Painted-On Pants: Difference between revisions

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If you're looking for something comfortable, [[Fan Service|sexy]], aerodynamic, [[Department of Redundancy Department|sexy]], smooth, and [[Rule of Three|sexy]] for your characters to fight in, party in, or just walk around in, there's no reason to look no further than skintight pants, preferably spandex or leather so that they can be shiny too.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Funnily enough, despite [[Fundamentally Female Cast|the prominence of females]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the first one to get the skintight leather pants treatment is Tohma, the male protagonist of ''Force'', while he's using the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Black Knight form]]. Females tend to get skintight bodysuits instead.

* ''[[Saiyuki]]'' contains a male example.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In one ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'' story, Lulu wears a form of latex that is literally painted on.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Superskin, a bodystocking that fits like a second skin in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''Friday''.

 

* Eric Estrada of ''[[CHiPs]]'' admitted the costumers sewed in extra zippers on his pants at strategic places.

* Jenny, the Doctor's daughter in the new ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

** River Song is also fond of pants very similar to the ones in page picture, even managing to run and fight in them.

* Kurt Hummel from ''[[Glee]]''. His pants are sometimes so ridiculously tight you have to wonder how he can even walk in them at times. And he ''does'' do high kicks in them. Check out both 'Rose's Turn' and 'Time Warp' for proof.

* In another male example, Dr. Spencer Reid of [[Criminal Minds]] sometimes wears pants that show off his long legs and assets.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Any picture taken of [[ACDC|Bon Scott]] is certain to draw one's gaze to the "area".

* [[The Doors|Jim Morrison]]

* [[Dolly Parton]]'s "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That":

{{quote|Why'd you come in here lookin' like that,

in your cowboy boots and your painted-on jeans? }}

* Steve Perry of [[Journey (band)|Journey]] wears these in the "Just The Same Way" music video.

 

== [[Theater]] ==

** [[Forbidden Broadway]]'s ''Rent'' parody included a song called "Ouch, They're Tight!"

* In ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'', Serafina examines her daughter's sailor boyfriend from the front and back and asks him why they make Navy pants so tight. "That's a question you'll have to ask the Navy," he tells her.

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* Popular in [[Professional Wrestling]], for both male and female wrestlers. This occasionally comes up for characters who are homages to wrestlers as well (such as Hugo from [[Street Fighter]]).

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'', saying as how it's of the superhero genre, has a multitude of shiny tight pants options, from spandex to leather to metal.

** ''[[Champions Online]]'' meanwhile seems to have few options other than that.

* Common among [[Game Mod|custom clothing]] for ''[[The Sims]] 2'', because it's easier - you can simply paste the pants textures directly onto the shape of a naked Sim.

* [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]] Clothes are decorations.

* Fenris of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has very, very tight pants. One wonders what they're made of, given that his low-tech world is unlikely to have spandex; his outfit is given no more in-game description than the mystifying "Grafted Spirit Hide." (How does a spirit have hide?) [[Rule of Sexy]] probably applies.

 

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* "Skinny jeans" are all the rage, and for good reason—when it comes to attracting the desired gaze, ''they work''. Leggings are even more so. Now there's even faux denim leggings ("jeggings"), complete with [[We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future|false pockets]].

* English riding breeches. On purpose.