Basic Trope: An adaptation gives a character more revealing clothing.
- Straight: Amazing Alice wore a full bodysuit in the comics. In The Movie, she wears a Leotard of Power with a Cleavage Window
- Exaggerated:
- In the comics, Amazing Alice was covered head to toe in metal armor that made it tough to tell she was a girl just by looking at her. In The Movie, she goes around wearing nothing but some Barely-There Swimwear.
- Amazing Alice wore enough to cover her body reasonably in the comics. In The Movie, she goes around completely naked.
- Downplayed:
- Amazing Alice had a low neckline in the comics that showed off cleavage. In The Movie, she has Navel-Deep Neckline.
- Amazing Alice had a Leotard of Power in the comics, but the one in the film includes a Thong of Shielding rather than providing more coverage.
- Amazing Alice's outfit in the adaptation isn't any less revealing than in the source material, but she does appear nude in one scene where the equivalent in the original work had her fully-clothed.
- Justified:
- Amazing Alice has full Medium Awareness and knew that her movie would sell more tickets at the box office if she showed off some more skin.
- Amazing Alice in The Movie is a Composite Character of herself and Shameless Shelby. Alice has the same powers, but she wears something resembling Shelby's outfit.
- Amazing Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl in The Movie, so she cares less about showing off her body. Her immodest costume is reflective of this characterization.
- There was enough of a gap that there is Values Dissonance in play for what qualified as 'daring' that an update made it more reflective of modern standards.
- Amazing Alice is some sort of non-human being that doesn't need to wear clothes in this version.
- Inverted: Adaptational Modesty.
- Subverted:
- It looks like Amazing Alice has gotten a more revealing costume, but it appears that it was a cosplayer and the real Alice shows up with a costume closer to the comics.
- Amazing Alice decides to have a more revealing outfit in the beginning, but it turns out that she's a Badass Normal now and the bad guys target any exposed skin. After a near-fatal injury, she learns from this mistake and gets an outfit with more armor that closely resembles the canon outfit.
- Double Subverted:
- However, Alice likes the cosplay so much that she decides to don a similar design herself with the cosplayer's permission. The girl is honored to have inspired her hero.
- Later in the film, she finally gains her powers, including skin that can block bullets. Now that she doesn't have to worry about injuries, she goes back to the revealing outfit.
- Parodied:
- Any hero with any semblance of modesty in the comics is made Stripperiffic. Well, any heroine.
- Amazing Alice is naked in the movie because she was struck by The Nudifier and spends the entire movie trying to find clothes to wear. The movie ends with her ending up naked on live television.
- Zig Zagged: The second Subversion/Double Subversion scenario occurs throughout the film with Alice constantly losing her powers and needing to get an outfit to adjust to her needs of protection.
- Averted: Regardless of how accurate to the source it is, Amazing Alice's costume still covers just as much skin as it does in the comics.
- Enforced:
- The producers think that having Amazing Alice in a more revealing outfit will get more money at the box office.
- Amazing Alice was noted to be a Shameless Fanservice Girl in the comics, but her costume never really reflected this. The movie is produced by some fans of the original comics who always wondered why she never had a less modest costume. So, they design a costume to fit that Shameless Fanservice Girl aspect in a way they feel the comics did not.
- Lampshaded:
- Amazing Alice's mother points out that she should be wearing more clothing and suggest an outfit strikingly similar to her canon outfit. Alice rejects this.
- From the first Justified example: "Look, I know you guys might complain about the new outfit, but if I don't show off some tits and ass, how else am I gonna get more people to see this movie? Horny men are gonna make up at least 30% of this audience.note Don't think I didn't notice you hiding your boners."
- Invoked: See the first Justified example.
- Exploited:
- See the first Justified example.
- Now that she has less coverage and is very attractive, Alice uses this to throw people off in battle.
- Defied: Amazing Alice has full Medium Awareness, but she refuses to pander to the lowest common denominator and keeps a more comic-accurate costume. (Or, at the very least, an equally modest costume.)
- Discussed: "Hey, Alice. Didn't you use to wear more clothes?"
- Conversed:Bob: Didn't Alice wear more covering in the comics?
Charlie: Who cares? More skin is a good thing.
Deborah: Agreed. - Implied: A Fanservice Extra is given a Mythology Gag suggesting she might be Amazing Alice.
- Deconstructed: Since Amazing Alice doesn't wear much, no one takes her seriously anymore. They either think she's just an attention-seeking slut or they never pay attention to the good she does just because she has less clothing.
- Reconstructed: However, she learns not to care about what people think of her. Her job is about saving the world. Her attire has no effect on that and it doesn't matter what people think of it.
Now, go tell Adaptational Skimpiness to put some more clothes on.
