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Puffy Treat
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Most super-hero costumes are, to one degree or another, silly. It's just one more thing that requires suspension of disbelief in order to enjoy the genre. A good design can help the audience accept this element. A bad design can help the whole house of cards topple down. No character is immune...the super-heroes who've lasted for decades tend to have more than a few gaudily-dressed skeletons in their closet.

Take poor Black Canary...I had a subscription to Detective Comics at the time this outfit was introduced. It had a cover devoted to it, Batman and Green Arrow beaming at Dinah's new look. Both of them secretly glad no one decided they'd look better with pirate boots, a headband, wing epaulets and billowy sleeves. Her original outfit was politically incorrect, it's true...but that was rather the point. She was a vigilante who used her beauty as a distraction.

The most distracting thing about this costume? Wondering where she found those boots, man.


Over at Marvel, we have Spider-Man during his unlamented "Clone" period. Ben Reilly (then portrayed as being the "real" Peter Parker, back again after years away) showed the first big clue something was off in his story by fighting crime wearing a hoodie. Gotta love the huge, off-center Spider symbol. It shows he's X-TREME, doods! [Big Grin]

What are your favorite examples? Super-heroes from any media are acceptable.
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The Spleen from Mystery Men.
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Many of the "Who Wants To be a Superhero" auditionees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-bpML2XNw
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No wonder The Joker keeps cracking up.
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quote:
Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
No wonder The Joker keeps cracking up.
I thought I was prepared, but that still got me. *still laughing*
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Tante, the only conceivable response I have to that would be right here.

--Enigmatic
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quote:
Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
No wonder The Joker keeps cracking up.
Curse you for stealing my thunder! [No No]
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Puffy Treat
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The Joel Schumacher era of bat-films have a lot to answer for.
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quote:
Originally posted by Enigmatic:
Tante, the only conceivable response I have to that would be right here.

--Enigmatic
hehe, I was reading that one just today. What really baffles me is why is the joker making more plans when he was arrested in the previous panel?
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From the far future we have Magnus, Robot Fighter. No offense meant to the late, great Russ Manning, but the tiny chain metal mini-skirt was quite frankly the biggest obstacle to Magnus becoming more popular.
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