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{{quote|"Doth mother know thou weareth her drapes?"|'''Iron Man''' to '''Thor''', ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]''}}
 
If you are a superhero (whether main hero, [[Sidekick]], or even just part of a heroic army), odds are you wear a cape.
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* [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]]
* ''[[Astro City]]'' examples: Samaritan, Beautie, The Confessor and Altar Boy, El Hombre and Bravo, Mermaid, Starwoman. The series, typically, acknowledges the potential disadvantages but posits that people will work around them, for instance by applying low-friction coatings that prevent adversaries grabbing the cape during a fight.
* When [[Captain America]] stopped [[Wearing a Flag Onon Your Head|wearing the stars and stripes]] and took the name "Nomad", he stitched himself a costume and decided to include a full-length cape. Why not? He'd always sort of wanted one. The first time he went into action, he tripped on that cape and missed catching the bad guys, one of whom snarked as she was escaping that she'd always hoped she'd see that happen. Promptly he tore the cape off. It was never seen again.
** This old desire for a cape was revisited with one of the revamped and expanded origin story issues - Steve Rogers, training during the day to toughen himself before being hit with the [[Super Serum]], spent his evenings drawing the imaginary superhero "American Eagle", writing in the margins that he had to have a cape, capes were ''boss''. The military rifled through his drawings, based the design of his costume off of them without telling him, much to his embarrassment, and left out the cape.
** Cap's spoof, Major Glory from ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'', wears a cape. Of course, he's also a Superman spoof, so he probably doesn't have the same problems Cap did.
* ''[[The Spectre]]''
* ''[[Spawn]]'', his cape is a [[Badass Cape]] all by itself thanks to its [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]].
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* [[The Mighty Thor]]
* The Sentry, Marvel's [[Alternate Company Equivalent|version of Superman]].
* Storm from ''[[X -Men]]''
* Scarlet Witch
* ''Booster Gold'' was told by Superman that he couldn't handle wearing a cape.
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* Ralph's alien-bestowed super suit in ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' comes complete with a hip-length cape.
* Sesame Street's entry into the world of superheroes, "Super Grover" also includes the requisite cape -- along with a decidedly non-standard knight's helmet.
* ''[[The Cape (TV series)|The Cape]]''.
* In [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]], Harvey's superhero alter ego in one episode, "Mighty Teen" does indeed wear a cape.
** Sabrina comments on this when she's yelling at Hilda for running in the election:
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== Webcomics ==
 
* Preferred by Ms. Terial in the [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/5108842/ Fashionably Heroic] cartoons of ''[[The KA MicsKAMics]]''.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' Elliot as a superhero [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-01 wears a cape,] though this is used to show that most of his knowledge of superheros comes from [[Pop Culture Osmosis]].
* In ''[[Spinnerette (Webcomic)|Spinnerette]]'', the Canadian superheroes greet the American ones as "Caped Crusaders." Tiger notes that [[Subverted Trope|no one is actually wearing a cape]].
 
== Web Original ==
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* [[Darkwing Duck]]
* [[The Scrappy|Corporal Capeman]] in the second season of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''.
* [[Captain Caveman and Thethe Teen Angels|Captain Caveman]], the superhero who wears ''only'' a cape.
* This trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. When Danny [[Split Personality|split in two]], his superhero side donned a cape to emphasize his 100% dedication to world-saving. The cape spends the better portion of the episode bellowing in [[Dramatic Wind]].
* Robin in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' wears one, what with his [[Batman|origins]]. Raven wears more of an [[All-Encompassing Mantle]] with a [[In the Hood|hood]]. None of the other Titans wear capes.
* When Fry and Leela gain superpowers in an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', they form a team with Bender, and all wear capes.
* Played with in ''[[Rugrats]]'' where Chuckie and the other babies thought that he's a superhero but he needed a cape to have super powers. So, Chuckie put on a towel and began to think of himself as a superhero.
* Prevalent, though not universal, in ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]''. Robin and Miss Martian both wear capes, as do several other superheroes.
* Taz-Man, Taz's makebelieve superhero persona in ''[[Taz -Mania]]'', wears a cape (of the bath towel tied round your neck variety).
 
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