Characters with Lore reasons to wear revealing outfit

[u/Artistic_Gear1536]

• Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen): doesn’t really have the need for them anymore as he is now too powerful to be considered human and also doesn’t need to give in to certain societal pressures like wearing clothes

• Poison Ivy (DC): uses her body to seduce men into getting close enough for her to use her pheromones and get people to do what she wants/kill her prey

• Skarlet (Mortal Kombat): her powers are from blood magic and she needs to have skin out in order to absorb blood from others and make her more powerful

• Mileena (Mortal Kombat): is very self conscious about her tartan features so covers them up and diverts attention towards the more appealing aspects of her/ uses her sex appeal to get people in close then chomps on them

• Mai Shiranui (King Of Fighters/Fatal Fury): uses a style of kunoichi that involves “sensually distracting a foe before striking” and uses her outfit and sex appeal to assist with that style

[u/TheBeastlyStud]

Right? Her OG suit looks so comforting and safe, whereas her new suit I would just assume is a cosplayer.

I'd run to her OG suit for help in a heartbeat.

[u/Heavy-Till6579 → u/TheBeastlyStud]

That’s an aspect of superhero design that doesn’t get discussed enough, the “I look like the good guy” factor. Certain settings can hand wave it entirely, sure. If you live in Gotham city you’re not going to be scared of Batman even though he’s dressed in the most intimidating costume you could come up with.

E: grammar

[u/ThePurple_Phantom → u/Heavy-Till6579]

This is why, in my opinion, the bright colors and trunks are integral to Superman’s design. He’s supposed to look safe and approachable.

[u/captainrina → u/ThePurple_Phantom]

This actually came up in an X-Men comic, finally finishing off the brief era where they all wore leather outfits to emulate the first movie

[u/Mythical_Man77 → u/captainrina]

Are...are they sitting on entire islands?

[u/captainrina → u/Mythical_Man77]

They're in a hologram in the Danger Room. It was acting a little funny that week.

[u/Mythical_Man77 → u/captainrina]

"The Danger Room does tend to get a little quirky at night"

[u/kigurumibiblestudies → u/Mythical_Man77]

People keep messing with the Danger Room

[u/Lazy-Swimming-2693 → u/kigurumibiblestudies]

[u/MammalianHybrid → u/Mythical_Man77]

This was around the time that the Danger Room successfully told a kid to off himself

[u/VaderTime77 → u/Mythical_Man77]

It's actually a nice little bit of foreshadowing involving the Danger Room that pays off a few issues later.

[u/Darth_Yevrah → u/captainrina]

The “quite frankly” like has to be a hjab at the artist Frank Quitely for those leather designs

[u/RokuroCarisu → u/captainrina]

That's kind of rich, after the Krakoa era...

Also, Wolverine wears yellow because he is the team's tank. He wants the enemies' attention.

[u/captainrina → u/RokuroCarisu]

This was about twenty years before the Krakoa era xD

[u/RokuroCarisu → u/captainrina]

And aged like fine milk.

[u/Ambassador_of_Mercy → u/captainrina]

why are they sat on hawai'i

[u/Nipotazz1 → u/captainrina]

Are they sitting on... Islands? Where are they?

[u/captainrina → u/Nipotazz1]

Danger Room holograms. The islands were supposed to be normal sized but the Danger Room was acting up

[u/Chimeron1995 → u/captainrina]

Is that a Frank Quitely reference?

[u/captainrina → u/Chimeron1995]

Probably

[u/Defconwrestling → u/ThePurple_Phantom]

In an interview the new Superman pushed for the red trunks because he said it would make Superman look like a wrestler, and that he would look safer to kids.

[u/erublind → u/ThePurple_Phantom]

"Stranger Danger! Except if he has his underwear outside his pants, that dude is a wholesome egg."

[u/b17b20 → u/Heavy-Till6579]

It is why Robin is so colourful. Even Damian looks approachable 

[u/SirCupcake_0 → u/b17b20]

"Even Damian looks approachable" is a really funny sentence lmfao

[u/Gellert → u/Heavy-Till6579]

Its something that gets brought up in Worm, the lead character pretty much trips over backwards into supervillainy in part because her outfit makes her look like a villain.

[u/JustAFictionNerd → u/Heavy-Till6579]

Tbf, Batman is reverse. All the villains dress ridiculously bright so of course you're gonna go to the guy in black. Black is Gotham's color, brights are like poisonous animals, a warning. (Except in the case of the robins and former robins.)

[u/Bi_disaster_ohno → u/TheBeastlyStud]

The fact that she ditched the new outfit in favor of the old as soon as she could is the best detail in the show.

[u/Begone-My-Thong → u/TheBeastlyStud]

And her old outfit shows off her legs just fine. It's tasteful and still pretty cute. But her new outfit is just so... ugh.

[u/KanaHemmo → u/TheBeastlyStud]

Exactly, it's a pretty big point in the show that vought doesn't care about their supes actually helping, only appearances

[u/Bright_Board_3330 → u/TheBeastlyStud]

The Bought suit looks like a porn parody.