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Chainmail Bikini

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Chainmail Bikini	comment	Usually when you include sexy characters in a work, you want to put them in revealing clothing for maximum fanservice. But what if these characters are warriors who are expected to wear armor into battle? Whether the technology of the setting calls for mail shirts, full plate armor, ballistic vests, or Space Marine suits, most types of practical armor hide all the "good parts" under layers of protection. Alas, what's a creator to do? Well, if you aren't particularly worried about realism, you can dress them in something that kind of looks like armor, but is designed to show off the wearer's skin and secondary sex characteristics with seemingly no concern for safety or defensive usefulness. For females, the full-blown version looks like a bikini bathing suit—albeit one made of some armor-like material such as metal or leather—that leaves the whole body naked and exposed to danger except for those parts which cannot be shown on network TV: namely, the breasts, butt, and groinnote And even then, they can push the envelope with things like Underboobs and Thong of Shielding. Even if the skimpiness isn't that extreme, there will usually be skin showing at the neckline, shoulders, midriff, or thighs. They don't seem worried about being Exposed to the Elements, or that someone might stab them in the belly or shoot an arrow at their sternum: the Cleavage Window in particular makes you wonder if they're trying to get shot there. Additionally, armor materials that are stiff or bulky in real life will be implausibly stretchy and skin-hugging in drawing or animation, thus showing off the character's figure more. Most Writers Are Male may lead to instances where only females get the Chainmail Bikini treatment, while the guys are dressed in regular, non-sexualized armor. The creators' rationale may be that men need full armor to look menacing and professional (which may carry Unfortunate Implications that a male character can be liked by the audience purely because he's a great warrior, while a female warrior isn't worth including unless she also looks sexy), or that having Female Gaze fanservice in addition to the Male Gaze is unnecessary because the show is only catering to a straight male target audience. One of the most notorious and oft-parodied uses of this trope is in RPG video games, where a suit of armor will look conventional on a male character, but will somehow morph into metal lingerie the moment a woman puts it on, even if it's literally the same suit transferred from one party member to another. And of course protective ability isn't compromised even though half the material is missing. Despite the preceding paragraph, this trope does indeed have male examples, particularly when the goal is to portray male fighters as super-macho and/or 'uncivilized'. Barbarian Heroes and post-apocalyptic tribe members tend to be depicted as Walking Shirtless Scenes: you might add one big pauldron, a pair of forearm bracers, and an armored belt or loincloth, but nothing that would obscure those chiseled pecs and abs. At the downplayed end you can have an armor version of Sleeves Are for Wimps to show off their muscular arms. There is debate about whether half-naked male warriors in fiction are sexually objectified in the same way as female ones, or whether a heroic, muscular body is merely part of the power fantasy that the male audience is encouraged to vicariously live through. It does seem, however, that at least some male examples are intended as legit fanservice. The question of how a character can stay protected while wearing this stuff can be answered with protective runes in the form of tribal warpaint or tattoos, their actual armor consisting of invisible Deflector Shields, a Healing Factor making armor moot, or the "wearer" simply being a Screaming Warrior with no sense of self-preservation. Another Hand Wave is the idea that the character comes from a hot climate or a culture where less clothing is worn, or that they're a Fragile Speedster who doesn't like to be burdened with a lot of armor. If Played for Laughs by The Loonie, it's usually "justified" by a distraction bonus. All of this is related to the idea that Armor Is Useless, or at least that there's little correlation between how useful it is and how much it visibly covers. However, skimpy armor can potentially be justified if it was designed in-universe mainly for ceremony or entertainment, such as in Gladiator Games (this actually happened in Real Life; Roman gladiatrixes wore the same outfits as their male counterparts, i.e., nothing above the waist). Of course, if viewed from a gender-flipped perspective, some real-life warriors, such as the Celts of Europe and Zulus of Africa, are known for going into battle wearing next to nothing, but they carried shields for protection. This means it's plausible that a female warrior could wear next-to-nothing, and still be an effective warrior, if they are equipped with a decent shield. Realistically speaking that should tend to lead to some gnarly battle scars, though. A downplayed feminine version is the so-called "boobplate", which is a breastplate that doesn't expose flesh but is shaped with individual breast cups. As sometimes depicted—with deep cleavage and no room for protective garments—this could be an impractical design. In combat the deep cleavage would transfer some of the impact of a heavy blow to the breastbone, potentially wounding the wearer (though much of the force would be lost, with the strike being deflected to the center chest instead of heading directly thereâ€”much like how a projectile loses force on a ricochet). Less extreme examples make this unlikely as long as there is enough space and/or padding behind the metal, since plate armor is very tough even without a glancing shape. Men in history have worn decorative armors with similar "shot traps" and it's been proposed that the real reason there are no historical examples of a "boobplate" is that there were nowhere near enough women buying bespoke armor for themselves that a new style would be created for them; most women who donned armor had to make do with whatever they could get their hands on, and the very few professional women-at-arms who purchased bespoke armor could use the male template just fine as long as it was tailored to their measurements. Many medieval breastplates had a dome-like shape with plenty of empty space over the chest, so an average-sized bust would fit with no problem, while a larger one could be accommodated by just increasing the globose shape or shifting it upwards. And it's not even that uncomfortable—boobs can be compressed quite a lot thanks to them being mostly fat. Of course, there's a real-life parallel in the form of armored codpieces, or "schlong armor" as some jokingly call it, so maybe it's not implausible for a "fancified breastplate" to be made in a fictional society where female warriors are more common and more assertive about their sex than they were historically. A mainstay of Speculative Fiction. Form-Fitting Wardrobe is a sister trope describing any outfit that's depicted as more form-fitting than its real life version. Stripperiffic is another supertrope, encompassing any skimpy outfit worn in action whether or not itâ€™s supposed to be armor. Thong of Shielding, and Cleavage Window are possible components of a chainmail bikini. It may or may not be worn as 24-Hour Armor. A Battle Ballgown tends to incorporate more cloth and coverage, but if it has risquÃ© features like being backless or having a cleavage window then it could also qualify as a chainmail bikini. Not much of a concern, protection-wise, if Armor Is Useless. For people who fight completely naked see Full-Frontal Assault. A chainmail bikini is a common look for a Nubile Savage. Not to be confused with the Web Comic called Chainmail Bikini, ,though it naturally features one.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_108cd205	comment	D.W. Bradley seems to enjoy playing with this concept in the Wizardry series and Wizards & Warriors. Armored bras of cloth, leather, chain, and plate varieties can be found in the latter game, while in the former, characters that begin the game in the Valkyrie class (only open to females), have a fur halter and chamois skirt in their starting equipment, the Stud Cuir Bra + 2 is a recurring item wearable only by women (and actually one of the best pieces of armor for female thieves and rangers for quite some time in Wizardry 6), the Amazulu of Wizardry 6 go into battle wearing fur panties and anklets (period), and the Helazoid of Wizardry 7 wear jackets consisting of sleeves and not much else.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_10b060ee	comment	Lampshaded and subverted in an issue of Dork Tower, where Igor is running a Dungeons & Dragons game for Gilly and Kayleigh. He gives them both pre-generated characters, which has both of their characters attired in the stereotypical fantasy armour. Kayleigh immediately remarks on the ludicrous impracticality of their outfits; and promptly has her character make for the nearest armourer to purchase more practical gear for them both.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_10c105b6	comment	Brimstone Angels pokes fun at this one. Cute Bruiser Havilar usually dresses practically, but when she sees a "suit" of armor like this on display in a store, she decides she absolutely has to have it purely because it would look great on her. Her adoptive father Mehen promptly puts his foot down, citing the impractical nature of such armor and how it's only worn by wannabe-adventuresses with more fashion sense than common sense. Havilar doesn't get to buy it, and she and all subsequent Action Girls portrayed in the books wear armor that actually covers everything important.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_10e55ac7	comment	The second The Lost Vikings game has the Valkyrie, appearing in the game over scene, whose armor is hardly proper for the harsh Scandinavian climate.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In "Blood Under the Skin", the Armor of Zelderon turns out to be a golden boob-plate with matching horned helmet with fake blonde braids. Finn can't bring himself to wear "lady armor", even one that will protect him "from anything, even ghosts."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_12381dc	comment	Elves, in Divinity: Original Sin II wear rather skimpy armor, whether male or female. For example, armor worn by female elves tends to consist of a bra, loincloth, headdress, bracelets, and anklets, leaving about as much skin as the page picture exposed while suffering no ill effects.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_13665790	comment	The trope is further referenced with regard to Watchwomen in Thud! when a skimpy skirt and papier-mache armor outfit is found in a collection of stripper costumes. The stripper explains that sometimes men like to see a pretty girl in armor. Angua is confused, as men never seem happy to see her.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1367cea0	comment	Naturally, this is lampshaded, discussed, and averted with Lady Bug's armor in the Worm/TheGamer fanfic Co-op Mode. James even comments on the fact, lampooning on how impractical such armor is, and Taylor specifically designs her clothes to avert both this and Battle Ballgown:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_143ed521	comment	Worn by the original Halfshell and her replacement in The Hypernaturals. The armor consists of a metal bikini, boots, gloves and helmet, leaving the thighs and midriff exposed. When Deedee Cadiz takes over for her missing predecessor, she claims she didnâ€™t get the job originally because her more voluptuous figure would be too provocative. In reality, Deedee didnâ€™t make the cut the first time because she had problems with authority.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_14d341dc	comment	Orion female armor in Star Trek Online. All but one of their possible outfits qualify (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 Ryouiki 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. Note that Orion females can go around in less stripperiffic armour (they get access to most of the uniforms/costume-armour female Klingons do. This includes the somewhat-revealing variant of the Klingon armour-uniform). It's just that they also get access to several costume pieces other species and genders do not, all of which show off a lot of skin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Queen Clea and Zara both wear what are essentially strapless metal bras for tops. Clea seems to be going for armor, while Zara is just using the fashion to bolster her scam cult.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Medusa's armor is rather lacking in coverage, essentially consisting of some molded boob cups and a segmented strip down the middle of her torso. You'd think someone whose been killed by having her head cut off and is still furious about it would want at least some kind of neck protection.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1639d8b8	comment	Xcalibur's Djana has an exposed patch of skin right above her breasts, and her suit of armor fits along the curves of her body.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_186da029	comment	Parodied in Borderlands 2 in DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep. One of the sidequests has you trying to get armor for the rather large Ellie. You're given two options: A breastplate that you might see the fat lady wear in an opera or a replica of the Princess Leia bikini. Ellie makes it clear that she would much prefer actual armor than something that won't even cover "half a tit", and the mission objectives advise you to "find less atrociously sexist armor".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_18ce5aab	comment	Samurai Shodown has Charlotte (one intro quote is actually yelling at someone for mocking her having a breastplate). She has the breastplate, what may be gloves, and what once looked like armoured (if heeled) boots that seem to turn a bit sexier in later games. Neinhalt Sieger is a more masculine example, bearing one (HUGE) gauntlet as well as greaves and kneepads. Torso protection? His big bare Teutonic chest.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_191e6909	comment	SnarfQuest: Some of Telerie's choices for combat attire are questionable; such as a chainmail shirt that just covers her breasts and a Lady Legionnaire Wear skirt, leaving both her midriff and her legs bare.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_19df8aa2	comment	In Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the acquirable armor and robes are unisex - the leather armor is just as form-fitting on males as it is on females, for example. That said, one of the NPCs wears Too Many Belts almost literally.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1a8119af	comment	Dragon Quest VIII had not only the Magic Bikini, but a wide variety of revealing outfits for Jessica that actually changed her model's appearance, unlike her other armors. Furthermore, this armor is made available to you at the last town you visit before your party ventures into the Arctic.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Applies to some of the light armor in the game. Equip a piece of Dalish armor on a male character and it's your traditional leather armor. Equip it on a female, and their midriff is exposed, along with a good amount of thigh below the leather miniskirt. The Chasind Robes look absolutely ridiculous on either gender. Thankfully, heavy armor doesn't suffer from the metal bikini syndrome. The Chasind robe (and its variants) is basically a swimsuit with Navel-Deep Neckline and furry shoulder pads when equipped on a female character. Played straight with Isabela in Dragon Age II, who wears a 'tunic' that basically looks like a swimsuit with a flap of material at the front and back. Her thong is frequently visible. Averted entirely in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Not only does armor look exactly the same on women as it does on men, but Iron Bull praises Cassandra's practicality while explaining exactly why shaped breastplates are a bad idea. It's somewhat hypocritical of him, since no matter what armor he's wearing he refuses to put on a shirt.note Iron Bull actually explains later that, given his and by extension almost every other Qunari's physiology, they frequently go without shirts or upper torso armor because putting it on is too impractical to outweigh any sort of armor benefit, especially when they can achieve a similar effect with Vitaar, essentially magical warpaint that can harden a Qunari's skin to an armor-like toughness to deflect sword blows. Apparently the shirt problem is so bad that the Qunari even have a specific phrase in their language for being caught unprepared, which roughly translates to "running around with clothing stuck in your horns." Lampshaded beautifully with the Victim of Fashion Amulet which can be crafted with a Fragment of Inadequate Chain Mail, where upon wearing it, you gain +1 Cunning, but lose all of your Magic, Melee and Ranged Defenses. Guess where you find it? On a corpse near a dragon's nest. Made even better with the amulet's description: "An astoundingly bad idea."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	The Might and Magic series, on the other hand, mostly averts it. Your female characters will be realistically covered by their armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1af341a1	comment	A staple in Disgaea and other Nippon Ichi titles: Female Warriors◊ are often depicted wearing full plate armor on their legs, but only an absurdly wide belt across their chest for modesty. Males don't get of much better.◊ Though it is justified in the description for the class, where it states that Warriors wear light clothing to increase mobility, and can harden their bodies instantly. Also the female samurai◊ wears a fairly standard samurai hakama, except that the top is reduced to little more than sleeves so you can see her Sarashi bound assets and uncovered stomach. The Magic Knight class fits the armored breastplate trope as her clothes are so form-fitting that it's likely that there isn't a single inch of room left in her top, and her bottoms are a skirt with an entirely open side and a loincloth. It should be noted that like most RPGs, Informed Equipment trope is in play.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1b1e2077	comment	In Luminous Arc 2 Ayano's "armor" is barely anything but metal bra and and panties, contrasting the armor-clad Roland, Rasche, Gaston and Richter. In Luminous Arc 3 the female Ashley wears bare-midriff and thigh armor while the males Levi 's Ragnarok form, Glen and Arnogia wear full armor neck to toes and in Glen's case helmet as well.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1b1e2078	comment	In Luminous Arc 3 the female Ashley wears bare-midriff and thigh armor while the males Levi 's Ragnarok form, Glen and Arnogia wear full armor neck to toes and in Glen's case helmet as well.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter: The Kirin armor is one of the strongest armors you can get early on in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, despite baring arms, thighs, and midriff. "How does so much skin deflect so much damage?!?" Overall for the series, it varies depending on the individual armor set. The female Renoplos armor for example is only identifiable as "female" by the fact that few men would willingly wear something painted that cute, The Urugaan set is partially form-fitting with the only skin exposed being the face and Zettai Ryouiki covered by a heavy armor skirt, while the Barioth set is almost as skimpy as the aforementioned Kirin. On the other hand, the Bone armor set is skimpy for both females and males.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1cfdb84f	comment	Thoroughly averted in The Senkari — everyone wears historically accurate armor, usually hauberks. With the notable exception of one of the female PC's in the in story RPG, who wears a coconut style chainmaille bikini.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1d45e6aa	comment	Both played straight and (!) averted in Gaia Online's MMORPG zOMG!!. The straight example is Lin in the Otami Ruins, who wears a low-cut breastplate and not much else. Arguably justified, since she is a Winged Humanoid and presumably wouldn't present a whole lot of target when flying (her brother doesn't wear much, either). The aversion is the female members of the Barton Guard, who wear armor almost exactly like that of their male counterparts. Gaia users have at times been surprised to find out that Alma is a girl. The main site has an item called Very Protective Fantasy Armor. It's... not very protective. The item poses available are "Panties", "Bra", "Hand Plates", "Foot Plates" and "Headpiece".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1f630f72	comment	Dark Souls III: This trope is generally averted, there is nearly no revealing clothing, however, there is a borderline example resembling the aforementioned Prisoner's Tatter. The Master Set worn by the Sword Master is essentially a tattered clothing with a loincloth. The Slave Knight Set's legging provides the wearer panties similar to the aforementioned Balder Knight leggings. By the time when the Ringed City DLC was released, the Desert Sorceress Set makes a return, under the name of "Desert Pyromancer Set". There's also a new loincloth for the Antiquated Plain Set, which shapes likes panties as well.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_1f751eeb	comment	One What's New? with Phil and Dixie strip discussed this trope, with Dixie modeling it and Phil pointing out its flaws. Phil eventually outfits her with a still somewhat sexy but far more practical outfit; Dixie then declares that "it's [his] turn", strips him down to nothing but a loincloth and a dagger, and pits him against a dragon.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2046f56e	comment	A Centaur's Life: Chapter 50 shows Hime, Nozomi, and Kyouko adventuring in a fantasy dungeon wearing bikini armor, with Nozomi lampshading how chilly it is and Hime acting embarrassed. Things only get naughtier from there, up to and including a slime monster that dissolves all their clothes. At the end of the chapter this all turns out to be taking place inside a story that Akechi wrote and is currently letting everybody read. While Kyoko's critiquing everything about the story, including the fact that it's just based on a bunch of inside jokes, Nozomi adds that thereâ€™s no way they could wear bikini armor. By that she means itâ€™s impractical, but Akechi takes this a different way:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2161674a	comment	The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising: A heated discussion between a Power Gamer and his Ex about "Bikini Mail," Allegedly the best armor a female could wear but, in her words, "That looks like it chafes." She didn't wear it. Astropia had a similar conversation during character creation/introduction. "I'm Hildur, and I refuse to look like this." The scene cut to the gamers' table with Hildur pointing to her character sheet, clearly not amused.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem usually zig-zags this. When a female character wears armour, it's usually just as practical as their male equivalent's (with most of the fanservice reserved for unit classes who don't wear much armor regardless of gender). Even though the 3DS titles (Awakening and Fates) have moved to more fanservicey designs in general, male and female units of the same class still generally wear the same amount of actual armor (though the latter sometimes have more revealing clothing underneath). There are also Pegasus Knights, but that issue is less the light armornote justified by the fact that they're speed-oriented fliers, and more that they forgo pants for aerial combat, in spite of being units riding horseback on a saddle.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III: The game had a swimsuit armor that actually changed the pixels of a female character who wore it. Its armor class is terrible though. Fortunately, there's a randomly dropped "Magic Bikini" that provides the same stunning 8-bit resolution "fanservice" with armor for those willing to engage in Level Grinding for it. Made even more hilarious when worn on a jester. Since they didn't think you could get much more Stripperiffic than a Playboy Bunny costume, they decided to clothe them in complete dominatrix gear — complete with mask and whip. That's not all. Just take a look at the female warrior/soldier's outfit,◊ little more than a plate bikini, helmet, pauldrons, boots, and nothing else. Made even more ridiculous by the fact that her class can wear the heaviest armor, but no matter what you put her in, she'll always look like Red Sonja. This look has actually become quite popular, and further games often have this female warrior as an NPC.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII had a 'Battle Chemise' for Maribel that functioned the same way. Decent 'armor' that distracted the monsters and made her look like she was wearing a frilly pink nightie. As for the trope itself, Aira wore one along with a cropped jacket and a Showgirl Skirt as her outfit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2221ecbd	comment	Stella Bonasera and Calleigh Duquesne from the CSI-verse wear low-cut versions of the Bulletproof Vest.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_25305527	comment	In .hack both male and female swordfighter classes can go very light on actual armor (Bear and Orca famously sport only a shoulder guard, man-skirt, and boots, and are covered more in ink than in clothing). Wavemasters, the mages, are typically fully covered in robes or dresses, while other classes fall somewhere in between - comfortable clothes that bare the chest, navel, a low neckline, or whatnot. This may be an invoked trope given that dot hack is a series of anime and video games about playing a video game.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_26bb19f	comment	How to Treat a Lady Knight Right has its heroine Leo Cornelia, who wears nearly full plate armor except for a naked midsection, an exposed left shoulder, and no helmet. She thinks that her muscular, scar-covered body is unattractive to men, and it's unclear why she'd bare her midriff like that if not to show off, but it does lead to an Amazon Chaser magician named Houli Dent confessing his attraction to her in the first chapter. Despite her initial disbelief, he insists that he fell for her at first sight because she carries herself so bravely, and he loves everything about her including her shredded six pack abs. After he begins traveling with her he heals a cut on her abdomen, and later finds out about a huge scar on her lower back from an old fight. Perhaps abdominal armor would have been a good idea.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls: As all of the armor is now unisex. You're only going to see boob-curves if your character is wearing something flexible and form-fitting like leather armor (even then, it's still sensible). The major exception to this is the "Hollow Warrior" armor set, which really doesn't cover that much at all. The pants/shoe component is just one shoe (and no pants!) and the chest armor covers just the shoulders and upper chest. It doesn't look that skimpy on a zombie, but on a healthy human female it's hilarious. With the freedom to wear different armor parts together, it is quite easy to stack up a revealing combination. However, it's worth keeping in mind that these are usually just as revealing on a male character as a female one. The Hollow Soldier Armor along with Hollow Soldier Legging are considered revealing if worn onto female characters, revealing their belly and legs, heck, the Balder Legging even shapes like panties. Xanthous Set is another set considered revealing if worn onto female character, although in the sequel it's less revealing. Generally speaking this trope is averted however - most armor types look basically the same on men and women. Though in the strangest example, the Thief Hood is remarkably more revealing on female characters compared to male characters... Of their head. The male variant covers the neck, mouth, and provides a large hood to hide the entire head, while the female variant only gets a mouth-mask, exposing the majority of the head.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne: Compared to the Souls series, this trope is generally averted. Although you can invoke this on purpose by only wearing Cainhurst Gloves and Cainhurst Legging, leaving the helmet and armor slot emptied.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars: Eye of the North features a Breast Plate-wearing Norn woman named Jora on the cover; she features in a few of the quests for the expansion pack. It's notable that early concept for the character was mostly identical to her final design, except that she gained about two and a half cup sizes. It should be noted that male Norn don't even bother with the Breast Plate. Aside from that, the game features both female armor that would be completely suitable for battle and is not more revealing than the male version, and several variants of chainmail bikini, ranging from "slightly revealing" to "underwear." A good example can be seen here, where we see the pictures for the elementalist armors. One can't help but wonder why the female version cost the same amount of crafting materials as the male versions, given that they have about 30% of the fabric. The same question could certainly be asked about certain female mesmer armors, particularly the "Elite Enchanter" set, which is basically a nightie accented with choker, Zettai Ryouiki stockings and knee-height go-go boots. Most Ranger sets are similarly less armoring for females, most notably in Prophecies. There is an "Elite Studded Leather" miniskirt and the "Elite Druid" set that has less cloth than the undergarments you would have while "naked."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2a58d935	comment	In Ronal the Barbarian, the shield-maiden Zandra doesn't wear much more than a leather bikini, and she's among the toughest characters in the film. The female barbarians wear leather bikinis, too, but with thongs. Think that's just Fanservice? Well, the male barbarians wear their thongs pretty much topless. So Zandra actually covers comparatively much of her body.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: It's more surprising when a character wears actual functional armour, regardless of gender. Nanaly Fletch (Tales of Destiny 2) and Judith (Tales of Vesperia) fit this trope to the letter. But the ultimate grand prize goes to Rondoline E. Effenberg from Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon X, who bears the most skin out of any (human) Tales Series character, managing to wear nothing that could accurately be described as "protection". There are unlockable swimsuits and dress costumes in Tales of Symphonia that fit this trope. Not only are they incredibly revealing (especially for Sheena and excluding Presea's nice clothes), they don't have any armor function whatsoever. Of course, Zelos also gets bikini swim trunks and can wear those into battle too so maybe they were aware of this the entire time. Made even more laughable with Judith, who wears a full suit of androgynous armour when the party first meets her, but then changes into this for the rest of the game (unless given a different outfit). The extra costumes in the Japanese PS3 version also features actual bikinis for Judith, Rita and Estelle to wear into battle. Battle swimwear is also available for Yuri, Raven and Karol. Worth noting that Informed Equipment is usually in play with the Tales games. Usually, the only pieces of equipment visible in gameplay are the weapon and shield, if the character is using one. QQ Selezneva from innocence could give Rody a run for her money in her outfit as well.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2d71a0a7	comment	In Off the Line, any armor the Viera wear turns into this. Its impracticality is lampshaded twice: when Rainstorm fights a monster he gets whipped in his vulnerable bare mid-section. Rainstorm kills a woman by piercing her heart when he steps on her because all she wore on her mid-section was a corset. Red XII notes that most Viera tend to be long-distance fighters like archers and mages which tend to negate the inherent disadvantage.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2ddf611	comment	The reason why AD&D 2 Dark Sun setting switched from planned frozen to scorched world — hot climate allowed cover art with more skin. Dark Sun also included "scavenged armor" tables, so you could assemble a suit piecemeal... and basically make your own Chainmail Bikini.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	A rather hilarious version of this occurred in Justice League Unlimited, where Hephaestus tells Diana that he "made that armor" for her motherâ€¦but that Diana has a fuller figure so he thinks he should be allowed to rework it at some point. Meanwhile Ares and Hades both have fully covering scary armor, hinting that Hephaestus agrees with this trope.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_32b5564a	comment	In the same vein, Tecmo's Secret of the Stars has a piece of armor called the Bunny Suit, which makes anybody who dresses in it look like a cute, scantily-clad Playboy Bunny — even the guys. It also has the male-exclusive Loincloth, which provides better defence than most full suits of armor available at that point.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_34170b02	comment	While Samurai Warriors usually plays this straight (when the female warriors wear armor at all, that is), it's subverted with Ginchiyo Tachibana. While the plate parts of her armor would be a classic Breast Plate, She has the good sense to cover everything but her head in (admittedly very well-fitting) chainmail.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_341a1fd2	comment	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In "Pawn of Shadows", the Obliteratix's battle costume consists of a mask and strategically placed leather straps.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: The supposedly "armoured" fighters of the Seven Shields (Alicia, Claudia, Luu-Luu) are dressed in "armour" designed with revealing skin in mindnote The doylist reason for this is because these three characters are designed that way in Kuroinu canon. Special mention goes to Luu-Luu, a Cutesy Dwarf who wears a two-piece "armour" made of animal hide, all underneath a green cloak. Averted in the remastered version due to Adaptational Modesty. In a couple of her scenes in the battlefield, Olga wears scaled armour that shows off a hefty bit of cleavage. Also applies to her servant Chloe when she is wearing chest armour made of scale and mail. For a specific example both inverted and lampshaded, half-ling commander Shalala, who wears a regular chestplate. Kyril internally remarks that it's "sensible unlike some female fighters in Eostia". Gender-inverted for Chieftain Raus, chieftain of a group of Cat Folk tribes named the Wild Ones. His bulky furs do nothing to hide his intimidating physique (aka chiseled pecs and abs).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3558eaa2	comment	At one point in the Community episode 'A Fistful of Paintballs', Annie, wearing little more than a shirt and hot pants for gunslinging combat, says she wishes she were wearing pants.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3565350a	comment	Ritz's artwork in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has her wearing two individual cups attached to her shirt.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_35ad6afe	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time: here's an experiment you can try. Take a female Clavat and a female Selkie. Put them both in, say, a suit of Dragoon armour. Note that the Clavat's is relatively sensible and the Selkie's is backless. Kinda-sorta justified in-universe; Selkies are noted for being extremely agile, hence the reason they are the only race able to Double Jump, and they most likely cut down any armour they wear to make it more flexible.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY generally follows Rule of Cool with its Animesque character and costume designs, so despite the rarity of huntsmen and huntresses wearing armor it's never limited by practicality when it does appear. Pyrrha Nikos has an outfit reflecting her talent as a warrior, but her costume puts as much or more emphasis on sexiness and style. The lower half features boots with Combat Stilettos, bronze plate armor for the legs up to mid-thigh, Zettai Ryouiki, and a black mini skirt. On the upper half she wears a leather overbust corset that bares her shoulders and cleavage, a bronze gorget around her throat, an elaborate circlet in her hair, and a bronze left forearm bracer, together with various other accessories including her shield. For what it's worth, the coup de grÃ¢ce she recieves from Cinder is an arrow that pierces her sternum and exits out the back without encountering her corset. Though sadly, changing that alone wouldn't have saved her. Jaune Arc has a more downplayed form. His first costume features a set of relatively small chest, back, and shoulder plates over his hoodie, which looks like it's only designed to cover the absolute vitals and isn't really worth nitpicking. However, when he gets a more full-coverage cuirass at the start of Volume 4, it has a built-in V-neck that exposes just a little bit too much skin around his neck and upper chest. His Volume 7 breastplate gets rid of that gap in coverage.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_36151c14	comment	Hawaii Five-0: Used in the new version of the show, as mocked by Craig Ferguson. "The guys get bullet proof vests, and the ladies get an adorable little waistcoat.◊ Three guys in bullet proof vests and then (sticks out fake tits) 'Mm-hm!'." Averted in series, as Kono does wear a bullet proof vest when on the job.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_372af17e	comment	Lampshaded in Princeless. The blacksmith Bedelia tries to sell several suits of very skimpy armor to Adrienne, the protagonist. Adrienne proceeds to point out how useless the armors would be in an actual battle, and ends up getting jeers and catcalls when she is forced to wear one of the suits in public.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_375e8f14	comment	There's also Vena the Raven Haired in The Last Hero, a Xena pastiche who, like Cohen, is pushing retirement ageâ€¦ and still wears her old form fitting adventuring outfit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3823caa4	comment	Trapped on Draconica: Justified. Zarracka wears a 'strip down version' she made because she didn't want to wear the full version in a desert. The other solders are completely covered and Gothon asks why she doesn't look like them.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Hippolyta's most iconic Golden age outfit had a "top" that consisted of two conical metal cups over her breasts and some straps to hold it on. Occasionally, someone will claim (in-universe or out) that Wonder Woman's swimsuit-like outfit is supposed to be armor. Every once in a while people will write her actually putting on real armor, but it never seems to stick. Alex Ross introduced her plate armor in Kingdom Come, partly because it was the biggest battle in the history of the world, partly to make her look angelic in keeping with the story's theme, but mostly because Ross likes making up new costumes. Since then, writers occasionally have her don the "Screaming Chicken Armor" as a sign that a particular issue's fight is a much bigger deal than usual. Various attempts including the late 2000's and the New 52 eventually gave a similar but different redesign of the costume so that she was wearing more than a leotard, at least giving her pants or a skirt. Fan outcry has resulted in continuous changes to the costume in an effort to reflect changing attitudes while appealing to the classic look of the character. A rather hilarious version of this occurred in Justice League Unlimited, where Hephaestus tells Diana that he "made that armor" for her motherâ€¦but that Diana has a fuller figure so he thinks he should be allowed to rework it at some point. Meanwhile Ares and Hades both have fully covering scary armor, hinting that Hephaestus agrees with this trope. Gundra the valkyrie wears a breast plate over chainmail, suggesting she just wants to remind people she has boobs. Nubia's original costume was a fully covering suit of armor, though the breasts were impractically molded to her form. Her subsequent costumes and armor tend to cover as much or less than a bathing suit and either have a random hole over her stomach or have the metal there be so tightly molded to her that it's astounding she can breath or move at all. Wonder Woman (1942): Queen Clea and Zara both wear what are essentially strapless metal bras for tops. Clea seems to be going for armor, while Zara is just using the fashion to bolster her scam cult. Wonder Woman (1987): Medusa's armor is rather lacking in coverage, essentially consisting of some molded boob cups and a segmented strip down the middle of her torso. You'd think someone whose been killed by having her head cut off and is still furious about it would want at least some kind of neck protection.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_39fe00f1	comment	Averted entirely in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Not only does armor look exactly the same on women as it does on men, but Iron Bull praises Cassandra's practicality while explaining exactly why shaped breastplates are a bad idea. It's somewhat hypocritical of him, since no matter what armor he's wearing he refuses to put on a shirt.note Iron Bull actually explains later that, given his and by extension almost every other Qunari's physiology, they frequently go without shirts or upper torso armor because putting it on is too impractical to outweigh any sort of armor benefit, especially when they can achieve a similar effect with Vitaar, essentially magical warpaint that can harden a Qunari's skin to an armor-like toughness to deflect sword blows. Apparently the shirt problem is so bad that the Qunari even have a specific phrase in their language for being caught unprepared, which roughly translates to "running around with clothing stuck in your horns."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3e5de40b	comment	Found in, of all places, Scrubs. The episode "My Princess", a fantasy retelling of the show, features Carla and Turk mashed together into a single monstrous creature that wears armor, the female half of which falls under this trope. Complete with a nipple.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3eb3a36f	comment	In Assassination Classroom, Irina had initially suggested a sexier, more revealing look when coming up with the design for the female students' new P.E. uniforms. The students complain that the skimpy design would've reduced most of its defensive capabilities to zero.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3ec41667	comment	Wolf in the Streets, Sardine in the Sheets: Desco suggests that this is the reason why Fenrich doesn't wear a shirt under his jacket:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_3f633fb4	comment	In Cracked: This tendency is one of "5 Prejudices That Video Games Can't Seem to Get Over" — specifically number 3, where men's armor gets more "cover" and more intimidating, while female armor gets skimpier and more sexualized. Played for laughs in their "Why Shopping in a video game universe sucks". The female armor that gives 20 defense points bares the midriff and when asked for something more substantial the shopkeeper holds up an even skimpier 50 point metal bra that is held up "by magic" (it then promptly falls down the shopkeeper). One of 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games is that "the less it covers, the more it protects."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_426a7572	comment	The Animaniacs comics had Minerva Mink wearing this◊ Xena-inspired outfit, cleavage-baring leather with a short dress showing bare thighs.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_43ad18a	comment	Worn largely without irony by the title heroine of Glorianna, with gold domes on her breasts and gold crotch guard.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Less flagrant in Oblivion than in most games, but still present for the few armors who have different models between male and female (like the Iron armor). Compare this◊ and this.◊ It's the same armor, on the other sex. The same applies to Oblivion's chainmail armor. On a male, it's a standard chainmail shirt. On a female it's a tank top. Check it out.◊ However, the difference is visible on the lowest-level armor; Daedric or glass armor has almost no difference on men and women (Daedric has a slight expansion for the bustline). As seen in the Shivering Isles expansion, the female Mazken (aka Dark Seducers) wear skimpy, Stripperiffic armor which leaves large portions of their bodies unprotected. Justified in that, being daedra, they have Resurrective Immortality so it doesn't actually matter.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Many of the old-school series had the "obviously human" villainesses wear Breast Plates, the most notable being Astronema. Trakeena's outfit/armor might be more conservative and effective than Shelinda but still have holes. Averted with her Insect Armor which completely cover her entire body except her eyes. Divatox's movie outfit is noted for its stripperifficness that rivals Zonnette's. Since she's a Non-Action Big Bad (sort of), this is justified.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: The superheroine Beach Bunny wears a titanium bikini as her costume. She is a speedster brick with heat powers, and tends to burn up normal clothes and supersuits. Lampshaded when speedster Scrambler admits she tried a metal bikini once and got really bad chafing when she ran. Because of Tennyo's tendency to end up completely undressed at the end of her battles (as no imaginable clothing could possibly survive what she can), Phase buys her a chainmail bikini made from strips of Adamantium to wear under her costume. It isn't too comfortable, but at least it protects her modesty... sort of.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_45d098f8	comment	Done relatively tamely and self-consciously in Get Medieval when Rylede gets her armor made◊ — it is a real suit of armor over maille,◊ but it is contoured and has a low neckline. It hardly matters, as her opponents are all so unnerved by fighting a woman that they never even come close to hitting her. A lampshade is hung on this as well: When Canter asks how she planned on getting a suit of armor made in a society where women are forbidden to fight, she explains that the blacksmith agreed because it fulfilled a lifelong fantasy of his.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: There is some humor on this subject when the City Watch in the novels starts recruiting female members and needs to find uniforms that fit them. This eventually becomes a running joke as the City Watch starts including members of all shapes and species, so being "in uniform" means wearing whatever parts of a uniform one can. Although in this case the breastplates are not actually revealing and skimpy, just modified to accommodate cleavage. There had been no women in the watch before, and the breastplates were all forged centuries ago to a standard pattern... The trope is further referenced with regard to Watchwomen in Thud! when a skimpy skirt and papier-mache armor outfit is found in a collection of stripper costumes. The stripper explains that sometimes men like to see a pretty girl in armor. Angua is confused, as men never seem happy to see her. Previously, the introduction of a barbarian heroine in The Light Fantastic caused the narrator to muse, "Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one's shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, thighboots and naked blades," before acknowledging that, like the later female members of the Watch, she was wearing sensible chainmail. (The cover artist in question, Josh Kirby, always drew Discworld heroines to fit the trope anyway, because it's Traditional.) The TV adaptation does invoke the trope not only with the barbarian heroine and an earlier character who Rincewind has to fight (although Liessa Dragonrider actually wears less in the book). Well, it'd be humanly impossible for Liessa to be wearing less than she was in the book. Not because of the Moral Guardians, but because the average pet dog is wearing more than Liessa. The skinny, flat-chested witch Magrat, on the other hand, borrows the fearsomely bosomy breastplate of the mythical Queen Ynci the Terrible to go and battle elves, and as a result ends up much more fearsome herself. Because no one told her it's just a decorative "remake" made from a washbasin — it looks impressive. There's also Vena the Raven Haired in The Last Hero, a Xena pastiche who, like Cohen, is pushing retirement ageâ€¦ and still wears her old form fitting adventuring outfit. Also there's Sergeant Colon, who fits his Roman-Centurion-esque breastplate "like jelly fits a mould", and Detritus, a massive troll who can't fit all his muscles into his armor. And, it should be mentioned, his armor was originally fitted for a war elephant. It's made a bit more practical in Unseen Academicals with the advent of "micromail", chainmail made from many, many small links that, as is repeatedly stated, doesn't chafe... and it's later demonstrated that a pair of boxer shorts made from the stuff can literally deflect a blow from a sledgehammer. While this trope is a possibility, its intended use is as dwarf underwear (since they refuse to wear anything but leather and metal).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_46cf88ba	comment	In Mogworld, it's stated you can tell an adventurer from a bandit because adventurers aim for armor plates (no matter how small), and bandits aim for squishy bits.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_46f45484	comment	Cecily Campbell of The Sacred Blacksmith wears one that's literally shaped to fit her form precisely, including her chest (and it's rather fragile). And apparently she doesn't wear padding underneath. On the other hand, her fellow male knights wear a costume with similar plate coverage.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_47286ed9	comment	Gronkh discussed this in an early Let's Test:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_485c564	comment	Subverted and lampshaded in Guilded Age. The fighter Frigg gets into a tussle with a bunch of razor-ruler wielding psycho nuns and while she wins, afterwards she is covered in bruises and lacerations. The first things she does is swear to get some plate as "the spring break look is for tards".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_495ce4ae	comment	Armor in Dragon Saga can be used by both genders but the midriff portions of torso pieces tend to magically shrink or disappear when transferred from a male character to a female.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Jessie, one of the AVALANCHE members in the first part of the game, wears an armored vest that features cups for her bust. It's seen in her original artwork, but will actually be seen in-game in the 2020 remake.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII has several examples: Fran appears to wear armor with all of the actually protective bits cut out. Not to mention that it's predominantly black, with nothing discernible underneath, and that she goes traipsing about in it rather extensively through deserts and frozen mountain passes. Forget enemy attacks. Ouch! 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 surface sort of logic (try fighting in armor in temperate weather for long; it's not easy; imagine how much worse it'd be in a desert). It also contains one of the oddest subversions to this trope, as one character actually is shot fatally in an unprotected area due to wearing this kind of armor... and it's a male character. Still, the gap was notoriously small, so kudos to the archer. Another male example is Vaan, who wears a decent amount of plating on his legs, but his upper body is mainly protected by a very skimpy metal vest. It actually covers his back pretty well if one overlooks the midriff and arms; from the front, however, its main defensive utility lies in making its wearer very careful about getting hit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV normally averts this. Heavy plate armor will look the same on anyone regardless of gender or race, although cloth amour varies between being identical and much more revealing on females. Of course this just makes the few examples more egregious: The stand out is probably the Dragoon artifact armor which on males completely covers them from head toe, to the point where only their mouth and chin are visible. The female version leaves small bits of bare skin at the collarbone, elbows, and, oh yea, a massive hole that shows off their midriff. One notable early-level example is the Subligar/Harness combination for physical classes, as it's skimpy for both genders.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Much of the mail and plate armor from the vanilla game makes female avatars look as if they've just come from Victoria's Secret. Some of them appear equally brow-raising when worn by males, while others mysteriously transform into imposing suits of full armor. A detailed guide to the looks has remained a popular topic on the forums, especially after the Transmogrification feature enabled players to change the graphics of their gear to any item of the same armor/weapon class. While players are now free to subvert this trope or invoke it intentionally, as of recent expansions, Blizzard has been implementing skimpy armor very sparingly, thus making the bulk of revealing armor in the game look comparatively low-resolution. Warlords of Draenor expansion, with its Barbarian Hero theme, is an exception: it has introduced several suits of revealing gear for the first time in years. The wiki provides pictures for applying the trope to some of the male characters. It is interesting to note that textures, while technically the same for all races (within the same gender) are mapped to accentuate the anatomy differently. As a result, the same armor can appear much more skimpy on human-esque female characters (Human, Orc, Night Elf, Blood Elf, Draenei) than on races with unconventional proportions (Goblin, Gnome, Dwarf, Tauren and Worgen (wolf form)). The tendency of players to seek this sort of appearance by players was lampshaded with a flavor NPC wearing an outfit that matched the page diagram perfectly, aside from a covered midriff. Her name is Ryii the Shameless.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_49eee326	comment	The original Nintendo Power artwork for its Final Fantasy IV feature for its SNES release depicts both Paladin Cecil and Kain in these, accompanying Guy for Stripperiffic male Final Fantasy designs.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4a2b34ad	comment	In Star Fox Adventures, Krystal wears skimpy, tribal "armor" that leaves quite little to the imagination, as it's just a bra and a Loincloth that doesn't cover her belly. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate went even farther by showing that she doesn't wear underwear, leaving her pubic area fully exposed◊'' as her loincloth flaps about as she fights.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4b83348e	comment	Ironclad: Played straight and then for drama. Lady Isabel's impractical Battle Ballgown is obviously designed more for Fanservice than defense, as it exposes the bare skin of her neckline and shoulders. Unsurprisingly, despite her cutting down several foes, she gets wounded in the shoulder and has to be rescued.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4bfae3e9	comment	Previously, the introduction of a barbarian heroine in The Light Fantastic caused the narrator to muse, "Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one's shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, thighboots and naked blades," before acknowledging that, like the later female members of the Watch, she was wearing sensible chainmail. (The cover artist in question, Josh Kirby, always drew Discworld heroines to fit the trope anyway, because it's Traditional.) The TV adaptation does invoke the trope not only with the barbarian heroine and an earlier character who Rincewind has to fight (although Liessa Dragonrider actually wears less in the book). Well, it'd be humanly impossible for Liessa to be wearing less than she was in the book. Not because of the Moral Guardians, but because the average pet dog is wearing more than Liessa.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4c9647dd	comment	The Savage Worlds setting Legends Of Steel has a "Sexy Armor" feat, meaning that sexy armor (chainmail bikini for women and loincloth for men, or an equivalent) protects as well as full chain or plate, depending on how many points you sink into it. The idea is that Legends Of Steel is a pulp fantasy setting, and penalizing people for wanting to play Conan the Barbarian in a setting designed to let you do that would be wrong.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4da11f30	comment	Despite Return of the Jedi's titanium bikini being one of the ur-examples of this trope, it is averted in the sequel trilogy. Captain Phasma (played by the illustrious Gwendoline Christie) wears completely functional stormtrooper armor. Made of silver metal rather than white plastic, in fact.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4f57b33a	comment	Mew Zakuro of Tokyo Mew Mew wears a crop top and shorts in her transformed state, unlike her teammates who wear leotards and dresses. To balance it out, most of the men that fight wear short-shorts and/or have exposed navels like she does.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4f63edbd	comment	Soul Nomad & the World Eaters: If you play as a male Revya, he'll be wearing relatively modest leather armor. Female Revya, however, goes shirtless aside from pauldrons and a metal bra. See for yourself.◊ Their Sprites, on the other hand, both wear the same midriff-baring chest armor. To say nothing of the nereids, although in this case it's somewhat justified, as they're an underwater race, and one really can't move around underwater very well in heavy armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4f78f3c8	comment	In Okashina Okashi, the Evil Overlord's groupies go on strike because he requires them to wear metal coconut bras.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_4fbdb02c	comment	In Mario Strikers Charged, Peach and Daisy wear a set of armor that bares the midriff and exposes a bit of the thigh. The most prominent bits of plating covers the chest, and the other pieces cover the shoulders and lower arms.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess, of course, though Xena's own armor is not a particularly heavy offender. Xena's regular outfit isn't very skimpy (though it does wonders at enhancing Lucy Lawless' modest bust), but most of the alternate armors she would end up wearing in different locales (such as when she goes to Japan) definitely fall into this trope. It's played straight with the leather armor worn by the shorter-haired, sai-wielding Gabrielle later in the series, and with most secondary female characters, e.g. Callisto (someone who is that Ax-Crazy might want a little more protection before going into battle...) In 'A Day In The Life", Xena and Gabrielle discuss how men are attracted to Xena's leather outfit:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: Parodied when Suzu takes up Reo's offer to wear some gear. Suzu asks for a "cute" set, not really understanding Reo's tastes until she's already wearing it. The "Sexy Gear" is a very heavily modified version of Matsuri's armor that exposes the lower third of her breasts, part of her crotch, and essentially all of her thighs, butt, abdomen, and back. To make it extra ridiculous, is does cover her arms below the shoulder and legs from the knee down. A Beach Episode has Reo turn her and Matsuri's battlesuits into Barely-There Swimwear and Soga's into swim trunks with no shirt. Suzu then turns her own outfit into a less revealing bikini. Despite covering far less of their bodies, all their outfits continue to protect them the same, at least from heat. On Matsuri's birthday, Reo's present is "updating" the suit into another Sexy Gear. It has similar bottom parts, an even skimpier top, and covers Matsuri's arms and shoulders more than the regular outfit. Matsuri doesn't find this out until going into battle, but true to Reo's expectations, it saves the day by seducing a swarm of ayakashi. Matsuri has it changed back anyway.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_50f8e52e	comment	Hazard's Wake has this exchange involving a leather-and-plate bra:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_512b4b82	comment	Shanoa in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia is shown in art wearing a full breastplate and some overlapping plates to protect her hips, but otherwise has a skirt and Stripperiffic high heel boots (not to mention the Sexy Backless Outfit). Somewhat justified in that the exposed areas of Shanoa's skin are, essentially, her weapons. She sports glyph tattoos that provide her with weapons or spells, and the biggest one is on her back. That tattoo is how she acquires these glyphs in the first place - the "absorb" animation involves her lifting her hair to expose her back, then sucking any nearby glyphs into it.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_514df02a	comment	Julie in Heavy Metal 2000 changes into a swimsuit-like combat outfit (which is little more than straps covering her nipples and crotch) for the final battle, leaving most of her skin vulnerable to attack. Julie Strain also wore this for a promotional photoshoot.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel, and Neverwinter Nights 2 avert this with all armor and clothing for males and females (including underwear in Neverwinter Nights 2) covering everything except for the hands and head. In KotOR 2, there is the slave Leia outfit (which can be enhanced by underlays, wonder where they go...) and Mira's ballistic jacket which has an AC bonus on par with medium armor, despite being midriff-baring. There is also Handmaiden, who is wearing black underwear when not having any clothes equipped. In KOTOR 1, a female scout character starts the game in bra and panties. Even more interesting is that not only does everyone have underwear, everyone actually has two completely different KINDS of underwear. Try dressing a character entirely in Sith gear, then take it off...
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Chainmail Bikini / int_53b30902	comment	While the Valkyria Chronicles games mostly avert this trope, a few of the "armor" sets worn by the Valkyria play it quite straight. The first game also has a minor example with Rosie, who has a barely noticeable cutout in the front of her otherwise fairly conservative uniform that exposes her belly button.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_53bd0aaf	comment	In With Strings Attached, John and Ringo encounter one of these while going through the Idris' attic, prompting the observation, â€œChrist, it'd rub your nipples right off.â€�
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Chainmail Bikini / int_55b211b5	comment	Whenever Britt is cast as a player character in Epic NPC Man, this trope usually comes into play in some way or another, much to her character's chagrin. The trope even got directly called out once when she almost got her hands on some real armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_55c20cb5	comment	Overlord (2012): Clementine wears a fairly modest scale armor version, though it still shows off her cleavage and midriff. The appeal is somewhat offset by the fact that the scales are actually the plates of adventurers she killed. Albedo is a Mighty Glacier, and so goes into battle wearing a suit of full plate armor that covers her from head to toe. It was actually slimmed down for the anime and still makes her looks like an imposing Black Knight, though it's at least a downplayed example with its overall curvy shape, boob plate, and Combat Stilettos. The fact she can move in it the way she does shows off how strong she is. Amusingly, she actually wishes out loud her battle armor was more revealing, since Ainz can't see her while she's wearing it. Shalltear is another aversion, also donning full plate when she gets serious. Like with Albedo, it shows how dangerous she is, as most vampires can't use armor (it gets in the way of feeding).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick.... A shopkeeper explains to Durkon that women's armor consists of any attractive outfit with at least one piece of the material the armor is supposed to be made of. Haley once bought a set of this because she was being mistaken for a boy due to losing most of her hair in a previous battle and decided "some flaunting" was in order.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_577f6b3d	comment	The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time: Saria and Rita. Justified in that they aren't the bodies underneath the armor; they are the armor. They're capable of manifesting spirit bodies underneath the armor that mirror their appearances from when they were alive, allowing them to trick enemies into aiming for their non-existent, unguarded vitals in a fight, while the garments that actually contain their souls are hard to hit. Their similarly undead father actually asked for this setup as a precaution, only to realize what he signed off on, after his daughters become strong enough to manifest said bodies.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The trope zig-zags. Lighter armor (cloth, leather, other non-metals) tend to wrap more around female models, but the heavier bits (Daedric, Dragonplate) tend to look more or less identical regardless of sex. Though steel plate and ebony armor seem to show off a woman's figure pretty well while not showing any skin. Amusingly, the lowest level of light armor (Fur) shows more skin on males than females. While it consists of little more than a form-fitting and cleavage-lifting bodice for women, for men it's more like shoulderpads and straps. Thoroughly averted by Dwarven Armor, which covers the entire body of both men and women in such a thick layer of metal that it looks like you would stand a reasonable chance against armor-piercing bullets. However, the Forsworn armor follows this trope to a tee, with the female version being little more than a hide bikini that can be upgraded to be on par with other light armors. Of course, the male version is just as exposing as well. It goes without saying that a huge number of Skyrim's Game Mods feature this trope in full force. That said, a number of them avert it, to the point that there's a "Practical Female Armors" mod that completely redoes the meshes and textures on all in-game armor to eliminate unnecessary breast protrusions and shapes to make it more in line with realistic armor sets.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3: The High-Cut Armor (for females only) is essentially this (although you only get to see the avatar change in the FES expansion), but your party members will be embarrassed and only reluctantly agree to wear it. Lampshaded some more in the PSP rererelease, where they are renamed Battle Panties. You can also find a piece of armor named "Spiked Bra" which causes the same reaction from female party members, but doesn't change their model.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_59e4ac65	comment	Saintess Summons Skeletons: The "doppletopper" is a piece of Living Clothes that forces this trope on the wearer. It's simply a loop of material to go around the chest, which can consume other clothing, then apply the properties of what it ate to the wearer's entire body. Unfortunately, it doesn't like to remain under other clothes, so using it means you stay warm (by feeding it a sweater), and safe (by feeding it armour), but also exposed.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5a1e517c	comment	Nodwick complains of henchman/woman fashions trending towards this in one of the Dragon comics, even using the exact phrase "chainmail bikini".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5a88c893	comment	Hellgate: London had the female Paladins wear a helmet, breastplate, gauntlets, and then what appeared to be a skintight leather onesie all the way down to their thigh-high high-heeled boots. And this is an organization that supposedly came out of the Catholic Church.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5ba6595e	comment	Played with in Reno 911!. One episode had the female police officers getting specially designed (and low cut) bulletproof vests, which they all liked until one of them asks another officer to test her vest by shooting at it. Surprisingly enough, even the armored parts of the vests wouldn't stop a bullet.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	Dark Souls II: This trope goes even further with the Desert Sorceress Set, the description even states that the Desert Sorceresses wear enchanting clothes to catch people off-guard even when the people realised the plot, they still fall into their seduction in an alarming regularity. Notably, the top is different depending on whether it's being worn by a male or female character, with the male version having a strap that runs up over his left shoulder (while the female version is strapless) but not covering his right nipple. Additionally, a female character wearing it will be given enlarged breasts. The Smelter Demon Armor fully reveals the belly of the wearer. In the case of female characters, the bottom of the breasts is also shown, with the nipple covered only by the chainmail underneath. Bone King Robe combined with Executioner's Trousers is an example of revealing armor combination. Retainer's Robe with Agdayne's Skirt are another revealing clothing combination. The leather bikini's role is replaced by Prisoner's Tatter and Prisoner's Legging.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5c66fff9	comment	There was one straight example in Neverwinter Nights 2: the starting Warlock armor◊ showed quite a bit of skin on both genders, with the female version showing more. The first expansion pack, which added new races with new skin colors (and changed how they were rendered), replaced the bare skin with black fabric rather than deal with every permutation.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Lampshaded in one strip where female carbonan armor suits come with huge "torpedo bays" — bigger than what they are supposed to contain. But at least "it does have a certain "distraction factor" going for it." Averted by Ensign Para Ventura who despite having the general physique of a 12-year-old, wears baggy dungarees over her carbonan armour suit. Subverted by Kaff Tagon's father, who makes various jokes about Tagon's crotch-hugging armour - to the point that Tagin has a NEW set made which doesn't have this feature, at least to the same extent.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5e16d550	comment	Justified in Black Clover. Noelle Silva's Valkyrie Armor â€” Mermaid Form is a bikini top and mermaid tail made of water that's meant for underwater combat.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_5e90f278	comment	Somewhat justified in 009-1. Mylene is an Action Girl with missile breasts, so she gets one slapped on her if she's captured by a villain.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6234eae7	comment	The Neneka Corps from Mobile Suit Victory Gundam is a squad of bazooka-toting bikini girls sent by the Zanscare Empire to distract Uso, except the intended psychological effect backfired by sending Uso into a Heroic BSoD instead and Neneka herself received the health effect of a human body hit by a beam saber. She also makes a cameo appearance in Tokyo Gunpla Collection fashion show of Gundam Build Fighters Try.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6300d32a	comment	In 300, the Spartans go into combat with bare chests and bikini briefs. This is taken from the original graphic novel, where the Spartans wore nothing at all aside from their cloaks, which itself draws from classical Greek "heroic nudity" in art. In actual history, of course, they would have been some of the most heavily-armoured soldiers in the ancient world.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_660a8ba0	comment	It's made a bit more practical in Unseen Academicals with the advent of "micromail", chainmail made from many, many small links that, as is repeatedly stated, doesn't chafe... and it's later demonstrated that a pair of boxer shorts made from the stuff can literally deflect a blow from a sledgehammer. While this trope is a possibility, its intended use is as dwarf underwear (since they refuse to wear anything but leather and metal).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_67179e43	comment	Earth Defense Force 2025 manages to have this trope, avert it, and justify it all in one go: The game's Fragile Speedster class, the Wing Diver, wears a high-tech version of the Chain Mail Bikini... ...Which is then averted by the Wing Diver having the lowest starting Armor (health) and slowest Armor growth rate of all the classes, despite what armor she has looking heavier than the full-body covering her male counterparts beyond the Mighty Glacier class wear... ...And is finally given a justification in the form of the Wing Divers being a special unit using reverse-engineered Ravager gear who choose to sacrifice nearly all pretense of defense in favor of speed. A Wing Diver squad leader reminds her troops in an early mission in the game that "speed is life." Further justified by them also having excellent attack power, some of the weapons hitting so hard and so rapidly as to give them an "Instant Death" Radius against most units.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder avoids extreme examples, but Amiri does run around in midriff-baring leather and Imrijka's hauberk shows more cleavage than is strictly practical. But in general, armor for Pathfinder women is more likely to be improbably form-fitting than skimpy. The Pathfinder: Worldscape comic includes Pathfinder stats for Red Sonja. Apparently, her chainmail bikini doesn't give her any armor bonus at all (her only armor bonus comes from Bracers of Armor +4), but she does have an ability that lets her add her Charisma bonus (18, for a +4 bonus) to Armor Class when not wearing armor, as opponents are distracted by her boobs "confidence and personality".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6a705f21	comment	Lampshaded in The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius. A temporal anomaly unleashes characters from different dimensions and time periods in Barry's basement. One of them is an Amazon wearing this, prompting Jeremy to ask her if it chafes.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: This trope was ubiquitous in early product art, frequently with men wearing practical armor and clothing and women (if any) wearing clothing generally baring their arms and/or legs (or more), and continues to this day, albeit somewhat less gratuitously. Between all that and the memetically infamous "female characters suffer a penalty to Strength" rule, 1st Edition is kind of an Old Shame for Wizards of the Coast. In some settings one can get the ultimate variant: armor not even "revealing", but completely transparent. This doesn't mean the outfit is stripperiffic without a lot of fiat; see note. note Assuming the construction is historical, just out of fantasy materials, underneath would be a gambeson and/or padding and likely a lot of mail. Even if everything metal were made of glassteel, you'd be head-to-toe covered in cloth. Here is a video showing just how much was under the plates. A suit of glassteel (enchanted glass) is expensive, but as strong as steel with only half the weight. note It is thus used whenever possible by flying warriors, such as Aarakocra, Avariel or Nimbral air cavalry. Drow elves seem to be incredibly fond of this trope, wearing little outside of what covers their naughty bits; then again, the typical drow is usually a Femme Fatale more often than not. Usually explained as the point being that it doesn't protect well. It's supposed to show off your confidence in your magical power. Alias from the Forgotten Realms novel Azure Bonds (see above) and its related computer game Curse of the Azure Bonds is depicted in artwork with a plunging v-neck chainmail top. It worked much better than it looked, though. note in sourcebooks it's chain mail + 2, AC bonus 5+2, 40 lbs; the other was mail-and-breastplate, per Combat & Tactics rules it's AC bonus 6, 45 lbs — though the book was published before PO. The novels themselves have her wearing a normal breastplate in book 1, and the v-neck chainmail in book 3. It's magical and so weapons just bounce off if they hit the 'unprotected part'. The reason why AD&D 2 Dark Sun setting switched from planned frozen to scorched world — hot climate allowed cover art with more skin. Dark Sun also included "scavenged armor" tables, so you could assemble a suit piecemeal... and basically make your own Chainmail Bikini. Parodied and lampshaded in the "Boom's Garden" chapter of Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue, a spin-off Forgotten Realms product which gave detailed game statistics for loin guards, corsets, spiked collars and the proverbial chain-mail bikini. (Most cause penalties to movement and/or attacks, rather than enhancing armor class). The Boom's Garden's corset's stats even include the following: +1 Charisma when dealing with creatures with less than 9 Intelligence, the opposite if they're above 13 Intelligence. (One should probably add another rule for further realism: that the +1 part won't work at all on lizardfolk, kenku, and other non-mammals...) Also parodied in an April issue, where a joke article on minor secret societies included the Wizards of the Black Teddy: an all-female offshoot of Krynn's Black Robes, who dress like dominatrices in defiance of High Sorcery's usual dominance by stuffy old men. Parodied in an old cartoon where the female fighter's Chainmail Bra is littered with arrows and the rest of her untouched. And in another cartoon showing a comely female barbarian wearing a full trenchcoat, with her remarking in the caption that it was +3 and also prevented her from becoming "cheesecake". The D&D 3.5 supplement Dungeon Master's Guide II gave us templates for weapons and armor constructed on different planes of existence, which embody the properties of those planes. In particular the "gloryborn" items from the Heroic Domains of Ysgard always look extremely impractical, but function just as well as normal items. You can guess what the armor version looks like. There is an available enchantment called "Glamered" that makes armor look like other clothing without losing its protective properties. Theoretically it could be used to make practical armor appear impractical. Maybe looking Stripperiffic can give you a bonus to diplomacy checks? In 5E, Barbarians are given the Unarmored Defense ability at first level, which lets them add their Constitution modifier to their AC when they're not wearing armor. Since Barbarians are more focused on melee combat than any other class in the game, they tend to have pretty good Constitution modifiers anyway, so when combined with a halfway decent Dexterity modifier they'll probably wind up being able to run into battle stark naked and still have an armor class equal to a fighter who's wearing plate armor. Monks also have Unarmored Defense (though they use their Wisdom score instead) alongside Unarmored Movement, gaining a bonus to their movement speed while unarmored. They, too, can wear pretty much anything (or even nothing) into battle. The latest version of the d20 sourcebook Portable Hole Full of Beer ("The Book of Neurotic Fantasy") features chainmail bikinis as actual items. Among such things as poodlemancers, weapuns and Awaken Bellybutton spells, they don't even stand out. That would be why the company made Chainmail Bikini; feats shown on sample pages include Exotic Armour Proficiency, Improved Naked Defense and My Face Is Up Here. The D&Dwiki (the one that has all of the non-OGL stuff) also entertains a love for homebrew, such as hideously overpowered... Chain Bikini Chick Feat, which gives a bonus to a woman's armor class if they wear little more than a bikini into battle. With the release of Tasha's for 5e, it's possible to get Barrier Tattoos, which, depending upon the version of the tattoo, will grant one the same sort of protection as Studded Leather Armor, Half-Plate Armor, or Full Plate Armor, and still get the protective benifit of a shield and other such things. One doesn't even need to be proficient in the wearing of the equivalent armor, and doesn't suffer disadvantage on a stealth check. Useful in situations where one can't obviously wear armor, and yet wants protection, just in case.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Depending on what realm you're from, a female could wind up with something conservative (Earthrrealm) to downright Stripperiffic (Edenia).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6f06e8fc	comment	Errant Story scores a trifecta with this trope in a single strip, outside Mandi's bar. First it's lampshaded by Meji; then it's averted, when she accuses Sarine of using an illusion of a chain-mail bikini to charm/mind-screw Jon; and then the aversion is averted, as it turns out Sarine hasn't been tampering with Jon's perceptions at all.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6f48e446	comment	In Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, the Zone Raider infantry is introduced; it's a Distaff Counterpart to the male Zone Troopers from C&C 3. The Trooper armor is bulky and boxlike. The Raider armor is significantly more form fitting. The Raiders are also mentioned to be an all female unit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6f7cb594	comment	Despite the name, the title character of King's Bounty: Armored Princess is not very well armored◊. That, however, only applies to the mage version of Amelie, featured on the box art. The warrior and paladin are more realistically armored.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_6f96cb3d	comment	Sucker Punch - Sweet Pea's costume in the fantasy sequences is the most medieval of the girls', resembling a sort of cross between a nun and an avenging angel. Befitting her religious inspiration, a long strand of prayer beads hangs from her belt. Her costume features a one-sleeve, faux-leather hooded jacket with long tails and a lace-up front. Her left shoulder is protected by a piece of armor, and she wears black fingerless gloves. Sweet Pea's also features skimpy back shorts and black thigh-highs. The third fantasy sequence is based around High Fantasy, but she wears it in the other ones too. As it's a fantasy where her imagination can make anything happen, it's pretty justified.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_708ae58b	comment	DMFA: Clan Leader Taun's armour, which is moulded and leaves her midriff and one arm bare.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017): While the Wonder Woman outfit costume utilizes Adaptational Modesty, it still leaves a lot of skin exposed. Building off her appearance in Batman v Superman, she at least is given a shield in most of her action sequences. In conjunction with the armored appearance, she looks more like a gladiator than a dancer in a leotard. An article analyzed the armor and compared it to previous live-action adaptations of the character, with the final conclusion being that the movie has the advantage because it was designed as armor instead of as something sexy.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7185e4b0	comment	Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: Although she's never depicted wearing it in-game, one of the relics you can buy in the Item Shop is literally called "Bikini Armor" and its icon depicts a bikini with metal parts. It reduces damage Shantae takes by half.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Barring their midriffs seems fairly common among Fire Nation women. However, the two-part episode "The Boiling Rock" applies it to female prison guards, which seems somewhat unsafe. When Sokka studies swordfighting under Master Piandao, he and the masterâ€™s butler spar together with wooden swords while wearing some kind of sparring armor. They wear helmets, shoulder guards, shin guards, forearm guards, and some kind of odd narrow breastplate that only covers the abs and the middle of the chest, but theyâ€™re shirtless underneath and show a lot of skin. It isnâ€™t played for fanservice or anything, and just looks unnecessarily dangerous to anyone who actually practices full contact fencing. The sensible thing would be to wear some sort of jacket as the base layer, install a grille over the helmet face opening, use a breastplate that covers the whole front of the torso, and add rigid plates for the throat and groin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7301b004	comment	Shadiversity (who discusses the topic here) has gone so far as to suggest that if there had been a lot of women buying themselves armor, they might have cared more about fashion and eventually asked for feminine details such as breasts Ã¨ la the "boobplate". After all, men really did get armorers to make them unnecessary masculine ornamentation, such as metal codpieces and muscle cuirasses. Your audience will still be divided on whether it looks silly, especially if all the women are wearing such armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7396397f	comment	An entire series of short-story anthologies lampshading and parodying the concept: Chicks in Chainmail, edited by Esther Friesner. A story in the first anthology, "And Ladies of the Club" by Elizabeth Moon, revolves around a king's decision to levy a tax on the armored bras worn by female warriors, and the Loophole Abuse the ladies employ in response.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7406f8bf	comment	Quest for Glory V puts Elsa von Spielburg in a chainmail bikini. It's an especially stupid example because not only is she a tough-as-nails warrior and a capable swordswoman in her own right, but she's spent her entire life struggling against sexism. It's worse when you realize that in the first game, she is the well-clad and deadly Brigand Leader.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, the female soldiers pretty thoroughly avert this trope. The female marines and Spartans wear armor that is very close to identical to their male counterparts. While it is possible to distinguish some minor differences in build, it's virtually impossible to tell the gender of anyone in face-covering armor unless they talk, leading to more than one Samus Is a Girl surprises across the franchise.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7668653a	comment	Jack in Mass Effect 2 wears a pair of baggy trousers and combat boots, but her chest is only covered by a leather strap over her nipples, and a copious amount of tattoos. If her loyalty mission is completed, she gets a tight leather tank top... and then wears the straps over it. In the third game, she explains that the strap was only there because "it's kind of a bad idea to show off your rack in a high-security prison", but decides to invest in a more practical outfit nonetheless. Most protection in Mass Effect is provided by kinetic and biotic barriers, while the armor and clothing is typically constructed of high-tec "ballistic cloth" that can deflect bullets and shrapnel, which is why many combatants can get away with only wearing form-fitting clothing underneath their shields.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_76e539c2	comment	Agito's Barrier Jacket in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, which consists of a bikini and a strange mishmash of skirts and belts that barely cover the bottom part. She gets a Barrier Jacket that covers more of her body in the installments after StrikerS to match her new master, Signum. Being a Unison Device, she would normally spend about 99% of a fight fused with her master (meaning that she is, for the most part, untouchable), so the bikini is actually better in terms of efficiency. note Barrier Jackets are made up of a mage's mana, with the protection being evenly distributed across the body regardless of what's covered. Less clothing equals less defense, but at the same time it means less mana drain.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_76e7de99	comment	Alias from the Forgotten Realms novel Azure Bonds (see above) and its related computer game Curse of the Azure Bonds is depicted in artwork with a plunging v-neck chainmail top. It worked much better than it looked, though. note in sourcebooks it's chain mail + 2, AC bonus 5+2, 40 lbs; the other was mail-and-breastplate, per Combat & Tactics rules it's AC bonus 6, 45 lbs — though the book was published before PO. The novels themselves have her wearing a normal breastplate in book 1, and the v-neck chainmail in book 3. It's magical and so weapons just bounce off if they hit the 'unprotected part'.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7884c10d	comment	Tarot's "armour" in Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. The way Jim Balent draws it, it amounts to little more than a rigid thong bikini held on with pen-line-thin straps. And she's got a relatively high amount of coverage compared to most other characters. Her sister, Raven Hex, for example, wears "armor" that effectively consists of spiked pasties and dental floss. Then again, Raven Hex's breasts probably weigh more than the rest of her torso.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_792239e5	comment	There are unlockable swimsuits and dress costumes in Tales of Symphonia that fit this trope. Not only are they incredibly revealing (especially for Sheena and excluding Presea's nice clothes), they don't have any armor function whatsoever. Of course, Zelos also gets bikini swim trunks and can wear those into battle too so maybe they were aware of this the entire time.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_79e59d25	comment	Ruby Pair: Discussed and defied in "Gaols & Ghouls", where the fantasy adventurer costumes that Tenn and Gaz are placed in when sucked into the titular game are much more concealing than this trope, which Gaz dismissively describes as male fantasy fulfillment.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7bf0f0ef	comment	Zigzagged in Overlady. Most villainesses wear extremely skimpy outfits (Louise notes that one increased the fabric she was wearing by two orders of magnitude by wearing a cape), but Louise wears a sensible full plate that only leaves her mouth exposed. Henrietta's get-up combines this trope with Skeletons in the Coat Closet such as having a bone corset with "cupping" hands.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7c31fdd7	comment	Valkyrie Profile and its sequel frequently features the second type; many of the female warriors are heavily armoured except for the thighs and sometimes the breasts (either normal fabric or actual exposed cleavage), and several wear armoured high heeled boots. On the other hand, some of the male warriors also have somewhat questionable weakspots...
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7e35116c	comment	Taarna's get-up from Heavy Metal. What scant clothing she wears seemed to be modeled on various pieces of armor, despite being made of cloth. The only parts that appear to actually be armored are her right arm and her boots.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Used and averted, although raider armour◊ is pretty skimpy, everybody else wears more practical attire. Throughout the series, women in full Powered Armor are indistinguishable from their male counterparts. Most armors in earlier games just had some bumps on the sprite instead of cleavage. Many of the original (non-power) armors in Fallout: New Vegas are also indistinguishable between genders, to the point that a female character looks like a man with a woman's head tacked on, if the head isn't covered up as well. The Ordnance Armor from The Pitt, the most stripperiffic armor in the game, uses Mini-Nuke tips for the bra cups. The female White Legs◊ from Honest Hearts are also rather skimpily dressed, but are just as durable as some properly armored enemies.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_7fcd5a6a	comment	Taken to extremes in Earth X by Iron Maiden, who's of the molded plate variety. It makes sense to a point, since her power is to shape the metal that encases her, but a concept drawing featured in issue #4 shows not just breast-plate but navel-plate and what looks to be cameltoe-plate. Ouch.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_805790c2	comment	Helga in Garfield: His 9 Lives. It's literally just a metal bikini; it doesn't even have shoulder straps.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8063b105	comment	Kings of the Wyld: The pretty female "mercenaries" Clay sees in Conthas (in contrast to the actual female mercenaries) are wearing armor that not only barely covers any skin, but is clearly too fragile to protect the skin it does cover.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_83c239c	comment	Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Aya the AI has this in her physical form. Justified as she's made up of green will energy and the "Bikini" parts hold both her programming and allow her to physically interact with objects. She just puts herself together in such a way that it comes across as bikini armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_84b22968	comment	The Lightlark Saga: During a duel early in the Centennial, Isla dons an outfit that - while not as hugely revealing as some examples - is more fashionable and fanservice-y than practical, including thigh-high metal plated boots, "chain metal tights", a breastplate that "accentuated her figure", metal shoulder pads and not much else.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_85966a1a	comment	In Lineage 2, the armour on the female characters is particularly revealing (and silly). Possibly the most ridiculous is the starting armour for the female Dark Elf — a halter top (open in the middle) mid-thigh high-heeled boots and a thong. All in black leather, of course. The most silly of this is how the Dwarven female character is covered head to toe in full plate armor with one set but the Human female gets a metal miniskirt.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_85ace659	comment	Dream of Mirror Online: The MMORPG has very different appearance for the same armour settings, based on sex and race. While humans and Sylph (sort of hovering elves) are decently protected, and Sprites (eternal children) even more, female Felins (or Shura, it depends on language) are almost naked on the crotch all the time. While wearing a full heavy armour set, there will inevitably be no pants other that a colored thong, and metal breast will bounce while running. Metal breast, bouncing. It helps a lot that female Felins are humanoid vixen. The Dancer outfit is commonly referred by players as "Whore dress". Note that male Felins, that are ugly as butt (should be humanoid dragons, and are usually flat-faced with big mouths) wear the very same outfits, but with black tights under the armour, or long gown instead of mini pants. There's also the option to purchase costumes that make even the most modest character look slutty or make the sluttiest character modest thereby giving players an option of adverting this trope or play it straight regardless of race or career chosen.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_865b5c19	comment	Runescape originally had 'female' versions of plate armour that bared mid-rift and cleavage (Although females could also wear the ordinary/male version). Since the upgrade to Runescape 2, however, female plate armour no longer exists, and the standard armours display the same on PCs of either gender. Plate skirts exist but can be worn by either gender. Of course, in RS3, it is possible to use Customisations that can mimic this effect, with some making it look like the character is wearing next to nothing - but it's more of an illusion, as their real outfit is hidden underneath, with all the strengths and weaknesses they entail.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: The Kingdom of Troia has an all-female army, who wear leotards as their official uniform. The sprite used to represent them is identical to that of the dancers in other places, resulting in this reaction when the player speaks to one of the guards in the castle: "Dance for you!? How dare you! I am a shieldmaiden of the Epopts, not some two-gil performer!"note The 3D version gives them a sprite more like the Alexandrian soldiers' below, which just makes Cecil look like a boob for asking. The original Nintendo Power artwork for its Final Fantasy IV feature for its SNES release depicts both Paladin Cecil and Kain in these, accompanying Guy for Stripperiffic male Final Fantasy designs. The elemental archfiend of Wind, Barbariccia, wears nothing more than a bikini. Then again, she might not need armor seeing as she's more of a force of nature and forms a protective whirlwind with her own hair.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: While the male Knights of Pluto get to clank around in plate armour, the Queen's all-female guard tends to invest in helmets, boots, and one-piece swimsuits. Not often where 'show some leg' meets 'oppressive imperial army'. There's also Kuja, whose outfit consists of a puff-sleeved vest, sash, thigh-high boots and a Thong of Shielding. Justified in this case since armor wouldn't help him much.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, Terra and Celes (the strongest characters in the game) wear something akin to battle swimsuits/leotards according to the sprite art (Celes, in particular, wears a strapless green swimsuit with shoulderpads, a cape, and a belt. Terra's is red and doesn't even have a cape.) In-game, the strongest suit of armor is the Minerva Bustier (which may be the reason that Relm, the Token Mini-Moe, couldn't wear it).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_86814e94	comment	Final Fantasy XI: The game includes a number of Harness/Subligar armor sets which, while varying a bit depending on race and gender, consist of body armor that covers some places and exposes others, and leg armor that covers only the crotch, leaving the legs almost entirely exposed or covered in skin-tight material that is usually flesh-toned (though one set in particular has navy blue material covering the legs). One particular piece of leg armor, the Republic Subligar, is the best equipment available to almost all melees over a wide range of levels, and thus is extremely common, even though players frequently express disgust and horror at witnessing Galka, male Elvaan, and male Hume models in this gear. A more blatant example of this would be the Fighter's Lorica, a Level 60 piece of artifact body armor. It is literally a breastplate with metal skirt but sans mid-riff coverage. Comes with an extremely high +Enmity rating for its level that Japanese players have questioned whether the bare mid-riffs was the reason for it (as the relic version of this piece covers the mid-riff but lowers the enmity rating bonus)...
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Chainmail Bikini / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius has Zeetha — her usual outfit is midriff-bearing but practical, but when it's time to pick out armor she goes for a bikini top and pants. According to the flashbacks, all the warriors in her country, including her mother the Queen, wear a similar level of clothing, if not less. Though what few flashbacks of Skifander we see imply it's a jungle nation, so armor may just be too hot to wear.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_89ae538b	comment	Flaky Pastry: Nitrine's powered armor is a shining example of trope subversion — cleavage is an absurd weak spot! It is also implied Nitrine found the cleavage useless when she wore the armor because it only attracts men, not women. When Morganae acquire's Nitrine's powered suit, Nitrine actually attempts (unsuccessfully) to insert a stake into her heart through the hole Zintiel the elf warrior, a statuesque Amazon, wears all sorts of armour at various times, including a chestplate-and-shoulderpads combination that looks like an American Footballer's pads.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8a1a57c8	comment	The fantasy role playing game Hackmaster spoofs this trope with an item called the "chainmail bikini of remote eye-gouging." This bikini is not only enchanted to provide actual protection, but the wearer can say a magic word that causes it to cast an eye-gouging spell on anybody ogling the wearer's body.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8d9fbc69	comment	Pella Brightwing in Twice Blessed wears a somewhat conservative leather version of this.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8ec33a86	comment	Played straight by Sharla in Xenoblade Chronicles 1 but inverted by Reyn, a big muscleman whose various equipment models except a few of the heavier ones also show loads of skin. Inverted by Fiora who's speed armors are very revealing and her defensive armors are not that revealing at all.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X also plays with this a lot, and not always in ways that make sense(for this trope, anyway). The most common "offender" is the Sakuraba Industries Medium Armor, which features a Cleavage Window for female BLADES just because. Then there's the Candid & Credible Medium and Six Stars Heavy, which both feature Navel-Deep Neckline even though the other classes in their line are all more normal. On the other hand, Meridith & co. Light Armor leaves males almost completely bare-chested (and overall makes you look like a roman Gladiator). It also gets lampshaded by multiple Non Player Characters, one human female questioning why the standard BLADE uniform is revealing as it is, and a Ma-non not understanding why his suggestion to make their company's male armor as revealing as the female armor to improve sales was promptly shot down by his human associates. The Candid & Credible line at least has an explanation: the Ma-non got all their ideas on what human armor is supposed to look like from Anime. The rest of the companies have no such excuse.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8f165ac0	comment	Mass Effect: Human Revolution: Invoked by Subject Zero in Interlude 3, who has a hardsuit cut down into a belly button-exposing corset. Her reasoning is simple: because her Psychic Powers render her immune to bullets, she doesn't really need the full body coverage, and the fact that their weapons are completely ineffective against a mostly-exposed girl utterly terrifies her opponents.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_8f57d413	comment	This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World!: Ren is smart enough to wear a chainmail bikini under her clothes. It is made of silk mixed with mithril, so it is lightweight, comfortable, and tough enough to protect her vitals.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_901df04	comment	Celestine from Magna Carta 2 parades around in a tight fitting crystal-bikini-thing for the duration of the game, and is first introduced with a generous glimpse of her breasts.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9068877a	comment	Rooster Teeth (of Red vs. Blue fame) produced this parody of the trend, having two women in SoulCalibur cosplay gear duke it out and see how well their costumes held up. They couldn't go for so much as 3 seconds before something fell off.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_90a615e7	comment	Witchblade Takeru exploits the trope even further: basically, the titular heroine's Witchblade form covers just enough to protect her most basic modesty, leaving almost nothing to the imagination, as seen here◊ and here◊. Takeru's second Witchblade form takes it Up to Eleven by reaching a virtually NSFW level.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_90f1e8a2	comment	Parodied in Exiern (even though it's otherwise heavy on nearly naked people) when the gender-swapped heroine is buying "girl clothes" and gestures to her midsection, pointing out to the armorer that all her critical organs are "right around in here." Doubles as Hypocritical Humor when you consider that when she was a man, her idea of a good outfit for combat was a loincloth and a sword.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_90f42a9b	comment	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. Also, in the last book, Mat wonders about why female armor isn't shaped with curves in the chest section. His smiths react in a confused way when he asks them.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9162b86a	comment	Lampooned in the Discworld adventure game, where Rincewind meets a busty amazon sporting a bikini chainmail top, and asks her how it manages to stay in its place (to which she replies: "By pressure"). She also addresses the sexualisation of women in games, and has a magic sword that immediately cuts any man who looks at her lustfully into pieces.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_923dd091	comment	CollegeHumor has an uncreatively-named parody of this trope here. In it, both of the male warriors were given viable armor that covered everything while the female was given a simple bikini. When she complains, the male warriors make increasingly bizarre excuses to justify its use that come off as more All Men Are Perverts, such as mobility. One of them even tests the armor by swinging a sword and deliberately targets a small protected area, to which she rhetorically asks what would happen if an unprotected area was hit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_927de97a	comment	Played with in the Thraxas series, where Action Girl Makri wears a chainmail bikini for her job as a barmaid. The outfit is intended to get her tips, not protect her in battle. She's escaped from her previous career as a champion gladiator, and tends to deck customers who annoy her. She switches to more serious armor when she expects a fight.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_959e6c9	comment	Dragon Quest IV: The male Hero wears long sleeves and pants, while the Heroine looks like she's wearing a swimsuit under a off-the-shoulder short tank, one detached sleeve, and a Detached Pants Legs/Tights... thing. Also, one reason to pick the female hero is that she can equip the female-only gear... including a bikini, among other things. Belly dancer and fire mage Maya fights in her dancer outfit.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_959e6cb	comment	Dragon Quest IX continues the tradition in egregious fashion. You can see the male and female outfits for some of the core classes here. Most of them are comparable, but while the male Warrior is wearing a full chain shirt and padded tabard with greaves, gauntlets and helmet, the female Warrior... isn't. Particular mention must go to the wrap-around mail miniskirt that's open at the front, meaning her only protection to any frontal attack between the midriff and knees is her underwear.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_96631e0a	comment	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.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_97061a18	comment	In Ambition of the Red Princess, Malty tries to get the skimpy two piece armor she had in canon, only for the blacksmith to remark such armor is designed to look good and attract suitors on hunting trips. She ends up getting more practical leather armor instead at his insistence.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_979d8a9d	comment	In Requiem Vampire Knight, Claudia wears literal lingerie armor in a tournament fight. Also worn by the Sisters of Blood, but they are more creepy than sexy, and in a dark take, as prone to disfiguring injuries as anyone else.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_983914bc	comment	Gertrude & Brunhilda in The KAMics. The author did put them in full armor once, much to the displeasure of his readers.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_99949d04	comment	Justified with Sacriers in Wakfu. Their character art has them wearing very little, but since pain and injury are the source of their power...
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Chainmail Bikini / int_999855bb	comment	The otherwise quite sensible Queen Catherine Ironfist of Heroes of Might and Magic III wears armor like this. In Heroes of Might and Magic V the dark elves makes for much worse. The trope is averted, however, with the completely armor-clad Isabel and Freyda, and the rest of the Haven faction. The Might and Magic series, on the other hand, mostly averts it. Your female characters will be realistically covered by their armor. 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).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9a27658	comment	This trope is discussed by Extra Credits. For purely cosmetic purposes in games, they're actually fine with it, chalking it up to allowing players to customize their characters however they want - their objection comes when the skimpiness comes hand-in-hand with the gear level, and players can't opt out of it.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9a527531	comment	The Avernum series has one male and one female Player Character graphic wearing very skimpy armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9ab0076a	comment	The Amazon from Dragon's Crown wears one. A step up from some of her tribeswomen, who are generally topless (though they cover up just enough in the few pictures of them). In fact, the Amazon's "armor" item is boots.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9ab42577	comment	White Knight Chronicles II includes Kara, who disguises herself as a man by wearing a suit of plate armor... which stops short at waist level to reveal a skintight fabric highlighting her curvy figure. Huh?
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9abca283	comment	Played with in Dragon's Dogma. You can deck out your female Arisen and Pawns in hulking suits of non-revealing plate armor if you wish, but on a few articles of clothing, the Silver Chestplate, what is a breastplate on a man, literally becomes a Chainmail Bikini on a woman. Also, many players outfit their Pawns with Silk Lingerine in little more than a Thong of Shielding on purpose. Also, there is one set of armor that is mostly believably protective save for the incredibly short skirt.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9aeeca73	comment	Saskia the Dragonslayer from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings wears no helmet and armor everywhere but her cleavage. Although only some of it is showing, the plot takes place in a dark fantasy setting where even the protagonist, a monster hunting mutant, can be killed by a single arrow. Saskia is the leader of a rebellion, so she should be wearing a full suit of armor. That said, her virginity and sexuality are part of why she is followed at all, so it is likely to inspire her followers. That, and she's secretly a dragon taking human form, complete with a Healing Factor and supernatural durability. A single arrow wouldn't do much more than inconvenience her.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9b20c46e	comment	The skinny, flat-chested witch Magrat, on the other hand, borrows the fearsomely bosomy breastplate of the mythical Queen Ynci the Terrible to go and battle elves, and as a result ends up much more fearsome herself. Because no one told her it's just a decorative "remake" made from a washbasin — it looks impressive.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9c6ceb95	comment	Julia in the game Age of Wonders. Her armor covers most of her body, but its shape is rather fitting. It's most likely meant to be comfortable though. Julia's armor is lampshaded twice during her storyline in Shadow Magic. Once by The Big Guy and once by The Vamp.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Generally Downplayed throughout the series. Many armor types have different models when worn by a male or female, and the female models are a bit more revealing, often having plunging necklines and more areas of exposed skin. Individual game exceptions can be found in their entries below. Throughout the series, this is the case for the Aureals (aka Golden Saints), a form of lesser Daedra in service to Sheogorath. Downplayed but extant, in that while female Aureals wear more armor than most examples, it still tends to leave some vulnerable areas (including their upper chests) exposed. Morrowind: Morrowind initially averted the trope, with armor having the same model whether it was equipped on a male or female. A patch (as well as an add-on and, if you didn't download either of those, the Tribunal expansion,) would change certain armor types to Gendered Outfits, fitting the general series trend of Downplaying the trope as mentioned above. The "LeFemme Armor" add-on adds the titular armor, which appears as a feminine-cut set of golden armor. It retains this appearance even on male characters. Oblivion: Less flagrant in Oblivion than in most games, but still present for the few armors who have different models between male and female (like the Iron armor). Compare this◊ and this.◊ It's the same armor, on the other sex. The same applies to Oblivion's chainmail armor. On a male, it's a standard chainmail shirt. On a female it's a tank top. Check it out.◊ However, the difference is visible on the lowest-level armor; Daedric or glass armor has almost no difference on men and women (Daedric has a slight expansion for the bustline). As seen in the Shivering Isles expansion, the female Mazken (aka Dark Seducers) wear skimpy, Stripperiffic armor which leaves large portions of their bodies unprotected. Justified in that, being daedra, they have Resurrective Immortality so it doesn't actually matter. Skyrim: The trope zig-zags. Lighter armor (cloth, leather, other non-metals) tend to wrap more around female models, but the heavier bits (Daedric, Dragonplate) tend to look more or less identical regardless of sex. Though steel plate and ebony armor seem to show off a woman's figure pretty well while not showing any skin. Amusingly, the lowest level of light armor (Fur) shows more skin on males than females. While it consists of little more than a form-fitting and cleavage-lifting bodice for women, for men it's more like shoulderpads and straps. Thoroughly averted by Dwarven Armor, which covers the entire body of both men and women in such a thick layer of metal that it looks like you would stand a reasonable chance against armor-piercing bullets. However, the Forsworn armor follows this trope to a tee, with the female version being little more than a hide bikini that can be upgraded to be on par with other light armors. Of course, the male version is just as exposing as well. It goes without saying that a huge number of Skyrim's Game Mods feature this trope in full force. That said, a number of them avert it, to the point that there's a "Practical Female Armors" mod that completely redoes the meshes and textures on all in-game armor to eliminate unnecessary breast protrusions and shapes to make it more in line with realistic armor sets.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9d80bbcf	comment	Mostly averted in Pathfinder: Kingmaker: all armors cover male and female characters equally. The exception is party barbarian Amiri's default appearance◊, which consists of hides and leather that for some reason leave her abdomen exposed from her breastbone (complete with underboobs on her character portrait) to her bikini line (which is clearly visible).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9e2f90f4	comment	The Dressrosa arc of One Piece gives us the female gladiator Rebecca, whose scale bra and loincloth leave her cleavage uncovered, and sometimes give a clear view of her buttocks when her cap doesn't obscure them. The coliseum rules limit how much weight you're allowed to wear into battle, but she strangely decided to only put plate on her head and from the knees down. The males don't wear much, either, though their clothes aren't so revealing. Rebecca's fighting style is also "dodge everything", since she isn't nearly as strong or tough as her opponents. More armor would just be a drawback.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_9fa5fb48	comment	Schooled in Magic: Emily sees a group of women wearing them outside Whitehall, protectors of their virginal sisters. She speculates it's merely to make a statement of their femininity, rather than offer actual protection.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a0ae1fb2	comment	In John Carter, full suits of armor still expose legs and midriffs (on both genders, averting Bare Midriffs Are Feminine). John Carter's own armor amounts to little more than a dinner plate strapped to his chest and a loin cloth.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a18b37d1	comment	In Scarlet Blade all female classes wear skimpy high tech armor that reveals a lot of skin. It's taken to a new extreme with their Mini-Mecha; heavy mechanized armor that presents torso, pelvis and upper thighs right out front, exposed except for Censor Steam.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a2c37f38	comment	Played with in Planescape: Torment: Annah wears a Stripperiffic outfit which basically consists of a strategically slashed leather bathing suit... but it is only because her demonic heritage gives her a body temperature significantly above human norm, and she would overheat if she wore anything heavier or more concealing. There's actually a scene where the Nameless One points out that if she's going for this, she should shift it a bit...and she didn't realize what she did!
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a3129642	comment	The Cerberus from Spinnerette wears a chainmail bikini. The heroine even comments on how expensive it must have been. The trope is also lampshaded when Heather asks Sahira if her new costume can't have a cleavage and plunging back. Sahira points out that putting a hole over the heart in an otherwise bulletproof costume is probably not a good idea.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a54eef52	comment	In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Hungary is shown in both official and fan works as wearing revealing and form-fitting armor similar to the ones she wore as a child. Which also show her breasts rather prominently.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series, as expected, uses this trope a lot. Dressing in a one-piece swimsuit and some shoulderpads was practically standard for the SNES era's female characters. Even the male characters weren't safe from this. Look at the artwork for Guy◊, a character from Final Fantasy II, who bares his arms, legs, and midriff. He may have even pioneered the style. Final Fantasy IV: The Kingdom of Troia has an all-female army, who wear leotards as their official uniform. The sprite used to represent them is identical to that of the dancers in other places, resulting in this reaction when the player speaks to one of the guards in the castle: "Dance for you!? How dare you! I am a shieldmaiden of the Epopts, not some two-gil performer!"note The 3D version gives them a sprite more like the Alexandrian soldiers' below, which just makes Cecil look like a boob for asking. The original Nintendo Power artwork for its Final Fantasy IV feature for its SNES release depicts both Paladin Cecil and Kain in these, accompanying Guy for Stripperiffic male Final Fantasy designs. The elemental archfiend of Wind, Barbariccia, wears nothing more than a bikini. Then again, she might not need armor seeing as she's more of a force of nature and forms a protective whirlwind with her own hair. In Final Fantasy VI, Terra and Celes (the strongest characters in the game) wear something akin to battle swimsuits/leotards according to the sprite art (Celes, in particular, wears a strapless green swimsuit with shoulderpads, a cape, and a belt. Terra's is red and doesn't even have a cape.) In-game, the strongest suit of armor is the Minerva Bustier (which may be the reason that Relm, the Token Mini-Moe, couldn't wear it). Final Fantasy VII: Jessie, one of the AVALANCHE members in the first part of the game, wears an armored vest that features cups for her bust. It's seen in her original artwork, but will actually be seen in-game in the 2020 remake. Final Fantasy X: Dona, one of the other summoners in the game, wears a very revealing outfit that consists of a bra, detached sleeves, a Showgirl Skirt, and panties all somehow held together with a large amount of string. Final Fantasy IX: While the male Knights of Pluto get to clank around in plate armour, the Queen's all-female guard tends to invest in helmets, boots, and one-piece swimsuits. Not often where 'show some leg' meets 'oppressive imperial army'. There's also Kuja, whose outfit consists of a puff-sleeved vest, sash, thigh-high boots and a Thong of Shielding. Justified in this case since armor wouldn't help him much. Final Fantasy XI: The game includes a number of Harness/Subligar armor sets which, while varying a bit depending on race and gender, consist of body armor that covers some places and exposes others, and leg armor that covers only the crotch, leaving the legs almost entirely exposed or covered in skin-tight material that is usually flesh-toned (though one set in particular has navy blue material covering the legs). One particular piece of leg armor, the Republic Subligar, is the best equipment available to almost all melees over a wide range of levels, and thus is extremely common, even though players frequently express disgust and horror at witnessing Galka, male Elvaan, and male Hume models in this gear. A more blatant example of this would be the Fighter's Lorica, a Level 60 piece of artifact body armor. It is literally a breastplate with metal skirt but sans mid-riff coverage. Comes with an extremely high +Enmity rating for its level that Japanese players have questioned whether the bare mid-riffs was the reason for it (as the relic version of this piece covers the mid-riff but lowers the enmity rating bonus)... Final Fantasy XII has several examples: Fran appears to wear armor with all of the actually protective bits cut out. Not to mention that it's predominantly black, with nothing discernible underneath, and that she goes traipsing about in it rather extensively through deserts and frozen mountain passes. Forget enemy attacks. Ouch! 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 surface sort of logic (try fighting in armor in temperate weather for long; it's not easy; imagine how much worse it'd be in a desert). It also contains one of the oddest subversions to this trope, as one character actually is shot fatally in an unprotected area due to wearing this kind of armor... and it's a male character. Still, the gap was notoriously small, so kudos to the archer. Another male example is Vaan, who wears a decent amount of plating on his legs, but his upper body is mainly protected by a very skimpy metal vest. It actually covers his back pretty well if one overlooks the midriff and arms; from the front, however, its main defensive utility lies in making its wearer very careful about getting hit. Final Fantasy XIV normally averts this. Heavy plate armor will look the same on anyone regardless of gender or race, although cloth amour varies between being identical and much more revealing on females. Of course this just makes the few examples more egregious: The stand out is probably the Dragoon artifact armor which on males completely covers them from head toe, to the point where only their mouth and chin are visible. The female version leaves small bits of bare skin at the collarbone, elbows, and, oh yea, a massive hole that shows off their midriff. One notable early-level example is the Subligar/Harness combination for physical classes, as it's skimpy for both genders. Most female Jobs in Final Fantasy Tactics wear armor and/or clothing appropriate to the occasion, usually covering them entirely —from the full set of armor worn by female Knights, and Dark Knights, Squires, Meliadoul, and Agrias, to the elaborate robes of Oracles and Mediators. However, Geomancers and Mimes wear an overshirt and boots, Dancers wear a skirt and a midriff-baring top, and Monks wear a strapless leotard. Though in a flip of how this trope usually works, male Monks and Geomancers are practically shirtless and male Mimes wear a similar outfit. Dancers, however, are a female-only class and the male counterpart (Bard), while still wearing clothes, does show less skin Ritz's artwork in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has her wearing two individual cups attached to her shirt. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time: here's an experiment you can try. Take a female Clavat and a female Selkie. Put them both in, say, a suit of Dragoon armour. Note that the Clavat's is relatively sensible and the Selkie's is backless. Kinda-sorta justified in-universe; Selkies are noted for being extremely agile, hence the reason they are the only race able to Double Jump, and they most likely cut down any armour they wear to make it more flexible.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: Largely barred due to the rules set by WOTC. However, cheesecake style art and female armor users are both fairly common, it's just that they are rarely mixed to make metal undergarments. However, the Mirrodin setting has plenty of examples of the trope, for example Vulshok of Mirrodin◊ are technically topless with the metal patches on their skin strategically placed. As sheet metal is a natural occurrence on Mirrodin there are more then a few pics. This is especially obvious in a couple of angel cards from the Commander product. Note Basandra, Battle Seraph's choice of "armor" (merely a top, armored thong, and boots, and almost nothing else) as well as the Battle Thong of Valor on Archangel of Strife. It should be noted, of course, that in the Magic multiverse, angel skin is as tough as any armor, so actual armor is strictly cosmetic. Angels could wear anything they want, or even nothing at all, and be just as protected. Interesting to note that in the Greek myth-inspired Theros block, this trope is more prominent in the male art than female. Sure, Hero of Leina Tower is wearing a Xena-like outfit, but that's more than the poor Phalanx Leader gets. Some female characters are borderline sexualized (almost sexualized, but not quite because they sill have quite some coverage that doesn't immediately draw attention to the cleavage or the thighs). But, for example, the character in the art of Angelic Destiny, still gets pointless, artistic-license-based armor plates only over her elbows, breasts, hips and knees.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a8c2b7fc	comment	God Eater doesn't feature a set of real armour on any active God Eater, but the girls are particularly bad. Poster girl Alisa is known for an exposed midriff with lots of Underboobs showing, for instance. It's actually a Justified Trope, as the enemies they fight are Grey Goo colonies that consume all matter and all a God Eater's protection come from the Oracle Cells enhancing their body, so how protective or not their clothing is becomes a non-issue. As for why some of them wear so little, woven cloth is a luxury After the End and a God Eater's clothes have to be treated with Bias Factor so their own attacks don't melt it (not a cheap process) so most of them are stuck with whatever they were issued.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_a9b2bd56	comment	Played with during a dream sequence in Cheer!: when Gamer Chick (and apparent munchkin) Lita loots a fallen Orc of his armor and equipment, what was a full breastplate on him becomes an armor bikini on her.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Oglaf gleefully runs on Rule of Sexy and Rule of Funny, and so has a number of gags involving this. (Though only SFW strips will be directly linked.) Parodied in Breastplate. Note the chest armor of the scowling woman beside him averts this trope. Played straight in The Glamazon Way. Justified in the NSFW strip Appeal to Heaven, where warriors (male and female) wear slutty armor to gain the favor of a goddess of war and sex. And treated as the logical conclusion of Armor Is Useless in New Model Army. By a tribe of orcs. Zigzagged in "Golf". A male knight with a dick window in his armor is concerned he will be shot there, only to be reassured by a female knight with exposed cleavage that the enemy army is really respectful of it. The male knight is immediately shot in the dick... twice. Although the referee (of a battle, yes) forces the enemy army to surrender as punishment, implying that attacking such windows is a war crime.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_aabf6d1d	comment	Darkest Dungeon: The Vestal and the Arbalest both wear otherwise sensible-looking plate with very obvious breast cups. Averted by the Hellion and Grave Robber who wear light, but otherwise sensible-looking armour as they emphasise agility in their fighting styles, and the Plague Doctor whose gender would be an unknown if the game didn't mention she was a girl. In a somewhat amusing inversion of this trope, the Leper's plate armour is ornamented with a very visible six-pack.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ac955237	comment	Exoristos in Demon Knights. Lampshaded when a young child tells Exoristos that she dresses like a tart note British English for "slut", which Exoristos takes as a compliment, while wondering if it is some kind of pastry.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: Since the protection provided by the Barrier Jacket charm is magical, it doesn't actually have to be reflected in the Princess's Regalia. So you could have a character who is wearing nothing but a bikini and panties, but is protected as if she were wearing full plate.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ad97c383	comment	Queen's Blade: Leina fits rather snugly into hers. Seems like there would be painful chafing involved. It's a 1-inch thick slab of steel worn directly on her skin, barely covering her breasts and abdomen and leaving her sides and much of her back exposed. Her sisters aren't much better — their only armor is metal bras barely covering their breasts and the rest barely covering their crotch, legs, and/or arms, depending on the artist.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_afb7052	comment	In Batman & Robin, George Clooney's Batsuit comes complete with Batnipples. Batgirl's costume on the other hand, lacks nipples, though that might have caused some issues with a PG-13 rating.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights: The base campaign actually has its central NPC, Aribeth, The Paladin Who Doesn't Do Anything, wearing a suit of armour cut so low as to be positively dangerous, a literal breastplate that leaves her upper chest and back exposed. Made more egregious because literally every other part of her body below the neck is fully armored. In Hordes of the Underdark, the game's second expansion pack, the would-be drow empress known as the Valsharess has a similarly heaving bosom to Aribeth, and even less armor around the rest of her body, such as spider-leg bracers around her arms that leave most of the skin visible. Player companion Deekin comments about the impracticality of such armour — since the base game and the expansions were made by the same people, this may have been Self-Deprecation. You can also use Item Crafting to change the look of any armor to this. Community Expansion Pack has not only "Aribeth Armor" (description: A suit of armor strangely reminiscent of a controversial lady's...) but also "Chain Mail Bikini" (Because what fantasy RPG would be complete without one, if only to uphold stereotypes and running jokes...). Though the female variant of the "Warrior Monk's Outfit" is more Stripperiffic anyway (top part looks less like a narrow cloth and more like a very wide shoestring). This gets even worse in some other community-produced modules. The Aribeth's Redemption series gives us the "Armor of Impossible Cleavage," which grants a bonus to Charisma and Persuade in addition to its armor bonus and leaves a completely exposed foot-wide strip down the center of the torso (it is also limited to female use only, and unfortunately (for story reasons) you can't play that module with a female character). The A Dance with Rogues series has a hakpack that turns every possible suit of armor or clothing into one of these. One of the most infamous examples is the "Armor of Lolth," encountered in the middle of the second chapter, which on female characters looks like a dark reddish bra and panties (though on male characters it looks like an ordinary suit of black and red plate armor) and provides more protection than most suits of plate armor. If you wear that armor, all conversations with male characters (except for the psycho pervert character) begin with them stuttering at you.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b0f977aa	comment	Star Ocean: The Last Hope has Myuria and to a slightly lesser extent Meracle. Of course Myuria is also a Black Magician Girl while Meracle is an Action Cat Girl.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b29c63f7	comment	Towards the end of the 1981 Arthurian legend film Excalibur the witch Morgana appears to be dressed in nothing more than a sheet metal corset.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b30ae4db	comment	Most of the female warriors in Game of Thrones wear reasonable armor, from Brienne of Tarth's full plate to Ygritte's furs and leathers. However, Cersei Lannister, who is decidedly not a warrior by any means, wears two corset-like gilded armor pieces for personal defense during a siege and for intimidation purposes.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b3c700f8	comment	Lampshaded by the bank-robbing aliens in one of Jhonen Vasquez's Meanwhile strips, pointing out that the tiny plate of armor on Lady Sexhole's forehead is protecting the last thing she should be concerned about.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b41004a1	comment	Lost Odyssey's Ming wears a leather corset with Navel-Deep Neckline and a pair of trousers with the crotch cut out so that you can see her matching leather panties. Not a very queenly attire, but then again, when you're both the founder AND the first and only leader of a thriving thousand-year kingdom, you can wear pretty much anything you want.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b4996199	comment	Minor Spider-Man villain Leila Davis, as "Hardshell", looks like she's wearing a skintight bodysuit made of red-and-black metal, complete with armored bustier and high heels. Ironically, she would later switch to the borderline Mini-Mecha Mk 3 Beetle Armor, which is completely sexless.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b4d4fc9f	comment	Discussed and defied in Room of Swords where one of the male protagonists hands one of the female protagonists a set of what he claims is powerful armour, but it's actually a bikini. She tells him to wear it himself if it's so good. There is a full-panel shot of how the male protagonist would look wearing it (as imagined by one of the female protagonists), and in the end nobody takes it.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Crazy Irken and ? (Invader Zim-based crossover fic anthology by D_rissing and nightmaster000. note Unable to link due to violating Content Policy, but it can be found on their Archive of Our Own pages.): When Gaz is sentenced to being a gladiator in the Total Drama chapter after Zim and Courtney Take Over the World, it's mentioned that she's wearing what's described as an "armor bikini".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b5673a3a	comment	Kings of War mostly avoids this trope with female soldiers, but the Forces of the Abyss feature the Succubi, a skirmisher unit wearing loin cloths and some strategically placed spiky bits. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs when they're attacked, as their defense rating is, ahem, abysmal.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind: Morrowind initially averted the trope, with armor having the same model whether it was equipped on a male or female. A patch (as well as an add-on and, if you didn't download either of those, the Tribunal expansion,) would change certain armor types to Gendered Outfits, fitting the general series trend of Downplaying the trope as mentioned above. The "LeFemme Armor" add-on adds the titular armor, which appears as a feminine-cut set of golden armor. It retains this appearance even on male characters.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b6aaa6d7	comment	In Ninety-Nine Nights the main female character, Inphyy◊, wears an armor shirt that covers everything but the tops of her breasts. And better not speak of the wings.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b6f0e9c4	comment	The A Dance with Rogues series has a hakpack that turns every possible suit of armor or clothing into one of these. One of the most infamous examples is the "Armor of Lolth," encountered in the middle of the second chapter, which on female characters looks like a dark reddish bra and panties (though on male characters it looks like an ordinary suit of black and red plate armor) and provides more protection than most suits of plate armor. If you wear that armor, all conversations with male characters (except for the psycho pervert character) begin with them stuttering at you.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b70b472e	comment	Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has the scantily clad Witch Elf class. Body armor pieces include the "halter" and "corset" series. Dark Elf Sorceresses also get hit with this. Averted with nearly every other class, as the female and males both wear practical armor. Particularly noticeable with the Dark Elf Black Guard class; the lack of feminine contours on their armor makes it impossible to tell the genders apart. The reason, of course, being that the models for the particular professions in the original game are like that. Witch Elves and Sorceresses are lightly-armoured and very fragile and their armour (such as it is) exists for the sake of decency, rather than to provide protection. Male Sorcerers are equally squishy because the difference in armour value between cloth and bare skin is pretty much negligible. For the more heavily-armoured careers, appearance is uniform between the sexes: a female character in heavy armour is every bit as well-covered as a male character, which is a contrast with many other games, in which plate leg armour magically becomes a Thong of Super Durability on females.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b88b182f	comment	The Dark Eye has introduced a chainmail bikini as a Joke Item. Played straight with amazons, whose body armor only reaches from waist to breast as a matter of religious tradition.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b8c3cc30	comment	While Young Justice does pretty well for a comic-book adaptation by having the vast majority of their female characters adequately protected, the Badass Normal Artemis's main costume has an inexplicably bare midriff. Sure, her stealth, arctic, motor-cycle riding and Tigress costumes are all perfectly armoured and conceal all squishy bits, but her default one is basically a huge target for her belly. She is primarily a ranged fighter, but her chest also has a big green arrow on it that would also make a nice target, and her arms are also mostly uncovered.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b8e7bb8	comment	While villainesses of Super Sentai in general tend to dress more revealing than the heroines, they hardly go far than little cleavage or midriff. Shelinda of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman however, pushed this by dressing as skimpy as possible; Seashell Bra, Underwear of Power and that she wore no stocking of any kinds and was a fit for the Buxom Beauty Standard. It was no wonder why she didn't get adapted into Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Subverted that by mid-story, she was slashed by Hayate/Ginga Green not on her reveal parts but her chest armor. Shibolena of Denji Sentai Megaranger (blouse and one-piece dress with miniskirt) and Denus of Rescue Sentai GoGoFive (armor that doesn't cover torso) is a smaller version of this trope, with a justification that the former is a robot and the latter is a demoness. Subverted that both were killed by the ranger(s)'s attack on the backside in their attempt to Taking The Bullet for The Dragons. Justified with Zonnette, a Dark Magical Girl whose purpose on show is Femme Fatale with Hidden Depths. Although it should be noted that she fought Kyousuke with this attire once as well. Malseena of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger has an extremely stripperiffic Nazi-themed outfit exposing cleavage and part of her midriff.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b906a721	comment	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.)
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Chainmail Bikini / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, Erza's everyday armor covers her torso entirely, however she has a seemingly endless number of armors that she can transform into that often leave little to the imagination. She summons a literal plate armor bikini while at the beach. Erza is one of the few justified examples in anime. She's a Magic Knight, and while her base armor (which covers her entire torso) is just plain metal, the other ones have magical abilities. She doesn't wear most of them to deflect attacks (in fact, one of the few times she took a truly life-threatening injury, she was wearing her Flight Armor that traded all defense in favor of pure blitzing speed and was caught off-guard and poisoned by a foe that could still predict her movements), and the ones she does wear to deflect attacks are fully-armored as one would expect.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ba491f18	comment	Black Moon Chronicles: Feydriva and Pilou both wear armor that exposes quite a lot of their well-formed bodies. Although Pilou at least has the excuse that he's also a thief, so carrying less bulk is a plus.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_bb55a676	comment	Parodied in L.E.G.I.O.N. 007, a Tuxedo and Martini spoof. Stealth, the Girl from L.E.G.I.O.N., is outfitted with a bulletproof bikini. Sure enough, when two graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy start shooting at her, we see bullets bouncing off the bikini, and apparently not hitting her anywhere else.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 is on both sides of the fence. Aversions: Female Imperial Guard soldiers wear the same uniforms and armor as their male counterparts. The Adepta Sororitas (Sisters of Battle) wear power armor that keeps them fully covered, but is designed to mimic the female form, including sculpted breasts. However, the latter may be intentional since the Ecclesiarchy cannot by law maintain "men under arms"; so emphasizing the Sisters' female attributes makes it quite clear to outside observers that their troops do not violate that law. The Aeldari (craftworld Eldar) troops can be either male or female, regardless of what aspect warrior armour they wear; with no noticeable differentiation between gendernote It helps that Aeldari have significantly less sexual dimorphism than humans. The only exception being the Harlequins, who do not wear armour, but skin-tight theatrical costumes.note This is so their superhuman reflexes and acrobatic skills are not impeded by heavy armour; which allows them a special save in place of their nearly-non-existent armour save. The Howling Banshees are a special case of this, as their armour features "boob plate", despite the fact that they may be either gender. This is purely out of tradition, as the aspect's founder was female; but has led to the mistaken assumption by humans that they are an all-female fighting force. Played Straight: Unlike normal Sisters of Battle, the Sisters Repentia fight wearing nothing but tattered rags (and sometimes, in nothing but purity seals and parchment sheets) due to their trying to atone for their misdeeds, which usually involves death in battle. Drukhari (Dark Eldar) Wyches are so vain about their combat prowess that they consider it cowardice to armour more than half their body, with bragging rights awarded to the Wych who wears the least coverage into combat. They also fight to appease the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Prince of Excess, who likes his ultraviolence sexy. Also, in a rare case of Gameplay and Story Integration, Wyches have ridiculously low Armor saves.note Wyches have an armour save of 6+, which means they have a 1/6 chance to not die to any given attack. However any gun with any kind of armour piercing value wont even allow them that. In a further case of Gameplay and Story Integration they do have a 4+ special save that they can use only in close combat, to represent their superhuman reflexes and combat experience. Slaaneshi Daemonettes, if they go into battle wearing anything at all, are likely to have armor that intentionally exposes one or both breasts (if not more) as part of their twisted meld of female and daemonic forms. In gameplay terms it provides no defense whatsoever (as daemons, they don't wear anything anyway, any "armour" is simply part of their body). That they're wearing anything at all exists entirely as a tease that they could be wearing even less; appropriate for minions of the Lord of Excess.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_bcaefcf8	comment	Parodied in the comic series Cerebus the Aardvark: when 'Red Sophia' tries to seduce Cerebus 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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Chainmail Bikini / int_bcb32dc6	comment	The Shadowrun 4th Edition supplement book Attitude has a picture of an attractive woman holding an assault rifle while wearing what appears to be halfway between a vest and a bra that gives her Navel-Deep Neckline on the cover. It's immediately lampshaded inside the book with several Shadowrunners having an in-universe conversation about her and pointing out that she's obviously not a real 'Runner because he outfit is all about looking sexy rather than practical- real 'Runners get shot at far too regularly to ever show that much skin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_bdcd318c	comment	Invoked in Son of the Sannin. Fu considers baring her midriff to be an intrinsic part of her being and deliberately leaves it exposed when she gains the ability to summon chakra armor. Of course, it's not like she really needs it covered. When Naruto points out that doing that is a good way to get yourself eviscerated, she dares him to try to make her recoil with a punch... and he ends up breaking his hand.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: Dark Elf Witch Elves, who fight nearly naked apart from loincloths, the occasional pair of fishnet stockings and some items of stylised metal armour such as shoulder pauldrons, vambraces, anklets and, yes, leather and metal breast-coverings. Though the lack of armour is deliberate on their part - what they do wear is decorative, not functional - given that they are part of a bloodthirsty murder-cult (which isn't particularly particular about where said blood comes from) and rely on speed and skill in combat to protect themselves insofar as they care about protecting themselves at all. Chaos Marauder Mooks are a male example, usually depicted as wearing little armor or clothing compared to the proper Warriors of Chaos, despite hailing from Norsca and the Chaos Wastes.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c2374a54	comment	The Pathfinder: Worldscape comic includes Pathfinder stats for Red Sonja. Apparently, her chainmail bikini doesn't give her any armor bonus at all (her only armor bonus comes from Bracers of Armor +4), but she does have an ability that lets her add her Charisma bonus (18, for a +4 bonus) to Armor Class when not wearing armor, as opponents are distracted by her boobs "confidence and personality".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c24091cf	comment	In How to Train Your Dragon, Stoick gives Hiccup his very own viking helmet to keep him safe in the ring, only to tell him that it was half of his mother's breast-plate, Stoick wearing the other half as his helmet to "keep her close".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: Dona, one of the other summoners in the game, wears a very revealing outfit that consists of a bra, detached sleeves, a Showgirl Skirt, and panties all somehow held together with a large amount of string.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c25176c5	comment	The Supervillainy Saga: Specifically, Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven. As an Expy of Red Sonja, Red Sindi apparently wore one of these during the Hyborian Age. Cindy briefly becomes obsessed with acquiring it so she can wear it as part of her supervillain costume. It apparently is enchanted to be better than actual armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c35cf18d	comment	In the first few issues of Artesia, the heroine wore full armor on her upper body - and nothing between her tassets and greaves, showing off a lot of leg as well as leather "panties." After the Art Evolution, Artesia buys armor for her legs. She (and other female soldiers) has angular projections formed into her curaiss that obviously represent breasts - but otherwise female warriors wear more or less the same armor as their male counterparts.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c43df4d8	comment	Worn by the Amazastanians (a warrior race that consists solely of stunningly attractive women with physical ages of 18 to 20) in Doctor Who comic strip "The Green-Eyed Monster" in Doctor Who Magazine (although this entire adventure might just be a delusion of Rose's).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02 provides an example intended more for stylization than titillation, but the armor worn by Flamedramon, his super mode Magnamon, and several other Digimon of his type barely qualifies as armor at all, leaving their torso, crotch, arms, and legs completely exposed. This is especially ironic, given the entire theme of this style of evolution revolves around especially protective armor. Digimon Frontier has Kazemon◊ and her "beast form" Zephyrmon.◊ Neither wears anything appropriate to combat, although Zephyrmon at least has some metal plating... on her shoulders and claws. Also, she's only eleven.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c70190b8	comment	Project Ako: Also famously lampshaded in the first film when B-ko throws off her school uniform to reveal a skimpy armor bikini underneath. She is met with laughter from the student body, and A-ko's famous response; "Ain't it cold in that?" And then hilariously parodied further and subverted in the second movie, where B-Ko's father wears the exact same suit. Not to be outdone, D—who is the size of an American football linebacker—also wears a skimp armor bikini when fighting A-Ko on the Alpha Cygni spaceship. To her credit, however, she also has a really big shield to compensate for her uncovered skin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c70a1171	comment	A modern Conan the Barbarian story had Conan teaming up with a woman in a chain-mail bikini who explains that she knows that opponents are going to attack the bare areas and her fighting style is to counter those attacks. With this attire the exposed areas are more or less everywhere which seems like a problem, but Conan spend plenty of his time fighting with little to no armor so it obviously isn't too much of a handicap.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c747c41c	comment	The main character in The Guardian Legend wears very little in the way of body armor. Being a cyborg built specifically for combat, it doesn't matter quite as much, since she uses a personal force field to absorb the shock of enemy attacks.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_c749fff3	comment	The Vagrant: Played straight, averted, then played straight again. Played straight in that Vivian's onscreen appearance portrays her in one, no matter what kind of armor you have equipped on her, which are mostly rather form-covering from their artwork. It's then averted and parodied with an armor set you can buy in the final dungeon for a hefty cost, which is literally called a bikini, that only has a base defense of 1. The item description reads "provides exactly as much defense as you'd think". However, if you fully upgrade it, the trope gets played straight again as it ends up having a total defense of 150, making it one of the best armor sets in the game.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ccbedbde	comment	A metal bra and panties are all the armor Angela needs to fight.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_cef428cd	comment	In Walkure Romanze there are supposedly male knights, but we never see any apart from Julianus and Takahiro, both of whom wear reasonable enough armor. For the girls it's apparently standard to have armor that covers the upper torso but then is form fitting to the breasts of the knight in question, which is a terrible idea for deflecting blows. The only exceptions are Akane, who is very modest and reserved and Lisa, who doesn't really have breasts to begin with. Supporting character Bertille takes it one step further with armor that is almost skin colored and then completely ignores leg armor or pants altogether because it's not a legal strike area for jousting anyway. It does technically reduce her weight and make her faster than properly armored knights, but the protagonist Takahiro has no idea where to look when talking to her. Besides, the gains are minimal.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_cfc77a15	comment	The ABCs of Death: In the "W" segment, the warrior woman fighting the giant walrus is clad in a bikini made of leather and metal.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_cfd5d471	comment	In Kaena: The Prophecy, the title character wears basically some scraps of leather. This wouldn't be nearly as noticeable if all the male human characters didn't wear more covering than the women. Yes, even the children. Later on, when she gets armour, she's told that it's for her "protection". She steps into the light, and the armour covers roughly the same amount of her as the leather did. Even more infuriating is that the alien who made her the armour is male, and he has a suit that fully covers his body.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_cffa0297	comment	Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: Of course Maureen simply has to wear a skimpy leather-and-gold bikini once she embarks on a career as a barbarian swordsperson. What else would you wear? Of course, it's a little embarrassing when she returns to present day Earth for one of her quick visits, but that's a small price to pay.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d0599129	comment	The official artwork for Ragnarok Online is progressing in this direction. Nearly all of the female classes except for the Acolyte, Swordswoman and Merchant love showing their legs, their cleavage and their waist. To the extent that the two heavy melee classes, the Rune Knight◊ and Royal Guard◊, sport actual armour bikinis after progressing from bases classes that were completely covered up.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d0744832	comment	In an issue of The Avengers, the team entered a city that had been transformed to an ancient version of itself by Kulan Gath (a frequent tactic of his). Their clothes transformed as they entered the city, with She-Hulk ending up in a chainmail bikini reminiscent of Red Sonja's. (This was probably a direct homage, given that Kulan Gath is Sonja's arch-enemy.)
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d2050b4c	comment	Prince of Persia: Warrior Within suffers this with Shadee, who wears a metal thong-type getup that redefines Stripperiffic. Penny Arcade covers it quite well, in addition to the Prince's generic rage.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d27c007d	comment	Exaggerated in Kill la Kill. Ryuko's magic super-uniform exposes her entire torso, with gratuitous Underboobs, and comes with a Thong of Shielding, yet it somehow shields her from almost any attack—including ones intentionally aimed at the uncovered areas. It turns out there's a reason for the skimpiness - if you have to wear a potentially mind-dominating parasite to get your powers, you're not going to want a lot of it touching your skin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d3b17858	comment	Much like in Final Fantasy Tactics above, this is mostly averted in Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. The female Knight◊ & Terror Knight◊ are as heavily armored as their male counterparts, though they do walk on a pair of thin Combat Stilettos and the female Knight lacks a helmet as opposed to her male counterpart.◊ However, the female Beast Tamer is more covered than the male and has pauldrons he lacks◊, and both the male and female Dragoons◊ are covered from head to toe in gold & silver armor that is sleek, stylish and just plain awesome.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d3bd680c	comment	Inverted in Imaginary Seas. Percy finds himself in his father's armor after being summoned into the Atlantic Lostbelt. To his embarrassment, it's terribly gaudy and covers him more like a metal bra than an actual breastplate. He's thankful that it at least has pants, but it essentially leaves the entirety of his chest and abs exposed, prompting him to find a shirt to cover himself with.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	Trials of Mana: Riesz is depicted as wearing an extremely low-cut chest-plate and a skirt. Angela. Not only is she wearing a strapless leotard, miniskirt, boots and her staff, she's also Going Commando, and she hails from the snowy land of Altena. The first time she leaves the magically protected castle onto the aptly named Sub-Zero Snowfields, she almost freezes to death.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: When Voluntary Shapeshifter Double Trouble reports to Catra in S4: E4, they make fun of Bow's cuirass by taking his form and doing a mocking routine.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d5ae73fe	comment	The armor of Ryzom is largely this trope, though it's justified with Light Armor, which is largely reserved for casters and doesn't offer much protection in the first place.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d5b6d7cd	comment	Several of the female character in Smite wear these. Most notably Aphrodite, Isis, Neith. This may be either inverted or played with, because quite often the models are wearing more than the original depictions of the deities. Kali is a perfect example of this.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d5dbb3d8	comment	Valis: This might be the main point of the series. Yuko's armor has consistently been illogically skimpy, being pretty much a bikini and (if it counts as armor) a skirt. Cham/Char in the third game has slightly less impractical armor. Averted by Valna in the third game; she is a magic user is dressed in a full robe. Also strangely, in the fourth game, Lena starts off with more modest clothing, even if it's still impractical as battle armor. However, when she gets special armor that grants her temporary invincibility (until it takes enough damage), that special armor turns out to be as skimpy as (or possibly skimpier than) Yuko's. This whole thing was parodied in the Super-Deformed Syd of Valis, where the Invincibility Power-Up is a bikini.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d6423831	comment	Any Martians in John Carter of Mars, whether they are male or female, will go into battle wearing only leather harnesses and ornaments and nothing else, as armor is unheard of in Barsoom.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d66ef045	comment	Kida was actually seen wearing this kind of armor during her introductory scene in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, with the only protection being a single shoulder plate (located where her armband would normally be), a pair of wristbands (a metal one on her left arm and a furred one on her right), and furred knee-high boots (though she is still barefoot, with the one on the right concealing her anklets underneath. Fortunately, she can pull her mask down (it's the same size as her body) to protect the rest of her body.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d6e2146d	comment	In Diablo III this actually gets refreshingly averted for the female Crusader. The fact that she's the most modestly dressed playable female in the bunch, with armor sets and designs which are all for the most part actually appropriate for a knightly warrior waging war on evil bearing no skin at all through any of them (unless you use Invisible Dye on a helmet which makes her head visible) ...did not go unnoticed by the fandom. Many comments were made about her not having the bikini armor everyone expected her to have, most are in good jest, with the majority actually being rather happy that she's properly outfitted for her job unlike so may others of her type in other games. In the case of the female Barbarian, most let her slide since her male counterpart isn't exactly heavily armored either comparatively speaking, and the nature of what they are gives them a pass for going around without the all the heavy armor; although late-game armors for the class (for both genders) are equally full-covering in nature as the Crusaders' sets. The enchantress sidekick starts out with a bikini and upgrades to thin clothes and a half plate whose only purpose appears to be to protect her two giant weak points.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d8c349bd	comment	The Witchblade transforms Masane completely, skimpy armor included. And that's not including all the reproduction Witchblades... Justifiable in that it's the Witchblade's power, not the armor itself, that protects her. She's taken tank rounds to her unarmored stomach and gotten right back up. Witchblade Takeru exploits the trope even further: basically, the titular heroine's Witchblade form covers just enough to protect her most basic modesty, leaving almost nothing to the imagination, as seen here◊ and here◊. Takeru's second Witchblade form takes it Up to Eleven by reaching a virtually NSFW level.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d8fc6376	comment	Chaotic: Downplayed with Aivenna's armor, which covers her arms, legs and part of her chest but leaves her stomach area exposed for the sake of showing some skin.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_d9ba60f0	comment	The female warrior in Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik "wore various flimsy garments made out of leather which were obviously two sizes too small for her. It was plain to see she was rather chilly too."
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Chainmail Bikini / int_da356efd	comment	Played straight in Bikini Warriors the Fighter and Paladin in particular wear very little actual armor, while mostly wearing bikinis. In the first episode, they complain to a shopkeeper how useless their gear is. They're sold similar-looking gear but imbued with attributes that protect them from physical and elemental attacks, and the team noticed the difference.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_dcc7107a	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons (2000), the elven ranger sports a formfitting breastplate. With nipples.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_dd30f115	comment	The Witcher: Game of Imagination defies it. This trope is actively mocked by the authors. Not only is armour made as unisex and oh so Boring, but Practical; any body part that is not covered doesn't receive any armour rating, so this suffers a nasty case of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome when it comes to blocking hits. To drive the point even further, all pictures showing some Action Girls have them in proper, functional sets of armour. They still look awesome.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_df344113	comment	In Crush Crush, Luna says that she used to wear this kind of armor until someone shot an arrow through her navel.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_df9b9014	comment	UQ Holder! has a non-combative version. When entering in a hoverbike race, everyone is wearing swimsuits rather than protective gear (though they do wear helmets). Kirie points out how dangerous that is, only for Mizore to inform her that, due to the use of magical protection in clothing, the current trend is to see how skimpy people can make the outfits and get away with it. Plus, if the outfits fly off, it'll just boost the popularity of the race, so the sponsors are all for it.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_dfc5ad2f	comment	AFK: Steven wears an outfit like this as part of his female character. It's really impractical in a real world, and he steals pants at the first chance, which get remade by Maybel to fit, along with a vest.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e034f402	comment	In Bruno the Bandit, "Warrior Hotties" typically wear what amounts to a leather leotard, cape and thigh-high boots. Which looks both comical and pathetic on Bruno's mother, an ex-Warrior Hottie who can still kick butt with the best of 'em.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e144ba19	comment	Played straight with Isabela in Dragon Age II, who wears a 'tunic' that basically looks like a swimsuit with a flap of material at the front and back. Her thong is frequently visible.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest III: The game had a swimsuit armor that actually changed the pixels of a female character who wore it. Its armor class is terrible though. Fortunately, there's a randomly dropped "Magic Bikini" that provides the same stunning 8-bit resolution "fanservice" with armor for those willing to engage in Level Grinding for it. Made even more hilarious when worn on a jester. Since they didn't think you could get much more Stripperiffic than a Playboy Bunny costume, they decided to clothe them in complete dominatrix gear — complete with mask and whip. That's not all. Just take a look at the female warrior/soldier's outfit,◊ little more than a plate bikini, helmet, pauldrons, boots, and nothing else. Made even more ridiculous by the fact that her class can wear the heaviest armor, but no matter what you put her in, she'll always look like Red Sonja. This look has actually become quite popular, and further games often have this female warrior as an NPC. Dragon Quest IV: The male Hero wears long sleeves and pants, while the Heroine looks like she's wearing a swimsuit under a off-the-shoulder short tank, one detached sleeve, and a Detached Pants Legs/Tights... thing. Also, one reason to pick the female hero is that she can equip the female-only gear... including a bikini, among other things. Belly dancer and fire mage Maya fights in her dancer outfit. Dragon Quest VII had a 'Battle Chemise' for Maribel that functioned the same way. Decent 'armor' that distracted the monsters and made her look like she was wearing a frilly pink nightie. As for the trope itself, Aira wore one along with a cropped jacket and a Showgirl Skirt as her outfit. Dragon Quest VIII had not only the Magic Bikini, but a wide variety of revealing outfits for Jessica that actually changed her model's appearance, unlike her other armors. Furthermore, this armor is made available to you at the last town you visit before your party ventures into the Arctic. Dragon Quest IX continues the tradition in egregious fashion. You can see the male and female outfits for some of the core classes here. Most of them are comparable, but while the male Warrior is wearing a full chain shirt and padded tabard with greaves, gauntlets and helmet, the female Warrior... isn't. Particular mention must go to the wrap-around mail miniskirt that's open at the front, meaning her only protection to any frontal attack between the midriff and knees is her underwear.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e3876b26	comment	Digimon Frontier has Kazemon◊ and her "beast form" Zephyrmon.◊ Neither wears anything appropriate to combat, although Zephyrmon at least has some metal plating... on her shoulders and claws. Also, she's only eleven.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e3f0daf4	comment	A Growing Affection plays with this trope; Hinata is shown multiple times wearing a scale armor bikini, but she wears it under her normal uniform. Word of God claims that every kunoichi wears armored undergarments, unless her uniform is too Stripperiffic.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e4d5575	comment	Warcraft (2016): Notably averted, especially considering the source material. Human women wear the same big bulky armor as the human men, which makes it easy to miss that half of Stormwind's army is female. Garona is given a reasonable breastplate when she joins the humans. Orc men and women universally wear very little armor.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e5497d09	comment	Played out beautifully in Wolf's Rain. Yes, Jaguara does wear armor that clearly displays her "assets" to anyone she might allow to be in her presence... so guess where Darcia finally skewers her?, granted she was trying to seduce him, but she also anticipated a battle with the wolves.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: It has, since at least the third edition, included a sidebar option called "Bulletproof Nudity". It's noted as being suitable only for cinematic or silly games, but includes armor bonuses ranging from 1 for a few strategic patches of skin to 8 for complete nudity... but only for attractive characters! The GURPS 3rd Edition Magic Items books included the Chainmail Bikini "for body-proud barbarianettes" in two forms — a suit of chainmail with Invisibility spells on parts of it to make it look like a bikini; and a true bikini with magical-force-field-style protection on the exposed areas (they also had a male version, the Macho Leathers, which was a jockstrap and some other straps that provided the same protection as a full suit of armor — Equal Opportunity Fanservice ). 4th Edition retains this with a few modifications. It applies only to characters with above average Appearance and limits the bonus to + 2 (+ 3 for a topless woman). For some reason it also makes the characters run and swim faster. In 4e actual chainmail bikinis got stats in Dungeon Fantasy along with chainmail loincloths. GURPS being GURPS, this is actually handled logically: such "armor" is cheaper than normal armor, but only has a 50% chance of protecting against any given torso or vitals hit, and useless otherwise. The Barbarian template has the Gigantism disadvantage, making their armor twice as expensive as that of normal-sized characters, meaning that starting Barbarians who don't trade points for cash will need the discount buying partially-covering armor provides.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e5d753a5	comment	Gyee, being a game targetted towards gay men, have a lot of men in skimpy outfits. That said, the Shadowhunters, an ancient organization dedicated to fight the Always Chaotic Evil Shadow, somehow always seem to get the skimpiest armors. Yan is basically shirtless on his upper half, while his lower half consists of pantsless chaps, exposing his underwear, which is armored for some reason. Egregiously, this guy is supposed to be a Tank. In an optional conversation, you can have him recommend an armorsmith for your player character. Takashi is considerably more armored than Yan. Still, his upper clothing basically consists of an undershirt that leaves his pecs and abs exposed. Kong wears even less than Yan. His upper half is completely exposed save for a scarf. Not even with random bits of armors thrown in. His pants, if you can even call it that, only covers the outer parts of his legs, leaving his inner legs visible. The furry characters get it the worst. While it can be justified that their beast bodies offer more protection than their human counterparts, you'd think the can afford to wear more. Bernard leaves his upper body exposed save for a single breastplate. Hachi wears random pieces of armors, a jock strap, and nothing else. And then there's Morgan, who almost wears nothing but a thong. Knight Captain Izumi isn't a Shadowhunter, but he still wears an armor that doesn't cover his abdomen and thighs.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e5dc17d8	comment	Rift: Asha Catari's armor is basically a plate armor bra with Shoulders of Doom.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: Rules for a Rune Bikini show up in Palladium Books' Rifter #9 1/2 (April Fools' Day joke issue). Some of the Coalition Mark II armor's get to have their cake and eat it too. The underlaying armor is a matte body suit of flexible megadamage material and then the female suits get boob tooling to invoke the trope without actually falling prey to it.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e69b860	comment	Chronopia has the Black Sisters who are an all-female elite force for mostly the Firstborn faction and the Tribe of Dawn from the Sons of Chronos faction. The Sisters are Barbarian Heroines wearing leather halter tops, loincloth and thigh-high boots plus massive armored pauldrons. This is a huge step-up for them - among the Sons of Chronos where these women emmigrated from, they and the men of the tribe fought in the nude.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e8a4ef81	comment	Various attempts including the late 2000's and the New 52 eventually gave a similar but different redesign of the costume so that she was wearing more than a leotard, at least giving her pants or a skirt. Fan outcry has resulted in continuous changes to the costume in an effort to reflect changing attitudes while appealing to the classic look of the character.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e8d13e52	comment	In Urusei Yatsura Benten, an alien girl, regular outfit is an armor red bikini.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e928252b	comment	The Dark Spire has an item that is described as such, although it's never actually seen in-game.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_e944602	type	Chainmail Bikini
Chainmail Bikini / int_e944602	comment	This kind of armor exists in Goblin Slayer, a setting where not wearing enough armor could be (and often is) fatal. Justified, as those armors are stated outright to not be for battle, but rather to attract male attention outside it. Even after being told this, Goblin Slayer himself doesn't recommend it. Amazon is pretty much the only character who actually wears it into battle, because she is fast and skilled enough that it is almost impossible to hit her. Priestess owns a set of robes that arguably fall into this category as well, but they're explicitly stated to be a ceremonial outfit for ritual dances, not something for regular wear. She does fight in them once, but only because the battle came to her when she was already wearing them and she didn't have time to change into something more practical. (Not only are her usual robes more modest, they have a chainmail foundation garment that's saved her life on at least one occasion.)
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ea05d091	comment	'Formal Wear' for females in EverQuest II consists of belly-baring, panty-showing, crotch-and-butt-caped dresses. The armor style forces bare feet on the models. In recent years, this style of outfit has been made into 'Gi' for female Bruisers or Monks (and sometimes Mages) with great stats (for the era) attached to them. The dresses would logically be a hindrance for a martial artist as it would tangle the legs.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ebc95282	comment	Frequent in Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- despite the cast's being Cast Full of Pretty Boys â€“ many Buddhas go into battle nearly or completely shirtless, donning little more than a few straps or bits of cloth in the former case.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ed1edf37	comment	Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Perna's "armor" cover the sides and the shoulders, but everything else is almost completely bare.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ed2a7866	type	Chainmail Bikini
Chainmail Bikini / int_ed2a7866	comment	The Sword Art Online PSP game has a promo item called "legendary swimsuit armor." In other words, a School Swimsuit. Standard female armor in both the game and the anime is less ridiculous, but often includes Zettai Ryouiki and/or boob windows for no apparent reason. However, this is all justified when one remembers that in-universe the characters are in a VRMMORPG, and all the equipment comes with various stats. It doesn't matter how Stripperiffic the outfit is if it has the high stats to justify wearing it (and the wearer has strength of will to wear it in spite of the appearance).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_eef62751	comment	It's more surprising when a character wears actual functional armour, regardless of gender. Nanaly Fletch (Tales of Destiny 2) and Judith (Tales of Vesperia) fit this trope to the letter. But the ultimate grand prize goes to Rondoline E. Effenberg from Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon X, who bears the most skin out of any (human) Tales Series character, managing to wear nothing that could accurately be described as "protection". There are unlockable swimsuits and dress costumes in Tales of Symphonia that fit this trope. Not only are they incredibly revealing (especially for Sheena and excluding Presea's nice clothes), they don't have any armor function whatsoever. Of course, Zelos also gets bikini swim trunks and can wear those into battle too so maybe they were aware of this the entire time.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing mocks this with the Chain-mail Monokini.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f2041376	comment	The Valkyries in Charmed dress in revealing leather outfits. And of course, when the Charmed sisters have to rescue Leo from being captured by these Valkyries, naturally the plan they come up with involves Dressing as the Enemy.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f236a7c7	comment	In the Belisarius Series of alt-history/time travel novels by David Drake and Eric Flint, Belisarius' wife Antonina finds herself in the position of being the commander of a military unit, due to her close friendship with Empress Theodora. Although she originally tries to wear ordinary armor, the weight of it soon makes her switch to a custom-made ceremonial cuirass and accessories instead. Ironically, although Antonina's figure is anything but petite the blacksmith still put in "enhancements", to the point where things bordered on the ridiculous. Characters in the series routinely joke about Antonina's "obscene cuirass", to the point where it verges on Lampshade Hanging.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! features some monster designs whereby a female character wears pieces of armor selectively over certain parts of her body, while leaving others exposed, usually her waist and thighs. Examples include: "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight". "Valkyrie" monsters. "Cyber Harpie Lady" and "Harpie Lady Sisters".
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f391e19e	comment	Somewhat justified in Cleopatra 2525, where the heroines had force fields for protection.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f455c728	comment	The Princess Maker series: Princess Maker (Refine): Bikini Armor, Flavor Text of: 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.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f67e2b5f	comment	Reincarnated as a Sword: Teacher gets angry when Gallus provides Fran with armor that exposes her belly. Gallus placates him by revealing it protects her vitals with an invisible force field.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f69d81fc	comment	Vindictus: While all characters have plenty of realistic armour, especially at lower levels; female characters Evie, Fiona, and Vella have their share of unrealistic fantasy styles at higher levels. These include mini-skirts, see-through mesh dresses, hotpants, low-cut necklines, and so on. Interestingly, this is actually explained in-universe. Nearly all of the less-practical armour is made by NPC tailor Clodagh, who is obsessed with fashion and appearance, and not terribly concerned with practicality. Similar, there is Fiona's Shining Will set, which consists of helmet, see-through miniskirt, backless Breast Plate with plunging neckline, and armoured boots and gloves. This is even less excusable, as Fiona is the game's Tank, emphasizing defensive skills. All of Vella's unique armour invokes either this or Stripperiffic; and she's considerably better endowed than either of the other female characters (and more prone to Jiggle Physics). Word of God is that Vella was intended to be Ms. Fanservice.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f739b6f5	comment	Attempted justification in Wayward Sons: Hestya's fire powers burn off her own clothes, but render her impervious to conventional attacks. The only substance that resists her flames is the local flavor of Unobtainium, and due to its scarcity, they can only spare enough to cover her bits for modesty's sake.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_f91feca9	type	Chainmail Bikini
Chainmail Bikini / int_f91feca9	comment	Lampshaded in the second Van Von Hunter book, wherein Stripperiffic villain Adonette is shot by a rather... distracted archer, who is promptly berated by his brother:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_fa5c1b11	comment	The River of Dancing Gods trilogy by Jack L. Chalker literally has a magically-enforced law that "weather and climate permitting, all beautiful young women must be scantily clad". This means the female barbarian character must compromise between protection and conforming with the Rules, which have been written into the physical structure of that universe by powerful wizards. The whole series is a parody of fantasy tropes, which is why such bizarre things are written into natural law.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_fa609671	comment	Rappelz lampshades this in their ads:
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Chainmail Bikini / int_fca0567c	comment	Proving that the trope is not female-only, classic films such as Conan the Barbarian play up the image of the muscular warrior who wears less than many professional wrestlers — loincloth, boots, and nothing more — despite fighting many opponents with bladed weapons.
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Chainmail Bikini / int_fe83990a	comment	The Bronze and some of the Silver Cloths of Saint Seiya are suits of armor that cover only a few bits of their owner's anatomy, leaving entire areas (such as the whole abdomen, thighs, face, neck) exposed to the elements. However, the Cloths of the two known female Silver Saints (as well as Grus Yuzuriha in The Lost Canvas, who wears less clothing under her armor than Marin or Shaina) are even worse, tending to be more like lightweight metal bikinis, with even less protection, and breast-shaped breastplates. Justified with the Bronze Saints, due to the fact that their Cloths are supposed to be in the lowest hierarchy (thus they protect less and are weaker than the Silver Cloths), while for the two female Saints it's implied they never got their Cloths repaired, during which the Cloths receive additional pieces (the Ophiuchus Cloth is even confirmed to be a recent one in Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, as it was recently declassed and reforged from being a Gold Cloth that covered much more). The inhabitants of Athena's Sanctuary also wear leather armor that basically amounts to this all the time. Shaina, Marin, Aiolia and Aiolos, who are Saints, wear ones with metallic parts as their casual wear, on which they put their Cloths when they expect to go in combat (leather armor being basically useless for the kind of battles fought by Saints).
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Chainmail Bikini / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation Female Klingon warriors wear the same armor as the males, except with a Cleavage Window (Kleavage?). More justified than most, since Klingon armor is purely decorative anyway.
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Imaginary Seas (Fanfic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Arthur's Quest / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Excalibur / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Ironclad / int_12cdd613	type	Chainmail Bikini
Knights of Badassdom / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Kung Fury / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Terrifier 2 / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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The Blade Master / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Wonder Woman (2017) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon Quest (Franchise) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Dirty Pair / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Goblin Slayer / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Lord Marksman and Vanadis / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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A Chorus of Dragons / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Dirty Pair / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Goblin Slayer / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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John Golden / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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River of Dancing Gods / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Saintess Summons Skeletons / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Schooled in Magic / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Sexiled (2018) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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The Belgariad / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Chronicles of Jegra / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Colour of Magic / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Finder's Stone Trilogy / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Last Hero / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Last Wish / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Light Fantastic / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Lightlark Saga / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Prism Pentad / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Sacred Blacksmith / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Wandering Inn / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Thraxas / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Unseen Academicals / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Xenos / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Space Adventure Cobra (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Tales of Wedding Rings (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
UQ Holder! (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Urusei Yatsura (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Bounty Hunters of the Apocalypse (Roleplay) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Charmed (1998) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Cleopatra 2525 / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Spartacus: Blood and Sand / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Wonder Woman (2011 pilot) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Xena: Warrior Princess / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Arcadia Quest (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Oko Yrrhedesa (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Red Dragon Inn (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Witcher: Game of Imagination (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Witcher Role Playing Game (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Heads Up (Theatre) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
A Dance with Rogues (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Age of Conan (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Bomberman Act:Zero (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Cardinal Syn (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Castle Age (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Champions of Norrath (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Conan Exiles (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Crystar (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Culdcept (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dark Elf Historia (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dark Souls II (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Darksiders (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Discworld (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon Quest IX (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon Valor (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon's Dogma (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Earth Defense Force (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Earth Defense Force 2025 (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Etrian Odyssey (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Fighting Masters (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Firefall (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Gauntlet (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Gladiatrix (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Golden Axe (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
GunValkyrie (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Heavenly Sword (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Hyrule Conquest (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
KanColle (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
La-Mulana 2 (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Lands of Lore (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Light & Darkness: Heroes of Calradia (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Lost Eden (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Lost Saga (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Neverwinter Nights (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Once Ever After (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Onmyōji (2016) (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Orcs Must Die! Unchained (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Popful Mail (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Protect Me Knight (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Radiant Historia (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Ragnarok Online (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Requiem (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Ryzom (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Sakura Dungeon (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
7th Dragon (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Shantae: Risky's Revenge (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Shiren the Wanderer (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Star Fox Adventures (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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TERA (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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The Vagrant (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Love Esquire (Visual Novel) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Jesse Cox (Web Video) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Skallagrim (Web Video) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Cheer! (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Dragon Mango (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Fate/Gag Order (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Misfile (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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The Law of Purple (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Savage Sword of Sharona (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Duck Dodgers / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Kaena: The Prophecy / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Tigtone / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Xcalibur / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Manga) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
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