Greywind Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes I preferred Betsy with the purple hair and eyes to the ninja. Someone should fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes Mockingbird went with bare legs when she went to the West Coast Avengers. The claim was on the California heat. What kind of tribble doesn't like stockings or legs? But for fighting villains ? The modification seemed just to be for fan service on Mockingbird. And I started with the Blue costume on Zatanna so it looks silly when she fights crooks in her street clothes. Wonder Woman's costume started out that way and works. Besides she's an Amazon and they like the Ancient Greeks did not wear a lot. Which brings to mind The Silver Surfer and The Thing. The Surfer has a metallic body shorn of all recognisable features. The Thing is often seen wearing nothing but trunks and that works. The Hulk on the other hand changes and becomes the Hulk shredding his clothes of the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes I preferred Betsy with the purple hair and eyes to the ninja. Someone should fix that. Love to. But they keep stopping me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes But for fighting villains ? The modification seemed just to be for fan service on Mockingbird. And I started with the Blue costume on Zatanna so it looks silly when she fights crooks in her street clothes. Wonder Woman's costume started out that way and works. Besides she's an Amazon and they like the Ancient Greeks did not wear a lot. Which brings to mind The Silver Surfer and The Thing. The Surfer has a metallic body shorn of all recognisable features. The Thing is often seen wearing nothing but trunks and that works. The Hulk on the other hand changes and becomes the Hulk shredding his clothes of the moment. Scarlet Witch wore a red body stocking under a corseted swimsuit. Never liked the JLA Zatanna outfit. Apparently neither did 99% of her fans. Surfer wears trunks and boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes Almost looks like you're confusing Liefield with Image. Kestrel was similar to Hawk with that cape. Likely so. I never cared enough to find out who made what, except I knew that McFarlane did Spawn. (And I'd forgotten that Hawk had the streamers too. Been a looong time since I looked at those comics.) Speaking of Spawn, he'd be another example of "costume that would kill its wearer" with all the chains... except I gather the chains are magically animate and sort of, um, part of him? So So he'd no more get tangled up in them than an octopus would get tangled in its own tentacles. So, he gets the coolness without a hazard penalty. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes The entire costume was a demonic symbiote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes Speaking of stockings Black Canary's fishnet are a must. Same goes with Zatanna. Both Fawcett and Marvel's Captain Marvel costumes are good. I agree about the Flash and Kid Flash. Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) has had a lot of costumes, but only the original Wonder Woman inspired one, and the red jumper work for me (The one in Super Best Friends Forever.) I think when the writers our out of ideas they change the costume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes The problem with Wonder Girl is nobody was on the same page about the character. Once she was a Titan, George and Marv went with what little there was and built a more stable foundation for her. Then someone got a stupid idea and sapped the foundation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes Surfer wears trunks and boots. The original Silver Surfer, drawn by Jack Kirby, wore neither. His body was seamlessly covered head-to-toe in that metallic glaze (including merging his toes in a bootlike shape), wearing nothing. Later versions of the Surfer, such as his classic John Buscema solo title, added a trunks line so he wouldn't appear "naked." But that's been dispensed with for at least twenty years. DC's reboot of Captain Atom is similarly sheathed in a metallic skin, and also lacks a trunks line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptCastle Posted November 26, 2012 Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes some of these may seem like such cliche answers, but here goes anyway. Batman, the Flash, Spider Woman/Jessica Drew. I also like Fire's Green Fury's costume from her Global Guardians days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2012 Re: Costumes The original X-men costumes seemed more like a uniform, but were too baggy, like Professor X got them off the rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptCastle Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Re: Costumes I always liked Liberty Belle's costume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes Uma Thurman My Super Ex-Girlfriend G-Girl had a series of different costumes, which makes sense since her powers didn't protect them. As far as best, I'm going to go with Spider-Man out of practical reasons. Why is it a garish red and blue? Because it was originally a show-business costume. It's a stretchy leotard because that's what works with his powers. The big mirrored eye holes avoid interfering with his peripheral vision, and nobody would be able to recognise him except by his voice. I would not give the nod to Wonder Woman. Honestly her classic costume is awful. She'd be popping out of her bustier ever time she made a vigorous movement. But Looker's original costume was atrocious in colour and design. Fortunately she could use her power while standing very still, since that kept her high-heels from killing her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes Good costumes (not already mentioned) Phoenix's green and yellow costume (Iron Fist's costume in the same color scheme isn't bad either) Moon Knight's costume Bad costumes Pretty much everything designed by Jim Lee for the new DC is either bad or at the very least not near as good as the costume it's replacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes The original X-men costumes seemed more like a uniform' date=' but were too baggy, like Professor X got them off the rack.[/quote'] He likely did. Maintaining a cult is expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes The new TV show Arrow gives a good example of "realistic" Dark Champions level costumes. Huntress will get one that looks like her comic book one next week. When she was introduced in the last episode I first suspected the T-Mobile Girl had snapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes I liked Supergirl's original outfit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: Costumes I liked Supergirl's original outfit. That's the blue top and skirt with red boots and cape and Super S, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes I can see you have never laced a woman into a corset Corsets can have what is known as boning in them(think metal,plastic or bamboo strips shaped like a hacksaw blade without the saw edge)(though I have seen hacksaw blades used) the idea being that you squeeze the middle of a woman giving an hourglass look the boning and fabric hold breasts up and in place and the support is by the corset resting on the woman's hips I have laced many women into corsets and bodices in my 22 yrs of working Ren Faire a few had enough metal boning in them to be almost armor plate Speaking of female costume super-powers, Wonder Woman's classic comic-book bustier must have anti-gravity -- or be attached with spirit gum -- to stay on with no fabric in the back to support it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes Have you ever seen a corset with absolutely no support from lower back to breast-level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes I also found what I think is a fair representation of what a male super's costume would look like if it was governed by the same visual priorities as many female ones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes I can see you have never laced a woman into a corset Corsets can have what is known as boning in them(think metal,plastic or bamboo strips shaped like a hacksaw blade without the saw edge)(though I have seen hacksaw blades used) the idea being that you squeeze the middle of a woman giving an hourglass look the boning and fabric hold breasts up and in place and the support is by the corset resting on the woman's hips I have laced many women into corsets and bodices in my 22 yrs of working Ren Faire a few had enough metal boning in them to be almost armor plate Originally the boning was whale bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes The Society for Creative Anachronism or SCA corsets made in the Pacfic North West are used as Fencing Armor by some stylish ladies. Kinda distracting when fencing with them. They are so solid they make gropping meaningless. QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyber624 Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes Actually I have seen them. Of course you have to deal with "wardrobe malfunctions" on occasion when wearing something like that, but in the venues I have seen them in that isn't normally considered a bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: Costumes In this case the fabric also doubles as boning Unstable molecules to keep those breasts stable and covered Have you ever seen a corset with absolutely no support from lower back to breast-level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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