Dressed in Layers: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** Even when James' [[Villainous Crossdresser|female]] [[Disguised in Drag|disguise]] is quite skimpy.

** And almost anytime they get to hide gloves under bare hands.

* ''[[Crown]]'': [[Badass|Badasses]] Ren and Jake apparently wear camouflage gear and bulletproof vests under ''everything.''

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', during the first invasion of Konoha, the Third Hokage [[Flung Clothing|flings off his clothes]] to reveal a full suit of armour. Apparently he was wearing it under his Hokage robes [[Properly Paranoid|just in case he was attacked]].

 

 

== Comics ==

* It can be assumed that most female superheroes, especially those whose outfits are rather [[Stripperific]], do this.

** In [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|the Silver Age]], writers would occasionally go to great lengths to [[Justified Trope|justify]] and explain how he could hide his cape under Clark Kent's dress shirt, or fit shoes and socks over his Superman boots (the usual answer was something like "super compression.") For the record, while operating as Superman, he kept his Clark Kent clothes in a hidden pouch of his indestructible cape.

** Subverted in ''[[Millennium (Comic Book)|Millennium]]'' when Lana Lang, controlled by the Manhunters, tried to expose Clark as Superman by ripping open his shirt in the Daily Planet offices. As it turns out, Clark is thanking his lucky stars that he happened to not be wearing his supersuit that day and so Lana was stunned to find only his bare chest.

* At the beginning of ''[[True Lies]]'', Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) reveals he's wearing a tuxedo under his diving suit.

** Bond did it first. Sean Connery emerges from the surf and strips off his wetsuit to reveal perfectly pressed evening dress.

 

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Batman and Robin consistently averted this trope. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson almost always used the [[Instant Costume Change]]-providing [[To the Batpole|Bat-Poles]] to change. While they occasionally used some other method, they never wore their costumes underneath their civilian clothing.

** In her unaired "pilot reel" (used to sell the network on the proposed new character), [[Batgirl]] ''did'' follow this trope, converting her regular clothing into Batgirl's costume using the same method as in her first comic book appearances (see above.) In the actual series, however, she changed clothes the old-fashioned way -- off camera.

* Apart from one shirt-ripping scene with Clark in [[Smallville]], the series has averted this. Save possibly for one scene in an early Season 10 Episode. Oliver Queen (in his street clothes) is investigating an apartment. Someone else enters, and moments later he confronts them in full Green Arrow gear.

* In ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'', Ralph wears his supersuit under his clothes, although he finds removing his outer outfit an really time consuming process. On the other hand, when he tried giving up the suit, he was later in the middle of a shoot out and he was terrified that for the first time he was not wearing what is essentially the ultimate [[Bulletproof Vest]].

* [[Neil Patrick Harris]] pulls this off during his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4 Tony Awards Introduction], where he wears a tuxedo, over a [[Camp Gay|spangly purple leisure suit]], over a different, identical tuxedo. Which means he was performing his big musical number wearing ''three suits''.

* In ''[[Glee]]'', Kurt Hummel does this during his big audition for NYADA: he comes out onstage wearing a tuxedo, cape and mask for 'Music of the Night' from ''Phantom of the Opera'', but when he realises his auditor will be bored senseless by hearing the song for the millionth time, rips away the tux to reveal a black blouse and skintight gold pants, and proceeds to sing 'Not the Boy Next Door' from ''The Boy From Oz'' instead (there was stuff setting this up as a plausible choice ahead of time, fortunately). He impresses the auditor mightily. And not just because of the pants. That G5 was ''spectactular''.

== Western Animation ==

* Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]'' in the episode "Less Than Hero" Leela tears off her clothes to reveal her Clobberella costume. Then tears off her costume to reveal another set of identical clothes, claiming "It was brisk, I [[Trope Namer|dressed in layers]]". Naturally, neither of her costumes would actually have concealed the other one.

* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'': Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire are dressed as waiters at a fancy dinner party at the Pewterschmits' house and are planning to rob their vault. They rip off their tuxes to reveal black 'theiving' clothes underneath, complete with black stocking caps.

* ''[[Super Ted]]'' takes this to a similar extreme to the ''[[Futurama]]'' example, but even further. The eponymous bear would unzip his fur to reveal his costume, then unzip his costume to reveal his fur afterwards, infinitely.

** As his super ability involves turning the world around him into a musical, this might fall under [[Required Secondary Powers]].

* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' where Dale sneaks onto the local army base. He gets in in his exterminator's jumpsuit, then hides in a bush and removes it to reveal an army uniform. He passes by an officer...then hides in another bush and takes off the uniform, revealing ''another'' exterminator's jumpsuit underneath it. Considering [[Conspiracy Theorist|what kind of person Dale is]], he'd probably consider this totally necessary.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* Mickey and Riku in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. At various points, they both tear off their full-length hooded trenchcoats to reveal their civilian clothes underneath. Somehow, this also instantly changes their shoes and pants, removes their gloves, etc.

** Actually, that is a canon side effect of putting on the coat. It automatically causes the clothes worn beneath it to change to those seen in-game, and to include a pair of black gloves and boots. If gloves are already being worn, then they will change to the black set.

 

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