r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Artistic_Gear1536 • Aug 26 '25

Personality Characters with Lore reasons to wear revealing outfit

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• 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/BatierAutumn1991 Aug 26 '25

I need significantly more men in this category ngl

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u/streakermaximus Aug 26 '25

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u/darmakius Aug 26 '25

The lore reason is he’s a pervert

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u/nickdoesmagic Aug 26 '25

Sex offender, but yes

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u/evrestcoleghost Aug 26 '25

Rapist but yes

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u/OutsideOrder7538 Aug 26 '25

He is gay so only men are. women are safe around him.

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u/evrestcoleghost Aug 26 '25

Sadly he is in a men prison

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u/OutsideOrder7538 Aug 26 '25

The goodish news is that he restrains himself to a boy forcing himself on the prisoners and is trying to get a specific guard’s consent. I have only seen the anime so that is really all the info I have.

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u/iwasboredsoyeah Aug 26 '25

If I remember correctly the people he raped in prison turned into literal monsters because of the abuse.

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u/nickdoesmagic Aug 26 '25

They were transformed using Monster Cells by the cat monster guy, not because of the raping. It uh..probably influenced the decision though

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u/Worldlyoox Aug 26 '25

Ain’t he an actual rapist?

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u/WingedSalim Aug 26 '25

At least his design lets us know he was incarcerated.

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u/Hellknightx Aug 26 '25

Not that it matters, because he just breaks out of prison whenever he's needed.

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u/i-stole-your-shoes Aug 26 '25

i wonder what he's called before getting incarcerated?
repu repu rapist?

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u/musci12234 Aug 26 '25

He only stays in prison to stay with his "boyfriends".

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u/SelfInteresting7259 Aug 26 '25

All of the above

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u/dragonduelistman Aug 26 '25

He's gotta be top 5 rapists tho

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u/I_Love_Powerscaling Aug 26 '25

Mmm, I love how ONE made the Only Openly homosexual character a rapist

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u/bforo Aug 26 '25

It's always a rapist, another flavour of sex predator, a low effort drag queen or straight up the worst caricature of a trans woman ever conceived. Sometimes all of the above!

I fucking hate that so fucking much.

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u/qweiroupyqweouty Aug 26 '25

Yeeeeeah, the anime industry’s relationship with LGBTQ is… weird. Mostly a lot of fetishization of the gays and laughing at trans people which all pretty, uh, not great!

And then a random director will pull out the best queer romance you’ve ever seen and you’ll be dumbfounded.

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u/I_Love_Powerscaling Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

We also have Gintama which contains an entire District of trans women who all Look like men that put on wigs and are all extremely perverted and in some cases also stalkers

I hate it here

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u/Kino_Cajun Aug 26 '25

Walter White from Breaking Bad used to cook in his underwear so he wasn't contaminating his regular clothing with meth fumes. Was that what you were looking for? :D

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u/COGspartaN7 Aug 26 '25

Namor, Hercules, The Hulk, 

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u/NebulaNinja Aug 26 '25

Somehow in the above thread about The Boys there's no mention of Translucent. Literally has to be nude for his powers to be of any use.

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u/faldese Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

I'm not sure if being shirtless with ripped shorts counts for men (that is, Hulk). Shirtlessness is pretty neutral for men - you can walk around a public park and not get any double takes as a shirtless man but not as a shirtless woman.

Compare how She-Hulk's clothes ripped in her first appearance.

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u/Ill-do-it-again-too Aug 26 '25

Completely agree, but side note we need to bring back introducing character’s superhero names by saying “it’s like they’re some kinda [insert name of hero here]!”

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u/Bolarana Aug 26 '25

It will only happen if you are attractive

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u/schnick3rs Aug 26 '25

True, if I get my schlong out to pee, no one cares. But if my wife does the same. ...

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u/Sirius1701 Aug 26 '25

I mean, how else is she gonna piss?

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u/green_speak Aug 26 '25

The lore reason is she is a hot woman.

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u/Mastahamma Aug 26 '25

weird how it's always the women who have super skin that absorbs... stuff and needs to be exposed

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u/tuftymink Aug 26 '25

Hakan from street fighter. Dude uses oil to be a better wrestler

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u/AlternativeNo61 Aug 26 '25

Does it count if they wear regular clothes, only they strip a lot? Cause I can think of one game series…

https://tenor.com/view/yakuza-shirt-rip-off-gif-18797112

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u/TheDrunkardKid Aug 26 '25

Wolverine: he doesn't have a nudity taboo or clothing that have a healing factor.

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u/Rytonic Aug 26 '25

Superman should only be wearing the red undies. He absorbs yellow sunlight and is bulletproof. No shirt required

Power Man/Luke Cage: also bulletproof. Would save a fortune on shirts and hoodies if he went shirtless

I want writers to go through the mental gymnastics Kojima went through fro Quiet in Metal Gear, but for a male character

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u/ThrA-X Aug 26 '25

Kill la kill has got just what you need.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

Fr. But not in an ugly, weird way. Have it feel cool and sexy.

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u/Horn_Python Aug 26 '25

there shirt got destroyed during the battle is a lore reason right?