Cheap Costume: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' had the groups of Batman imitators.

"I'm not wearing hockey pads!" }}

** And subverted with the Joker, who denies that his suit was cheap, and it's later confirmed to be entirely custom-made, though he apparently also doesn't believe in washing it. He also implies that the suit was created from the money he stole in the beginning of the film.

== Western Animation ==

* Inverted in the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] episode "The Ember Island Players" when the cast goes to see a play about themselves. A kid wearing a very awkwardly pieced together Aang costume tells Zuko during intermission that "his Zuko costume is pretty good, but the scar's on the wrong side."

* An episode of ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' had him losing his mask while fighting Venom and grabbing a sheet drying on a rooftop until he could get out of the view of the public.

* In an episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', Terry has to fight his suit, now controlled by a malevolent AI. His costume? Nightwing's mask.

* An episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' involved Batman being hunted by a villain who desired his mask as a trophy. Upon finding himself in a death trap with no means of escape handy, Batman relents and throws off his mask, revealing... [[Crazy Prepared|that he's wearing a black hankerchief tied over the top of his head with eye-slits cut into it.]]

** Which was actually nifty [[Foreshadowing]], {{spoiler|Batman hired the villain under a different identity as part of a [[Batman Gambit]]. He ''had'' to lose his cowl to succeed in the plan and came prepared.}}

* ''[[Futurama]]'' - Bender is so desperate to become a Harlem Globetrotter he makes a shabby homemade team outfit - earning only derision and the threat of a lawsuit.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': In line at a Halloween candy X-ray station ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]):

'''Milhouse:''' He would on Halloween. }}

* Spoofed in a Halloween episode of ''[[South Park]]'', where we see someone stomping around in an insanely elaborate [[RoboCop|ED-209]] suit...and everyone instantly recognizes it as Kenny, to his growing frustration.