Cheap Costume: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

 

On occasion, an imitator may want to look like the hero and fail. This might lead to an [[I Am Spartacus]] scene.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* 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.

*** 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.

** 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".

** 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''.

** 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 [http://www.samruby.com/Spiderverse/Spiderman/costumehomemade.htm here].

** 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.

* 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]] -- yet is content with a fairly low-key [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] ensemble with the mask coming from a fabric offcut that nobody at work wanted. It's probably the scariest costume in the comic. The pinstripe suit and shoes that he normally wears under it were probably quite expensive when they were new, for that matter.

** 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.

* 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''.

* 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.