Dressed to kill
There are certain weapons you expect to encounter when you pick up your controller and enter a video game world. Swords, guns, military vehicles, conveniently loyal wild animals; all of these are tried and tested methods of video game pain delivery. But every once in a while, a character gets creative with how they incorporate their weaponry. A boot fitted with a retractable knife, a gun up their sleeve, and soon you're raising your eyebrow down the barrel of a set of bracelet-mounted pistols. Err?
Bayonetta's shoes
Marilyn Monroe once said, "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world." She severely underestimated what a good shoe can do. Bayonetta brings down abominable angels and one extra-crispy creator of the universe, plus a few thousand-toothed demons in the upcoming Bayonetta 2, with the help of her smokin' hot pistol heels.
Batman's cape
Batman's cape may seem like a bland bit of fabric to the naked eye, but look a little closer and you realize it's a bland bit of fabric with some cool junk woven into it! Perhaps one of its most useful features is its lead-lined hems, which can be used to stun Bruce's enemies. As lead to the face will do.
Koshsh's scarf
Like every fighter in the army-brutalizing Dynasty Warrior games, leveling a field of mooks is the stuff of a regular Tuesday for Koshsh. However, unlike her warrior compatriots, she likes to add a little sparkle to her soldier-smashing with the help of a flowy scarf. Don't let its pretty pink look fool you though, or you might end up like these suckers.
Roger Huxley's helmet
Though most of Roger Huxley's arsenal is filled with magic spells, some of his most devastating attacks involve using his head. And by that I mean headbutting enemies with a nasty spiked helmet called a pickelhaube. Yeah, this dude may look small, but when he's stuck to your side by a piece of metal shoved deep in your abdomen? He's gonna feel huge.
Cerebella's muscle-hat
Uh, whoa. At first I thought that thing on Cerebella's head was just another set of arms and she was a four-armed, limb-headed freak of nature. But no, that's her giant, muscle-bound hat named Vice-Versa, a living creature that only she can control. Which is only slightly less weird.
Mario's Tanooki suit
While at first glance this suit can make you seriously wonder what Mario does on the weekends, don't let that color your perception. Take his Tanooki suit out for a spin (or a float) and you'll see that it's even more formidable than it is uncomfortable. An upgraded version of the Raccoon suit that so many know and love, this suit's bushy brown tail will put you in the ground.
Zero's sarong
Every girl may be crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man, but I'm guessing the fine fellows of ZZ Top did not mean that literally. Zero (not the Mega Man one, the King of Fighters one) doesn't have time to worry about semantics though, and he knows that his sword-lined sarong brings in all the ladies and probably a few gentlemen. It also happens to be super effective in battle, slicing his foes open with a flash of its bladed hem--so hey, bonus!
Michael Jackson's fedora
Annie are you okay? Are you okay Annie? Probably not, if you ran into the original smooth criminal in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. MJ proves that you don't wanna be startin' something when he's got his trusty hat, which can blow people up just by touching them. Something tells me there's gonna be blood on the dance floor.
Every outfit in Final Fantasy X-2
When your entire combat system is based on bewitched battle ensembles, you better be the best dressed at every party. And by "party" I of course mean "every brutal fight to the death". Yuna and company don't have to worry though, because with all the dresspheres and magical-girl transformations they have at their disposal, they always make the other girls (and boys, and monsters, and malevolent poltergeists) at the shindig jealous.
