Civvie Spandex: Difference between revisions

* Crimebuster, a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] teen superhero, started out with wearing his school hockey uniform and a cape for a costume. Several years later, he traded it for a more mundane outfit, wearing jeans and practical shoes with his hockey jersey. At the very end of the feature's run, he switched to wearing various civilian outfits, but by that point (thanks to the [[Genre Shift]]), he was barely acting as a superhero anyway.

* Spiderman related characters:

** Until he took over the [[Spider-Man]] title, Ben Reilly's costume was the standard spandex affair, all red, with a blue sleeveless hoodie with a spider on it. Though a lot of fans didn't realize it, the costume was actually [[Stylistic Suck|''supposed'' to look cheesy]] - the idea being that Ben didn't have time to make a real costume, but he ended up wearing it for so long that the justification stopped making sense.

** Dr. Octopus' costume has traditionally consisted of a lab coat or sometimes just a plain suit. During the 70's and 80's, he wore green spandex, but otherwise, he stuck to civvies.

* While he's usually portrayed with a full body suit, [[The Punisher]] is shown as just wearing a T-shirt with a skull on it in his more "serious" outings including most appearances in Punisher MAX.

* [[The Savage Dragon]] wears normal clothes unless he's in his police uniform. He went through one arc wearing a patriotic spandex costume after joining the superhero team SOS. It was [[Clothing Damage|torn apart]] in that story, which was okay with the Dragon since he hated wearing spandex anyway.

* There was an obscure [[DC Comics]] [[Anti-Hero]] named ''Mad Dog'' (not to be confused with the equally obscure Marvel character of the same name) who wore hockey gear. Yes, hockey gear. There's a reason why the character is obscure.

** You seem to refer to Wild Dog, who wore army pants, a football shirt, and a hockey mask. In Amazing Hereos#119, the writer crafted Wild Dog as a modern version of the Shadow, the Green Hornet, Zorro and the Lone Ranger. Max Allan Collins, creator of Wild Dog, lampshaded that Wild Dog did not wear spandex by having a young boy talking with some other youths and wondering why they thought that spandex and a cape made a sensible costume. Collins notes that "I don’t see how any intelligent writer can approach a story about people in long underwear and capes without either removing their brain or putting their tongue in their cheek to a degree……. [On [presumably] the Christopher Reeve Superman films] The Superman movies have all, as far as I’m concerned fallen to a degree into the Batman TV show approach-maybe not quite as broad…..And I think they did that because because there’s no other way you can play it. It just doesn’t work. I mean, look at that costume".

* [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] usually [[Monster Modesty|doesn't wear much]] and has a [[Utility Belt]] but his main feature is [[Badass Longcoat|a big, brown coat.]]

* In ''[[The Crow]]'', Eric wears normal clothes with facepaint. This tradition has been carried on to the comic sequels.

* ''Doctor Mirage''. The titular hero was zapped with magical energy while wearing his ski outfit. He had no choice but to 'wear' that for some time.

* ''[[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]]'' sometimes wears a leather jacket over his costume. Additionally, his costume really is his civilian attire so in a way, he's always wearing civvie spandex.