Basic Trope: A character wears a revealing outfit even in cold temperatures and is not affected by it.
- Straight: Action Girl Alice always wears a thin top with Navel-Deep Neckline and no sleeves, and a short skirt or pair of shorts; even when she is exploring Mount Frost. Despite the freezing winds, deep snow, and other such environmental hazards, she acts as comfortable as she would normally be.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice wears a bikini while exploring Antarctica, treating it like a tropical beach.
- Alice is Skinny Dipping in the Amundsen Sea.
- Downplayed: Alice wears the same outfit of pants and a long sleeved shirt in Mount Frost as she does anywhere else, even though it's clearly not a cold weather outfit.
- Alice always wears a short skirt, even when exploring Mount Frost, but she trades the sneakers for knee-high boots and wears a winter coat over a sweater, as well as decent snow gear on her top half.
- Justified:
- Alice is naturally resistant to ice due to special training, or a superpower, or because she's an ice elf, or an anthropomorphic animal belonging to a species that evolved with this environment in mind, such as a polar bear or husky. Either way, she doesn't need to cover herself to be safe in cold temperatures.
- Alice knows a good Frost Resistance spell.
- Alice is in her underwear in such a cold environment because she just escaped from Emperor Evulz's dungeon, and her Go-Go Enslavement prison uniform was designed specifically to deter prisoners from doing just that, since they'd probably freeze to death if they tried.
- Alice lives in a RPG Mechanics 'Verse and her clothing's visual appearance has literally no connection to its statistical benefits- her bikini actually has higher cold resistance than her normal outfit!
- Inverted: Action Girl Alice wears a heavy winter coat, stuffy fur leggings, and leather winter boots while exploring the Blazing Desert. Despite the blistering heat, harsh sandstorms, and other such environmental hazards, she acts as comfortable as she would normally be.
- Subverted: In a video game, Alice usually wears a thin shirt with no sleeves and a short skirt or pair of shorts. However, upon reaching the Slippy-Slidey Ice World, she takes three steps, shivers, and rushes to get a coat and pants.
- Alice seems fine at first but then she starts shivering
- Double Subverted: The coat is a purely aesthetic alternate costume. You can change back to Alice's default clothes with no ill effect.
- She then puts a wool scarf around her neck and is suddenly just fine.
- Parodied: Alice normally wears a standard bikini. Upon learning that she will have to explore Mount Frost, she says that she should dress appropriately for the climate, and changes into a Fur Bikini.
- Alice wears the same outfit as always, just adds a wool scarf around her neck..
- Zig Zagged: Alice wears a winter coat over a sweater (she unzips the coat when indoors but otherwise leaves it on) paired with a short denim short and mid-calf Ugg boots no matter what. She's the only one in a short skirt in winter and the only one in a coat in summer.
- Averted: Alice wears warm clothes while in cold areas.
- Enforced:
- The creators simply don't have the time/memory space/budget/what-have-you to alter Alice's model and animations to include an alternate winter outfit.
- Fanservice.
- Lampshaded: "Hey Alice, aren't you a little lightly dressed for this mission?"
- Invoked: "We're gonna have to cross the frozen tundra for our next mission... Are you really sure your dress will be enough to protect you?" "My dress? No. My magic will make sure I won't even notice the cold though. My charm spells work better if I'm dressed sexy, so of course I learned a spell to allow me to remain comfortable in any temperature, just in case!"
- Exploited: Alice wears revealing clothes in cold climate as part of Training from Hell to become resistant to cold. This comes in handy when she faces off against a villain who is An Ice Person.
- Defied: The rest of Alice's squad refuse to leave for Mount Frost until Alice puts on some decent snow gear.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: In a non-visual medium, Alice is mentioned as usually wearing revealing clothes. One part of the story has her go to Mount Frost, but her outfit while going there is never specified.
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