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* Cammy from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' makes a [[https://lh6.ggpht.com/-23EWdFbu-Jc/UjvHgrhsvkI/AAAAAAAAOV8/cR-uxRkT1qg/Cammy-DETONA-RALPH_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 cameo]] in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' alongside Chun-Li but you'll notice she appears to be wearing green leggings opposed to games where she just [[ShesGotLegs shows off]] her naked gams all the time. The reason behind this is clear: It's a Creator/{{Disney}} movie; they aren't gonna let a female character go around baring her buttocks, no matter little screen presence she gets.

* Lola Bunny would get hit with this hard in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' with Creator/WarnerBrothers going to great pains to desexualise her. In ''Film/SpaceJam'' she was an iconically curvaceous and sultry MsFanservice who wore a [[BareYourMidriff midriff baring tank top]] and [[WhoWearsShortShorts booty shorts]] and even in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' (which is TamerAndChaster) Lola she still wore short dresses and had a bosom. In ''New Legacy'', Lola’s figure is redesigned to be not curvy but noodle-limbed similar to Bugs, she also has longer modest clothing in general nor is she particularly flirty like her previous depictions.

* When Adam and Eve are depicted (especially in children's media), they're usually covered by leaves, flowers, GodivaHair, or [[SceneryCensor convenient trees and shrubs]]. One exception is the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_Altarpiece#Adam_and_Eve 15th century Ghent Altarpiece,]] which shows them nude (though covering their groins with their hands). This so offended people in the 19th century that those panels were removed and replaced with duplicates on which the pair were clothed. The original panels have since been restored to their places. (The clothed versions are on display elsewhere in the cathedral for historical interest.)

* Zigzagged on the Three Graces, on how they were portrayed over time. For instance, they were initially nude during the Classical Era, then they were covered with sheets in TheMiddleAges, then Botticelli's ''Primavera'' portrayed them with transparent underwear, and finally nude again by the 17th century.

* When Adam and Eve are depicted (especially in children's media), they're usually covered by leaves, flowers, GodivaHair, or [[SceneryCensor convenient trees and shrubs]].

* Zigzagged with [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite and Venus]]. The most famous artwork of them depicts them fully nude. Numerous films based on classical mythology - ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'', ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', ''Film/OneTouchOfVenus'', ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' -- feature her fully clothed. But some works will have her nude, though usually as a ShoutOut to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" -- ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}''.

This trope often comes into play with film or television adaptations of literature or comic books, since ideas about what is generally acceptable tend to differ among these media. This usually overlaps with PragmaticAdaptation. The human body [[BigBraToFill cannot usually replicate the impossibly perfect shapes of a drawing]]. Some outfits [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes are wildly impractical]], [[TheissTitillationTheory simply would not stay in place]] in a live-action context, or would simply look silly if replicated exactly. Excessive {{Fanservice}} can be distracting and take away from the intended artistic merit of the production. Also often invoked when working with child actors, because of laws regarding minors in show business, and the disastrous effect on viewership and the creators' careers in most of the world that would happen if a work got a reputation for sexualizing children.

* PlayedForDrama in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13583899/1/ Fairy Tail: Re-Written]]'' with Lucy. Her attempts to wear more revealing outfits like in canon are hindered by self-doubt and feelin slut-shamed by her father and his more toxic business partners. At most she can wear a skirt that reaches to her mid-thighs and a top that gently hugs her curves. Though it would still be scandalous by the terms of her old, aristocratic life.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' sees [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Miguel O'Hara]] AI assistant, Lyla, forgo her Creator/MarliynMonroe dress for a coat and pants.]]

* Much of the fanservice-esque attire of the female cast of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is toned down significantly in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant''. Just to name a few examples, Makoto wears her pre-battle attire from ''Chronophantasma'' rather than her normal {{stripperiffic}} attire, Noel wears ModestyShorts underneath her skirt, and Litchi's outfit, which normally leaves her bra exposed, completely covers her chest.

[[caption-width-right:350:From [[ComicBook/TeenTitans comic book]] [[{{Stripperific}} bombshell]] to [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans cartoon]] [[BareYourMidriff cutie]].]]

* Much of the fanservice-esque attire of the female cast of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is toned down significantly in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13701943/1/BlazBlue-Remnant-Alternative BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant]]''. Just to name a few examples, Makoto wears her pre-battle attire from ''Chronophantasma'' rather than her normal {{stripperiffic}} attire, Noel wears ModestyShorts underneath her skirt, and Litchi's outfit, which normally leaves her bra exposed, completely covers her chest.

* Misty, already mentioned in the Anime and Manga section, takes this one step further in ''FanFic/PokemonClefairyTales'' by wearing flesh-colored tights under her default anime outfit.

* ''Fanfic/{{Somnium}}'' depicts the women of Agrabah as more covered-up than they are in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' canon. There are a few exceptions, such as Princess Jasmine (though, even she doesn't dress like a BedlahBabe), but most wear veils.
* ''FanFic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Most incarnations of the ''Sonic'' universe have the vast majority of Mobians running around as [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animals]] at least and [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Half-Dressed Cartoon Animals]] at most, or following a PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales scheme. Here, every Mobian so far is [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully dressed]], or at the very least wears pants.
* Starfire's hero outfit in ''Fanfic/TheVirtueOfRevenge'' is more of a [[SensualSpandex skintight]] [[FormFittingWardrobe bodysuit]] and lacks the more {{Stripperiffic}} and revealing aspects of her cartoon and comic versions such as BareYourMidriff and AbsoluteCleavage respectively. Being Starfire, she's still the resident MsFanservice.

* ''Fanfic/MyBloodyAcademia'': In general, much of the canonical nudity of ''Kill La Kill'' is heavily toned down or even outright removed.
** Ryuko's first hero outfit, which resembles Senketsu, covers almost all her skin and isn't {{stripperiffic}} compared to her fully synchronized Kamui.
** Nui's villain outfit here covers a majority of her skin, where as canonically it left her legs, arms, and cleavage exposed.
** Ragyo wears business attire similar to the Queen Crimson from ''VideoGame/{{Helltaker}}'' rather than the revealing AbsoluteCleavage outfit she wore canonically.

** Of course, it turns out that [[https://otakuusamagazine.com/no-final-fantasy-vii-remake-didnt-shrink-tifas-boobs/ Tifa's breast size wasn't]] [[https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06/21/ff7-final-fantasy-7-remake-tifa-isnt-getting-a-smaller-chest-just-a-proper-bra reduced as people claimed.]]

* Cammy from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' makes a [[https://lh6.ggpht.com/-23EWdFbu-Jc/UjvHgrhsvkI/AAAAAAAAOV8/cR-uxRkT1qg/Cammy-DETONA-RALPH_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 cameo]] in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' alongside Chun-Li but you'll notice she appears to be wearing green leggings opposed to games where she just [[ShesGotLegs shows off]] her naked gams all the time. The reason behind this is clear, it's a Creator/{{Disney}} movie they aren't gonna let a female character go around baring her buttocks, no matter little screen presence she gets.

* Much of the fanservice-esque attire of the female cast of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is toned down significantly in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13701943/1/BlazBlue-Remnant-Alternative BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant]]''. Just to name a few examples, Makoto wears her pre-battle attire from ''Chronophantasma'' rather than her normal {{stripperiffic}} attire, Noel wears ModestyShorts underneath her skirt, and Litchi outfit, which normally leaves her bra exposed, completely covers her chest.

* Much of the fanservice-esque attire of the female cast of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is toned down significantly in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13701943/1/BlazBlue-Remnant-Alternative BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant]]''. Just to name a few examples, Makoto wears her pre-battle attire from ''Chronophantasma'' rather than her normal {{stripperiffic}} attire, Noel wears ModestyShorts underneath her skirt, and Litchi outfit, which normally leaves her bra exposed, completely covers her chest.

* ''Fanfic/LXGTempestRewrite'': The Lunites are given clothes to match [[Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon their source material]].

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* [[AdaptationalModesty/{{Film}} Film - Live-Action]]

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[[folder: Films - Animation]]

* In ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' story, mermaids are depicted the way they traditionally are--topless. In the [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Disney adaptation]], Ariel and the other mermaids wear {{Seashell Bra}}s, with an exception being Ariel's daughter Melody in the sequel (who wears a shirt because she was transformed from a human into a mermaid).

* In the Disney film ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', the title character is depicted as a nubile young woman wearing a buckskin dress. When she met John Smith in real life, she was a child and she was wearing, well, [[NationalGeographicNudity nothing]]. In her society, children customarily went about nude, weather permitting until they reached puberty (and while we're at it, their heads were shaved bald too). And if she were the age which she's depicted as in the film, she would have still been topless.

[[folder: Other]]
* Zigzagged on the Three Graces, on how they were portrayed over time. For instance, they were initially nude during the Classical Era, then they were covered with sheets in TheMiddleAges, then Botticelli's ''Primavera'' portrayed them with transparent underwear, and finally nude again by the 17th century.
* Poked at with the mock SaturdayMorningCartoon of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', where Dr. Manhattan (typically nude in the graphic novel and movie) is given some briefs to wear. It's all part of the absurdity of trying to make a famously dark story LighterAndSofter.
* It's commonly believed among biblical scholars that [[Literature/TheBible Jesus]] was naked on the cross. But just try to find a painting that depicts him that way, even from the permissive Renaissance period that gave us Michaelangelo's ''David''. Averted in the highly controversial ''Die Kreuzigung Christi'' (1888-1891) by Max Klinger.
** When Adam and Eve are depicted (especially in children's media), they're usually covered by leaves, flowers, GodivaHair, or [[SceneryCensor convenient trees and shrubs]].
* In Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' and ''The Second Jungle Book'', Mowgli goes about naked in the jungle, as is made clear not only in the text but also by some illustrations, including the early ones produced by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. However, in many later illustrations and pretty much all adaptations into comics, animation or live-action film he is shown wearing a loincloth.
* For the ''Super Hero Squad'' toyline and [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow related]] [[VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline media]], any female character wearing somewhat revealing clothes had their costumes modified to cover them up more (mainly a layer of bodystocking to cover bare thighs - Ms. Marvel and Storm are notable cases).
* For Creator/{{MTV}}'s Spring Break broadcasts, some women who come to the beach/concert wearing ''particularly'' skimpy bathing suits [[note]] As in, the kind that show ''way'' more than the FCC allows to be shown on TV [[/note]] are variously given a bathing suit with more coverage, edited out of footage, or covered with a DigitalBikini.
* Mermaids were commonly depicted with bare breasts or else GodivaHair in art. Starting in the 20th century, mermaids received either a SeashellBra or OrganicBra in later media.
* Zigzagged with [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite and Venus]]. The most famous artwork of them depicts them fully nude. Numerous films based on classical mythology - ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'', ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', ''Film/OneTouchOfVenus'', ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' - feature her fully clothed. But some works will have her nude, though usually as a ShoutOut to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" - ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}''.
* Similarly zigzagged with her son Eros and Cupid. Nearly all Ancient Greek art of him depicts him as a handsome naked adult, but later artwork made him a {{Putto}} (a winged child). While these images didn't always cover him up, later art definitely started to, putting him in a diaper in his childlike form, while those few modern adaptations that make him an adult usually depict him wearing a chiton or a loincloth but rarely depict him nude.
* On the subject of Myth/ClassicalMythology, Hermes tended to wear the traditional attire for young messengers in Ancient Greece--namely a chlamys (a long-ish cape) and nothing else, barring his signature winged sandals and helmet, of course. One passage describing his appearance even describes him as "naked except for a messenger's cloak". Naturally, most adaptations depict him covered up a bit more, though he ''does'' frequently get portrayed [[WalkingShirtlessScene without a shirt]].
* In the aftermath of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, Grecian-influenced sheer gowns became the thing for women's fashion, the trend lasting through UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars and RegencyEngland. By the Victorian era, this fashion was looked back upon as a scandalous OldShame, which presented a problem for painters and artists wishing to depict the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The result is Victorian art in which the women of the Napoleonic era are given [[HollywoodCostuming anachronistic clothing more suited to Victorian standards of propriety]]. An example is ''Literature/VanityFair'', which was illustrated with the characters wearing contemporary Victorian fashions because the author didn't have "the heart to disfigure my heroes and heroines by costumes so hideous." Another example is the 1868 painting ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Henry-Nelson-O%27Neil_Before-Waterloo_1868.jpg Before Waterloo]]''.

** Starting in 2016, actresses who play--sorry, [[InsistentTerminology are friends with]]--[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]] now wear a blue floor-length dress that covers their arms and midriff. Disney ''officially'' said it was to make her outfit more culturally accurate to Middle Eastern modesty standards, but in reality, it was because Jasmine was subject to far more [[AllMenArePerverts unwanted male attention]] than the other Princesses.
* Ancient Minoan art makes [[https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&channel=trow&biw=1252&bih=600&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=ZIw4XbivKt2AjLsPtN-OyAg&q=minoan+woman&oq=minoan+woman&gs_l=img.3..0i10i19j0i8i30i19.34485.35590..35933...0.0..0.120.460.0j4......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0j0i30j0i5i30j0i8i30.67WGxIoPsIg&ved=0ahUKEwi48e3hgc7jAhVdAGMBHbSvA4kQ4dUDCAY&uact=5 abundantly clear]] that women's dress left the breasts completely exposed. Modern media like ''ComicBook/AgeOfBronze'' and ''Atlantis: Death of a World, Birth of a Legend'' reproduce the fashion in fine detail except for [[http://age-of-bronze.com/images/aob_cvr_7.jpg adding]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/10/81/00108157eb6caa0dca3f87a9bff637f1.png an undershirt]] over the problematic area.

[[folder: Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' does this with several characters. Starfire is even more covered up than in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', wearing a long dress that only slightly shows skin. ComicBook/WonderWoman wears jeans and ComicBook/PoisonIvy wears a dress with pants underneath. The design changes are justified considering the characters are high schoolers, and because this version of Poison Ivy is a [[ShrinkingViolet shy but kind-hearted girl,]] rather than TheVamp.
* The {{Edutainment}} series based on ''Anime/{{Pokemon|TheSeries}}'', ''Pokémon Learning League'' gave Dawn longer sleeves and tights under her skirt.

* Cammy from ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' makes a [[https://lh6.ggpht.com/-23EWdFbu-Jc/UjvHgrhsvkI/AAAAAAAAOV8/cR-uxRkT1qg/Cammy-DETONA-RALPH_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 cameo]] in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' alongside Chun-Li but you'll notice she appears to be wearing green leggings opposed to games where she just [[ShesGotLegs shows off]] her naked gams all the time. The reason behind this is clear, it's a Creator/{{Disney}} movie they aren't gonna let a female character go around baring her buttocks, no matter little screen presence she gets.

[[folder: Fan Works]]

* Misty, already mentioned above, takes this one step further in ''FanFic/PokemonClefairyTales'' by wearing flesh-colored tights under her default anime outfit.
* ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'': Unlike canon where Momo wears an AbsoluteCleavage baring leotard, her hero costume instead modified leather pants and jacket with lots of zippers along with a motorcycle helmet.
* ''Fanfic/LXGTempestRewrite'': The Lunites are given clothes to match [[Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon their source material]]
* ''Fanfic/{{Somnium}}'' depicts the women on Agrabah as more covered-up than they are in ''Aladdin'' canon. There are a few exceptions, such as Princess Jasmine (though, even she doesn't dress like a BedlahBabe), but most wear veils.
* ''FanFic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Most incarnations of the ''Sonic'' universe have the vast majority of Mobians running around as {{Accessory Wearing Cartoon Animal}}s at least and {{Half Dressed Cartoon Animal}}s at most, or following a PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales scheme. Here, every Mobian so far is [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully dressed]], or at the very least wears pants.
* Starfire's hero outfit in ''Fanfic/TheVirtueOfRevenge'' is more of a [[SensualSpandex skintight]] [[FormFittingWardrobe bodysuit]] and lacks the more {{stripperiffic}} and revealing aspects of her cartoon and comic versions such as BareYourMidriff and AbsoluteCleavage respectively. Being Starfire, she's still the resident MsFanservice.

** Ryuko with Junketsu, while the least {{stripperiffic}} of the Kamui, is described as covering Ryuko on every inch of skin here instead of exposing the sides of her body like in canon.

* The {{Edutainment}} series based on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Pokémon Learning League'' gave Dawn longer sleeves and tights under her skirt.

* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' does this with several characters. Starfire is even more covered up than in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', wearing a long dress that only slightly shows skin. ComicBook/WonderWoman wears jeans and ComicBook/PoisonIvy wears a dress with pants underneath. The design changes are justified considering the characters are high schoolers.

* In both the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] and [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] versions of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', the members of the Amazoness Quartet wore decidedly {{Age Inappropriate Outfit}}s that resembled bras or bikini tops. In the sole ''Theatre/SeraMyu'' entry where they appeared, the girls were heavily designed so that their outfits now covered their torsos and arms.

* ''Fanfic/CodePrimeR1Rebellion'': The first scene of C.C. in Lelouch's house, specifically the one where she decides to sleep in Lelouch's bed (and forces him to sleep on the couch) implies that she isn't wearing anything under her straight jacket. Here, she IS wearing some underwear (which doesn't cover much, if the narration is anything to go by).