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** Parodied in ''[[All -Star Superman]]'', where "Kryptonian formalwear" apparently consists of wearing your underwear outside your pants. Either that, or Bar-El was screwing with Jimmy Olsen's head. (Leo Quintum's borrowed outfit is just as silly, but not in the same way, something he's grateful for.)

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Vartox |Vartox]]. Not too surprising, since he's an [[Expy]] of Sean Connery's Zed from ''[[Zardoz]]'' (see Film below). This gets thoroughly mocked when he shows up in the [[Power Girl]] series.

* Mike Grell's [http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=33361 rather infamous] [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Cosmic Boy]] costume from [[The Seventies]]. [http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/001Tyroc/Tyroc27.jpg Tyroc] was pretty [[Stripperific]] too.

== Fan FicWorks ==

* ''[[My Immortal]]'' gives [[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Voldemort]] [[Sissy Villain|high heels]] in one scene. [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|These only appear once and are never mentioned again.]] That's just one example. The whole thing is filled to the brim with fashion failure.

* ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]'''s Batnipples became so infamous that they received a nod in Ozymandias' costume design in the ''[[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|Watchmen]]'' movie, and Spartan 3000's costume in ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]''.

** It could have been worse, they could have gone with the Batgirl [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526024225/http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/ILLUSTRATION/batman+and+robin/Batgirl.jpg.html bat-cleavage window] and the [[Spikes of Villainy]], [[Absolute Cleavage]], [[Anime Hair]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121125044339/http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/ILLUSTRATION/batman+and+robin/Poison+Ivy.jpg.html Poison Ivy].

* Yes, most of the costumes were gorgeous. Yes, the film won the Oscar for costuming. But the genius who translated "stylized suit of armor" in the opening scene of ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'' to mean "big, shiny red lobster suit" is either a madman or a comic mastermind.

* [[Tim Burton]]'s take on ''[[Superman Returns]]'' would have featured Superman in a black, [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Borg-inspired]] suit, designed by Jon Peters. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110917161256/http://www.bamkapow.com/gallery_photo.phtml?gk=9&gpk=66 Check it out.]

** This was probably inspired by the similar costume he wore in the comics during ''Reign of the Supermen''. Still, when they got then-lead actor Nicholas Cage into their concept suit for a photo shoot, the results...[https://web.archive.org/web/20120216104711/http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nicolas-Cage-superman.jpg were not pretty].

* In the words of Jay Pinkerton, the ''[[Catwoman (Filmfilm)|Catwoman]]'' film "boldly [reinterpreted] the heroine as some sort of crime-fighting badger." With shredded pants and [[Too Many Belts]].

* Damodar, [[The Dragon]] from the execrable ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons (Filmfilm)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' movie. He was rocking a pretty reasonable villainous look, but man, what was up with the blue lipstick?

* Neal McDonough in the also execrable ''[[Street Fighter: theThe Legend of Chun -Li (Film)|Street Fighter the Legend of Chun Li]]''. McDonough really does resemble M. Bison from the games, except for the beard and business suit. And even if the pseudo-Nazi uniform was deemed too silly for the movie -- andmovie—and that'd take some doing -- theredoing—there's no real excuse for the beard.

* Jocelyn's hairstyles in ''[[A KnightsKnight's Tale]]'' have certainly evoked this response from many viewers. As someone on the movie's page put it, "It's time for me to style my hair. Handmaiden, fetch me the fork and the royal toaster!"

* The dreary [[Space Clothes|Starfleet pajamas]] from ''[[Star Trek: the Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek theThe Motion Picture]]''. Compared to those, the red-tunic-black-trousers getup is practically the height of style.

* Erik's [[Hollywood Homely|pitiful excuse for a deformity]] in the film musical of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' -- a—a story that revolves around Erik's hideousness.

** Also most of the costumes from the operas within the film, leading [[Cleolinda Jones]] to refer to them as "giant pink poodle-lady" and "[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Dread Pirate Roberts]] Corps de Ballet"

** Most of the Phantom's outfits accentuate instead of conceal his figure (especially the Red Death suit, which in the stage version was huge and included a full death's head mask).

** All the womens' costumes, except Madame Giry's, somewhat anachronistically show a lot of cleavage, and the slave girl outfits are altered from those of the stage show such that they [[Bare Your Midriff|show midriff]].

* [[David Bowie]]'s entire wardrobe in ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'' was bizarre even by 80s standards. Whoever put him in extremely form-fitting leggings in a kid's movie either really ''really'' liked him or were doing a few too many drugs. Then again, much of the movie is so surreal it's hard to believe [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|a few other people]] weren't taking them, too. The whole point of the movie is about growing up and coming to grips with adult issues, and the rampant sexuality displayed by Bowie-in-tight-pants was [[Invoked Trope|entirely deliberate]] and intended as somewhat disturbing for the heroine/viewer, [[Memetic Sex God|famously inspiring new and unfamiliar stirrings in all who watched him]].

* Richard Burton's film version of Marlowe's ''The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of [[Doctor Faustus (Theatre)|Doctor Faustus]]'' involves some of the absolute silliest costumes known to man. Particularly [[Narm|narmfulnarm]]ful: when Envy, Wrath, and Pride show up in the garden of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]], they are wearing... interesting... helmets. They're ''huge'' and oddly shaped. It's very hard to see how [[Pride]] could possibly be persuaded to wear something that requires that little dignity.

* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'', specifically, the 2010 [[R EmakeRemake]], has made viewers both laugh and cringe at the utterly baffling plastic-looking "[[You Fail History Forever|armor]]" of the Olympian gods. It looked like the production team raided the local costume shop. The constant bombardment of <small>[[Lens Flare]]</small> in these scenes [[Special Effects Failure|doesn't help matters]].

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] mocks the Green Goblin's design from ''[[Spider -Man (Filmfilm)|Spider Man]]'' in "Ode to a Superhero" thus:

{{quote| ''And he's ridin' around on that glider thing<br />''

''And he's throwin' that weird pumpkin bomb<br />''

''Yes, he's wearin' that dumb ''[[Power Rangers]]'' mask<br />''

''But he's scarier without it on'' }}

* Averted in the first ''[[X Men 1 (Film)|X -Men 1]]'' movie, where the team wears black outfits. Cyclops [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s the change by saying could be wearing "yellow spandex" as seen in the comics.

** Played straight in ''[[X Men First Class (Film)|X -Men: First Class]]'', with the costume Erik wears in the last scene of the film. He has a bright purple cape and modified the helmet so that it's magenta ''and has little horns''. Fanfic has not missed out on mocking this.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (film)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' the twins at Slughorn's Christmas party can be seen wearing two ghastly green outfits that appear to be pear costumes.

** [http://www.pulpconnection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Edward-Bella-running.jpg Here's a screenshot of the narmful scene.]

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

** Pat Fields is notorious for putting the stars of the shows she costumes in bizarre clothes. Before ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' she did ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'' -- it—it was even worse.

* Almost every costume of the nobles in the ''Frank Herbert's [[Dune]]'' miniseries looks completely insane. This has led to it being dubbed "The Funny Hats version" of ''[[Dune]]''.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' runs into this sometimes, especially in the old series. Alien fashion or no alien fashion, some of those costumes were just plain hilarious. Usually it just adds to the show's [[Narm Charm]].

* The "[[Torchwood (TV)/Recap/S1 E4/E04 Cyberwoman|Cyberwoman]]" episode of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', features the eponymous character in a metal... thing... and high heels. What the costume department were likely going for is a sort of metal version of the 1950s evil dominatrix leather wear. If so, it's painfully misfire. It gains bonus demerits for making absolutely no sense whatsoever for the people who designed it in-universe. One of the things the Cybermen want to remove is ''gender distinctions''. A sexy dominatrix look would not exactly be in line with that aim.

** The outfit is a [[Shout -Out]] to the work of the Japanese BDSM/cyborg-fetish erotic artist Hajime Sorayama, which sadly points out how those outfits wouldn't work in real life.

* On [[The X-Files]], for some unknown reason, Scully spends the first few seasons wearing some incredibly boxy, unflattering pant suits in outrageous colors--includingcolors—including brown plaid and various shades of maroon. It got better over the course of the series, where the odd colors were traded in for mostly black and gray.

** Which [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] poked fun at with his riff of her "Born This Way" entitled "Perform This Way".

* The Vancouver Canuck's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140712015557/http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/canucks_jersey_1983.jpg V Jersey]

* The late 1970s and into the early 1980s was not a good time for cricket uniforms, specifically the one-day format where coloured uniforms are the norm. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130208050235/http://retrocricket.com/nz1-big.jpg New Zealand's beige and brown] (image link if a modern recreation) and the [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130208050141/http://retrocricket.com/wi3.jpg West Indies] grey pajamas (with the maroon fading to pink fairly quickly) are considered the low points.

* The Houston Astros' infamous [https://web.archive.org/web/20120320060218/http://content.fathead.com/blog/nl_1980_houston.gif "Rainbow Guts"] uniforms. which they wore for almost two decades.

** Most likely [[Pandering to Thethe Base]], as San Diego has a significant Naval base just across the harbor from Petco Park, with a large Marine Corps presence just up the road at Miramar and Camp Pendleton.

* The costuming for the Broadway version of ''[[The Lion King]]'' is largely fantastic and truly captures the Savannah feel of the show...until you get to the hyenas and Timon; the former are all decked out in painted hillbilly longjohns with horrible paper maché masks (they're supposed to be ratty and ugly, but couldn't they do with a more primal version of the native garb the other characters had?), while the latter was essentially a 4 foot Timon plushie sewn onto the front of a man in green hillbilly longjohns and clown wig (it kinda looks like [[Rule Thirty Four34|Timon is being molested by the Jolly Green Giant]]). They are really jarring when put beside the fantastic costumes of the other characters.

* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Visual Novel)|Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'', the narrator suddenly dons a chicken mask for no reason.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]''. The player can take over this role. Utterly serious cut scenes can have the protagonist standing around in any number of insane outfits. The possibilities are in the hundreds such as; boxers only, a Groucho Marx face mask and tuxedo pants or even a gimp suit. This last, in a business meeting with his sister.

* ''[[Mortal Kombat 20119]]'' has a few of these. Specifically, [http://images.wikia.com/mk/images/6/64/Rendersonyawildboyz.png Sonya Blade's primary costume]{{Dead link}}. Does Special Forces not require their female operatives to at least wear bras or something? Ok, ok, ok, maybe I'm missing the [[Ms. Fanservice|bigger picture here]]. But HIGH HEELS too? Seriously?

* Similarly, in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'', we have [[Little Bit Beastly|squirrel girl]] Makoto Nanaya. Her [[Stripperiffic]] battle outfit is ''ridiculously'' impractical. Example: [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208125231/blazblue/images/e/e2/Makoto_Nanaya_<!-- 28Story_Mode_Artwork2C_Normal%28Story_Mode_Artwork%2C_Normal%2C_School_Uniform%29.png here]]{{Dead link}} is her costume in ''Calamity Trigger'', [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100623160749/blazblue/images/0/08/Makoto_Nanaya_%28Story_Mode_Artwork%2C_Normal%2C_Coat%29.png here]] is her NPC costume in ''Continuum Shift'', and [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215213123/blazblue/images/a/a8/Makoto_Nanaya_%28Story_Mode_Artwork%2C_Normal%29.png here]] is her playable character costume. The impracticality of it is even [[LampshadedTropeLampshaded Trope|lampshaded]] in one episode of ''[[FourthWallMailSlotFourth Wall Mail Slot|Help Me, Professor Kokonoe!]]'' -->

{{quote| '''Kokonoe''': Who the hell goes around dressed like that!? How do you live knowing you're always one slight breeze or sudden cough away from a massive [[Wardrobe Malfunction|wardrobe malfunction]]!?}}

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', the normally fashion-conscious Rarity gets butterfly wings that quickly go to her head during "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]," which leads to her entering the Best Young Fliers' Competition in [[Uncanny Valley Makeup|heavy make-up]] and a gaudy Carnival dancer outfit.

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