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9	[[quoteright:250:[[VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/navel_outline_8.png]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:250:I've heard of PaintedOnPants, but this is just ridiculous!]]
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15	A pretty standard form of fanservice ([[AlwaysFemale usually for sufficiently attractive female characters]]) is to have a character wear an outfit that draws attention to her navel, either by [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine baring the midriff]] entirely or having an opening [[NavelWindow just large enough]] to reveal it. This trope accomplishes the same effect without actual exposure of the navel - instead, the outline of the character's navel is apparent through her clothes.
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17	Relegated almost exclusively to fiction, this trope frequently carries the implication that the character's top is [[SensualSpandex significantly tight]]. However, it is not unheard of for creators to do this for loose clothing. Expect to be NippledAndDimed even in the case of the former.
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19	Physics dictate that this trope almost never occurs in [[RealityIsUnrealistic real life]] (unless the person has an outie), even with a FormFittingWardrobe. This is because a tight wrapping follows the protrusions, not the concavities, of the body it wraps. In order for this to happen, the navel would need to create some kind of suction to pull in the shirt. However, a similar effect can be achieved via SexySoakedShirt or otherwise wearing see-through garments.
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21	Compare and contrast with FormFittingWardrobe, LeotardOfPower, SensualSpandex, and PaintedOnPants. For related navel fanservice tropes, see BareMidriffsAreFeminine and NavelWindow.
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29	* Merry Nightmare from ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'' has a visible navel outline when she wears a one-piece school swimsuit in the BeachEpisode. Protagonist Yumeji complains of the swimsuit [[LampshadeHanging covering her midriff]]; Merry's bare stomach is perhaps the most emphasized part of her usual design, especially in the anime, which frequently displayed gratuitous close-up shots of her belly button for fanservice.
30	* Miyu Edelfelt in ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' has one in her MagicalGirl attire.
31	* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Miu's outfit of choice is a LeotardOfPower that perfectly shows off (among other things) the outline of her belly button.
32	* Mount Lady sometimes sports one in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''.
33	* Elizabeth's first uniform in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' usually shows her navel outright (as it's chosen by ChivalrousPervert Meliodas), but on the occasion that she's positioned in a manner such that it does not, her navel outline will usually still be visible through it.
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* ComicBook/PowerGirl often has this, depending on how much fanservice the illustrator intends to invoke.
38	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Both Diana and her twin ComicBook/{{Nubia}} have been drawn by certain artists so that their navel is visible through their costumes. With Nubia it was visible through ''armor''.
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42	* The spandex portion of Cecily Campbell's ChainmailBikini armor does this in ''Literature/TheSacredBlacksmith''.
43	* Steyr of ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'' sports this as part of her status as TheVamp, despite her dress being loose otherwise. Pacifica's armor also inexplicably shows an indentation where her navel is.
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47	* ''Toys/MegamiDevice'': Almost all kits have an option between a skin-colored belly plate or an alternate part matching the color of the girl's clothes to cover more skin. As the two plates are usually the same part, just in different colors, the "covered" belly plate still has the navel sculpted into it, resulting in this trope.
48	* ''Toys/ThirtyMinutesMissions'': Rishetta and Tiasha, the first two kits released for the ''30 Minutes Sisters'' line-up, have navels sculpted into their stomach parts despite their midriffs being covered. When those kits were retooled for Alka-Carti and Far-Farina respectively, the parts were recoloured to skin-tone to represent an exposed midriff.
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52	* Kaguya Nanbu, Xiaomu, Aschen Brodel, and pretty much every female character in ''Videogame/EndlessFrontier'' who do not show their belly button outright sport this. A source of HypocriticalHumor, given the latter's tendency to make fun of their castmates for showing their navels.
53	* ''Franchise/FateSeries'':
54	** Medusa in her typical attire from the sometimes has this DependingOnTheArtist. Her final ascension in ''Videogame/{{Fate Grand Order}}'', which is embarrassingly revealing to her, always sports this.
55	** Scáthach plays this straight as a result of her SensualSpandex.
56	** Altera's first ascension sports this, while her usual attire and other ascensions bare her midriff outright.
57	** Ushiwakamaru and BB in the non-bikini variations of their summer variants play this straight.
58	** Miyu Edelfelt in her second ascension, reflecting her MagicalGirl attire from her main series.
59	* Tharja's SensualSpandex shows this in her normal attire in ''VideoGame/FireEmblem''.
60	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Mommy Mearest features this in her Week 4 attire.
61	* In a rare case of this trope being censored, Fischl of ''Videogame/GenshinImpact'' formerly had one in her usual leotard.
62	* ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'': A handful of the Valkyries have body-hugging battlesuits that create this effect, such as Kiana as White Comet, Fu Hua as Shadow Knight, and Hua in her original outfit as a MANTIS soldier in the Previous Era.
63	* While most magical girls in ''[[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Magia Record]]'' with visible navels have them because of either baring their midriff or having a NavelWindow on their outfit, main characters Iroha Tamaki and Yachiyo Nanami have outfits that are form-fitting enough around their middles for their navels to be visible.
64	* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'': Zig-zagged with Samus in her [[SensualSpandex Zero Suit]]. As Samus taking her armor off to provide some amount of fanservice for faster completion times is a series tradition, the introduction of the Zero Suit in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' changed the game, with Samus now canonically shown to have a skintight blue undersuit beneath her armor (or more accurately, the armor forms around the suit). However, since [[DependingOnTheWriter no one can seem to agree]] on whether the suit conforms to Samus' body shape, or if it is something with a static shape that she is simply [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty enough to stretch]], we get games where Samus in her Zero Suit ''does'' [[https://i.redd.it/u32wifs5w3mz.jpg possess a navel outline]], such as ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'', ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', or ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', or games where she ''doesn't'' possess one, like ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', or even its introductory game ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission''. However, it is worth noting that the three listed former games are the three newest games the Zero Suit has made an appearance, so it remains to be seen if this is the standard design going forward.
65	* ''VideoGame/MetaloidOrigin'': [[GamerChick Erika]] sports a LeotardOfPower which prominenently features this trope.
66	* ''Videogame/{{Shantae}}''
67	** Trope image Vinegar of the ''Shantae'' series is a significant example; she is literally the only young female character who does not show her navel outright in a series whose calling-card is cute girls showing their midriffs. Instead, the outline of her navel shows through her top.
68	** Shantae herself has one in her Officer attire from ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'', which is the only costume she's donned that does not bare her midriff outright.
69	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
70	** Cammy White has had one since her introduction in ''[[Videogame/{{Street Fighter II}} Super Street Fighter II Turbo]]'' as a result of her LeotardOfPower. It survived her [[https://i.redd.it/sedqyctz8j1y.jpg censoring]] in ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'' but was considered for removal.
71	** R Mika did not have one in ''Videogame/StreetFighterAlpha3'' but does in her new attire in ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'', despise her navel being the only part of her midriff her outfit actually covers.
72	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
73	** Zero Suit Samus did not have one in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' but does starting in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Interestingly, this coincided with the introduction of her midriff-baring alternate costumes.
74	** Pyra also has one in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''
75	* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
76	** In Core Design's ''Videogame/TombRaiderLastRevelation'' and ''Videogame/TombRaiderChronicles'', Lara's navel is visible through her main outfit.
77	** Many of Lara's outfits in the first Crystal Dynamics trilogy prominently feature this, especially the Biker outfits from ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' and the Classic outfit from ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld''.
78	* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': The Lost Vanguard class outfit does this to everyone who wears it, both male and female.
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82	* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': You'd think at first that this trope applies to Distracterella's extremely skintight outfit... except there's a very good reason for that, [[spoiler:since [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=strip-51 it isn't really an outfit]] but actually BodyPaint]].
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