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In an actual combat situation, this does make sense. Coats and cloaks look great but are also bulky and tend to move about on their own quite a bit. This restricts the wearer's movements and limits their effectiveness in battle. Shedding the coat will not only make movement easier but also deny the enemy a potential grappling point. This also has the added advantage of getting the garment out of the combat zone. After all, who wants to get blood on their badass coat?
Bonus [[Badass]] points if you are [[Shirtless Scene|shirtless]] beneath the coat, or if you're wearing pants with suspenders. Badassness levels will also increase exponentially if you're wearing [[Badass in
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** When he decides Starrk's finally going to 'get serious', Kyoraku removes his colourful pink coat and throws it to Ukitake. Starrk had even said that it was hard to take Kyoraku seriously with his [[Real Men Wear Pink|odd]] [[Nice Hat|clothing]]. Likely also a necessary move on Kyoraku's part -- the 'colour game' which ultimately kills Starrk works best with plain colours.
*** To elaborate, the game works as such that the attacker can only damage a certain color on the victim, and the damage is increased the more common the color is on the attacker and the less common it is on the victim. While Kyoraku was almost completely clad in black, Starrk's only black was on his hollow hole, making Kyoraku's attack [[For Massive Damage|incredibly damaging]].
* Both Piccolos in ''[[
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'''s Edward Elric (pictured above) takes off his coat when getting into serious battles, but he also inverted this at one point. After some downtime while hiding from the enemy, he made himself a new coat, even though it would allow him to be identified easily. Putting the coat on was his way of saying he was done running.
* Similar to ([[Older Than They Think|and perhaps the inspiration for]]) the ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' example below is one from ''[[G Gundam]]''. {{spoiler|After Domon tells her that he loves her, Rain breaks free from the Devil Gundam. As she's naked, Domon swiftly covers her with his cloak. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|They then destroy the Devil Gundam once and for all in a CrazyAwesome manner.]]}}
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** Weirdly zig-zagged with Luffy; he takes off his iconic hat when things look rough... then puts it ''back on'' when things get serious.
** The Strawhat crew tends to wear environment-specific clothing over their normal getups, perhaps specifically so they can invoke this trope and take them off (as in the final set of fights in the Alabasta arc).
** In the movie tie-in Chapter 0, [[Badass Grandpa|Garp]] and [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Sengoku]] use the [[Badass in
* ''[[
** At one point, Crystal takes off her coat that she always wears while going off to save a boat belonging to Bill the Pokemaniac by capturing a Flaafy and a Dunsparce that were attacking the boat. She leaves the coat off until she goes to rescue him from a cluster of Staryu at an amusement park. At that point, it is revealed that the shirt she wears underneath her coat is sleeveless and that she wears wristbands underneath its sleeves.
** And in a more traditional example, Giovanni and Red both do this before the climactic battle in the FRLG arc.
* ''[[Ranma ½
** After arriving [[Big Damn Heroes|in the nick of time]] to <s>interfere</s> help out with Akane's match against the [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Dojo Destroyer]], Ranma smiles smugly and takes off her Chinese jacket, then pulverizes the foe in a single panel. One wonders why she even bothered taking it off.
** A more reasonable occurrence during the first duel with Mousse. After having his [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Hidden Weapons]] style mocked mercilessly, [[Shirtless Scene|he sheds his long robes]] (where most of his weapons were hidden), assumes a firm combat stance, and [[Let's Get Dangerous|declares that he will fight Ranma]] [[Blatant Lies|hand-to-hand]].
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* Subverted in ''[[Bullshot]]''. The [[Comedic Hero]] is taking off his coat to engage in the manly art of fisticuffs, only to be [[Groin Attack|kicked in the groin]] while his arms are immobilized.
* ''[[Fight Club]]'': Tyler Durden's pre-narrator-annihilation disrobement.
* It happens a few minutes before the final confrontation, but in ''[[The Good, the Bad
* In ''Jackie Chan's Who Am I?'' the final fight features Chan in a tag-team battle with two skilled martial artists. When Chan uses the first one's jacket and tie against him, the second one sensibly removes his before he jumps into the fight.
* Neo takes off his coat after the most iconic [[Bullet Time]] sequence in ''[[The Matrix]]''. Morpheus also gets one of these moments in the second movie.
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** Obi-Wan and Vader also do this right before their duel in ''Episode III''. Probably the main reason this doesn't happen in ''Attack of the Clones'' is the fact that both Obi-Wan and Anakin already lost their outer robes before their fight with Dooku (and Dooku didn't take off his cape because it protects him with its magic).
** Obi-Wan also drops his robe before leaping down to face General Grievous and his Mooks. The man must have left robes all over the Galaxy.
** Asajj Ventress in ''[[Star Wars:
* Neither [[Card-Carrying Villain|Raven]] nor [[Badass Longcoat|Tom Cody]] wear their longcoat during the [[Drop the Hammer|sledge-hammer duel]] at the end of ''[[Streets of Fire]]''. Tom Cody even slips his suspenders off his shoulders before the fight.
* Doc Holliday shrugs off his coat as he raises his shotgun during the standoff at the OK Corral in ''[[Tombstone]]''.
* In ''[[The Transporter|Transporter 2]]'', Frank carefully takes off his jacket, folds it and puts it on the hood of his car (declaring that he'd just had it dry-cleaned), before proceeding to wipe the floor with the teenagers that [[Mugging the Monster|tried to steal his car]].
* River Tam in ''Serenity'', just before [[Bar Brawl|clearing the bar]]. In epic slow motion and blue-filter lighting, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|of course]].
* In the 2009 ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
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* In the "[[Al Capone]] [[The Mafia|gang]] vs. Jesse James gang" simulation of ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', Al Capone sheds his longcoat in preparation for the [[Fisticuffs Boss|fight]] with Jesse James. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for him, Capone loses the fight when one of James' men [[Boom! Headshot!|shoots him]] through some jail bars.}}
* ''[[Firefly]]'''s River Tam drops her jacket just before tearing into the patrons of the [[Bad Guy Bar]].
* In the ''[[Smallville]]'' season 9 finale "Salvation", Clark Kent disposes of his coat before proceeding to {{spoiler|kick Zod's ass.}} [[Battle in
* The Fourth Doctor took off his coat at the end of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Meglos''. He did it to turn the title character's scheme of masquerading as the Doctor back on him to infiltrate his base...and booby trap his superweapon to destroy the planet.
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* In ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'', just before the battle with Omen Deng, he dramatically sheds his [[Badass Cape]].
* In Squaresoft's ''[[The Bouncer]]'', the [[Big Bad]], Dauragon C. Mikado, wears a Badass Longcoat for most of the game, including when you first get to fight him. In the Final [[Boss Fight]], he starts out wearing it, too, but after you knock enough health off of him, he tosses the coat and [[Up to Eleven|becomes a]] ''[[Up to Eleven|LOT]]'' [[Up to Eleven|stronger]]. In the True Final Boss Fight, he removes the suspenders, too, and fights you [[Shirtless Scene|full-on shirtless]].
* In ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* Averted by both Nero and Dante in ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', and then completely subverted by Dante in ''Devil May Cry 3'', where he has a badass putting-the-coat-on moment and proceeds to kill a small army of demons.
* The moment you enter combat time in ''[[Fallout 2]]'', the Deathclaw NPC Goris drops his monk-like robe to rip the enemy a new one, then puts it back on to hide his features from friendly commoners.
* In the Heaven's Feel Route of ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''--
** In ''Final Fantasy VII'', Sephiroth walks around most the time in a [[Badass Longcoat]], and most of the time he's still able to kick ass without breaking a sweat. In his final fight, he wears no coat, which gives him only a pair of pants and boots. [[Subverted Trope|The joke is]], that fight is impossible to lose.
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** Rugal Bernstein in ''[[King of Fighters|The King Of Fighters 1994]]'' first fights in a full tux and without using any of his special moves, but ditches the jacket and shirt for round 2 when he [[Difficulty Spike|gets serious on your ass]] and shows you why he is the ''definitive'' [[SNK Boss]]. In his subsequent appearances, he has kept the green t-shirt he wore underneath.
** The ''[[King of Fighters|King of Fighters 1999]]'' has this. [[SNK Boss|Krizalid]] first appears with a coat in which the players could [[Anticlimax Boss|beat him with relative ease]]. After winning the round, he then [[Incendiary Exponent|burns his]] [[Power Limiter|coat]] [[Rule of Cool|off]] and starts [[Difficulty Spike|showing off]] [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|his true power]]. He also does this in ''[[King of Fighters|King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match]]'' as a special intro to certain characters.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'', Ghirahim actually teleports his robe away before fighting Link. {{spoiler|He later powers up and removes everything else as well, including his ''skin'', revealing his true [[Chrome Champion]] form underneath}}.
* In ''[[
* In the first ''[[Mega Man X]]'' game and its remake [[Big Bad|Sigma]] tosses away his coat and spiked shoulder pads holding it before fighting X. Then he pulls out a GODDAMN LIGHTSABER. He does it again in ''X5''.
* Zero briefly wears a [[Badass Cape]] at the beginning of ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 2'', and pulls it off, ready to kick ass when the Neo Arcadian military spot him.
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** During the first half of the [[Boss Battle|climactic final battle]] of ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', Albert Wesker is thrown out of a jet only to emerge a minute later minus his [[Badass Longcoat|awesome coat]] and his [[Shirtless Scene|shirt]].
** Justified by "Mr. X", a mass produced model of tyrant whose trenchcoat acted as a [[Restraining Bolt]]. Meaning it mutated from a large, mysterious looking man to something more reminiscent of the other tyrants...and a lot less friendly.
** In ''[[Resident Evil:
* ''[[
* Purge from ''Space Channel 5 Part 2'' loses his coat before challenging you to [[Final Battle|the Final]] [[The Power of Rock|Dance-off]].
* In ''[[Street Fighter]] II'', M. Bison does this with his cape before you fight him.
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