She has more clothes but is still as poisonous as ever.
Examples of Adaptational Modesty in Western Animation.
- The Caribara adaptation of Astro Boy depicts Astro as fully-clothed. His traditional design is shirtless and with him wearing shorts, though he does wear clothes under various circumstances.
- In The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Natasha's signature low-cut halter dress from the original series is now a sleeved dress with a high neckline.
- Arcane: Downplayed with Jinx's outfit; while it's still revealing, it isn't as revealing as the bikini top, shorts, and single stocking she wears in League of Legends. It's also Justified, as the length of the Time Skip between Acts 1 and 2 is ambiguous, meaning that she may be 18 at this point in the story. Her redesign also helps her fit the aesthetic of the setting better, given that her default attire in the game fits a more modern-day aesthetic than the Steampunk aesthetic of Piltover and Zaun.
- In The Avengers: United They Stand, Tigra has traded her bikini in for a tank top and briefs.
- The Batman:
- Catwoman wears a more modest and practical-looking outfit compared to some of the ones she wears in the comics and other adaptations, which are usually complete with a Navel-Deep Neckline and Combat Stilettos.
- Poison Ivy's one-piece bathing suit made of leaves is replaced with a short green dress (also made of leaves) and she doesn't use kisses to kill/brainwash her targets. Justified since she is a teenager in this show.
- Castlevania:
- Carmilla, when she isn't depicted as a disembodied head, in the games is at the very least always rocking a Navel-Deep Neckline plus other Stripperiffic attire as a sexy vampire lady or is even completely naked, depending on the game. In the Netflix show however Carmilla is covered up in a modest dress and shoulder pads. In Season 4 Carmilla has a more sexualized outfit that bares her legs and cleavage, although it's still tamer than a lot of Carmilla's outfits (or lack of outfits) from the games.
- Trevor in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse has a Cohan the Barbarian-esque outfit same as his great grandson Simon. In the show, Trevor is fully clothed, though later games such as Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania: Judgment would also depict a more covered-up Trevor, so the animated series likely just borrowed design choices from those titles instead.
- Averted in Season 3, which makes a lot of the risqué stuff from the games look as tame as Kid Dracula in comparison. It's made clear Trevor and Sypha are making love, Hector and Lenore have explicit sex and Alucard has an explicit threesome with Sumi and Taka, though unlike the former example, the two latter scenes get nastily subverted with Lenore enslaving Hector to her will and Sumi and Taka are just tricking poor Alucard and try to kill him.
- Also inverted with Alucard's Season 4 outfit, in the games namely Castlevania: Symphony of the Night he wears an 18th-century jacket with a cravat around his neck along with a cape. In the fourth season Alucard keeps the cape but also wears an open shirt, very similar to Sephiroth to show off his pecs and stomach.
- The Darkstalkers animated series gave Felicia more fur to cover up her breasts (as well as a brooch over her cleavage), and while Morrigan still kept her Impossibly-Low Neckline, the Navel-Deep Neckline aspect of her costume was done away with
◊. - Due to being a High School AU, DC Super Hero Girls has multiple examples:
- Zatanna doesn't wear her trademark fishnet tights.
- Star Sapphire is known for wearing pretty Stripperific outfits in the comics, but here she instead sports a princess-like gown.
- Likewise, Poison Ivy's look is toned down when compared to many of her comic outfits.
- In the Dragon's Lair cartoon, Princess Daphne's clothes change to make the show more kid-friendly and because she's more active than she was in the game. Instead of a revealing one-piece swimsuit and a transparent veil, she wears a simple dress.
- Whenever Gamora appears in animation, such as Silver Surfer: The Animated Series and the Marvel Universe shows (Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.), she's more covered up, the Silver Surfer having her in a full body suit and the latter series having her skimpy bikini-like outfit replaced with a leotard. The Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) TV show just reuses Gamora's outfit from the movie, which carries into subsequent appearances in the other Marvel Universe shows.
- Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon: Terri Cloth always appears fully clothed, when her trading card depicted her wearing only an underdress due to wiping her face off with a washcloth while in the bathroom.
- In Harley Quinn (2019), Poison Ivy is heavily desexualized compared to most adult versions of the character (it's understandable when she's portrayed as a teenager). Her revealing attire is replaced with a leather jacket and pants, her flirtiness is replaced with an all-out disdain for most humans, and even her Love Potion (an external formula and not her usual pheromones) is imperfect and turns people into plants, so she doesn't use it.
- Justice League Action features this both due to traditional reasons and due to going Revisiting the Roots. For example, Harley Quinn wears a modified version of her classic outfit rather than the more casual design introduced with the New 52. Several characters, such as Zatanna, received a decrease in chest size and less stripperific designs.
- An in-universe example in Kim Possible: An episode has a movie about Kim being made where Rufus (a naked mole rat) is made to wear clothes on account of the movie being a family movie.
- Queen La when she shows up in The Legend of Tarzan is considerably more modest than she was in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original books - where she was completely nude. Here she wears a cape and Fur Bikini.
- Hanna-Barbera's series of The Little Rascals has Darla wear a knee-length skirt. In the original Our Gang films, her skirts were much shorter.
- Masters of the Universe:
- Downplayed in The New Adventures of He-Man. Due to the more futuristic nature of the setting, He-Man exchanges his barbarian loincloth for a pair of pants. He is still a Walking Shirtless Scene however.
- In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021), "He-Man's" outfit is basically just what Adam wears in his normal, slimmer form, as opposed to a pair of furry underpants and a metal Chest Insignia like in the original show. The skimpiest thing about it is a lack of sleeves.
- Played for Laughs in Mickey Mouse (2013): despite using the characters' original designs, Minnie Mouse is wearing a shirt—just one the same color as her fur.
- My Adventures with Superman:
- Livewire, in both the comics and the previous Superman cartoon that she originates from, dresses in a leotard with a lightning bolt shaped Navel-Deep Neckline and thigh-high boots. Here, she dresses in more conservative clothing such as tactical gear and technologically advanced armor for combat. This is rather justified by the Adaptation Personality Change she's received for the series: unlike her traditional counterpart, this Livewire isn't an Attention Whore and is trying to keep a low profile, so it makes more sense for her to wear clothing that isn't designed to catch people's attention.
- In the comics, Silver Banshee dresses in a low-cut leotard with a Navel-Deep Neckline and thigh-high boots. Here, she dresses in a long coat and pants.
- Noddy: A minor example with adaptations based on the books "Noddy Goes To Toyland" and "Hurrah For Little Noddy". In his book debut "Noddy Goes To Toyland", Noddy doesn't wear any clothing until Big Ears has him visit Toytown for the first time. The 1970s adaptation shows Noddy fully clothed minus his hat.
- A much noteworthy example is episodes that adapted Hurrah For Little Noddy where the Goblins (Golliwogs in older versions) only steal Noddy's car and hat (as seen in Toyland Adventures and the 70s series). The original version not only features the Goblins stealing his car and blue hat, but Noddy's shoes, trousers, and red shirt.
- Seven Little Monsters: One, Three, Five and Four are depicted wearing clothes, when they all went naked in the original book.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: She-Ra's outfit covers up her chest and has Modesty Shorts. Adora and most of the other characters wear practical outfits, including pants, compared to the leotards of the original series.
- Sonic Prime: The character posters reveal that Amy's dress is modified, dumping the open back and lowering the flair on her skirt, and Rouge has a brand-new outfit that shows no skin, and a smaller bust.
- For her appearances in Spider-Man (1981), Spider-Man: The Animated Series, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Marvel's Spider-Man, Black Cat lacks cleavage in her costumes.
- A Tale Dark And Grimm: In the books, Hansel is at least shirtless as a werewolf and explicitly Naked on Revival. In the cartoon, he's fully clothed as a wolf and has inexplicable underwear when he's cut out of the wolf skin.
- Teen Titans:
- In Teen Titans (2003), Starfire's outfit shows her midriff as well as some Zettai Ryouiki, but it's positively tame compared to the beyond-Emma-Frost-level Stripperific outfits of her comic book counterpart. This outfit notably also removes the high heels from her boots.
- In Teen Titans Go!, the episode "Baby Hands" has a flashback segment where everyone is drawn in their classic outfits. While truer to the comics, Starfire's costume is still more modest than the Cleavage Doorway from the source material. In "Classic Titans", which is inspired by Superfriends and an obscure anti-drug PSA featuring most of the Titans, the characters all wear their early 1980s uniforms again. Starfire's outfit is modified into a leotard by filling out the middle portion, reflecting how she appeared in the PSA. This is repeated when she meets her co-creator, George Pérez, in a later episode, with her briefly being drawn in a more modest but otherwise faithful recreation of Perez's style.
- In a prior New Teen Titan short for DC Nation "Turn Back The Clock", Mad Mod briefly transformed the Titans back into their 1990s and 1980s incarnations. Starfire's 80s outfit was once again more modest than what she actually wore in the comics, but was still skimpy enough that she covered herself up in embarrassment.
- Starfire's 2015 solo comics series recursively adopted a costume very similar to her cartoon one, as part of a general response to fan opinion that her earlier New 52-era design and characterisation had veered too far towards pure Ms. Fanservice.
- Taking a cue from other modern adaptations that base it on Tim Drake's original costume, Robin's outfit includes pants rather than his traditional green shorts. He does revert back to the original Dick Grayson shorts in the aforementioned 1980s sequences but isn't bothered by it like Starfire.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Renet's leotard has leggings added to it.
- In the Time Warp Trio books, The Book randomly decides that you Can't Take Anything with You when the boys go back to cavemen days, leaving them naked except for Sam's Nerd Glasses and Fred's baseball hat. (Joe got to keep a straw.) In the TV episode they go back to cavemen days without any problem (which is good, because Jodie was with them).
- In Total Drama, some of the girls wear short skirts or midriff-baring tops. In Total DramaRama, when they're aged down to preschoolers, the costume are changed up to cover more skin. Izzy's skirt is longer and she no longer has a hole in her top, Gwen's shirt no longer sports a Cleavage Window, and the girls' shirts now completely cover their midriffs.
- Dagger in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012). In her original costume, the grey portion was white, while the white part... wasn't. This also holds true for Marvel's Spider-Man, where the cleavage-revealing cutout on her costume is filled in.
- X-Men: The Animated Series:
- The white blouse of Lady Deathstrike's outfit has a much higher neckline than her comicbook counterpart who sported a Navel-Deep Neckline.
- In The Dark Phoenix Saga episodes, Jean Grey's Black Queen outfit has leggings added to it to try and make it a little less racy.
- Surprisingly, Emma Frost, the poster girl for Stripperifficness, retains her iconic white S&M outfit (which was also present in the Pryde of the X-Men pilot). Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) also keeps her in a very revealing outfit, though this time it's her X-Men uniform from the Joss Whedon run rather than her old bondage gear.
- X-Men '97 marks the introduction of the Goblin Queen, whose Stripperific comic outfit is retooled to fit the TV-14 age rating. The costume itself becomes more of a bustier, and while her cleavage is visible, the Underboobs are removed.
- Young Justice (2010):
- Zatanna wears a skirt instead of her iconic stage uniform costume up until the second season's time-skip, where she is an adult.
- As in other modern adaptations, all of the Robins have long pants from the beginning.
- The original El Dorado in Superfriends was pretty much a Walking Shirtless Scene. In YJ, he wears a jacket.
- Sergeant Marvel's costume includes pants, unlike the costume she wears in the comics as Mary Marvel, which instead has a skirt. Her costume as Black Mary in The Stinger of the Season 4 finale also undergoes the same treatment, being far less revealing than any of her previous Evil Costume Switches in the comics.
- Similarly to Black Mary, Kara Zor-El's costume as one of the Furies covers much more of her body compared to the black bra and skintight pants that were her Fury costume in previous depictions such as in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, and Darkseid's ending in Injustice 2.
- In the series premiere, Superboy was wearing a white spandex suit in the tube during his creation. In some other adaptations, he would wear a black speedo (like in the 2003 Teen Titans Comics note ) or appear completely naked (like in the 1994 comics or Titans (2018)).
