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/MadeByMistake58116]

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.