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The hero has to go into action, but doesn't have access to his official costume. So he contrives a shoddy emergency costume. Usually [[Played for Laughs]].
There are lots of reasons why his usual kit is out of the question. It might even have been deliberately destroyed in a plot to betray his [[Secret Identity]].
On occasion, an imitator may want to look like the hero and fail. This might lead to an [[I Am Spartacus]] scene.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', someone takes Yugi's deck and copies his look. His hair leaves much to be desired.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Zoisite, one of the Shitennou, dresses up as Sailor Moon, saves people from accidents he sets up himself, and stages his own kidnapping to trap the real one. However, red highlights are blue on the fake costume. (It happens in the ''Sailor Moon Plus'' fan game, too, in which he also adopts Sailor Moon's move set.)
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' had the "historic" recreation of the Cell games with the actors wearing plastic masks that had the yellow Super Saiyan hair.
** And were ''enormous''
*** Not even [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]] was spared!
* In the ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' anime, all the fake Angels have perfect costumes, but, besides the fake Milfeulle, they are also all [[Gonk
* One of Maron's heists in ''[[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]]'' gets complicated when her [[Transformation Trinket]] ends up in the hands of the possessed [[Victim of the Week]]. Her makeshift disguise includes an altered yukata, a (much, much plainer) handmade cross, hair extensions, and spray-on hair dye. Things get even more complicated when she gets caught in a [[Drowning Pit]], the dye washes off, and the hair extensions float away.
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== Comic Books ==
* Seems to happen with [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] quite frequently. Makes sense, considering he is often [[The Woobie]], [[The Chew Toy]] or both.
** In the comics, Spider-Man once had to get rid of his entire costume (it was the symbiote at the time). He had to borrow a [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] costume, but because it didn't have a mask, he had to wear a paper bag over his head (and a [["Kick Me" Prank|kick-me sign on his back]], courtesy of Johnny Storm). No, seriously. He was called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605103949/http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/himself/costume/not_really/index.html "The Amazing Bag-Man" and "The Bombastic Bag-Man"].
** In an early story arc, Spidey's costume gets trashed (again), but he doesn't have a spare and is forced to buy a Spider-man costume from a costume shop. A dunk in the river causes the cheap costume to shrink, forcing him to web it in place, which leads to further problems...
** During a Team-Up with Wolverine Spidey once found himself abroad and in need of a costume. Luckly for him he was able to purchase a reasonable imitation of a Spiderman costume in a costumeshop in Berlin. Unfortunately it had "Die Spinne" written on the back, the name that the character was known by and that Spiderman comics were sold under in Germany back then.
*** Worth noting that Spidey's normal costume at the time was the black & white number, so it wasn't a "resonable" imitation to his way of thinking since it looked like his then-retired red-and-blue costume.
** The Scarlet Spider outfit started out like this. This may be where the "stenciled sweats" idea came from in the movie.
** The Steel Spider began as a boy in a Spider-Man Halloween costume with (non-functional) aluminum arms coming off the back. He eventually developed his own, still Spider-Man–based identity.
** In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', the Chameleon was a pretty convincing Spidey, except for the fact that Pete had switched to the black costume at this point. Oh, and the Chameleon had some weak imitations of the webbing, really hammed it up with the voice, and had an "insect early warning sense".
** In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Spidey had lost his costume to the Venom suit and was forced to wear a rag-tag Spidey t-shirt/blue pants combo and a loose mask. The glass piece that covered one eye of the mask fell out, and the lady he saved accidentally stepped on it.
** Back in the very early Steve Ditko days, Peter Parker made his own costumes. The design was silk-screened on. And there was webbing between his arms and his side, which was a real pain to sew on.
** Fittingly, many of these cheap costumes are available to wear in the [[PS 1]] game ''Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro''.
** The newspaper ''Amazing Spider-Man'' had a storyline where someone stole Spidey's costume and Peter himself fought crime in a Western mashup costume under the name of "Justice Guy".
** At one point at least, Spidey bought a Halloween costume from a store and found it was better than his current costume.
** During one part of the "Clone Saga," Peter once again found himself without a costume. He improvised with the tank-top and pants he'd been wearing in prison, a leather jacket, and the black mask, boots, and gloves left over from his cloth version of the symbiote costume (wearing his webshooters on the outside for some reason). Can be seen at the bottom of the page [
* In the ''[[Daredevil]]'' comics, Gladiator used to be the owner of a costume shop that specialized in superhero and supervillain costumes (the place looked kinda like a Wax Museum Morgue). He alters a DD costume for Foggy Nelson that looks pretty darn good for a knockoff. Except for the plastic prop billyclub, of course...
** In the "Born Again" arc, the Daredevil impostor hired by the Kingpin had such a convincing costume (also made by the Gladiator), the real Daredevil actually stole it from him and put it on himself. Of course he had no choice as all of his other costumes had been destroyed.
** Another impostor, an actor claiming to have been Daredevil for publicity, also had a perfect costume.
* In [[The DCU]], Nightwing had a "rival" hero called Nite-Wing with a 'costume' that consisted of a hockey jersey and combat pants.
* Molly Hayes of ''[[Runaways]]'' tried to make her own costume with a T-shirt cape and cheap mask. This lasted a few seconds before Gert yanked the mask off herself.
* Rorschach's costume in ''[[Watchmen]]'' is something of an inversion; he works in a tailor's shop in his day job and has the skills and equipment make himself any costume his imagination could devise -- [[Fan Wank|it's possible he made Nite Owl II's in exchange for that]] [[Grappling Hook Pistol|rope gun]]
** After he {{spoiler|escapes from prison}} he doesn't have time to do more than grab his coat, hat, mask and scarf over what he was wearing at the time, which definitely makes him fit the trope more.
* Towards the end of the ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' series, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon met with a teenage girl who was co-opting her old identity. The cheapness of the young lady's
* In ''[[Kick-Ass]]'', a few of the costumes are pretty lame. It's kind of the point.
* Harley Quinn's costume was just something she stole from a costume shop. Joker's duds may count as well, given he just wears a ratty old suit. This tends to fall into [[Depending on the Writer]] at times. In ''Salvation Run'', Joker mentions that his famed purple tuxedo is made of pure velvet.
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** The novelization of the ''Spider-Man 2'' movie revealed that Peter got his proper costume made by a guy who specialized in wrestling costumes.
** In the unfilmed James Cameron movie script, stores began selling Spider-Man costumes based off of what they saw him wearing. Peter ruined his costume and decided to buy the store costume because it was actually of better quality.
* The "heroes" of ''[[Mystery Men]]'' all upgrade their costumes to something more impressive before the final battle.
* Done in ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'', where some of the costumes are really cheesy. And yet the title character makes a wetsuit look downright awesome.
* In ''[[Super]]'', the Crimson Bolt's costume is clearly homemade and is pretty sloppy looking.
* Subverted and combined with [[Mistaken for An Imposter]] and [[Your Costume Needs Work]] in ''[[Megamind]]'' where Bernard mistakes the title character for a fan in costume due to the fact he was at Metro Man's museum in his ''pajamas''.
* David Dunn's "Costume" in ''[[Unbreakable]]'' is a simple poncho. He probably didn't mean for it to be his superhero outfit; it just happened to be what he was wearing on the rainy night that he made his first foray into crimefighting.
* Once [[Captain America: The First Avenger|Steve Rogers]] is turned into a Super-Soldier, he's put into USO shows while wearing a sloppily-made version of the Captain America outfit (though it is faithful to the character's appearance in the comics...). However, once he gets his new costume for actual missions, Steve personally sees to it that the outfit is based on the USO costume.
* In general, it's oddly common in films for superheroes to start the movie with a sort of "dime store" version of their iconic costumes, then to switch at some point to their proper costumes. Spiderman and [[Captain America (comics)]] were already mentioned. [[Iron Man]] builds an actual iron exosuit in a cave, and he manages to create a simplified, silver version of his iconic outfit before getting to the main movie costume.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[Tales of the Starbuck Avenger!!!]],'' the titular heroine's costume consists of a cheap tiara, a javelin, and a Starbucks apron worn backwards as a cape.
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