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Just as good and evil can be Color Coded for Your Convenience, you can also tell them apart as heroes dress sensibly (more or less), and villains dress in skimpier outfits. Although it's not that common nowadays, this likely started as a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar. "It's okay if they dress immorally. They're the bad guys! (wink)" The exact way an outfit is skimpier can vary. It can be anything from being more form fitting to outright Stripperific. A Sub-Trope of Dress-Coded for Your Convenience. May overlap with Make Up Is Evil. Examples of Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains include:

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  • Just as good and evil can be Color Coded for Your Convenience, you can also tell them apart as heroes dress sensibly (more or less), and villains dress in skimpier outfits. Although it's not that common nowadays, this likely started as a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar. "It's okay if they dress immorally. They're the bad guys! (wink)" The exact way an outfit is skimpier can vary. It can be anything from being more form fitting to outright Stripperific. A Sub-Trope of Dress-Coded for Your Convenience. May overlap with Make Up Is Evil. Examples of Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains include:
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  • Just as good and evil can be Color Coded for Your Convenience, you can also tell them apart as heroes dress sensibly (more or less), and villains dress in skimpier outfits. Although it's not that common nowadays, this likely started as a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar. "It's okay if they dress immorally. They're the bad guys! (wink)" This trope doesn't require the good guys to dress like prudes, nor to never put on revealing clothing (because, you know, Fan Service). It's just that their regular outfits are significantly less skimpy than what the villains wear (and the heroes can dress like that with an Evil Costume Switch). The exact way an outfit is skimpier can vary. It can be anything from being more form fitting to outright Stripperific. This often overlaps with Evil Is Sexy, except this doesn't require the villain to actually be sexy, just dressed skimpily (there can be a difference). Furthermore, that trope often has the villains dress just as sensibly as the heroes, or the heroes to dress just as sexy as the villains (most Superhero comics). Neither of those is this trope. A Sub-Trope of Dress-Coded for Your Convenience. May overlap with Make Up Is Evil. Compare Good Eyes, Evil Eyes, Obviously Evil, Good Colors, Evil Colors. An author that uses the Madonna-Whore Complex will often invoke this trope. Examples of Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains include:
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