History Main / RainbowPimpGear

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' is [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 particularly guilty of this]] due its pseudo-cartoony style and initial poor itemization of gear, meaning it was very easy to build an efficient but stupid ''clownsuit''. This was particularly prevalent in the first expansion, leading to "Outland Clown Syndrome". This is usually only avoided in druids (whose shapeshifted forms mostly hide gear) and arguably trolls (who are stylistically gaudy)...

* MortalKombatVsDcUniverse : full stop

* ''{{Fallout}} 3'' and its expansions contain alot of gear that can be just plain goofy looking all by itself, like the tribal power armor with its green color and attached skulls and such, powdered wigs, Abraham Lincoln's tophat, samurai armor, cowboy hats, civil war caps, motorcycle helmets, tinted sunglasses and assorted raider bondage gear. Late game you tend to move toward a handful of proper looking unique armor sets but low level lone wanderers are very likely to look like total jackasses.

* ''{{Tekken}} 6'' can end up like this in its Scenario Campaign, due to various clothes you can [[AndYourRewardIsClothes find]] giving you special boosts. Though, this does vary character to character, as one characters clothing sets can end up mixing alot better than anothers.

* Completely averted in ''GuildWars'', where you get to choose the stats on your armour with runes, thus letting you use whatever armour skin you want. Note that this hasn't stopped the hideously ugly Chaos Gloves from being used with armour sets that clash garishly with them, but that's more an issue of mindless epeen. Note also that in older times, stats were tied to skins, but the creation of runes stopped this.

* ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' would suffer from this if equipped "threads" actually changed the appearance of the character sprites. As it is, the characters' appearances never change, saving the player from the image of a fifteen-year-old boy wearing a dress, high heels, fashionably distressed jeans, and a potted plant.
** That said, this trope was still thoroughly mocked in the tie-in comics.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' is [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 particularly guilty of this]] due its psuedo-cartoony style and initial poor itemization of gear, meaning it was very easy to build an efficient but stupid ''clownsuit''. This was particularly prevalent in the first expansion, leading to "Outland Clown Syndrome". This is usually only avoided in druids (whose shapeshifted forms mostly hide gear) and arguably trolls (who are stylistically gaudy)...

* This tends to be quite prevalent throughout the ''MonsterHunter'' community, especially the [[StopHavingFunGuys SHFG community]] - each set has abilities that kick in once a certain amount of points are accrued, but the rainbow pimps equip gear for abilities alone and socket out the downsides whenever possible. Kinda makes you wonder...

** This troper, and likely many others, have [[PowerPerversionPotential used this]] [[RuleOfFunny for our own amusement]]. Especially since you can customise the colour of most stuff, too. For example, an orange-skilled guy with a purple afro, green facial hair, soem armour or other (can't recall at the moment), and (if you break his pants), pink undies.

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' technically averts this, since the only things that affect the appearance of your avatar are complete outfits and a couple of miscellaneous items like the insane tophat, but its gear would take this trope UpToEleven if you could actually see how it looked because of how ridiculous it generally is. For instance, using examples from this troper's inventory, you could be wearing a ninja mask, a bra, and spangly mariachi pants, while wielding a giant spoon and accessorizing with a cape made out of a towel, some combat boots made of blackberries, and a stuffed shoulder parrot.

** Of course, this means that you can create your ''own'' brands of eye-hurtingly-bad color schemes. Purple and yellow camouflage with bright blue trim? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Hell ''yes'']].

** Of course, this means that you can create your ''own'' brands of eye-hurtingly-bad color schemes. Purple and yellow camouflage with bright blue trim? Hell ''yes''.

** [[http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j46/Edmania/untitled-1.jpg From left to right, the first player of Maple Story wears standard equipment (worst statistics), a player who wears special equipment (mindlessly overpowered in statistics), a player who has a sensible sense of fashion from using cash items to cover their somewhat not-so-great appearance while at the same time reasonably using their money, and the last one is someone who you can't even tell what they are because they drown themselves in absurd combinations which they believe is stylish]].

** In a recent strip it turns out she's not only been carrying them around, but she also [[spoiler: had them dyed to go with her [[ArtUpgrade new armour]]]].

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' is [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 particularly guilty of this]] due its psuedo-cartoony style and initial poor itemization of gear, meaning it was very easy to build an efficient but stupid ''clownsuit''. This is usually only avoided in druids (whose shapeshifted forms mostly hide gear) and arguably trolls (who are stylistically gaudy)...

[[WorldOfWarcraft http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rpg.jpg]]
[[caption-width:237:Dream gear, fashion nightmare.]]

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' is [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 particularly guilty of this]] due its psuedocartoony style and popularized the term ''clownsuit''. This is usually only avoided in druids (whose shapeshifted forms mostly hide gear) and arguably trolls (who are stylistically gaudy)...

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' "clownsuits" are particularly guilty of this. Parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 this]] ''PennyArcade'' strip.

*This very trope was mentioned on the {{Tibia}} [[http://forum.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&postid=28084609#post28084609 forums]]. The game itself suffers from this kind of gear as well, just take a look at the so-called [[http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Blocking_Set blocking set]].

* ''{{Fallout}} 3'' and it's expansions contain alot of gear that can be just plain goofy looking all by itself, like the tribal power armor with it's green color and attached skulls and such, powdered wigs, Abraham Lincoln's tophat, samurai armor, cowboy hats, civil war caps, motorcycle helmets, tinted sunglasses and assorted raider bondage gear. Late game you tend to move toward a handful of proper looking unique armor sets but low level lone wanderers are very likely to look like total jackasses.