Ms Fanservice / The DCU

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Examples of Ms. Fanservice in The DCU.

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• Vikki Vale in All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder spent the first few pages dressed in nothing but a pink bra and undies talking about how Superman is the "Man of Steel" for other reasons and all they had was a flying bat. There was even a panel that focused solely on her butt. When she found out that she had a date with Bruce Wayne, she ended up in a very revealing dress.
• Aquaman:
  • Arthur's wife Mera doesn't bare much skin outside of the occasional Navel-Deep Neckline, but she wears a suit that hugs her curves very tightly.
  • Ya'Wara on the other hand is a Walking Swimsuit Scene and wears nothing else.
  • Tula aka Aquagirl can also be this, just see her Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox portrayal.
• Black Canary and her famous fishnets costume. As noted in Depending on the Artist, some artists have her outfit showing plenty of cleavage. Occasionally the bottom of her uniform will be drawn as either being a thong at the back, or at the least be shown to be riding up quite a bit to emphasize her behind.
• Many characters from Batman:
  • Barbara Gordon "Batgirl" is often described as having a buxom frame, and so she does. She's often designed as a Hot Librarian or with Nerds Are Sexy in mind. Despite that, however, she's still a tame example. In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Barbara shows up almost naked in two scenes, though.
  • Selina Kyle/Catwoman is a woman who goes around in form-fitting costumes and spends a lot of her time flirting with everyone around her. Even before she wore her now trademark catsuit, she was still quite sexualized. As if to spell it out to readers, in Death of the Family she escapes a death trap that ripped up her outfit... and shows off an insane amount of skin!
  • Harley Quinn. Her iconic outfit is a very form-fitting jester suit that switches it out for what can best be described as a bikini designed to resemble her former appearance. In "Mad Love" she wears a see-through red negligee also. And in the New 52 universe her outfits are more incredibly revealing; this is lampshaded by Harley herself (in the Suicide Squad series), at one point referring to her look as a "stripper clown outfit". And in her solo series, she is often subject of Male Gaze out and In-Universe.
  • Poison Ivy is a very beautiful woman who has a very enticing body. She also tends not to wear anything, other than leaves and vines (along with outfits that she wears with green tights). In the New 52, she got a form-fitting outfit, but even that just amounts to plant spores and leaves hugging up on her body. Even when in battle, she usually speaks in a sultry tone, uses sexual innuendos, and takes stock Playboy Playmate poses while her plants fight for her.
  • Cassandra Cain doesn't strike as an example due to her default design being a skinny young girl covered in scars. Still, her suit really clings to her like anybody else, and when she's not drawn as a skinny girl covered in scars, she's usually drawn like this. The Cruise issue of her series was pretty bad for it though, with her wearing a bikini for most of it (a thong bikini from the look of it), and later doing her crazy martial arts skills while wearing a dress she shortened, inducing pretty blatant panty shots.
  • Huntress Helena Bertinelli is a very beautiful woman who tends to wear form-fitting and sexy costumes that highlight her voluptuous yet athletically toned body, toned stomach, buxom breasts, long toned legs, and nice rear end. The artists behind Birds of Prey seem to be pretty fond of her rear end as well though that's true for all the Birds.
  • Subverted with Stephanie Brown/Spoiler/Batgirl III. She's got a modest build, her Spoiler suit is designed with practical use in mind rather than sex appeal, while her Batgirl suit is just as practically designed, and most of her civilian appearances are in tomboyish conservative clothes. However, she briefly had a Thong of Shielding over her suit in place of the typical Underwear of Power, and while her suits are practical, they're usually just as skin tight as any other superhero suit, and just as susceptible to clothing damage as others. She was also heavily sexualized during the torture scene in ''War Games'' and her time as Robin, and her Batgirl series seemed quite fond of her in her bedroom wearing short shorts and showing off her butt as much as possible, leading to it being briefly lampshaded, with Oracle noting that people are currently getting a good view of her buttocks, or 'good side' as she put it, while they take pictures.
• Firestorm (DC Comics) has minor villainess Plastique, a gorgeous redhead terrorist with an explosive-laden catsuit. Most memorably, of course, was the way Firestorm defeated her by disintegrating her costume, carrying off her bombs to detonate safely, and undermining her attempted martyrdom and political statement by leaving the hapless villainess standing naked in front of live TV cameras while having a Naked Freak-Out and desperately trying covering herself.
• Green Lantern:
  • The Red Lantern Bleez. It's often been pointed out that she's frequently drawn in ways that emphasize her curvaceous rear end (though it's worth noting that this was most prominent when Ed Benes was drawing her).
  • The Green Lantern Corps itself has Arisia Rrab, an orange-skinned space babe with a very large chest and a flirtatious personality. Curiously, this trope was invoked by Arisia herself, as she wasn't initially depicted this way when introduced, being only a little girl when she received her ring. She then used it to age herself into an exotically beautiful young woman in order to pursue a relationship with Hal Jordan and even managed to become a supermodel very briefly.
  • The Sinestro Corps has Lyssa Drak, who is a scantily-clad blue-skinned babe and also qualifies as a Hot Librarian, since she keeps the Book of Parallax.
  • The Star Sapphires is a whole Corp of them, being all female and wearing uniforms that leave little to imagination. Primarily among them is Carol Ferris and Fatality.
• Justice League of America:
  • Ice had this problem during The Death of Superman, as a lot of action scenes had her oddly-used tank top portion of her uniform hiked over her chest.
  • Her friend Fire (Beatriz da Costa) is a more a straight example. She is mostly naked in flame form and when she's not using her flame powers, she is always wearing something that shows off her belly, be it her superhero outfit or a bikini. Her fire powers also have a tendency of destroying her clothing, leaving her naked when she turns off her flames.
• Legion of Super-Heroes:
  • Dream Girl. By design, from her very first appearance, she look like a pin-up. She is a sexy blonde girl and her white costumes (especially her iconic leotard) are always very skimpy (even prior to the Legion's sexy-costume era of the 70's). Artist often emphasize her sensuality.
  • Shadow Lass. A sexy blue-skinned alien babe that often wears just a black bikini with a cape.
  • Dawnstar. Her costume is a revealing yellow dress of Native American design, with a plunging neckline and long ornamental fringes on the sleeves and boot cuffs.
  • Laurel Kent, whose default costume was an incredibly skimpy black bikini under a red poncho that was a masterpiece of Theiss Titillation Theory. She usually didn't even wear shoes.
• Averted in the DC series Manhunter: Street Justice, with protagonist Kate wearing a full-coverage bodysuit when she fights crime. Granted, she stole it from an evidence locker, but kudos to the author for making her different.
• New Gods:
  • Big Barda is a statuesque, fit but curvaceous warrior woman, who despite favoring practical armor when going into battle, frequently wears a Chainmail Bikini while outside of it. She is considered extremely beautiful In-Universe despite her humongous size, even towering over freaking Superman!
  • Bekka is a scientist that favors very skimpy dresses that are open in the chest - it seems that have been a part of her character as her animated counterpart in Justice League: Gods and Monsters also sports the same type of outfit. On top of that, she also has powerful Charm Person abilities that are even stronger than Poison Ivy's, as it managed to work on Batman in Superman/Batman's "Torment" story arc.
• Power Girl (pictured in the Power Trip (2005) storyline) is possibly the Most Common Super Power incarnate. She is the most buxom superheroine of all the DCU who wears a white Leotard of Power with her famous Cleavage Window (especially drawn by Amanda Conner). There are a number of issues where Power Girl explains the rationale behind it but the reason seems to change every time. It serves as a distraction, it shows that she's proud of her body, and she can't decide on a Chest Insignia. Double subverted with the New 52 relaunch. Power Girl was given a bodysuit that fully covered her◊. However, in one issue her costume gets tears after a fight, one of those tears is a hole above her cleavage. She eventually gets her iconic, plays-this-trope-straight, costume back after about a year. It seemed all of creation (even the female fans) wrote in demanding it.
• Starfire aka Koriand'r from Teen Titans. She is a hot alien babe with orange skin, who learned languages by kissing people. Kory is regarded as extremely physically attractive even by the standards of the superhero community. Her general lack of modesty is often used for copious Fanservice, and even her normal hero outfit leaves little to the imagination. It was taken up to eleven in Red Hood and the Outlaws (at the start of New-52) where she wears an outfit again more Stripperiffic than usual, her backstory and personality are changed and she acts like an Ethical Slut. Her fans were not amused, resulting in a move far in the other direction: she not only has her personality back, but a less skimpy outfit styled more like her animated self (though of course, she's still very easy on the eyes).
• Superman:
  • Lois Lane can be this Depending on the Artist. Sometimes she will wear form-fitting dresses to really short skirts. In Superman: For Tomorrow, there is a famous panel◊ of Lois completely naked only using Superman's cape to cover up.
  • Post Crisis Supergirl was a pretty infamous example, what with her cheerleader like costume, being introduced naked in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) and later dressing in low cut jeans with her thong straps on display, and her constant panty shots when in costume. While most young teenaged girls in comics get treated like this, she did it to such a degree that it made many people uncomfortable and was the source of many criticisms. Editors eventually issued a demand for this to be limited and/or stopped, and it did.
  • Maxima is an exceptionally tall, muscular (yet very voluptuous), buxom, and powerful red-haired woman with the tendency to wear outfits that are very Stripperiffic and bare her midriff. Even when her outfits cover her whole body, they tend to be very skintight◊ and highlight her muscular yet voluptuous build, buxom breasts, ripped broad shoulders, and long muscular yet shapely legs.
  • Cat Grant, a Daily Planet journalist and potential rival for Lois Lane because she was attracted to Clark Kent. She was already a beauty woman, but in the '00 (when she return after a long period of absence) she dresses more provocatively (gaining attention of male employees) and acts more flirtatious than she ever has. During a conversation with Clark, she openly flirts with him and implies that she has had breast implants.
• Vixen. She is very busty and her most famous outfit is a yellow/orange body suit with a really long cleavage.
• Wonder Woman. All of the Way. She is a tall, very beautiful raven-haired Amazonian woman (and also the World's Most Beautiful Woman) who wears outfits (such as a revealing strapless leotard or a bustier-hotpants combo) that present her skin and highlight her muscular yet voluptuous body, large breasts, strong toned muscles (especially her large biceps), ripped broad shoulders, nicely toned buttocks, and long, muscular legs. She also is known to sleep in the nude.
  • Diana is most certainly this in Justice League.
  • Wonder Girl (Infinite Frontier): Yara is a gorgeous young woman who has a penchant for wearing outfits that greatly emphasize her hips, legs, and shapely derriere. Even Eros, the Greek God of Love, ends up genuinely falling for her during his mission to seduce her into staying on Mount Olympus as Hera's Champion. As noted above, Eros' attraction takes a darker twist once it's shown that he has known Yara longer than he let on.
• Zatanna is a very beautiful, long dark-haired woman who has a very voluptuous yet toned body with buxom breasts, an impressive hourglass figure, and long, toned legs. She also wears an outfit comprised of a tight-fitting tuxedo jacket that has tails, a white busier, black panties, fishnet stockings, and a top hat. Due to her powers' reliance on her voice, she is also frequently Bound and Gagged by her enemies, particularly when Paul Dini is writing. Nobody has ever found reason to complain over Paul Dini's appreciation of the character.