History Main / CostumeEvolution

* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'', Isabelle wears [[http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20130103/08/526279/42/ba/j/o0300018012360448033.jpg a festive kimono]] on New Year's Day (in the localized versions, she just continues to wear her New Year's Eve tuxedo). Then ''Happy Home Designer'' and ''amiibo Festival'' (which feature the kimono in all versions) came along and [[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/edhj/sp/images/amiibocard/cardlist03/card215.png updated that kimono]] to be bigger.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''
** Much like his ancestor from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur]]'', Yoshimitsu is a prime example of this trope. He undergoes this in ''every single game'' in the series, and it's become a long-standing tradition of Creator/BandaiNamco to give the character in both entries a new look in every new entry in the respective series. In ''1'' he was a traditional ninja with a hannya mask. In ''2'' he switched to an oni mask and gained a farmer's hat. ''3'' and ''Tag 1'' started the legacy of him having a more futuristic, cyber-ninja look, and is considered to be by far his most iconic design as a whole, sporting a lightsaber katana and what appears to be a cross between a Xenomortph and a mushroom for a mask. In ''4'', he became a cyborg skeleton with beetle armor and dragonfly wings. ''5'' returns him to a more traditional samurai look but sporting futuristic elements still, serving as a reference to his ancestors from ''Soulcalibur''. ''6'' is by far his most nightmarish look, resembling a skeletal demon with exposed muscle tissue and a demonic sword. As of ''7'' he sports his oddest look yet, wearing a sort of bio-organic alien armor with octopus tentacles around his head.

** ComicBook/HarleyQuinn very frequently changes outfits (a lot in the same movie sometimes), but she has three/four main ones: a [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]]-[=inspired=] one in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', a pink top and golden overalls in ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' and a ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' / ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' inspired red and black leather suit in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''.

** ComicBook/PowerGirl has gone through a number of different costumes during her run. Her most well-known and original costume consists of a white leotard, blue boots and gloves, and a red cape. She's also worn outfits that either had no cape or changed the amount of blue fabric, as well as several full-body suits with white and gold. Only two of them lack her infamous CleavageWindow, however.

* ComicBook/{{Static}}'': Virgil Hawkins' original costume in 1993 featured something more akin to ComicBook/BlackLightning's wardrobe, [[https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/static-1200x675.jpg with a skintight black suit with white lightning in an X-shape on his chest, as well as an X on the hood/cowl above his eyes.]] Come 2000 and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse cartoon ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', he adopted a new look that has mostly stuck since, being incorporated into the comics in the "Return of the Cool" storyline, where he wears [[https://www.animationxpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/static.jpg some form of black under-attire with a golden lightning bolt on it, as well as an unzipped yellow-lined hooded jacket that can go anywhere from waist to knee level, and a large golden domino mask and goggles either over or above them.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt's costume was yellow and red before it became all red.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' started out with a gray, bulky suit of armor before it changed into the sleek red-and-gold armor it is now. This is noted in the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie where the prototype armor was based on the one in the first years of the comics. Beyond that, smaller details are regularly in flux since Tony is always tweaking and enhancing his armor.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's original costume was what appeared to be the traditional spandex tights with buccaneer boots. Retcons of his 1940s adventures have reimagined the costume as a more sturdy military-style outfit with pouches and hard protective headwear and sensible combat boots.
* ComicBook/{{Static}}'s original costume in 1993 featured something more akin to ComicBook/BlackLightning's wardrobe, [[https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/static-1200x675.jpg with a skintight black suit with white lightning in an X-shape on his chest, as well as an X on the hood/cowl above his eyes.]] Come 2000 and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse cartoon ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', he adopted a new look that has mostly stuck since, being incorporated into the comics in the "Return of the Cool" storyline, where he wears [[https://www.animationxpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/static.jpg some form of black under-attire with a golden lightning bolt on it, as well as an unzipped yellow-lined hooded jacket that can go anywhere from waist to knee level, and a large golden domino mask and goggles either over or above them.]]

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' has gone through several minor costume changes, but she tends to return to her red and blue leotard. Other outfits give her [[ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey pants]] or [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 battle armor]], or just add [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 darker colors]]. Her [[ComicBook/SensationComics original costume]] slowly morphed into the iconic leotard look after starting out with loose-flowing athletic shorts that turned into [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 tight bike shorts]] and got progressively shorter under different artists. [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth These days]], she seems to have permanently moved on to include pteruges over her permanently shrunken shorts.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':

** The first two upgrades for the team were all designed by ComicBook/JeanGrey.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** His first costume, as drawn by Creator/SteveDitko in 1962, was red and black with under-arm webbing.
** In 1966, John Romita Sr. changed Peter's costume to what is considered his classic look: red and blue with no underarm webbing.
** In 1984, Peter acquired the [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} black suit]] but returned to his classic look.
** In 1989 he became the host of the Uni-Power and became Captain Universe, with the lower part of his mask staying the same.
** In 1990, Todd [=McFarlane=] made the blue parts of Spider-Man's costume darker and re-added the under-arm webbing, though in the wake of the Clone Saga he returned to his classic look.
** His 2004 Secret War outfit was black with blue spider-leg-like stripes, his 2006 Iron Spider costume was red and metallic gold with a large spider emblem, and his 2010 Future Foundation outfit was white with black sides, eye-pieces, and spider emblems.
** His 2011 "Big Time" Stealth Suit was black with green/red TronLines.
** In 2015, he started wearing the Spider-Armor Mark IV, which is metallic red and blue with underarm webbing and a glowing outline around the spider emblem.
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange wore a dark blue cloak when he was first introduced. The Ancient One granted him the red and gold cloak in recognition of his dedication and heroism.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Amy Rose starts out with a green plaid skirt and a white t-shirt (with its design changing every issue). After [[CharacterizationMarchesOn she becomes more action-oriented]], she changes to blue jeans and a grey sweatshirt (with designs that also almost never stay the same). In the final arc, which is based on ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Amy stops wearing her quills up and puts them into a bob.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth: "Year One"'', being an origin story, has Barry Allen working on his Flash outfit. It doesn't become ''the'' Flash outfit until his showdown with the Turtles.
** Eobard Thawne's costume was originally ''just'' Barry's with a different colour scheme, with no reversed symbol. Once he truly returned in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', the direction of the lightning bolt was also reversed, similar to his "successor" Hunter Zolomon's design. Once he returns in ''Rebirth'', he's also adopted the more modern belt, again, similar to Hunter.
* ''ComicBook/TheRay'''s original pre-Flashpoint costume comprised a black and gold bandleader's jacket, a white and gold bodysuit, fingerless gloves, and a Cool Helmet. His Freedom Fighters costume keeps the Cool Helmet but instead has a high-collared black and gold bodysuit. His DC Rebirth costume is based on his original costume, while his Arrowverse costume is based on his Freedom Fighters costume.

** In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the kids had their outfits changed from the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon previous film]], with one reason being they're now young adults instead of teens. Hiccup still has a green undershirt, but instead of a furry vest over it, he now has leather armor. Astrid still has her armored shoulders, fuzzy boots, and LadyLegionnaireWear, but has even more PeltsOfTheBarbarian added.

* In ''Webcomic/MagicalBoy'', Max starts out in a typical hyperfeminine MagicalGirl costume, complete with his chest binder being broken. His first TransformationSequence is [[TransTribulations played for severe gender dysphoria]] (with a deserved {{Content Warning|s}} beforehand. As the comic progresses, however, his costume gradually becomes less feminine.

** Ichigo originally possessed a standard Soul Reaper uniform with a belt strapping his Zanpakutou sheath to his back. His Shikai transformed the belt to a red strap and his Bankai turned the ''kosode'' into a tattered long coat. Awakening his Fullbring gave him a uniform made of black flame that eventually transformed into a black bodysuit with white skeletal armour. The restoration of his Soul Reaper powers merged with the remnants of his Fullbring to add neck armour and X-shaped straps to his Shikai and Bankai uniforms. After training with Squad Zero, he obtains a tattered, black-streaked, white waist-cloth and shoulder armor that crosses his chest in an X-shape.
** Uryū Ishida is just as prone to costume changes. Flashbacks to his childhood have him wearing a long white training tunic with gray lines and the Quincy cross on the back. During his intial introduction, he wears an all white ensemble with blue lining consisting of a long white tunic with the Quincy cross on the back and white pants and matching shoes. For the mission to rescue Rukia, he dons a tweaked outfit that adds a new long tunic split up the sides, his Sanrei Glove with its solid form bow, a cross pattern to his shoes, and a short cape . After donning a Soul Reaper outfit for disguise, during the fight with Kurotsuchi his temporary Letzt Stil overlays a asymetrical white coat, a white half-waistcloth with blue patterning, a shoulder pauldron, and a energy "quiver". For the anime original Bount arc, he gains a new outfit with his temporary powers consisting of a white tailcoat with heavy blue lineing and the quincy cross with silver bracers on the arms used to manifest his bow, white pants and white shoes with a cross pattern. For the Arrancar arc, he wears a shorter white tunic with a blue side belt for the Seele Scheider as well as cuffs and a more elaborate cape with eupletetes and gold braid, retaining the white pants and shoes from previous outfits. For the Lost Agent arc he switches to a plain all white look with a black undershirt. The Thousand-Year Blood War arc switches the undershirt to blue and later his Sternritter uniform adds a military style white coat, belted at the waist with gold details over his Quincy tunic, sometimes with a long white cape.
** A number of Soul Reapers received outfit tweaks for the Lost Agent arc after the TimeSkip. Byakuya Kuchki swaps his ''kenseikan'' for a slimmer set of hairpieces, loses his scarf, and dons a modified haori with gold trim and tassels. Renji Abarai has longer hair, a maroon headband replace his white one, and long dark straps on each wrist with bandages over his arms. Kenpachi Zaraki loses his spiked hairdo and bells for a long messy haircut and swaps out his eyepatch. Toshiro Hitsugaya has longer less spiky hair, adds a long turquoise scarf, and replaces his green sash with a chain. Shinji Hirako returns to Soul Reaper robes and a captain's haori with a white necktie.

** Not counting her arsenal of armors, Erza's main outfit goes through five major overhauls over the manga(four in the anime which used her second outfit from the start.) Although the details change her general look remains much the same for her first three armors, a steel gray breastplate with pauldrons, gauntlets, over a blue skirt and boots. Her final season design notably gives her a more formfitting breastplate with a CleavageWindow adding a cape and greaves with leg pieces. She than goes back to wearing her post-time skip armor, but drops the pauldron on her left shoulder leaving her left upper arm bare, and adds back the tassets from her first two armors. The cross emblem on her breastplate likewise shifts from a cross with the Heart Kruez logo to an asymmetrical gold cross centered on the left side of her breastplate over a Fairy Tail guild emblem, to a plain gray cross in her post-timeskip design to ditching it entirely for her fourth design before going back to her third design.
** Fairy Tail's Master Markarov Dreyer also goes through several outfits over the couse of the series. Intially he wears an orange jacket, white shirt with the guild emblem, orange shorts, sandals, and a blue and organe striped jester hat. For the Guild war with Phantom Lord he switches to his Wizard Saint outfit consisting of a white tunic with the Fairy Tail symbol on the left collar, black pants, and aformal white coat with fur trim with the Ten Wizard Saints' symbol on the back before returning to his original look. During the Battle for Fairy Tail, he switches to wearing a white dress shirt with a red vest over it and black pants with a light colored, high collared cape embossed on the back with the guild emblem. During the S-Class trials he initially sports a Hawaiian shirt with black short before changing into his Wizard Saint outfit which gets largely shredded during the fight with Grimoire Heart. Follow the return to Fairy Tail after seven years, he goes back to his third outfit for the first part of the Grand Magic Games, before changing to a black gauken uniform, and then his Wizard Saint outfits which because his default outfit for the next few arcs. Following the one-year TimeSkip, Markarow is sporting a full beard and wears a new outfir consisting of a belted white tunic, black pants, and a short black cape with yellow trim and an unknown symbol on the back. For the Alvarez War, he returns to his Wizard Saint outfit swapping out the white shirt for a new purple one.
** This is especially noticeable with the Fairy Tail members who stayed on during the Seven-Year timeskip thanks to aging. Macao keeps the white coat but grows a mustache and adopts a more dignified outfit to reflect his role as Guildmaster. Wakkaba loses the pompadour for a shorter hairstyle, switches to a cigar, and dons a yellow button-up with a fur-collared green coat. Reedus loses weight, drops the artist's smock and pointed hat for a GentlemanAdventurer-styled outfit. Laki goes from her collared white dress with chin-length hair to a black dress with cleavage, a red cape, and long hair in a ponytail. Romeo goes from wearing a dark t-shirt with an "S" to his Natsu-inspired getup of a white-trimmed maroon vest and white pants with a yellow scarf. Jet loses the fur-trimmed coat and hat and dons a ponytail with a purple and brown top. Droy is overweight and sports a green jacket over a white shirt. Bisca switches from her yellow hat and black dress to a more {{Stripperific}} getup that's basically a fringed swimsuit with a cowboy hat. Alzack dresses about the same with some minor changes but has a shorter spikier haircut. Max drops the bowlcut and blue suit for a brown vest and black pants with a black collared shirt and a shaggier hairstyle. Kinana loses her frilly white and green waitress outfit for a simpler green top with a long white skirt. Warren goes from a brown and orange getup to a vaguely Chinese green vest with yellow trim over a white shirt. Nab loses the green & black vest and pants, dons a red cape, and grows a beard. Vijeeter abandons the black bodysuit with white lines for a black and orange Indian style get up with a blue turban.

* In both ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart'' and ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'', the heroines gain brand new outfits and powers as they surrendered their powers at the end of their respective series. Cure Black and White's outfits are similar to their old ones, but with added gear for protection, but the Precure 5's costumes took a more uniform look with what looks like colored jackets over their old uniforms (though whether they were wearing their old costumes under them or not is never really seen).

* ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'': In ''Turbo'', all the old characters (i.e Valt, Lui, Shu) from seasons 1 & 2 who have appeared in the new series received new outfits.

** ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} started out with black tights, a dark-blue cape and yellow gloves, boots, and utility belt (although she wore a grey costume in '90s flashback stories). ''[[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Post-Flashpoint]]'' Barbara's costume was almost completely black in color, except by her cape's violet inner side and her pale yellow gauntlets and boots. During the Burnside Era, she wore an indigo jumpsuit and a yellow cape, but after ''[[ComicBook/BatgirlRebirth Rebirth]], she changed back to her classic look but replacing her cowl with a pointy-eared domino mask.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' started out with a gray, bulky suit of armor before it changed into the sleek, red and gold armor it is now. This is noted in the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie where the prototype armor was based on the one in the first years of the comics. Beyond that, smaller details are regularly in flux since Tony is always tweaking and enhancing his armor.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' has gone through several minor costume changes, but she tends to return to her red and blue leotard. Other outfits give her [[ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey pants]] or [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 battle armor]], or just add [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 darker colors]]. Her [[ComicBook/SensationComics original costume]] slowly morphed into the iconic leotard look after starting out with loose flowing athletic shorts that turned into [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 tight bike shorts]] and got progressively shorter under different artists. [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth These days]] she seems to have permanently moved on to include pteruges over her permanently shrunken shorts.

** Every member has had major upgrades. Even Professor X exchanged his wheelchair for a gold hover chair powered by alien tech.

* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfMareDoWell'': [[spoiler: After Pinkie's friends saved her from certain death, Twilight and Rarity created a new costume for Pinkie since the old one was shredded by Pinkie out of grief of failing to save Gummy. The new costume they presented to her has, among other things, padding, an invnear invisible covering for Pinkie's head, and most of all, a voice modification spell that changes any wearer's voice into that of a confident mare of justice. What is particularly fitting was that the voice was based on that of Pinkie's Confidence.]]

** Danny Fenton now wore a full red short-sleeved shirt with a black jacket; his jeans were a little darker in blue and red converse shoes.
** Dayla Fenton wore a light blue long-sleeved shirt with a short-sleeved purple shirt over it, her usual black jeans, and now purple converse shoes.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} first film]], Poppy wears a cyan dress with a light blue, wavy spade-like pattern across the hemline, and a green thin headband surrounded by blue flowers. In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', the hemline changes to a flower-esque pattern and a darker color than the rest of her dress, and her headband gets a major overhaul with a thicker front and a larger number of flowers that alternate between blue and green. She gets an even more drastic change for ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'', wherein her dress and headband are given a knitted texture (as well as another entire redesign for the latter, now blue and green with the flowers replaced by a leaves and a couple sprigs), and she starts wearing striped leg warmers.

** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica frequently shifts costumes here. In his [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger original movie]] alone he goes from a wool comic-inspired stage outfit with the triangular shield to a makeshift combat outfit with a leather jacket and helmet to his finalized combat uniform with the circular shield. In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', he gets a new upgraded uniform mixing the color scheme of his stage outfit with a more utilitarian look. In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' he dons a navy S.H.I.E.L.D. stealth suit with silver patterning before switching back to a variant of his WWII suit with an additional toro stripe for the final battle. In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', his new Avengers outfit takes the foundation of his stealth suit and adds back the coloring and stripes from his previous suits with the Avengers logo on the shoulders and magnets for his shield. His ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' outfit is darker, loses the some of the red and white, and adds more armor with the Avengers logos getting removed after he goes rogue. In ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' his ''Civil War'' suit is roughed up and dirty with the sleeves rolled up, the chest star missing, new buckles on his harness, and no headgear, while Cap now sports a beard. To replace his missing shield, he wields two Wakandan vibranium shields for the battle against Thanos. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has him back in the S.H.I.E.L.D. stealth suit at the start, before he dons a red and white suit for travelling in the Quantum realm regaining his shield as well. During the 2012 sequence he briefly returns to his ''Avengers'' costume before donning a revamped version of his ''Civil War'' suit with scale detailing on his upper toro and shoulders for the final battle

** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Electro and the Green Goblin are initially identical to their appearances in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' and ''Film/SpiderMan1'' respectively. However, both gradually change over the film to receive [[TruerToTheText more comic-accurate costumes]]. After regaining his body and later powering up via an Arc Reactor, Electro goes from being blue like Ultimate Electro, to wearing an electrician's outfit evocative of his original comic costume, with the "mask" being a burst of yellow electricity that covers his face. Meanwhile, Norman shatters the Goblin mask early on, and later upgrades his armor with pouches, goggles, and a tattered purple hood, the latter working with his now-visible NightmareFace to evoke the ExpressiveMask used in the comics.

** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' showed the characters on the Enterprise sport a combination of the series costumes (colored torsos and black shoulders) and the designs made for ''Deep Space Nine'' (black torsos, colored shoulders). The [=DS9=] costumes were intended to be a starbase variant while the TNG costumes remained for starship crews, but this was the only time we see both worn by the same crew. A TroubledProduction intended for entirely new costumes to be introduced, a modern updating of the Original Series maroon jackets, but the limited time to develop them properly lead to a scramble to properly outfit the actors with what they had available.

** Luke Skywalker's primary outfits reflect his character growth across the Original Trilogy. He starts out wearing awhite tunic and tan pants in [[Film/StarWarsANewHope Episode IV]], reflecting his naivete and inexperience. In [[Film/StarWarsTheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]] he shifts to a dingy gray jumpsuit invoking how he's no longer the innocent he was. In [[Film/StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI]], he dons and all black ensemble with a charcoal Jedi cloak and tabard channeling his growth as a Jedi Knight and mirroring his father's colors.

** Princess Leia Organa initially wears her white ambassador dress and hair buns for most of [[Film/StarWarsANewHope Episode IV]] before shifting to a more formal gown for the victory celebration. In [[Film/StarWarsTheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]] she wears her white Hoth garb for most of the film, briefly switching to a red and gray dress in Cloud City before donning a white jumpsuit. In [[Film/StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI]], Leia starts out disguised in bounty hunter armor. After being captured by Jabba, she's forced into a gold metallic bikini with a red loincloth. Post escape on the Rebel fleet, she wears a gray tunic over a tan shirt with gray pants. On Endor she wears a green camo poncho and helmet over her outfit and later changes into a brown dress with white sleeves gifted to her by the Ewoks. For the final battle she changes back to her fleet outfit.
** Anakin Skywalker's costume changes reflect his character arc much like his son. In [[Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace Episode I]] a young Anakin wears tan slave attire for most of the film before changing to tan Jedi garb with a padawan braid. In [[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones Episode II]], an older Anakin wears a brown and tan Jedi tunic, dark leather tabards, and a dark Jedi robe. In [[Film/StarWarsRevengeOfTheSith Episode III]] his outfit has gotten darker the colors shifting to black and brown, his hair has grown out, and he wears a black glove over his robotic arm. After his climatic battle with Obi-Wan on Mustafar, his mutilated and burned body is encased in Darth Vader's Episode V suit.

* The main cast of both ''Series/BabylonFive'' and its ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' spin-off had their uniforms updated over the course of the show. Both originally wear standard [=EarthForce=] blue and black. After [[spoiler:''Babylon 5'' rebels against the corrupt Earth government]], new black uniforms with gray lines are introduced. Similarly, in ''Crusade'', an episode features a costume designer come aboard in order to put together uniforms for the ''Excalibur'' crew as a symbol for the people of Earth. He finally comes up with a different black uniform.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had black and primary colors tights and jumpsuits. Also, the red and gold [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color coding]] was switched from the original series. The jumpsuits went through some changes between seasons, mostly for the comfort of the actors. The original one-piece jumpsuit was notoriously uncomfortable to wear, which lead to a new design nearly identical but was in two pieces, drops the shoulder piping, and gave a cadet collar. Creator/PatrickStewart ended up suffering from back pain from the original outfits and was almost forced to leave the show; Picard was given a unique commanding officer uniform with a grey tunic and red jacket, which is even looser-fitting as a result.

** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' introduces new blue uniforms but have more military-style stripings and an asymmetric collar. The department colors were changed to metallic styles of gold for command, silver for medical/science, and bronze for engineering/security, largely under the premise that Discovery was not a standard multi-task Starfleet ship but an R&D testbed. Season two introduces a general Starfleet uniform that looks nearly identical to the colors and stylings of the Original Series, but with some Discovery-style features like the asymmetric collar.

** During the course of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' trilogy, Lightning, Serah, Snow, Hope, Vanille, and Noel undergo noticeable costume changes that are closely tied to the respective game's plot and their character development. Some changes are minor such as Noel's darker color scheme and Vanille's new headdress in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''; while other changes are major such as Lightning and Snow, who get a new design for each game. Major changes also apply to Hope and Serah in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', with the former becoming the [[spoiler:24-year-old leader of the Academy]] and the latter being upgraded from schoolgirl to [[TimeTravel time-travelling]] warrior.

*** Y'Shtola starts off wearing a white fluffy shirt with blue pants and small black boots. When she comes back in ''Heavensward'', it's replaced with a white robe with an open front, hot pants and thigh high boots. When she ends up on the First, she ends up with a black dress with fur trim.
*** Thancred starts out with a black shirt with a longsleeved white undershirt, green trousers and sandals. When he reappears in ''Heavensward'', he dons a white sleeveless shirt, black pants, boots and waist cape. When he ends up on the First, it's replaced with the Level 80 Gunbreaker armor dyed white and black.

*** Yda starts the game wearing a white open top, white hot pants and armored thigh high boots as well as a mask. [[spoiler:When she's revealed as Lyse, she starts wearing a vest, crop top, hot pants and the same armored thigh highs. Near the end of ''Stormblood'', she dons the real Yda's outfit being a red top with gold bracers and white baggy pants]].

** Princess Zelda originally had a [[PrincessesPreferPink pink dress]] with puff sleeves, and a wide bell skirt that had white ribbons and bows near the hem. This only lasted the first couple of games. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' she had a white dress with some purple trimmings and gold accessories. This would be the first form of her standard dress, which would evolve over further games. Much like Link, ''Breath of the Wild'' features her in her biggest costume change yet, with a dark blue/white royal outfit and a sky blue tunic not too dissimilar to his own for travelling.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Zero in the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' era has enlarged forearms and forelegs, {{Power Crystal}}s on his chest, white gloves, and shoulder guards. This era's Zero is slimmer, black fingerless gloves, different helmet design, and no shoulder guards.

** Nightmare's appearance from ''IV'' was relatively bland, so the re-design ups adds gold trimmings and detail and makes him look more monstrous by adding SpikesOfVillainy and glowing red eyes.

** Siegfried keeps his general European knight design but his armour is more detailed with blue and gold trimmings (to represent LightIsGood) and adds a ScarfOfAsskicking much like his P2 costume from ''III''. He's also been made a bit taller and [[HeroicBuild heavier-built]] than previous games.

** Amy got an outfit based on her gothic lolita outfit from ''III'', with a new rose motif.

** Hwang has underseen some of the most dramatic change of any character in the series. Apart from a scarf from ''III'' and his signature headband, almost nothing of his classic costume has remained. Here, he wears primarily black with a longcoat, a massive hat, and a mask to conceal his identity. Hwang looks all the world like a character from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', not medieval Korea.

** Much like his ancestor from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur]]'', Yoshimitsu is a prime example of this trope. He undergoes this in ''every single game'' in the series, and it's become a long-standing tradition of Creator/BandaiNamco to give the character in both entries a new look in every new entry in the respective series. In ''1'' he was a traditional ninja with a hannya mask. In ''2'' he switched to an oni mask and gained a farmer's hat. ''3'' and ''Tag 1'' started the legacy of him having a more futuristic, cyber-ninja look, and is considered to be by far his most iconic design as a whole, sporting a lightsaber katana and what appears to be a cross between a Xenomortph and a mushroom for a mask. In ''4'', he became a cyborg skeleton with beetle armor and dragonfly wings. ''5'' returns him to a more traditional samurai look but sporting futuristic elements still, serving as a reference to his ancestors from ''Soulcalibur''. ''6'' is by far his most nightmarish look, resembling a skeletal demon with exposed muscle tissue and a demonic sword. As of ''7'' he sports his oddest look yet, wearing a sort-of bio-organic alien armor with octopus tentacles around his head.

** Thrall was introduced wearing a suit of black plate armor that he inherited from the previous Warchief, Orgrim Doomhammer. In ''Cataclysm'', when he stepped down as Warchief in order to devote his time to combating Deathwing and heal the injuries the world suffered during his rampage, he changed his attire to a set of shamanic robes. During ''Warlords of Draenor'', he changed his outfit yet again to amalgamate elements from both his costumes, wearing his armor underneath his robes. After he is called back into action in ''Battle for Azeroth'' to deal with Sylvanas, he becomes a WalkingShirtlessScene.

* In ''Webcomic/MagicalBoy'', Max starts out in a typical hyperfeminine MagicalGirl costume, complete with his chest binder being broken. His TransformationSequence is [[TransTribulations played for severe gender dysphoria]]. As the comic progresses, however, his costume gradually becomes less feminine.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' every main character kept the same outfit except for Libby, who switched from a ponytail and blue dress to dreadlocks and a pink shirt to coincide with her PromotionToOpeningTitles. The change occurred in the episode where she impersonated an Egyptian queen [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange and decided to the new look]] and change her clothes with it.
** Jimmy went from a red and white striped t-shirt, blue shorts, and brown shoes in the pilot shorts, to a red t-shirt with a yellow atom symbol in the tv shorts and [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the movie]], and finally long blue jeans and white sneakers in the tv show.

*** In early episodes, the Green Lantern Corps are shown using the same uniform throughout their ranks. During the episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E8TheReturn "The Return"]], they're shown wearing custom uniforms (WordOfGod on the commentary is that they wanted to give Kyle Rayner his then-current costume in the comics and the rest fell suit). In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'', it's shown that Kyle Rayner will at some point don his ''DC Rebrth'' costume (itself based on his '90s costume) and Kilowog appears, sporting a version of his ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' costume.

** As high mage, Callum now wears an outfit similar to Viren's but with his blue, red and gold pattern, and his hair is now styled to the side, resembling AnimeHair.

** Vee is shown changing her appearance to differentiate herself from Luz -- her hair is green with blue tips while retaining her basilisk ears which blend in, and her skin color is lighter, though still similar enough to easily pass as a member of the Noceda family. She's wearing an orange jumper with a pumpkin on it, blue pants and brown boots.
** Camila also has a significant change in appearance -- her hair is curlier with a streak of gray in the front, her glasses now have gold frames, she has an open brown flannel shirt (which holds a heart-shaped pride pin) over a black shirt with a pumpkin on the center, jeans and brown boots.

* VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} wears a new outfit in nearly every game in his series. The VideoGameRemake of the first game, through the use of AndYourRewardIsClothes, allows the player to choose from most of his past outfits to wear in-game.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} first film]], Poppy wears a cyan dress with a light blue, wavy spade-like pattern across the hemline, and a green thin headband surrounded by blue flowers. In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', the hemline changes to a flower-esque pattern and a darker color than the rest of her dress, and her headband gets a major overhaul with a thicker front and a larger number of flowers that alternate between blue and green. She gets an even more drastic change for ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'', wherein her dress and headband are given a knit texture (as well as another entire redesign for the latter, now blue and green with the flowers replaced by a leaves and a couple sprigs), and she starts wearing striped leg warmers.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} first film]], Poppy wears a cyan dress with a light blue, wavy spade-like pattern across the hemline, and a green thin headband surrounded by blue flowers. In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', the hemline changes to a flower-esque pattern and a darker color than the rest of her dress, and her headband gets a major overhaul with a thicker front and a larger number of flowers that alternate between blue and green.

** The first two upgrades for the team were all [[FashionDesigner designed]] by ComicBook/JeanGrey.

** In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the kids had their outfits changed from the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon previous film]], with one reason being they're now young adults instead of teens (which can be seen in the poster above). Hiccup still has a green undershirt, but instead of a furry vest over it, he now has leather armor. Astrid still has her armored shoulders, fuzzy boots, and LadyLegionnaireWear, but has even more PeltsOfTheBarbarian added.

** In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the kids had their outfits changed from the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon1 previous film]], with one reason being they're now young adults instead of teens (which can be seen in the poster above). Hiccup still has a green undershirt, but instead of a furry vest over it, he now has leather armor. Astrid still has her armored shoulders, fuzzy boots, and LadyLegionnaireWear, but has even more PeltsOfTheBarbarian added.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the kids had their outfits changed from the previous film, with one reason being they're now young adults instead of teens (which can be seen in the poster above). Hiccup still has a green undershirt, but instead of a furry vest over it, he now has leather armor. Astrid still has her armored shoulders, fuzzy boots, and LadyLegionnaireWear, but has even more PeltsOfTheBarbarian added.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} first film]], Poppy wears a cyan dress with a light blue, wavy spade-like pattern across the hemline, and a thin headband surrounded by blue flowers. In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', the hemline changes to a flower-esque pattern and a darker color than the rest of her dress, and her headband gets a major overhaul with a thicker front and a larger number of flowers that alternate between blue and green.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' Edna Mode patches up Mr. Incredible's outfit a couple of times and then makes him a new outfit, this time {{Red|IsHeroic}} instead of {{blue|IsHeroic}}. She also makes matching outfits for the whole family, which also updates Elastigirl's costume.
* Winston Deavor tries his hand at updating Elastigirl's original costume in ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', arranging for a new suit to be designed by Alexander Galbaki, a rival of Edna's. Grey and black dominate rather than the white and scarlet of her old suit. It eventually starts taking ClothingDamage, though, prompting Helen to change back into her more durable Mrs. Incredible costume.

* Lina Inverse in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' goes through three similar, but slightly different outfits (one in the prequel OVA and movies, one in Season 1, and one in later seasons). The main changes are the accessories such as boots, gloves, and pauldrons; the basic silhouette (form-fitting tunic and pants, and a large cape with ShouldersOfDoom) remains constant.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lori's rival, Carol Pingrey, initially wore blue in "Picture Perfect" to highlight how similar she and Lori look. When she reappeared in "Selfie Improvement", her outfit became purple.

** Ichigo originally possessed a standard Soul Reaper uniform with a belt strapping his Zanpakutou sheath to his back. His Shikai transformed the belt to a red strap and his Bankai turned the ''kosode'' into a tattered longcoat. Awakening his Fullbring gave him a uniform made of black flame that eventually transformed into a black bodysuit with white skeletal armour. The restoration of his Soul Reaper powers merged with the remnants of his Fullbring to add neck armour and X-shaped straps to his Shikai and Bankai uniforms. After training with Squad Zero, he obtains a tattered, black-streaked, white waistcloth and shoulder armour that crosses his chest in an X-shape.

** A number of Soul Reapers received outfit tweaks for the Lost Agent arc after the TimeSkip. Byakuya Kuchki swaps his ''kenseikan'' for a slimmer set of hairpieces, loses his scarf, and dons a modified haori with gold trim and tassels. Renji Abarai has longer hair, a maroon headband replace his white one, and long dark straps on each wrist with bandages over his arms. Kenpachi Zaraki loses his spiked hairdo and bells for a long messy haircut and swaps out his eyepatch. Toshiro Hitsugaya has longer less spikey hair, adds a long turquoise scarf, and replaces his green sash with a chain. Shinji Hirako returns to Soul Reaper robes and a captain's haori with a white necktie.

* Fairy Tail's Master Markarov Dreyer also goes through several outfits over the couse of the series. Intially he wears an orange jacket, white shirt with the guild emblem, orange shorts, sandals, and a blue and organe striped jester hat. For the Guild war with Phantom Lord he switches to his Wizard Saint outfit consisting of a white tunic with the Fairy Tail symbol on the left collar, black pants, and formal white coat with whitedorns fur trim with the Ten Wizard Saints' symbol on the back before returning to his original look. During the Battle for Fairy Tail, he switches to wearing a white dress shirt with a red vest over it and black pants with a light colored, high collared cape embossed on the back with the guild emblem. During the S-Class trials he intially sports a Hawaiian shirt with black short before changing into his Wizard Saint outfit which gets largely shredded during the fight with Grimoire Heart. Follow the return to Fairy Tail after seven years, he goes back to his third outfit for the first part of the Grand Magic Games, before changing to a black gauken uniform, and then his Wizard Saint outfits which because his default outfit for the next few arcs. Following the one-year TimeSkip, Markarow is sporting a full beard and wears a new outfir consisting of a belted white tunic, black pants, and a short black capewith yellow trim and an unknown symbol on the back. For the Alvarez War, he returns to his Wizard Saint outfit swapping out the white shirt for a new purple one.

** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica frequently shifts costumes here. In his [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger original movie]] alone he goes from a wool comic-inspired stage outfit with the triangular shield to a makeshift combat outfit with a leather jacket and helmet to his finalized combat uniform with the circular shield. In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', he gets a new upgraded uniform mixed the color scheme of his stage outfit with a more utilitarian look. In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' he dons a navy SHIELD stealth suit with silver patterning before switching back to a variant of his WWII suit for the final battle. In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', his new Avengers outfit takes the foundation of his stealth suit and adds back the coloring and stripes from his previous suits with the Avengers logon on the shoulders and magnets for his shield. His ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' outfit is darker, loses the some of the red and white, with more armor.

** Uryū Ishida is just as prone to costume changes. Flashbacks to his childhood have him wearing a long white training tunic with gray lines and the Quincy cross on the back. During his intial introduction, he wears an all white ensemble with blue lining consisting of a long white tunic with the Quincy cross on the back and white pants and matching shoes. For the mission to rescue Rukia, he dons a tweaked outfit that adds a new long tunic split up the sides, his Sanrei Glove with its solid form bow, a cross pattern to his shoes, and a short cape . After donning a Soul Reaper outfit for, his temporary Letzt Stil overlays a asymetrical white coat, a white half-waistcloth with blue patterning, a shoulder pauldron, and a energy "quiver". For the anime original Bount arc, he gains a new outfit with his temporary powers consisting of a white tailcoat with heavy blue lineing and the quincy cross with silver bracers on the arms used to manifest his bow, white pants and white shoes with a cross pattern. For the Arrancar arc, he wears a shorter white tunic with a blue side belt for the Seele Scheider as well as cuffs and a more elaborate cape with eupletetes and gold braid, retaining the white pants and shoes from previous outfits. For the Lost Agent arc he switches to a plain all white look with a black undershirt. The Thousand-Year Blood War arc switches the undershirt to blue and later his Sternritter uniform adds a military style white coat, belted at the waist with gold details over his Quincy tunic, sometimes with a long white cape.
** A number of Soul Reapers received outfit tweaks for the Lost Agent arc after the TimeSkip. Byakuya Kuchki swaps his ''kenseikan'' for a slimmer set of hairpieces, loses his scarf, and dons a modified haori with gold trim and tassels. Renji Abarai has longer hair, a maroon headband replace his white one, and long dark straps on each wrist with bandages over his arms. Kenpachi Zaraki loses his spiked hairdo and bells for a long messy haircut and swaps out his eyepatch. Toshiro Hitsugaya has longer less spikey hair, adds a long turquoise scarf, and replaces his green sash with a chain. Shinji Hirako return to Soul Reaper robes and a captain's haori with a white necktie..

* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', Dr. Eggman was first introduced wearing a simple red long-sleeved shirt with black pants[=/=]boots and a yellow cape. Come ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Eggman's outfit is updated to a red zippered coat, black pants with zippered boots, and replacing the cape with a pair of goggles on his head.

* Costumes are frequently updated between ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' movies. One change that had attention called to it was ComicBook/CaptainAmerica getting a modern replacement for his old WWII uniform in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Other especially noticeable ones were Comicbook/WarMachine getting a red, white, and blue paint job, along with a name change to "Iron Patriot" in ''Film/IronMan3'' (and then reverting back afterwards) and Comicbook/TheFalcon painting his wing pack red and white by the time he joined the Avengers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' Edna Mode patches up Mr. Incredible's outfit a couple of times and then makes him a new outfit, this time {{Red|IsHeroic}} instead of {{blue|IsHeroic}}. She also makes matching outfits for the whole family, which also updates Elastigirl's costume.