History Main / ContainmentClothing

* ''{{Literature/Chum}}'': radioactive supervillain Ilya Fedorov, a.k.a. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Chernobyl]] wears a self-made suit of PoweredArmor that helps contain the worst of his radiation. Any hero attempting to fight him has to damage the suit first... which, in turn, leads to increased levels of exposure, with deadly results.

-->--'''Ritsuko Akagi''', ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

-->''"That isn't armor. It's restraints."''
-->--'''Ritsuko Akagi''', ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

* [[WalkingWasteland Professor Radium]] from ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' #8 constantly wears a containment suit to prevent him from [[ThereWasADoor melting walls]] and [[TouchOfDeath killing everyone he touches]] as a result of his [[CameBackWrong failed revival]] with radioactive material. [[spoiler:The suit is quite heavy, which [[SuperDrowningSkills causes him to drown]] when he's knocked into water during his final confrontation by Batman.]]

* [[WalkingWasteland Professor Radium]] from ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' #8 constantly wears a containment suit to prevent him from [[ThereWasADoor melting walls]] and [[TouchOfDeath killing everyone he touches]] as a result of his [[CameBackWrong failed revival]] with radioactive material. [[spoiler:The suit is quite heavy, which [[SuperDrowningSkills causes him to drown]] when knocked into water during his final confrontation by Batman.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Yuga Aoyama has a birth defect which causes his beams to involuntarily leak out from his navel, which explains why he needs to wear a special belt all the time. [[spoiler: it’s later revealed he was actually born quirkless, so his body wasn’t adapted to the quirk he was given]]

* In one of the first ComicBook/{{Batman}} comics, there was [[WalkingWasteland Dr. Radium]]. He constantly wore a containment suit to prevent him from [[ThereWasADoor melting walls]] and [[PersonOfMassDestruction killing everyone he touched]] as a result of his [[CameBackWrong failed revival]] with radioactive material. [[spoiler:The suit was quite heavy, which [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome caused him]] [[SuperDrowningSkills to drown]] when he was confronted by Batman]].
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Negative Man needs to wear special bandages over his body to prevent his radiation from affecting others.

* The 1940s superhero The Human Bomb had the power to blow up anything he touched. He wore an asbestos suit to keep his powers in check.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has Wildfire, whose body is all energy. The suit is to protect others from his energy but also to prevent him from dissipating.

* ''ComicBook/XMen''

** ComicBook/MultipleMan's power of SelfDuplication is triggered by physical impact. His father created a suit that would absorb kinetic energy so that Jamie wouldn't keep making dupes every time he bumped into something.

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Subverted; Elsa wears gloves during her coronation ceremony to prevent her [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] from [[PowerIncontinence inadvertently working]]. Later, [[spoiler:Hans puts]] her hands in metal shackles/"gloves" seemingly to prevent her using her ice powers. But her powers [[spoiler:easily work through the metal and blast it away]], which in hindsight makes it clear the gloves never really contained her powers either and were purely a psychological thing for Elsa.

** The ethergaunts are {{humanoid abomination}}s who wear featureless masks because their faces, "a horrifically alien morass of facial organs and orifices", are {{brown note}}s that can break the mind of anything that sees them.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': There's a Chaos Space Marine that's essentially Nurgle's Rot in human form, who wears his armor less to protect from damage and more to avoid destroying the environment when surrounded by allies, and only has to remove his helmet and breathe out to unleash his miasmas.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': The Tyrant series of B.O.Ws wear special bulletproof trenchcoats, because while restrained in them, they can be programmed for control, and look at least (roughly) human. If the coat is damaged too much, a Tyrant's body will start to undergo further mutations, and the resulting mental degradation this brings means the Tyrant will end up attacking anything in its way. To make matters worse, upon mutating most Tyrants gain foot long razor sharp claws on at least one hand, along with more muscle mass. For context, a restrained Tyrant can punch through walls and bend steel, lift a helicopter with one hand like it was tissue, and dash forward very fast for something their size. A mutated Tyrant is able to throw ''train cars''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': N.R.G. and the alien from which he was sampled, P'andor, wear armor to contain their [[AtomicSuperpower radiation powers]]. While P'andor's suit was sealed and required help to break himself out, N.R.G. can open his own suit at will.
* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Derek Powers is mutated into Blight due to a combination of exposure to his own deadly mutagenic nerve gas and the radiation treatments used to save his life. He has to wear a special synthetic skin to appear normal and to contain the radiation. However, the skin doesn't last long, especially when Derek loses his temper. It gets worse as his condition deteriorates, since he's becoming even more prone to anger and his radioactive powers are increasing. By the end of the first season when he's exposed as Blight, his skin can't even last a day and he no longer has a reliable means of securing the materials to make it.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Yuga Aoyama has a birth defect which causes his beams to involuntarily leak out from his navel, which explains why he needs to wear a special belt all the time.

Might be a wardrobe choice for a WalkingWasteland, PoisonousPerson, NuclearNasty, or someone suffering from PowerIncontinence. Contrast PhlebotinumHandlingEquipment. See also ClingyCostume.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': N.R.G. and the alien from which he was sampled, P'andor, wear armor to contain their [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation powers]]. While P'andor's suit was sealed and required help to break himself out, N.R.G. can open his own suit at will.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': The Tyrant series of B.O.Ws wear special bulletproof trenchcoats, because while restrained in them, they can be programmed for control, and look at least (roughly) human. If the coat is damaged too much, a Tyrant's body will start to undergo further mutations, and the resulting mental degradation this brings means the Tyrant will end up attacking anything in its way. To make matters worse, upon mutating most Tyrants gain foot long razor sharp claws on at least one hand, along with more muscle mass. For context, a restrained Tyrant can punch through walls and bend steel, lift a helicopter with one hand like it was tissue, and dash forward very fast for something their size. A mutated Tyrant takes this UpToEleven, like being able to throw ''train cars''.