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From a paint perspective, there isn't much wrong, with generally clean paintwork across all armour and outfit parts. Blood effects on the weapons and armour are again, not photorealistic, but get the job done. The materials seem appropriate for their usage, and I like how the hands are quite soft such that you can open them up with ease for grasping accessories. In The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, Elayne's personal bodyguards wear such armor precisely to make people think they are less dangerous than they really are. In some settings one can get the ultimate variant: armor not even "revealing", but completely transparent. Of course, this means the stripperifficness level is defined solely by the underwear. A suit of glassteel ( enchanted glass) is expensive, but as strong as steel with only half the weight. [1]
Rebecca from the Dressrosa Arc of One Piece; as a gladiator, she wore a rather literal interpretation of the Trope, possibly overlapping with Go-Go Enslavement, as Donquixote Doflamingo used gladiator combat as a death sentence. It involved a whole lot of smoke, mirrors and shit she really doesn't want to think about right now. She's still running from societies self created demons, sooner or later we're all going to have to face them...One of the first pieces of leg armour you can buy is "Leather Trousers". Which looks bafflingly close to a thong when a female wears them. The sword sheathe attaches to the belt with a leather loop which requires the belt to be threaded through, which is annoying for me but at least it stays in place. Then, for reasons, the dagger sheathe just hangs off the belt with a plastic hook, which has a cavity so large that the sheathe just flies off the belt if you breathe on it funny.
Orion female armor in Star Trek Online. All but one of their possible outfits are of the Chainmail Bikini type (and that one is shredded cloth). As noted above, the Klingon women get this a little bit too, but compared to the Stripperiffic Orion outfits, it's almost unnoticeable. On the Federation side of things, the Terran Empire costumes from the TOS era are just as tiny, and even come with Zettai Ryouki to boot. This all applies if the body armor is made not to show; the armor can be toggled so it's visible, and almost all of it falls in the "Tight show-off-the-curves" variety. It's worth noting that since the main type of weapon is of the Energy Weapon sort, the only protection that they really need is a Personal Shield, so it's somewhat justified. Less so when dealing with the Klingon Bat'leths, of course. Well, Well, he's still here after all these years! Everything inside me fluttered upon hearing this news. Notably Averted in Dark Souls Almost all armor looks identical on male and females, and it either looks reasonable, or ridiculously awesome. The overall points of articulation were definitely plentiful and something I'm used to (depending on the figure, of course) but range of motion is what makes this body spectacular and will hold up, presuming you don't anything super extreme.The warriors in question are gladiators. When their equipment was designed, giving a good show was the first priority, Competitive Balance was the second, and effectiveness in combat was the third. In the Slayers movies and OAVs, Naga the Serpent wears the "leather bikini" version, the better to show off her ... talent. Lampshaded in John Ringo's There Will Be Dragons where Bast the Wood Elf, asked why she runs around in a Fur Bikini, asks "Do you know how many men I've killed who froze looking at my tits?" Lampshaded in Princess Maker 2. When you go to the armory and try to buy a very stripperiffic piece made of silk (?), the vendor tells you that it may raise your daughter's Charisma, but it covers and protects so few that it's not worth the gold you have to pay for it. You can still buy it, of course, but it does offer much less protection than the others.
The Enchantress Emily from C-64 game Fire King falls into the "no armor at all" category. It's stated as the reason for her low defense, since "the armorer has given up fashioning a breastplate for her". In Secret of Mana, one of the female-specific bits of armor is the Tiger Bikini (and it actually has better defensive stats than any other armor you can buy.) Nearly all the Dalmascan characters wear piecemeal plating over thin leathers or clothing, but this is quite deliberately contrasted with the heavily-armored Judges and Imperial soldiers. Considering the Archaedian Empire is a northern realm, while Dalmasca is almost entirely desert, there's a lot of logic to this one (try fighting in armor in temperate weather for long; it's not easy; imagine how much worse it'd be in a desert). Cross Player: Exaggerated with Marcus. He's played numerous campaigns, and all of his characters have always been female. However, VI in this series possibly lampshades it (as you can find a few corpses of women who are wearing these, implying that's why they are dead). Also, one of the female heroes does dress like this in the opening cinematic; given that these warriors are rookies who barely escape death at the hands of the Kreegan army, one can assume she decided to switch to proper armor.Keep in mind that Jora was a Norn, and that she was an exception to her race given that aside from her, all Norns can turn into Bears- which sort of removes the point of wearing armor in the first place. Dungeons & Dragons. This trope was ubiquitous in early product art, and continues to this day, albeit somewhat less gratuitously. Parodied in the comic series Cerebus the Aardvark: when 'Red Sophia' tries to seduce the titular earth pig by removing the top of her chainmail bikini, he snidely retorts that the swelling ought to go down eventually if she'd stop wearing it.
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