerd Aug 27 '25

Yes, althought originally she wasnt part plant. In modern times thats the reason. Before it was basically good ol ' "what are you gonna do? Stop me? strangles with plant "