All The Tropes

Future Spandex: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Future Spandex (view source)

Revision as of 21:00, 8 April 2014

294 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
m (categories and general cleanup)
m (Mass update links)
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:spacespandex_6057.jpg|link=Tron: Legacy (Film)|frame| High tech!]]
 
{{quote|''"They showed me the costume and I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. Where are the pants? '''Where are the PANTS'''?"''|'''Bruce Boxleitner''', on the costumes used in ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]''}}
 
 
Line 11:
This is a sort of [[Truth in Television]]: Spandex, Lycra and similar stretchable, form-fitting clothing material are a pretty recent innovation when compared to other fabrics, and its many distinctive properties (sheer fit, aero- or hydrodynamics, light weight, body support) have made it a favorite as a technological solution to solve problems that can be caused by less form-fitting clothes in a variety of physical activities.
 
While there's often overlap, this is not the same as [[Superhero|superhero]] [[Superheroes Wear Tights|tights]]. While superhero tights are used to emphasize the physicality of the hero, Future Spandex is used to emphasize his technological superiority.
 
[[Latex Space Suit]] and [[Spy Catsuit]] are both SubTropes. A [[Sister Trope]] to (and often overlaps with) [[Space Clothes]] and [[Superheroes Wear Tights]]. See also [[Spandex, Latex, or Leather]]. Compare [[Crystal Spires and Togas]].
Line 24:
** Played with in [[Code Geass]]. The Black Knight pilots get to wear some form-fitting spandex-like suits, but many Britannians wear their [[Bling of War|dress uniforms]] when inside Knightmare Frames.
* ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''. The Knight Sabers, underneath their power suits, wear form-fitting outfits. It's also [[Justified Trope|justified]], as it's explained that the outfits serve as a neural interface between the user and the suit.
* The heroines of ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]''.
* ''[[Claymore]]'' outfits are this plus light armor, even the new ones after the time skip don't stray far from the original concept.
* The combat gear used by Section 9 from ''[[Ghost in The Shell (Animefilm)|Ghost in The Shell]]'' is this plus tactical vests. Especially noticeable on The Major.
* Nena Trinity's season one outfit in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''. Not to forget her brother Johann, who wears a midriff-baring top and short shorts.
** Also Tieria's in some shots.
* Sango from ''[[Inuyasha]]'': her fighting outfit include this under her body armor.
* ''[[G Gundam]] '': All of the pilots wear skin-tight body suits as part of the interface for their [[Humongous Mecha|mobile suits]]. The substance is sort of like spandex, but they actually have transformation sequences (not always shown) that make it look like plastic wrap. Nearly all of the pilots are male, but there is one point where [[Wrench Wench|Rain]] goes through the process.
* Female plugsuits from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Remember, [[Clothes Make the Superman|Clothes Make]] '''[[Memetic Sex God|Teh Rei]]'''. Especially Asuka's TEST suit (80% of the torso is '''transparent''') from ''Rebuild 2.0''.
* And in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers']] skintight jumpsuits, in a blatant [[Shout -Out]] to ''Evangelion''.
* Ryoko's skintight battlesuit from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'''s Puru Two, although not too noticeable since [[Token Mini-Moe|she doesn't]] [[Pettanko|have a figure]] to begin with. If she did, it would likely be similar to a Plugsuit.
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' Season 4, the new [[Digital Avatar|Digital Avatars]] of the heroes -- boys and girls alike -- have a serious Future Spandex look. Being virtual costumes, they don't have to be realistic... but still, they're supposedly designed by Jérémie, a 13-year-old [[Teen Genius]] (except for William up there, who got his custom-made by ''XANA''). You have to wonder what was going through their minds... (though on the other hand, maybe that makes it a [[Justified Trope]]).
* Subverted in a ''[[Futurama]]'' episode in which the robot Bender steals lots of stuff from a public swimming pool in an attempt to gain notoriety; he also stole a banana hammock of sorts, which he wears.
Line 43:
== Comic Books ==
* In more recent years, Tony Stark usually wears something along the lines of this under his regular civilian attire. [[Justified Trope]] in that it's meant to interface with his [[Iron Man]] [[Powered Armor|suit]].
** Part of his Extremis upgrade meant that this "inner suit" was kept within his bones and he could manifest it at any time. This inner suit is also present in his ''[[The Avengers: EarthsEarth's Mightiest Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' incarnation.
* ''[[DC One Million]]'' has [[Superheroes Wear Tights|Superhero Spandex]] that is ''also'' Future Spandex -- the present day heroes note that their future counterparts' costumes are shiny, seamless and ''even more formfitting'', and wonder what they're made from.
* Worn by [[Star Fox|Fara Phoenix]] in 1993's [[Nintendo Power (Magazine)|Nintendo Power]] comics. It's a rather [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe|tight]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|fit]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'' is a particularly noteworthy example, as is the sequel, ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]''.
* ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]'' (1980). Both General Kala and Princess Aura wear lycra/spandex costumes.
* In the ''[[Judge Dredd (Filmfilm)|Judge Dredd]]'' film, Judges wear a lycra/spandex bodysuit undergarment under their body armor.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' has this in spades. The main cast threatened to quit if they didn't get rid of them seeing how not everyone looked good in them. Plus, the spandex costumes were hard to get into and out of, requiring the help of assistants every time the actors needed to use the bathroom, hence the uniform change in the rest of the Star Trek movies.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' series have a few examples.
** ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|The Next Generation]]'' uses this in its first few seasons before switching to looser uniforms, as does ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Enterprise]].''
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' used this with Seven of Nine. For [[Fan Service|obvious reasons]].
* ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'' First season. Colonel Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and Buck Rogers sometimes wore spandex jumpsuits.
* Zoe Heriot from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''.
* The Disney Channel's [[Zenon]], a sci-fi movie set in 2049 AD, has many of its characters wearing spandex and other form-fitting materials.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': They embody this trope. In every season, beginning to end, the rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. These suits are so tight, in fact, some of the male ([[She's a Man In Japan|and female]], at least until Disney took the rights from Saban) rangers have bulges, and the female rangers wouldn't even need to wear a bra due to the tightness
** In ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]],'' the Rangers' unmorphed uniforms are, perhaps because the aesthetics of a full ''thousand years'' in the future probably would be quite alien to us, are random-colors-on-gray skin-tight outfits, more [[Fan Service|Fanservicey]] than the Ranger suits (thinner material, perhaps?) The ''[[Power Rangers Time Force (TV)|Power Rangers Time Force]]'' versions are a more down-to-earth futurish uniform, and are perhaps something you'd expect a police force in ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]'' to wear. (Fanservice duty goes to [[Daddy's Little Villain|Nadira]].)
* On ''[[Automan (TV)|Automan]]'', it's easy to see that [[Projected Man|Automan]] is something different because he's dressed up in sparkly Future Spandex.
 
== Music ==
Line 75:
* The sneaking suits in the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series.
* Sam Fisher wears a similar (albeit completely black) sneaking suit in ''[[Splinter Cell]]'', at least until the later games when he wears more conventional clothing.
* Most of the truly [http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Advanced_Suit advanced RIG suits] in ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]]'' look quite tight fitting.
* Common in the ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' series.
* Many of the uniforms and outfits in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series.
* Samus Aran's Zero Suit from ''[[Metroid]]''. Similar to Tony Stark's outfit, it's to interface with her [[Powered Armour|Power Suit]].
* ''[[F-Zero]]'' plays with this a bit. While a large percentage of the cast is decked out in skin-tight spandex and latex, more than a handful of characters are instead shown wearing sleek armor ([[Underwear of Power|if not both]]). Others, in fact, [[No New Fashions in Thethe Future|sport attire not too different]] [[Fashions Never Change|from present day fashion trends]].
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/908053"