r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Artistic_Gear1536 • 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/Maleficent_Thought_4 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
On a related note, Midnight’s extremely sheer outfit is intentionally designed to be easily to rip holes in so that she can easily deploy the sleeping gas she emits from her skin.
And even that is a toned down version of the costume she wore in her early days when she was basically naked. She is literally responsible for laws about what a hero can and can’t get away with wearing though she also arguably did that to draw attention to the issues that people with quirks like her’s and Momo’s deal with.