Armor Is Useless? Why stop there? Why wear anything into battle? Anyone can be tough in Powered Armor, but it takes either a really badass hero or a really depraved villain to fight in the nude. The motivation for this tend to be different for heroes and villains. For villains, it's usually done for creepiness; instead of being silly or titillating it comes off as really, really scary. The nudity emphasizes brutality and aggression instead of being sexy. It can also indicate that the villain doesn't care at all what people think about him. He left normal human behavior, like modesty and shame, behind him, or maybe he has an Übermensch-complex. Or, very creepy indeed, that bloodshed turns him on, not to mention speculations about what might happen to someone who gets overpowered by a villai