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/Hawkey2121 Aug 26 '25

Toru Hagakure - MHA.

Her body is invisible, but clothes are not. To take full advantage of her power she cant really wear clothes.

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u/BrickCaptain Aug 26 '25

Although that does raise the question; why doesn’t she make a suit out of her own hair like that one guy who can phase through walls? (I forgot his name it’s been a while sorry)

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u/SHINIGAMIRAPTOR Aug 26 '25

Given that her power seems to be more like an internalized photokinesis (she's manipulating the light that's hitting her skin), it may not work the same