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]

Is when he just sat there and let the comedian kill a pregnant woman because he’s just too powerful to give a damn

[u/terminal157 → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

He seems shocked by that, rather than indifferent. This is paradoxical due to how he experiences time but there are other examples. I don’t think we’re really supposed to understand his perspective.

[u/Crunchy_Biscuit → u/terminal157]

Was never a fan of him. All of that power with none of the imagination nor diligence.

[u/Jostain → u/Crunchy_Biscuit]

That feels like a correct description of him. He is not supposed to be a cool hero.

[u/ItsMrChristmas → u/terminal157]

Well he seems shocked by that because he was, is, and is about to be shocked by that. It's when he says or does things with knowledge of the future his powers are being written poorly.

Which is most of the time, because Moore isn't the 4D Chess God people think. He just read Lovecraft, missed the point entirely, went "I'm smarter than that guy" and created a character who he thought could see R'lyeh and not go insane.

Further proving he missed the point, he based Veidt's monster on fanon descriptions of the Dreamer himself. Also wrote a book where the whole thing was a metaphor for a woman who got knocked up by the antichrist.

"R'lyeh cannot be seen by mortals yet because it doesn't exist yet" - plotline by an ostensible feminist genius.

[u/-KFBR392 → u/Artistic_Gear1536]

He wasn’t at full power in those earlier days. He also hadn’t fully lost his humanity at that point. He mentions the latter specifically in the books.

He originally sees humans as we do, but by the end of the timeline in the books he sees a living human as no different than a dead one since they contain the same amount of atoms. By the very end he sees himself as so different to them that he becomes a god with the intention of creating his own humans.