The warriors in question are gladiators. When their equipment was designed, giving a good show was the first priority, Competitive Balance was the second, and effectiveness in combat was the third. Every incarnation I've seen of her she's got that long, red mane of hair and of course, her barely there chain mail bikini armour. Played with in Reno 911!. One episode had the female police officers getting specially designed (and low cut) bulletproof vests, which they all liked until one of them asks another officer to test her vest by shooting at it. Surprisingly enough, even the armored parts of the vests wouldn't stop a bullet. I know now that my story had intrigued him because a week later he mentioned he'd looked through some old photos and he thought he had found a picture of me from that earlier time. He asked if I'd had blonde hair (I didn't) but in another week, when I ran into him again at the Post Office, he said 'I have something to show you'. And out he pulled from his wallet a small, faded photo bearing the words 'To Stacey, Love Joan'. I had to tell him I wasn't Joan, I wasn't the girl in the photo, sending him on his way to further ponder who this crazy lady was that had wormed her way into his thoughts. The series takes place in an area that is incredibly hot. Anyone in full armor will be cooked in their own portable ovens.

It's made a bit more practical in Unseen Academicals with the advent of "micromail", chainmail made from many, many small links that, as is repeatedly stated, doesn't chafe... and it's later demonstrated that a pair of boxer shorts made from the stuff can literally deflect a blow from a sledgehammer. Most female Jobs in Final Fantasy Tactics wear armor and/or clothing appropriate to the occasion, usually covering them entirely—from the full set of armor worn by female Knights, and Dark Knights, Squires, Meliadoul, and Agrias, to the elaborate robes of Oracles and Mediators. However, Geomancers and Mimes wear an overshirt and boots, Dancers wear a skirt and a midriff-baring top, and Monks wear a strapless leotard.

This episode of Nerd Core: The Core Wars explains that the Geneva Conventions "made it a war crime to injure a female anthropoid in the area of the cleavage, stomach, or thighs. Thereby making it unnecessary for women to cover those areas in armor." Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way: In-Universe, Josh is called on the fact his character can't in fact be half ogre, half dark elf and half human at the same time, unless he had three parents. He claims the character does-we then cut to an image of a human male in bed with an ogre female and dark elf female. Funnily enough, while that's impossible, if the sex ratios were reversed it actually could happen, though it's rare-two fertilized ova can fuse to become what's called a chimera (women can become pregnant by different men if it's within three days). Of course, since this is fantasy, they could just say it's caused by magic too. Although you can group them with some other extreme swimwear based on the traits (they are oftentimes a see-through product), they have everything to do with fantasy as they have with swimming. That being said, you can also easily categorize them as cosplay products.

Also strangely, in the fourth game, Lena starts off with more modest clothing, even if it's still impractical as battle armor. However, when she gets special armor that grants her temporary invincibility (until it takes enough damage), that special armor turns out to be as skimpy as (or possibly skimpier than) Yuko's. In the first few issues of Artesia, the titular heroine wore full armor on her upper body - and nothing between her tassets and greaves, showing off a lot of leg as well as leather "panties." After the Art Evolution, Artesia buys armor for her legs. She (and other female soldiers) has angular projections formed into her curaiss that obviously represent breasts - but otherwise female warriors wear more or less the same armor as their male counterparts.There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.” The figure comes with a very generic smoke grey plastic tub which allows you to gaze at the top layer of the contents (main body la Edition retains this with a few modifications. It applies only to characters with above average Appearance and limits the bonus to +2 (+3 for a topless woman). For some reason it also makes the characters run and swim faster. Noting that female armour offers the same amount of protection despite being a full quarter of the size, Hiro welds several sets together into one suit with quadruple the normal armour value. Lampshaded in John Ringo's There Will Be Dragons where Bast the Wood Elf, asked why she runs around in a Fur Bikini, asks "Do you know how many men I've killed who froze looking at my tits?"