This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
I say, old beans, do we have enough Costume Tropes to merit a new subgrouping?
Janitor: Seeing that a search on "costume" gives 50+ hits, you may be on to something;-)
Bluetooth The Pirate: A funny line related to the superheroes in black thing, from Marvel comic Alias's concluding issue this month. The protagonist, a superheroine who quit the business a long time ago is telling the story of her last time out to her newborn baby. "It was the eighties. Black costumes were like legwarmers for superheroes back then."
osh: I wonder if shows will ever get geekish enough to mention the 90s slew of Marvel characters wearing jackets over their tights.
Kendra Kirai: Not just Marvel. Superboy, The Ray, Black Canary from time to time (Though she's 2000's), Secret (Of Young Justice) has one which is a part of her outfit, the Star Spangled Kid, Wonder Girl, Starboy(I think that's his name)...they're all over DC too.
Does the concealment of Andy's name on Woody's boot in Toy Story 2 count? It's not noticeable outside of ten seconds or so of footage, but still.
Looney Toons: Animal Man from DC was the first one I remember seeing with a leather jacket over a traditional superhero costume. And come to think of it, Black Canary was doing a bolero jacket thing on her costume at least as far back as the 1970s, Kendra.
There's a semi-subversion in the Dark Phoenix Saga; the Evil Costume Switch from Phoenix to Dark Phoenix comprises of the green parts going red. Later, it was definitely subverted in Excalibur: Rachel, Jean Grey's daughter from an alternate timeline, inherits the Phoenix power, name, and costume, at the cost of a temporary coma. When she awakes, the cliffhanger end of the issue her realising "I know who I truly am!" and the green parts of the costume going red. The next issue, she explains that she just liked red better...
I'd write it up myself, but I'm a) too verbose and b) too much of a coward.
Taper W: Fixed the Nanoha A's bit in the first anime example; note that it's not "the trope is reinforced," but "the character named Reinforce." (I wonder if either Reinforce or Fate belong here, though; I should check Reinforce's exact costume change, as I don't remember it as anything _but_ the facial markings.)
It might be worth mentioning that several of Captain America's non-Captain America costumes (including the one he later passed on to U.S.Agent) were darker than his traditional costumes. Whether it's subverting or avoiding the trope or what, I don't know.
CapnAndy: Removed a huge, huge — seriously, it was as long again as the rest of the entry — and badly written text block about Dragonlance. My eyes glazed over too many times to even tell if it was a legit example or not. If it's a legit example, by all means, someone re-enter it... preferably in a concise manner that doesn't make me think someone's very dorky senior thesis got leprosy and dropped a big chunk of itself off.
St Fan: It seems to me that this page contain some examples that either don't fit (those concerning an Evil Twin / Evil Counterpart mostly) or would belong better into simply Paint It Black. A good dusting would be in order.
