Video Games / Exposed To The Elements


 * Ten Eighty Snowboarding : Rob's standard outfit is a thin wifebeater. Akari's alternate costume is a similarly thin belly top.
 * Age Of Mythology : As the heroes trek through Scandinavia, Amanra, still wearing clothes fit for Egypt, hopes it will be warmer in Midgard.
 * In  Animal Crossing, you can wear whatever you want no matter what season it is. In  New Leaf , your character will have a sweating animation or a shivering animation when they leave their house if their clothes are ill-suited for the weather, but they're otherwise unperturbed.
 * Ape Escape : Spike, the protagonist, travels to three separate areas in the ice age wearing just a t-shirt and shorts. This is the COLDEST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH, and he's fine as long as he stays out of the water... in the first level. For some reason the water in the next two areas is swimmable. Ironically enough, most of the monkeys in the area actually trade in their standard pants for a snowsuit. The protagonists of later games follow suit, and the monkeys ditch the snowsuits as well, sticking to just pants. One ape from  3  actually LOST his pants in a windstorm, but still tries to fight you.
 * Arc The Lad Twilight Of The Spirits : Lampshaded. Early in the game, Arc, Paulette, and Maru climb a snow-covered mountain. Maru, who is wearing nothing but a mask, a pair of shorts, and shoes, immediately complains about how cold it is. Paulette then points out how  anyone  would be cold if they were dressed like  that . Paulette is at least dressed sensibly. Played straight with other characters — Kharg wears short sleeves and shorts, and doesn't complain about the cold at all, and neither does Gantz (Who wears a coat with the sleeves tied up around his waist, and otherwise is wearing a wifebeater) if you take him into the cold. The characters also never complain about the heat in a Volcano.


 * Blaz Blue Chronophantasma : Snow Town is exactly what it sounds like — a small snow-covered village at the base of the Hierarchical City of Akitsu. Among the highlights are a small group of penguin beastkin playing with each other and dressed in full coats to keep warm. Not one of the player characters changes their attire for fighting here — not Bang or Azrael with their bare chests, nor Noel or Platinum with their miniskirts. Not even Makoto, with the most bare skin of the entire cast, gives two shits about the early February cold.
 * Borderlands 2 : The first few levels take place at Pandora's equivalent of the Antarctic. None of the playable characters are dressed for this (although that's because they didn't intend to end up there), and yet none are even remotely bothered by it.
 * Salvador: A T-shirt and jeans.
 * Maya: A skintight Leotard Of Power with one sleeve and a small Cleavage Window, one glove on the same side the sleeve is on, and pants worn low enough to show off a bit of thigh.
 * Zer0: A skintight bodysuit (assuming he  has  skin) with a few bits of armor plating and a face-concealing helmet.
 * Axton: A military uniform with the sleeves perpetually rolled up.
 * Gaige: A sleeveless shirt, sleeveless jacket/vest, and a skirt over skintight leggings.
 * Krieg: Walking Shirtless Scene. Though he's also quite insane and a Combat Sadomasochist to boot, so if anyone has an excuse not to be bothered by the cold it's him. In fact, he probably  enjoys  it.


 * Cun-Cun & Santi: Cun-Cun seems to be doing fine in the Freezy Snowy Hill level in only a t shirt and shorts, same goes to Santi who at least wears a vest and a long sleeve shirt and the other characters are Living Toys so probably justified. .  

Eirena: I fear my dress is not particularly appropriate here. Hero: Or anywhere else. Eirena: Whatever do you mean? "Ysmir's beard, you're going to freeze to death!" Jo: SNOW!! Oh Great! Like I'm REALLY dressed for this! Rotty: Er... you don't have any warmer clothes, do you? Shantae: Why would anyone want to wear warm clothes? Risky: This is it. Frostbite Island. End of the line. Shantae:  [while frantically trying to rub some warmth in her underclothed self]  Oh my gosh it's freezing! I'll take the burning sand and lava any day over this!
 * In  Chrono Trigger, none of the party is particularly geared for the elements. However, Ayla, in a Fur Bikini, and Marle, in a tank top and sandals, suffer the most from it. Amusingly, the cover art depicts a snowy battle were Crono wears a cloak over his clothes and Marle is dressed in boots and a heavy coat.
 * The  Danger Girl  Licensed Game for Play Station uses this trope, then throws it in the player's face. First, the loading screen for the stage shows Abbey Chase in a slinky, extremely sheer evening gown, out in the snow. Then, right after the obvious Fanservice, she immediately begins complaining about the cold and taking damage, and the player has to very  quickly  find warm clothes before she freezes to death.
 * Any of the  Darkstalkers  when fighting in the snowy stages of Bishamon or Sasquatch. Most extreme cases being Felicia and Morrigan, who barely wear anything yet can fight in arctic conditions regardless.
 * The  Dead Or Alive  series has winter stages in each title and several of the outfits don't cover up much: some male characters have no shirts for their fighting outfits such as Jann Lee, and the girls all have at least one costume that's skimpy or otherwise weather inefficient, and in some of them such as  Ultimate 2  and  5  they have swimsuits.
 * Diablo III :
 * Lampshaded if the player, as a barbarian woman, takes the desert enchantress Eirena to the chilly north:
 * The hired followers, the jeweler and blacksmith, also complain about the extreme change of environment, though the former claims he can keep warm by just sticking fire opals in his clothing. Since gems do have magical properties in this setting, he might be telling the truth. It's also played straight with the heroes, who go about their business unaffected in all types of weather out of sheer stoicism.
 * Variation.  Disgaea's  Etna frequently complains about the temperature whenever she's in a Fire And Brimstone Hell. Interestingly enough, she does nothing of the sort in any wintery locations, despite wearing about as little as she can get away with in a T-rated game. That's assuming all demons are associated with fire and brimstone.
 * Her boss, Laharl, is worse. He's frequently depicted as wearing a scarf, shoes and shorts, yet shows no problem in walking through either extreme cold or heat. In one scene he dives into an active  lava flow  to retrieve Flonne's pendant, and when he later surfaces with it, states that it's burning his hand (albeit this is due to the pendant burning anyone with evil in their heart), but makes no mention of the lava being an issue at all.
 * Dragon Age Origins :
 * Morrigan doesn't seem to mind wandering around on top of a mountain through caves carved into a glacier while wearing an improbable cobbled-together outfit. Though in the CGI Sacred Ashes trailer she does grumble about having to "freeze to death while digging for the bones of a madwoman!" during said wandering-around-on-top-of-a-mountain quest. Ironically, her personal gear gives a bonus to cold damage.
 * Leliana doesn't complain either, despite the fact that female leather armor in  Dragon Age  is exceedingly impractical.
 * Of course, if you remove the characters' armor, they will go around in their underwear. Other than obviously being more vulnerable to attacks, this does not hinder them at all, regardless of environment.
 * Dragon Quest VIII, possibly unintentionally, has the swimsuit for Jessica first available just before entering the game's version of the arctic. And since it changes her look in cutscenes, it makes one wonder why she isn't dead from frostbite yet.
 * The Elder Scrolls :
 * Morrowind 's  Bloodmoon  expansion adds the frigid isle of Solstheim to the game world. The northernmost regions of the island reach full-blown Arctic conditions including frequent blizzards. However, the Player Character can run around stripped to their underwear with no ill effect. Additionally, there are Berserker enemy NPCs who live in this frozen wilderness and wear very little clothing. They at least have the justifaction of being Nords, who have an inborn racial resistance to the cold.
 * Skyrim :
 * Some higher and/or further north areas have ice everywhere and heavy snowfall, including two of the main cities, but nobody freezes, even if not wearing any clothes or armour at all. Some NPCs will point out if you are underdressed for the temperature though.
 * Justified by the game mechanics for a Nord main character and Nord NPCs; all Nords have resistance to frost damage. Which you're going to need if you're going to run around in a snowstorm without a shirt.
 * Averted by a mod that adds realistic temperature mechanics, demonstrating why said mechanics were omitted in the first place. At low levels, the frost will kill you faster than the bandits, and leaving Riverwood without some warm clothes is extremely ill-advised.
 * Endless Ocean : Two of the dive locations of  Blue World  are the Arctic and the Antarctic. There is a handwave about body gel that helps with cold weather, and special air tanks or something, but no mention of a dry suit. Considering the character's costume can be changed to a bikini (for women) or just a pair of trunks (for men), you can very well go diving in those places thusly garbed and suffer no ill effects.
 * In  Fate Grand Order, the Servants often wear very skimpy outfits, and can have swimsuits as alternate outfits. In the  First Order  anime, Ritsuka asks Shielder if she is cold in her revealing armor. She remarks that she is unaffected by the temperature. Later in the game, when Sir Galahad's spirit abandons Shielder, taking away the lion's share of her powers, she is no longer protected from the elements and has to bundle up.
 * This is especially evident for Christmas welfares, who tend to favor the Sexy Santa Dress look. Several of them even have lines acknowledging that, yes, they're freezing their butts off.
 * The  Final Fantasy  series:
 * Final Fantasy VII  avoided this: when you're approaching the Northern Crater through a snow-covered wasteland, you actually have to move quickly to avoid freezing, and as you climb the crater-wall, you're forced to frequently stop and work up some heat through exertion. If you bring Yuffie, the characters will actually comment on her poor choice of clothing when you reach the top of the crater. If you bring  Tifa, she just spends the trip shivering and stammering about how cold it is. Tifa was a notable offender, particularly during her stay at the Great Glacier.
 * Final Fantasy IX  provides a number of examples (such as walking blithely through a sandstorm without their faces covered), but has one aversion where Zidane walks through an icy cavern and into a blizzard in just his usual vest, and his posture changes to show that he's freezing. In fact, as a whole the game provides a subversion of the usually horrendously impractical clothing of Final Fantasy games. Out of the main cast, only Zidane and Amarant are badly dressed; all the other characters are completely covered up.
 * Final Fantasy X  has all the characters undergo this, but with Kimahri it's especially noticeable, given that he's from the snow-capped mountain environment. And his entire tribe wears little more than loincloths. While this would be understandable given that his species has fur, he seems just as comfortable in tropical climates as snow-capped mountains, so...
 * Likewise, "I'm Too Sexy for a Closed Shirt" Tidus, "What, I'm Supposed to Stay in This Dress?" Lulu, "We Don't Wear Sleeves Round Here, Ya?" Wakka, and Rikku who wears...well, next to nothing don't seem all bothered by Mount Gagazet.
 * Speaking of islands, Lulu's fur-trimmed leather dress can't possibly be comfortable on tropical Besaid where she lives. Considering that its revealing nature wouldn't keep her warm in cold climates either, this is Awesome But Impractical in action, folks. (Not that  Final Fantasy  clothes, save maybe the white mage from  Final Fantasy I, have ever been practical.)
 * In  Final Fantasy X 2, Kimahri does actually mention the "cold mountain winds", this being about the only reference to weather in either game.
 * And the official holder of the "Miss Beltskirt" title is Ashe of  Final Fantasy XII . It's even bright red to draw the eye... but she suffers no ill effects in the frozen wastes of the Paramina Rift.
 * Balthier is the only one who could even remotely be considered to be dressing for the weather. Vaan and Basch both have open vests, Penelo's outfit leaves her arms and thighs bare, and Fran wears a metal bikini. Larsa is covered up, and even wears gloves, but he's only in the party temporarily.
 * Even worse: many of the characters are from a desert nation. It may seem reasonable to wear less clothing in a hot environment, but desert-dwellers know that what you really need is to cover up with loose robes. Tight clothing, like Balthier's, holds in the heat, and exposed skin risks severe sunburn; you'll loose more moisture to the sunburn than you would sweating in robes.
 * Vaan and Penelo have an excuse, being residents of Lowtown - literally a slum built underneath another city, shady but sweltering to the point one wonders how they stand wearing anything. The rest of the cast, who spend more than temporary forays to the surface, have no such excuse.
 * Final Fantasy XIV  lampshaded this and Limited Wardrobe hilariously in a cutscene wherein two characters who wear rather thin clothing (one of them bordering on Stripperiffic) arrive in Coerthas, an area that has been permanently snowbound for the past five years since the fall of Dalamud. Alphinaud, who  already  spent time in Coerthas freezing his ass off and apparently didn't learn from the experience, stands there shivering... while Minfilia shows up in appropriate gear for the arctic weather. Gameplay, likewise, almost outright encourages this for comedy (in the same manner that the addition of flying mounts in  Heavensward  includes the ability to fly with things like bears because... well, just because) - in the portion of the story where you take your first expedition to Coerthas, the main-story quests gear rewards consist of heavy metal armor for Tank classes (which themselves would be a poor choice without insulation of some kind) and  harnesses  that leave very little to the imagination for the other non-magic-using classes.
 * This was inverted in the  Stormblood  expansion. After finally getting something resembling winter clothes towards the end of Heavensward, Alphinaud and his sister, Alisae, spend all of Stormblood jaunting around either tropical/subtropical Kugane and Doma, or pure desert Ala Mhigo, in jackets that looked like they belonged on the Eastern Front. The player didn't escape these shenanigans either. Throughout Heavensward, much of the gear for gathering classes was suited for more Arkansas than Alberta. Come Stormblood, gathering equipment for the expansion set in the tropics and a desert consists of a woolen hat and matching poncho. One wonders if the developers creating the gear and the ones creating the setting ever talk to each other, or just think this is kind of funny.
 * The environments in the  God Eater  series include such locales as a desert at night, marshlands during a rainstorm, and a snowbound temple, yet not once does any of the eponymous God Eaters layer up for the occasion. Justified, as their own clothes are as cosmetic as they are Limited. The Oracle Cells their bodies are infused with provide protection from extreme environments.
 * In  God Of War PS 4, while Kratos does wear more than he did in the original trilogy, he still wears little more than a leather shoulder-strap by default despite living in Northern Europe. The various armors he can equip various from mere pauldrons to actual chestplates that cover his torso.
 * Lampshaded and subverted in  Golden Sun Dark Dawn, when Amiti joins the party, Karis ask him to Please Put Some Clothes On, apparently because it's going to be cold in Te Rya. which he does. Five guesses who complains about the cold in Te Rya.
 * Hydromancer armor in  Guild Wars  stands out somewhat, as it provides cold resistance while being rather stripperiffic. This trope applies more generally also.
 * The  Harvest Moon  series is guilty of this in nearly every game - the characters' outfits never change at all throughout the four seasons (which follow typical spring - warm; summer - hot; fall - cool; winter - cold fashion). The Wii installments  Tree of Tranquility  and  Animal Parade, however, give each character separate spring/summer and fall/winter outfits.
 * Lampshaded in  Hyperdimension Neptunia Re Birth 1 . The party's usual clothes are hardly appropriate for perennially snowy Lowee, so IF made sure to bring enough heat packs to go around. The one time the plot made it unambiguous the characters have been out in the cold for longer than they were expecting, everyone started shivering and it's acknowledged they'll be in real trouble if they don't find a place to warm up.
 * Nobody in  Jade Empire  seems at all troubled when they go to a mountain atop the Land of Howling Spirits, which is basically Tibet, despite Dawn Star's continuing pantslessness, Henpcked Hou's sleevelessness and Sky and the Black Whirlwind having open shirts, and depending on what character model you choose, the Spirit Monk can be severely lacking in skirt length or constantly shirtless. (The Black Whirlwind could be handwaved by noting that he's pretty fat and hairy, which would keep the heat in.)
 * Jak And Daxter :
 * At the beginning of  Jak 3, Jak's clothing is way too warm for the desert environment he finds himself in. Logically, he overheats to dangerous levels; Damas later tells him his monks were ready to pray for him. His hair is cut off together with his shirt sleeves before he goes out again. In Real Life, Arabs are associated with those loose, billowy white robes because such clothes are by far the best things to wear in desert conditions (lightweight, breathes well, reflects heat, offers protection from the sun and sand).
 * Played straight in the first game, when you go to Snowy Mountain wearing a sleeveless shirt and sandal-like footwear.
 * Lampshaded by Jo in  Kendo Rage, when the bus drops her off at a Slippy Slidey Ice World with her still wearing her Minidress Of Power:
 * In the  Final Fantasy/Disney  crossover  Kingdom Hearts :
 * In  Kingdom Hearts II, Sora climbs to the top of a mountain in The Land of Dragons wearing nothing but his drive clothing: A short-sleeved shirt, jacket and shorts. Taken to extremes in Donald's case, where all he wears is his hat and robe, but, notably, with no shoes.
 * Christmas Town also seems to play with this trope, but Sora wears vampire attire here (with a few modifications in the Final Mix version), which is a  lot  more suitable for cold weather than his normal attire. Though played straight with Donald and Goofy, who are respectively turned into a Mummy and a parody of Frankensteins Monster; the Final Mix version fixed that by making them into a snowduck and "half-dog, half reindeer", respectively.
 * Kingdom Hearts 3 D Dream Drop Distance  has an even more extreme example with the Snowgleam Wood in Symphony of Sorcery, which is a frozen lake surrounded with snow. It's exclusive to Riku, who wears a tank top and jeans in this game. What makes it more disturbing is that he can  swim  in the lake. Then again, they are in the Dream Worlds, where logic does not have to make sense, considering that Sora didn't need to use scuba gear or turn himself into a merman in Prankster's Paradise, and both boys weren't even human in The Grid. Not to mention Riku himself being a Spirit Dream Eater...
 * League Of Legends  has four champions from the frozen northern regions, only one of whom is "dressed" sensibly for the climate — the armored polar bear. Ashe has a cloak, leather armor, exposed skin, and tights. Tryndamere fights shirtless. Sejuani wears metal shoulderpads, a metal thong, a bra. Sejuani's case is explained as a form of Macho Masochism. Both Ashe and Sejuani also have some control over ice magic, which might make this less suicidal. Ashe and Tryndamere are explained away as being from more Southern regions of the Northern areas, while Sejuani has since been visually updated to wear full armor. Her designer went on to explain her art was finalized and passed to the devs before he was given the memo about being from Freljord, or she would have been more covered in the first place.
 * The majority of the second game of  The Legend Of Heroes Trails Of Cold Steel  takes place in December, with regular visits to a snow-covered mountain village. Despite this, all of the girl's outfits stop at the knees or higher. Fie's outfit is the most extreme example, consisting of a midriff-baring tank top, low hanging short shorts, and an open jacket.
 * The Legend Of Zelda :
 * The Legend Of Zelda Majoras Mask  deserves mention because even as Link is fine with no sleeves or pants in the snow while other characters will bundle up or shiver. Even Link will start to shiver and sneeze if he's left stationary, in both  Majora's Mask  and  Ocarina of Time . Seeing as he runs everywhere, movement probably keeps him warm. Stopping on a mountain gets him cold real quick. He is also fully affected by the opposite and can't stay in extremely hot areas for long until he finds a protective tunic. How exactly a Palette Swap protects from heat is another question...
 * Averted in  The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild . Link has a body temperature gauge, and if he travels somewhere too hot or too cold without proper clothing or elixers, he'll feel it and begin to take damage.
 * In  Lightning Legend Daigo No Daibouken, Yuki Shirogane, a Snow Girl from the icy Zehgo Village, has clothes that doesn't cover her legs. Another character, Forelock, lampshades this when meeting her in his storyline. She answers him it's not a problem, giving the justification that Snow People like her have a biology fit for cold weathers and thus don't need a lot of clothes.
 * The main character of  Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions  wears clothing designed to resist hypothermia, and he only takes his mask off during cutscenes. Inverted in that there is a Lethal Lava Land level, and not only does he still wear the same clothing, you're constantly losing heat even while directly above a pit of boiling lava!
 * Used intentionally in  Lunar 2: Eternal Blue  to introduce the Mysterious Waif, Lucia. When a woman is standing  naked in a blizzard  and doesn't seem particularly bothered by it, it's safe to assume she's not an ordinary human.
 * Averted in  The Mark of Kri, where Rau, otherwise a Walking Shirtless Scene, puts on a heavy coat for the snowy level.
 * Mass Effect :
 * In the first game, all party members wear covering armor that cannot be taken off, complete with sealed headgear for hostile environments. Come  Mass Effect 2, all the party members have two costumes at best, and they are comfortable wearing nothing above the waist except for a mouthpiece to help them breathe... in near vacuum. Actually somewhat averted there too, since the only things you have to worry about in space are the radiation, micrometeorites and breathing. The first two can be fixed with shielding, which everyone has.
 * Averted again in  Mass Effect : On ice-world Noveria, quarian Tali will sometimes if spoken to remark "I'm wearing an environmental suit, and I'm still freezing." She's wearing a sealed, thermoregulatory suit. Interestingly, other teammates will merely express minor discomfort ("The sooner we get off this frozen world, the better" — Liara), and you can visit colder worlds on non-essential side missions wherein they don't say anything. The only other awareness raised to the environment is on the volcanic, lava-pooled planet Therum, where Garrus reminds you to keep hydrated and remarks how he thought his homeworld Palaven was hot. Again, you can visit hotter planets, including a Venus-like pressure cooker of a world.
 * There's also one planet that has chlorine gas enveloping all the lowlands. Which is apparently not an eye irritant in the  Mass Effect  universe.
 * Played straight in most MMORPGs. In  World Of Warcraft, you can run around colder climates in your underwear and not be any worse off (besides lacking in stats). You can also take animal companions to any climate in the world, regardless of whether or not the creature is suited for it. (Reptiles on the north pole? Sure! Bears in the desert? Why not?!) For the record,  Dungeons And Dragons  does indeed address this issue for pet classes. That is, figure it out or your pet dies from exposure. However, armor models in Northrend are rather suitable for the climate, and you can't use flying mounts there until you learn how to fly in cold weather. Sadly, a few fans  still  bitched about the lack of skimpy armor. Perhaps they should take a trip to the north pole in their underwear themselves sometime... Arguably justified with the Dwarves. One of their racial bonuses is frost resistance, which would logically allow them to wear less in the cold.
 * World Of Warcraft  also has plenty of non-player examples. Particular standouts among these are the orcs, who have a tendency to wear very minimalistic armor, no matter whether they are in a desert or in a polar environment.
 * Monster Hunter  has various armors that provide protection from the elements due to set abilities, and charms can augment this protection. Practicality is another issue, however — the Loc Lac set leaves the head and arms exposed (the right arm is usually safer than the left if you're wielding a Sword and Shield), which is never a good idea in a desert town, and the Barioth set which protects against cold is skimpy enough to raise issues.
 * Tri Ultimate  changes armor and armor abilities around. While the Ludroth armor is less than ideal for fiery foes, it provides much better coverage for its Negate Heat ability, and the same goes for the Plesioth armor, which is basically a wetsuit. The Lagombi armor, however, is not only resistant to Ice and Tundral cold by default, it also provides complete coverage, making it ideal for its chosen conditions.
 * In  Mount And Blade  about a third of the map is permanently covered in snow. If you get into a battle in this area, neither you, your allies, or your enemies have any sort of wardrobe change. So if you're up against Looters, there's a good chance some of them will be running around in just their shorts, just as anywhere else on the map.
 * Neverwinter Nights :
 * Averted in  Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark . No matter what you're wearing in chapter 3 you take cold damage. Also, Nathyrra has a particularly bad time with the cold, since she's lived all her life far enough underground that her environment was pretty warm.
 * Though all outfits in  A Dance With Rogues  are pretty stripperiffic, your character takes cold damage for wearing nothing or clothes defined as underwear while outside. Also, Pia complains about the cold at times.
 * Averted in  Ni No Kuni  where Ollie and friends are quick to obtain some heavy winter coats when their travels take them to the colder regions of the world, and will automatically don the coats anytime you revisit.
 * Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors : Lotus is, for no explicable reason, wearing a skimpy bellydancer outfit throughout the game. When the party discovers a walk-in freezer, she flatly refuses to enter. Way too cold! Naturally, they get accidentally locked in while she's outside.
 * Averted in the  No One Lives Forever  video games. The protagonist, Cate Archer, wears a coat in cold climates.
 * Lampshaded in  Odin Sphere  with the stripperiffic Velvet: merchants on Winterhorn Ridge greet her with, "A half-naked maiden, on this mountain?" and, "Wow... you came all the way up here dressed like that?" Also subverted, as your HP is constantly dropping and you need to periodically consume warming potions.
 * Perfect Dark :
 * In  Perfect Dark Zero  Joanna Dark's outfit in a freezing cold snow covered mountain is torn jeans, a half jacket, and a half sweater that exposes her midriff.
 * In the original game, she wears her standard spysuit in cold climates, which one can assume is well insulated.
 * In case 3-5 of  Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trials And Tribulations, Phoenix, Maya and Pearl go to a temple high atop a mountain. Because of their inappropriate clothing (A simple blue suit for Phoenix, and a short-sleeved kimono and sandals for Maya and Pearl), the insanely cold weather becomes pretty harsh for Phoenix and Maya; in fact, it was the very reason why Phoenix originally  didn't  want to go there. They soon stop paying attention to it, though (Or at least stop commenting on it), and Pearl doesn't even mention it at all, despite wearing just as little as Maya and only being nine. Of course, this is the same girl who  ran  from Kurain Village to Phoenix's office when she was only eight (a trip that takes two hours by train) without issue, so it's not too hard to believe she'd be unaffected by the cold as well.
 * Annah of  Planescape Torment  justifies her outfit by finding even room temperature to be uncomfortable (when she gets excited, her leather — let's face it — swimsuit starts to sizzle). At the same time she is very resistant to cold damage.
 * Pokemon :
 * Pokemon Diamond And Pearl  gave us two new protagonists: Lucas, a guy with a t-shirt, jeans, and a backpack; and Dawn, a girl with  a mini-dress that has an outrageously short length, boots, and a large handbag. They both have scarves and a Nice Hat. Why is this a big deal? Because an eighth of the game takes you through snow up to your neck and blizzards. Lampshaded by a girl in Snowpoint City who will exclaim "Eww! Aren't you cold with just that scarf?!"
 * To make matters worse, when  Platinum  rolled around, they altered the setting and the characters' wardrobes to be suited to a colder environment. Lucas got an overcoat, thicker pants, and a thicker scarf. What did Dawn get? Sleeves. No pants, no shorts, no more length to the skirt, just sleeves. Oh, and more snow to walk through. Have fun! (She did gain a coat though, but it's still open bottom.)
 * Gym Leader Candice has the shortest skirt of any character or NPC in the history of  Pokemon  and maybe even Nintendo as a whole. So, GameFreak made her live in the Slippy Slidey Ice World, and even had her walk through waist-deep snow to let you into Snowpoint Temple after the player obtained the National Dex. It was lampshaded in more then one manga, where they either question her or she has a cold.
 * Platinum  gives us a short scene where we find Maylene walking to Snowpoint City to visit Candice. Note that Maylene wears a Leotard Of Power, some baggy sweatpants, and is completely barefoot everywhere she goes. She explains it as being part of her martial arts training.
 * Pokemon Black And White : The female Player Character wears a sleeveless top and short-shorts, and seems perfectly fine during the winter season. Further driving the point home is how Cheren and Zinzolin, both much better dressed than she is for  Cold Storage  (which is exactly what it sounds like), won't stop complaining about how the environs are  freezing their nuts off . Clearly, she's twice as tough they are, or her Plot Armor keeps her warm. Not to mention all the Cold Storage workers are wearing thick protective clothing, and at least one or two of them complain about the cold, too.
 * Also from  Black and White, we have the seventh Gym Leader, Brycen. He uses Ice-type Pokémon, so naturally, his Gym has an icy floor and the gaps in the floor look a bit misty, implying that it should be fairly cold in there. Brycen  is  wearing a robe... But only about  half  a robe, for some reason, and yet he never complains about the temperature at all.
 * Pokemon X And Y  takes it a step further than all previous entries if you pick the female character. You can buy several Bare Your Midriff outfits for your character and there are several routes and towns that are eternally covered in snow. And you can just walk around these towns wearing said midriff shirts and not even a peep out of your character. The girls of Kalos must be tough.
 * Pokemon Sun And Moon :
 * At Mount Lanakila's peak, the coldest area in the otherwise-tropical Alola, you find Professor Kukui in his usual attire, bare chest and all. Humorously, a dialogue option with him at this point is "Aren't you cold?" This is despite a player's clothing options being limited to short-sleeves and shorts (or skirts as a girl), and yet they don't feel any cold themselves.
 * Given the region's tropical climate, a few characters invert this; while the rest of the Aether Foundation wears clothing acceptable for a warm climate, Wicke wears a bright pink sweater. And then there's returning character Cynthia, who still wears her all-black attire complete with longcoat and boots. The possibility of heat stroke never crosses her mind, so it seems. Colress also wears a bulkier coat than he did before, though an NPC at least claims it uses coolant technology.
 * Pokemon Sword And Shield  has Route 9, an area that serves as both the mandatory water route and a mandatory ice route of the game. As a result, you get to spot a bunch of Swimmers hanging around in the snowy beaches of the area, wearing nothing but swimsuits, lampshading how unsuited their choice of attire is for the area.
 * Project I.G.I. : The protagonist is bare-headed and wears a navy blue jumpsuit in the first missions of the game. He continues to do so after the winter levels begin, eschewing both heat conservation and camouflage. In the first winter mission, Ekk believes he will die from exposure, and mentions on the radio to search for 10 minutes then no more.
 * Princess Maker
 * Princess Maker 2 Refine  and  Princess Maker 4  subvert this, with Cube mentioning when Summer is unbearably hot or Winter is incredibly cold. If the player hasn't bought the clothes designated for Summer or Winter, the daughter will remark on the temperature and her parameters will suffer.
 * Princess Maker 3  plays it straight, since Uzu may mention when Summer becomes very hot, but nothing ever seems to affect Lisa. And the Summer and Winter clothes for the game are more for aesthetics and increasing her Charm.
 * Claire in  Resident Evil Code Veronica  is kidnapped and dumped in the Arctic with just a midriff-baring T-Shirt and jeans. You hear no complaints. Justified as she had no time to search for something warmer considering she had other things to worry about at the time. Lampshaded in the Battle Game. Claire's alternate mode features a stripperiffic outfit, and her idle animation involves rubbing her arms and jumping in place to get warm.
 * In  Rune, Ragnar goes through the icy regions of Hlora's Pass unscathed despite being naked from the waist up after goblins stole his equipment. He later steals some Viking armor from a mook once he makes his way into the stronghold.
 * Shantae :
 * Lampshaded in the first game, after Rottytops advises Shantae to go to Mount Pointy.
 * And then again in  Shantae and the Pirate's Curse  when Shantae and Risky reaches that game's Slippy Slidey Ice World
 * Sigma Star Saga  is one of the "ignoring temperatures for Fanservice" examples. Scarlet is introduced on a planet that's covered in ice, but there and everywhere else she wears significantly less than would be expected of any normal human female. This also applies to Psyme, but for her it's semi-justified—most members of her species don't wear clothes in the normal sense.
 * Sonic The Hedgehog seems comfortable in zones ranging from the lava filled depths of the Marble Zone to the snowy peaks of the Ice Cap Zone wearing nothing but his fur, White Gloves, and a pair of red shoes.
 * Averted in early versions of  Starbound, where the cold could cause the player to take damage and die if they weren't wearing appropriate clothing. Eventually, this was changed to using techs that provide an all-covering, invisible shield against extreme radiation/cold/heat (depending on the tech's level, with cumulative effects). Even so, low-tier "snow" and "desert" worlds require no special protection whatsoever and can be safely explored in ordinary Floran clothing. * In  Star Trek Online , players on the Klingon faction playing female Orion characters (yes, the notorious 'green alien chicks') can run around on the most ice-covered, deep-frozen worlds in little more than a metal bikini & loincloth and suffer no ill effects.
 * Star Wars :
 * Jedi Knight Jedi Academy  allows you to play as a female Twi'lek, with some of the outfits almost as stripperiffic as the one in the image up top (seriously, black vinyl bikini?), and this you wear in every single level in every single environment... except for in the Hoth level, where no matter what gender or species you play as, you wear the same gear the Rebels did way back in  Episode V . (Which is appropriate, because you're going to the abandoned Echo Base.)
 * In  Star Wars The Old Republic, there's a group of survivalist pirates on Hoth, a frigid planet, who go half-naked to show that they've mastered the cold. Imperial characters can learn their technique. Of course, as standard for MMORPGs, player characters don't suffer any ill effects regardless of how they dress for the cold, or the intense sunshine on Tatooine, or the industrial cesspool that is Quesh.
 * Street Fighter :
 * Not as extreme as some examples, but take Cammy. Look at her usual outfit. Now look at her stage in  Super Street Fighter II . It's got an aurora borealis going on, and while it's not covered in snow or anything like that, it has a late fall look to it at best.
 * Ryu's stage in  Street Fighter Alpha 2  takes place on a  snowy mountain, and he fights there wearing nothing but the karate gi on his back.
 * The last two stages from  Street Fighter X Tekken  are explicitly in the Antarctic (one in a speeding vehicle with an open rear hatch, the other out in the snow). None of the characters bother with a coat (to say the  least ), and roughly a fourth are not even wearing shoes. A cutscene for the PlayStation Vita version plays with it: the vast majority of the characters play it straight, except for Blanka. Following behind Sakura (in her usual uniform), Blanka is wrapped up in several scarves like a mummy, and is freezing his  ass  off.
 * Super Mario Bros :
 * Super Mario 64  has Mario running through the ice and snow wearing nothing but his shirt and overalls and is not at all bothered by the wintry environment. However, one ice level has water that is so cold that it damages Mario on contact and sends him flying as if he landed in lava. There's another body of water in the same level that is not as cold, but cold enough to sap Mario's health if he stays in it.
 * Averted in  Super Mario Sunshine  which has very intense sunlight on a tropical island. Should Mario lose his hat, he'll start taking damage from standing in direct sunlight since nothing is protecting his head from it. Moving towards shade like those made from a tree is a temporary measure until you can get Mario's hat back.
 * Super Mario Odyssey  allows you to dress Mario up in many different outfits. The obligatory snow and ice world has a snowsuit for sale, and its Flavor Text says that after all these years, Mario  finally  has something warm to wear in ice levels. However, the only difference between wearing that or wearing anything else is whether or not Mario shivers a little bit when standing still. There's even one Power Moon that requires Mario to strip down to only his underwear to prove he's tough enough to walk around like that in the cold. You can also invert this trope by wearing the snowsuit in a hot level. Again, the only real difference is that Mario will start panting and fanning himself when standing still.
 * The  Tales Series :
 * Averted in  Tales Of Eternia . When the party enters Ifrit's volcano, they don't have to change, but Undine's influence protects them from the heat (at the cost of Undine's own health, which is also implemented in the dungeon). When the party climbs Celsius' mountain as the spirit creates a bitter snowstorm over the entire surrounding countryside, they have to obtain winter gear beforehand, and their sprites even change on the mountain, though not in battle.
 * Lampshaded in  Tales Of Symphonia . If you equip your characters with their swimsuit titles in Flanoir, the NPCs there will comment on how freezing you must be. Played with another skit in which Sheena complains about the cold, to which Genis replies that she's not wearing much. She then points out that he's even more lightly dressed than she is, after which he really starts to feel the cold.
 * Also lampshaded in a  Tales Of The Abyss  skit — however, no amount of clothing could  possibly  help you when you're  inside the crater of an active freaking volcano, which is when this skit normally shows up.
 * Played with in  Tales Of Symphonia Dawn Of The New World, the sequel to  Symphonia  where one skit has Presea mentioning that she's invented a midriff baring outfit for people that nonetheless protects them from the elements and damage. Called the "Loni-Kyle".
 * Subverted in  Tales Of Destiny : Attempting to enter a frozen river dungeon without the appropriate fur coats means you instantly freeze to death. Like Eternia, there is no physical change to the characters regardless of if their coats are on or not.
 * Played straight in  Tales Of Vesperia  - Judith, the most stripperiffic character of the bunch, doesn't complain about the cold at all when you take her in. Everyone else only complains when you make Sorbet.
 * In  Tales Of Graces, Pascal doesn't mind at all when you go up to the icy northern area of the game, however Hubert  does , even though he's more dressed for it. Pascal, however, complains about the heat when you take her into the desert area of the game. This is actually Fridge Brilliance - Hubert lives in a desert, and Pascal is actually  from  that frozen north area, so they're used to the heat and the cold.
 * Lampshaded in  Tales Of Berseria . Daemons like Velvet and Rokurou don't feel extreme temperatures as much, and neither do Malakhim like Eizen and Laphicet. Human party members Eleanor and Magilou absolutely  do . Eleanor's a native of tropical Southgand, so even in a very covering dress she finds Northgand's snowfields and glaciers intolerably cold. Magilou is dressed far less conservatively and while she's used to the cold, she finds the heat of being near a volcano worth loudly bitching about.
 * Time Gal : Reika spends the whole game in nothing but a bikini, even when she's in the Ice Age or outer space. Somehow she never gets cold.
 * Tomb Raider :
 * The original  Tomb Raider . Lara wears khaki shorts and a T-shirt in the high Andes. The only thing for protection she wore was a cloak in the opening cutscene. And, in the second game, she wears khaki shorts and a… bomber jacket in Tibet.
 * In the third game and  Legend  she actually wears trousers and a coat in cold environments. She does take her coat off as a result of it catching on fire in one scene, but she is also clearly dressed in layers.  And  when replaying completed levels, Lara can wear any of the outfits she has previously unlocked, regardless of impracticality (although the skimpy swimsuit is not wearable outside of the house level, possibly due to a programmer oversight). As well in III, there is one part where Lara must traverse through a body of water in Antarctica where she stays under so long, she has to use a health pack or freeze to death.
 * Tomb Raider Underworld : Lara in the final level, dives into the Arctic Ocean, with a thermal wetsuit. Though you can later replay the level wearing a regular wetsuit, which leaves her legs and some of her cheeks exposed.
 * And again in the 2013 reboot. It's averted in the early part of the game where Lara must find shelter to make camp and wait out a storm, but later in the game she wanders around in a snowy area without a coat. Then the climax of the game takes place on a snow-capped mountain under  gale force winds, while dressed only in her tank top and pants from the beginning (which by that point have suffered heavy Clothing Damage). Arguably justified, however, as Lara  immediately  notes that weather patterns on the island are not at  all  normal and something's seriously bizarre about the local climate. Also, the rest of her wardrobe is still in her cabin on the Endurance (Assuming it didn't go overboard), which she doesn't get back to until three-quarters of the way through the game — at which point she has more pressing concerns than seeing if any of her other outfits are more intact than the one she's wearing — so she doesn't have the option of wearing more environmentally practical outfits.
 * You can avert this trope by purchasing the DLC Aviatrix outfit, which dresses Lara in a bomber jacket.
 * Rise Of The Tomb Raider  has Lara traveling through Siberia for much of the game, in practical winter clothes. Until she is captured, where her captors take said clothes away from her, leaving her in a long-sleeved shirt and some pants. During her escape from her captors, she jumps into a partially frozen lake and the game treats it as her almost drowning as being worse for her, rather than the sub-zero water she was in. After that, she spends the rest of the game in an old Soviet army coat, with no clothes, or a hat, in spite of making several more jaunts into bodies of water and climbing icy ledges.
 * In  Trials Of Mana, Altena is located in a very cold, snowy area. However, its female mages wear dresses not designed for warmth. The game states that the queen of Altena keeps their home warm with magic. On the other hand, when their princess Angela escapes the castle wearing what looks like an orange leotard, she collapses from the cold. Lucky for her, some NPCs show up to help. Due to Gameplay And Story Segregation, nothing prevents Angela from going back later. The one thing that changes in the remake is the characters' propensity to complain about the cold; even Charlotte, the most sensibly dressed character, can only put up with for so long before she whines about it. The same can be said of Nevarlan heat, except for regional native Hawkeye.
 * Uncharted 2 Among Thieves : After almost freezing to death in Tibet, Nate gets some winter apparel. Though he is still remarkably comfortable climbing icy, snowy walls and ledges without any gloves. His winter clothes are quite light and he doesn't wear any sort of head protection. Plus he keeps getting his pants wet in icy water and trodging through snow, causing snow to collect in huge amounts on his legs. Apparently Nate can wisecrack his way out of frostbite and gangrene.
 * Valkyria Chronicles 4 :
 * Used as a plot point: while nobody's exposing that much skin, army fatigues meant for temperate climates turn out to be nowhere near warm enough for a northern winter that includes around-the-clock snowfall and intermittent blizzards. Morale plummets, everyone's shivering constantly, and characters comment the cold is more of a threat than encroaching enemies. It's even reflected in gameplay, as downed units will die quicker than normal thanks to hypothermia. Then the rangers finally meet up with a supply convoy, the most exciting thing for them isn't the artillery support, reinforcements, or mobile base - it's a hot meal and warm clothes.
 * This is played straight by Crymaria. While she does technically wears a coat, the manner which she wears it seems to be for purely aesthetics purpose and not really for keeping herself warm. Given her powers, however, this is justified.
 * You can also do this during gameplay since most characters can switch costumes between standard uniform and winter uniform post-story. The main characters also have swimsuits if you have the right DLC.
 * In  Xenoblade, some members of the party complain about how cold it is upon entering Valak Mountain, but won't suffer any ill effects from it. One might think there would be some warmer looking armor sets to be found there, but it's actually the complete opposite, as you can loot  swimsuits  that are said to be designed for cold weather use.
 * In one of the flashback levels of  Ys VIII Lacrimosa Of Dana, the Eternians are shown still wearing their traditional Stripperiffic outfits, despite the fact that thanks to the Lacrimosa, they were several years into an ice age. This played a large part in why most of the Eternians ended up freezing to death, with the others (apart from Dana) starving after their food animals froze to death.
 * Similar aversion in  Zack And Wiki Quest For Barbaros Treasure . Zack, who wears an open sleeveless coat with no shirt and shorts throughout the game, shivers, sneezes and huddles for warmth whenever he's not doing anything in the Ice World.