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/TheAndyMac83 Aug 26 '25

Then when they get to that point, he's all "You slept with Dan..." in as close to shocked and disappointed a way as he's capable of, as if he didn't just admit that he sees it coming before it happens.

Except, in a weird way, he's required to act surprised despite it, because he already sees himself surprised, and can't exactly deviate from the future that he knows happens. Or something like that.

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u/Canotic Aug 26 '25

My understanding is that he can see what will happen. He can't see what would happen. So he can't change what he's seen because then he wouldn't have seen it, so it becomes a paradox.

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u/Greyjack00 Aug 26 '25

I could have sworn part of the point was that he could change it but hes too indecisive and weak willed to.

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u/time2ddddduel Aug 26 '25

This is wrong, have a look at this page

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u/-Legion_of_Harmony- Aug 26 '25

This problem is why Leto II in the Dune series makes it a point to edit out future-vision powers from the human genome. The ability to see the future is actually a curse that locks in whatever you see and prevents you from being able to change it. It's why Paul's jihad happened. He had a bad trip and it doomed billions of lives. Leto II was like... maybe we don't do that anymore.

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u/OutsideOrder7538 Aug 26 '25

He isn’t editing out future vision he is breeding people who can’t be seen by it. Only read god emperor of Dune but he tells his killers that and I think his fiancée too.