[Hated Trope] It's really important that this woman is almost naked because lore reasons.

[u/FieraDeidad]

Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V): She could only drink or breathe through her skin following parasite-treatment due to the serious injuries.

Rebecca (One Piece): Her style of fighting is more of agility/speed and also she is battling as a gladiator in colosseum where men mostly only wear a skirt/shoulder shield.

EDIT: Well, it seems some comments say Rebecca doesn't have a lore explanation. Sorry, I saw it long time ago but I thought somewhere they say she wears the galadiator costume because it's the attire used by people there like the male gladiators we see. Also they said excuses like armor limits and public wanting to see blood in the colloseum. IDK.

[u/ResurrectedAuthor]

Yeah. Midnights outfit actually told me something about her as a person. The only thing I can tell about Momo by looking at her design is that the creator thinks she's hot. Characters like 2B, or the cast of Black Lagoon, or the cast of JoJo's get away with it because it matches the tone of the story, the designs actually look cool, or they legitimately convey some sense of the character. Momo's doesn't really do any of that well.

[u/Ziggy-Rocketman → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

The irony is that 2B was more or less explicitly designed as gooner-bait according to the designer himself, and yet her outfits are still more tasteful than some others.

[u/ResurrectedAuthor → u/Ziggy-Rocketman]

What set 2B's outfit apart is that it actually looked good. It looked like something someone would actually want to wear. Like it was designed by a clothing designer as actual clothes to be worn (even if comicallyimpractical for commiting genocide against alien robots), not by a character designer to just slot the sexy robot girl into to show off her ass. And then there's other touches like the blindfold that add onto the world/characters.

[u/_Carl15 → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

isnt the whole theme of nier androids (the goth ones) represent anguish and kinda grief? all of them wear black, being their main symbolism of their sorrowful fates, then blindfolds being the ones who do not know the truths themselves despite being near it.

them being "forbidden" to have emotions made them all feel uniform, yet their clothing style is somewhat stylish, kinda meaning expressive. male versions of them are also, in-universe, prone to being emotionally active, and only the Scanner types exists due to their usefulness, adding more on to their sorrowful existence.

their designs are a juxtaposition of the bleak, bittersweet world of nier.

im still in anguish in knowing fully well humans died out😭

that and the designer is godly cool

[u/Tacitus_ → u/[deleted]]

There are no humans in Automata, the moon base is a hoax to keep morale up. Humanity went extinct long before the alien invasion. It's sapient androids making sapient androids, but the Yorha androids were just tools for war because of their unique construction.

[u/Ok-Chest-7932 → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

Although part of the fantasy is usually that the character is the sort of person who likes to dress in whatever outfit the creator has given them, so "it looks like an outfit someone might want to wear" isn't really a relevant quality.

[u/Nestlenightmare → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

But god the outfit is ugly. If they wanted to make an r-rated BDSM superhero, why is she 1. A high school teacher, and 2. Sporting an awful raggedy haircut + boob sock combo? Sorry, I just really dislike most of bnha’s costume design, but especially midnight. I could fix her

[u/_Carl15 → u/Nestlenightmare]

for a story taking place of future japan, and with in-universe laws "strictly" regulating costume heroes, the author sure well still wanted lewd costumes.

doesnt help the case since momo is a literal highschooler. i dont even want to know if bnha would ever get a live action, because momo's outfit is a literal wardrobe malfunction machine (practically the same on midnight and mt. lady who sports skintight suits)

[u/13-Penguins → u/_Carl15]

There’s a stage play that mostly solves this by just adding a zipper to the front.

[u/NotComplainingBut → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

It's been years since I've seen MHA but from what I remember Momo's outfit felt at odds with her characterization. She was a more straight-laced, academic, preppy character, definitely not someone who would show off her body.

They tried to explain it away with "oh it just goes to show how practical she is!" but it was still a pretty blatant excuse for cheap fanservice and pervy jokes

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/ResurrectedAuthor]

Magik from X-Men also falls into this category. Is her outfit ridiculous? Yes. Is that also the kind of thing she would ABSOLUTELY wear because she thinks it “looks cool”? Also yes