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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' Exemplifed in the final season where we learn there are Sailor Senshi on other planets with radically different uniforms with the only connection being the collar from the Sailor Fuku and some form of head wear akin to a Tiara.
* At least once ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' got a "Z" in its name, Goku was almost never without his orange suit.
** Much longer than that -- Goku has been wearing an orange Kame school gi since about episode 20 of the original series, when Master Roshi gave him his first one.
** This costume is so iconic that Ultimate Gohan asks Kibito to conjure him up an exact copy of said outfit before he goes to fight Majin Buu.
*** Except his first one was more red than orange.
** Vegeta's Cell arc armor is pretty iconic as well despite him going through the most costume changes over the course of ''Z''. If there's any promotional material including him, nine times out of ten he will be wearing that outfit.
* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'': Jotaro Kujo's tattered cap and school uniform. After he loses his school jacket in the fight with ZZ, he has a tailor make an identical one.
* Ash's hat in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''. Later they did change it, but he always has a hat, and is the only major character to do so.
 
 
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** [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Antman/Giantman/Yellowjacket/The Wasp/Hank Pym]]. He can't decide on a name, it's hardly surprising he can't pick a costume.
** And the original Wasp was, for many years, changing costumes almost as frequently. Originally this was said to be just because she was [[The Chick]], and "women like lots of clothes." Later she was given a less offensively stereotypical [[Hand Wave]] as an offshoot of her fashion-designer background, and she has even designed costumes for other Avengers over the years.
* [[The Phantom (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|The Phantom]] is not only iconic for his costume, but it also helps him maintain his "invincible, immortal hero" ruse; when the Phantom dies, his son takes over both title and costume, so the villains think it's the same man.
** This works so well that when one Phantom was incapacitated and his sister had to cover for him, people not informed thought it was still him. Despite the, er, fairly apparent differences in height and weight. Oh, and ''breasts''.
* In a manner similar to above is Batman, whose black cloak and pointy-eared cowl have allowed a number of people to pass as the genuine article, including Dick Grayson (now a 'Batman legacy' character).
** Amusingly, in the [[Batman: No Man's Land (Comic Book)|No Man's Land]] storyline, Huntress masqueraded as the Batman in the same way as the Phantom's sister. A Lampshade was hung when a bystander comments on how he always thought that 'the Bat' was a guy, only to be fooled into thinking that Batman was ALWAYS Batwoman because "If you were a big tough guy who got beat by a girl, would you admit it? Or would you say it was a huge hulking giant with fangs and claws that took you down?"
** Also [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] during the "[[Knightfall]]"/"Knightquest" arc when Bruce is replaced by Jean-Paul Valley, whose methods take a turn towards uncharacteristic brutality and Commissioner Gordon expresses suspicions that it may be a different "Batman"; the character he's discussing this with points out that it's a bit naive to assume there's only ''been'' one Batman up to that point.
* To follow up on Batman, his partner Robin has also taken to this ever since becoming a [[Legacy Character]] in his own right. Every Robin has worn some variation of Dick Grayson's original ensemble; the red chest piece (with 'R' insignia), yellow cape, occasionally some green thrown in (more evident in the earlier versions), and tied together with a classic domino mask.
* [[Wonder Woman]] started to wear pants and even armor instead/in addition to her tradition 'one piece bathing suit' look. The traditional, core Wonder Woman has stuck more to the classic outfit with only a few notable exceptions. She has always kept her iconic bracers, hairstyle, and tiara though, to tie them together.
* Aquaman has traditionally kept with his orange and green combo. For a while he went to an entirely diffrent outfit of white and sea colors in a chaotic pattern meant to invoke the sea. Sword of Atlantis Aquaman lost his shirt entirely, much to the delight of the fangirls.
* The entire concept of the [[Legacy Character]] owes a lot to this trope. It's easy for any random guy off the street to claim he's [[Memetic Mutation|Chuck Norris]], but even if he ''is'' a total [[Badass]], no one will be taking him seriously. Even if Chuck designated him as his official successor. Put him in Batman's suit and have him be the new Batman, and [[Batman Beyond (Animation)|that's another story...]]
* The page image deserves some explanation, if only because it's such a quintessential example of this trope. Superman's traditional red, blue, and yellow costume remained basically unchanged for almost 60 years. Then in 1997, DC got it in its head that Supes needed to be "updated". They traded his traditional powers for some vaguely defined electromagnetism/[[Energy Beings|energy being]]-type powers and his iconic suit for a cape-less blue and white ensemble. The change resulted in an [[Internet Backlash]]. While the powers and the costume were pretty cool in concept, their origin was far too mediocre to justify such a radical change to such a beloved and iconic character. The new costume and powers lasted all of 13 months before DC returned to the classic version.
* DC Comic's [[New 52]] reboot became a war-zone on a lot of forums with this trope as the battlecry among 'conservative' readers who saw issues with changes to core elements of some costumes, arguing that they were iconic.
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== Film ==
* [[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Michael Myer's]] pale white mask and mechanics jump suit.
* A tuxedo is not a common outfit, but try having [[James Bond]] not wear one at least once in one of his movies.
* [[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Jason's]] hockey mask was a horror icon since the third movie.
* [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street|Freddy's]] striped shirt and fedora is probably only ''slightly'' less of an icon.
* Although [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] needs the suit to live, it probably fits this trope better than any outfit in the films series.
** Leia will either be presented in her white dress from the first film with the cinnamon buns hairstyle, or golden bikini. Often the iconic hair crosses over to the bikini, even though she never wore them together.
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* [[Back to The Future|Marty McFly's]] red down vest (confused with a lifejacket in the first movie) and jeans.
* [[Dollars Trilogy|The Man With No Name]]'s trademark poncho/sarape, light blue shirt, sheepskin vest, hat, and self-rolled cigarillo.
** ''In [[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly]]'' he wears [[Badass Longcoat|a coat for most of the film.]] But at the end, he [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|gives it to a dying soldier]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|finds his poncho...]]
* In ''The Mask of [[Zorro]]'', the original, now elderly and infirm, Zorro trains a successor to continue fighting the good fight. Wearing Zorro's trademark black hat, mask, rapier and whip, people think it's the same Zorro, come back to aid them once more, thus adding to his supernatural mystique. One elderly monk, who aided the original Zorro decades earlier, is astounded to meet the new one, commenting "Age certainly has been kinder to you than it has to me..."
* The entire idea behind the [[Dread Pirate Roberts]]; both the trope and the character(s)
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* [[Doc Savage]]'s jodhpurs and torn white shirt. Eventually, every cover depicted him wearing them. Cover artist Boris Valejo even had to rip a new shirt once after the original shirt was lost, using old cover paintings for reference. Ironically he forgot that he was facing into the painting and the new shirt turned out to be a mirror image of the old one.
* [[Where's Waldo|Waldo]] wears blue jeans, a shirt with red-and-white horizontal stripes, and a red-and-white hat with a red bobble, the latter two intended to make him stand out in a crowd.
* Worked against [[Spider -Man]] villain the Rhino at one point. In the comic-based novel The Darkest Hours, by [[Jim Butcher]], he admitted to Spider-Man (long story involving mutual enemies that like to drain the life force out of totemic-based individuals, like Spider-Man, Rhino, Black Cat...) while recovering from a battle at Spidey's apartment (a battle that left him blinded temporarily), that he hated the suit, especially the Rhino hat. After he had gotten suit off after a period of being trapped in it, he tried to change his image, wearing a suit and tie. But the first employer he tried to get refused to believe that he was the Rhino, associating him with the costume and the rhino hat. He's been using it ever since simply because the costume is the only way he is recognized enough to get work.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* Although the colors have changed, [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario and Luigi]] still have their cap and overalls, although the colors weren't really finalized until ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'' (when the color palette was large enough to properly show it).
** Peach's [[Princesses Prefer Pink|pink dress]].
** As do Wario and Waluigi, except in the ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' games where Wario has a different outfit. In ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'', though, he can use both.
* Link's green cap and tunic. A particularly notable example as Link is a [[Legacy Character]], and many games provide new reasons for the new guy to wear the iconic wardrobe.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Link was raised among the Kokiri, where all the boys wore green caps and tunics. As the origin story of the [[Big Bad]], and for a long time the earliest confirmed game chronologically, many later games can have their use of the outfit ultimately traced back to here.
** By ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', the legend of the ''Ocarina'' Link has spread, and it's now traditional for boys to wear green on a certain birthday as a sign of coming-of-age. It just so happens that on ''this'' Link's birthday, his sister was kidnapped. He continues to wear his green gear into ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]''.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Minish Cap (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap]]'' has no explanation for the tunic, but Link meets a [[Nice Hat|talking green cap]] who serves as the game's [[Exposition Fairy]]. At the end of the game, {{spoiler|as the restored-to-true-form Picori wizard departs}}, he leaves Link a replacement cap similar to the ones worn by other Links.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', the clothes seem to have become somehow intrinsically linked to the bearer of the Triforce of Courage. The Link of that game only starts wearing those clothes because when he was restored from his wolf-form for the first time, they appeared on him in place of his work clothes. The Light Spirit who restored him indicated this as a sign that he was [[The Chosen One]].
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' takes a slightly different approach, in that the cap and tunic have become the uniform for the royal guard (presumably in honor of the ''Wind Waker'' Link that helped found this kingdom). This game's Link starts wearing them when he has to dress up as a guard to sneak Zelda out of the castle.
** Prequel ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' again has it as a preexisting uniform, this time for the Skyloft Knight Academy. Though in this case, it comes in multiple colors to note which year the students are in (but Link's year is of course green).
* Mai Shiranui, from ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' suffers from this, mainly due to her status as [[Ms. Fanservice]] in both games. They attempted a change of outfit in the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series, but it only lasted two games and she returned to a variation of her original outfit after that. In ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' only minor changes were ever made to her clothing, and only in the ''Maximum Impact'' she get to wear different ''alternate'' outfits, which are still heavily based on her traditional one.
** ''King of Fighters'' native Iori Yagami has only had one outfit for about 10 years (from his debut in 1995 to ''The King of Fighters XI'' in 2005): a black jacket over a long white shirt with red pants that are tied at the knees. In ''The King of Fighters XII'', as part of his character's change away from flame powers to purely slashing attacks, he also got a new set of threads (the same black jacket but now over a short red shirt and a pair of white pants).
* Similar to the Mai Shiranui example, Chun-Li got a new outfit for the prequel games ''[[Street Fighter]] Alpha/Zero'', but already by the second installment, there was a way to play as her in her original outfit.
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*** Of course, the blue color was an intentional play off this trope: Samus started out weakened and without most of her equipment; you know you're back near full strength when a powerup restores the familiar orange color.
* Mages in ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' all have [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]], except the white mages, which almost always have nice hoods.
* Dark blue and light blue spandex, both in about equal measure. An [[Arm Cannon]]. Usually a helmet. No mater how much time passes, that is the default equipment for all who hold the name ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]]''.
** Expect for those in ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' series, where only the bearer of a pure Model X has that scheme, with protagonists bearing a mix of ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Zero]]'' and ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|X]]'' outfits.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'': Snake's dark blue stealth suit and bandana.
** Ocelot's Brown duster and quick draw gun belt.
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** Ariel is an exception, because she is either shown in her [[Princesses Prefer Pink|pink dinner dress]] or her [[Seashell Bra]].
** Belle is too, appearing about as often in her more demure blue-and-white dress, or pink dress and [[Pretty in Mink|fur cape]], as she does in fancy gold one.
* [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|Cruella De Vil's]] huge [[Fur and Loathing|fur coat]].
* [[Mickey Mouse]] just doesn't have that same iconic status without the red shorts and yellow shoes. Same goes for [[Donald Duck]] and [[Goofy]] and their respective wardrobes. Even their outfits in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' are still based on their classic looks. Mickey still has the red shorts and big yellow shoes. Donald's shirt is still blue and has a (modified) sailor collar. Goofy still has a tall hat and a vest over a turtleneck.
** Ironically, Mickey's outfit, while ubiquitous in comic books and merchandise, was actually not worn for much of his film career. The cartoons made between 1942 and 1953 have him wearing more contemporary clothes, not wearing the red shorts on the big screen until the 1995 short ''[[Runaway Brain]]''. Furthermore, some of his more iconic roles (the Sorcerer's Apprentice in ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]]'', ''[[Brave Little Tailor]]'', and others) have him wearing some other uniform (although the Apprentice costume is nearly as iconic as the shorts).
** It is much less ubiquitous in comic books than you think. Ever since [[Floyd Gottfredson]], the ''first'' guy to seriously write [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe|Mickey Mouse strips]], Mickey has been shown wearing just regular clothes in comics. (Gottfredson started a trend where Mickey is just a regular action comic hero who happens to be a [[Funny Animal]]). The original outfit is generally acknowledged by making his standard outfit red trousers and a white shirt, with whatever other clothes fitting the occasion (he generally wears a green baseball cap outdoors when casual, a [[Badass Longcoat]] and fedora outdoors when formal, etc.). When he started wearing the original shorts in recent European-sold Disney comics, fans cried [[Dork Age]].
** Donald's sailors outfit has changed subtly over the years. His hat was white until around 1943, as were the stripes on his collar and sleeves, and the buttons and sleeve stripes disappeared for a brief period during the 1950s.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' and her black shirt, gloves, and cargo pants. For some, it was jarring when she got a new uniform in season four. Not many of the prodigious amounts of [[Fan Art]] featuring her dress her in the new outfit. (Even leaving aside those that don't put her [[Rule 34|in any outfit]].)
* Characters in ''[[Daria]]'' all have a signature outfit. Lampshaded in one episode when Daria looks through her closet to "decide" what to wear. Her closet contains 3 sets of the same green jacket, brown shirt, and black skirt...and nothing else.
* Perhaps it's because he's a Mack truck, but [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]] is always red-and-blue, with the truck's windshield acting has his pectorals. Except for [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Optimus Primal]], of course. Likewise, it's quite common for Megatron to either have some sort of Fusion Cannon or other type of weapon on his right arm, or a strangely bucket-shaped helmet.[[Legacy Character|Other examples exist in the Transformers francise]], such as Rodimus Prime (always red-with-orange, with flame decals on his chest and large spoilers for his alt-mode) or [[The Faceless|Shockwave]] (a black plate with a single red LED light for a face), a yellow [[Kid Appeal Character]] (Bumblebee) or Cheetor, etc.
* Since the actual ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' comics were not well known outside of the comic fandom, but the cartoon series was a huge hit with the general public, Starfire's animated continuity costume is now often cited by those who don't know otherwise to be her core outfit, going so far as to lament the "changes" made to it in DC's current comic lineup (though to be fair, her costume is different in the newest line than it was in either the older comics OR the cartoon show).
 
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