Linky no worky, but I know what you mean.
Superboy: Say, Cos?
Cosmic Boy: Yo.
Superboy: Is that a … halter top of some kind?
I loved those ridiculously skimpy costumes! Completely and utterly inappropriate, and some of them would likely have fallen off if the heroine made any sudden moves, but very eye-catching!
And don’t forget Princess Projectra:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=312999&GSub=58317
I hadn’t forgotten her; I was just lazy. But as I think on it, her costume is even more stripperific than Dream Girl’s, who, given her personality in the late 80s, was surprisingly modest.
Of the stripperific Legon costumes, the one that always bothered me was Saturn Girl’s. It’s just completely out of character; she was always presented as the most serious and modest of the group. The one that made the most sense was Laurel Gand’s. I mean, she was impervious to cold, heat, impact, and most everything else,a and she was hot; I can easily see her deciding to wear only the minimum amount of clothing necessary to avoid arrest.
Returning to the thread topic, am I the only one who likes Daredevil’s origin? The radioactive gunk in the eyes was just the beginning of a process.
Also on topic, I think the single best origin story is Spider-Man’s, particularly as told in the movie. (Eliminating the invention of the web-shooter both helps the narrative move along and eliminates a major plot hole, as it is no longer a mystery why he is not a trillionaire.) Spidey’s origin works for me as he has an utterly believable response to suddenly getting super-strength & speed: he goes from nerd to asshole, as most people who’ev been picked on for long periods would. And I can believe in his neurotic need to atone for his failure much more than I can Batman’s psychotic need to avenge, because Ben’s death WAS largely his fault.
I concur with you about Spider-Man’s origin. It is very believable to me, as well. Peter/Spidey being a selfish jerk about his powers at first, inadvertantly causing his uncle’s death, then finally owning up to the “With great power comes great responsibility” theme. Great story!
Suddenly, I’m thinking of Wendy O. Williams.
Agreed! Batman is the king of superhero stories when it comes to psychology. Rorschach was pretty good to, and similar though more subtle.
Really, it’s more of a bustier. He looks like some kind of super macho drag queen.
How so? In a genre that’s rife with childish fantasizing, Batman’s one of the worst offenders. As a character, and as currently written, Batman is permanently stuck at the age of 11.
and a grown man stuck at age 11 due to a trauma and struggling with the implications of that isn’t psychologically interesting? ok, to each his own.
Except that Batman doesn’t struggle. He’s as content with his dysfunctionality as, say, Greg House,and believes that others who aren’t dysfunctional are the deluted ones.
you haven’t read much batman, i take it.
he absolutely struggles with. That’s the main aspect of his relationship with the Joker. The Joker thinks batman is just as psychotic as the villains, occasionally batman think’s he’s right.
I’ve read a lot of Batman. I can tell you all about Anarky and Mr. Zzzazz and Hush and Leslie Thompkins and Cassandra Cain and so forth. I’m not denying that Batman is an interesting character; I just don’t think he’s especially psychologically complex.
He’s very straightforward much of the time, I’ll agree with that. But to compare him again to Rorschach, he’s more complex because he does sometimes start to wonder if his no compromise vigilante approach is correct. Since you’ve read it, I’m sure you know that the main point in Batman is loss and people’s reactions to it. Compare Harvey Dent, Batman, and the Joker and tell me there isn’t some psychological complexity that’s being examined.
edit: or even expand that and include Com. Gordon in that, specifically in The Killing Joke
From City of Heroes: Lesbian Hellions.
Agreed as to SG. Recall that Saturn Girl switched back to her old costume somewhat out of shame, after she was discovered in a compromising position with Timber Wolf (they had turned to each other for … um … mutual comfort after their shuttlecraft had crashed somewhere remote).
Night Girl by definition fought in the dark. 
As to Cosmic Boy, I recall the editors explaining one time that his costume had metal thread in it and was held up by his own powers. It seems that getting knocked unconscious would risk a certain embarrassment factor.
Spider-Woman had a particularly icky origin story - she was a spider who was genetically mutated into a human female form. That idea was so unsettling that her origin was almost instantly retconned.
Hee Hee! These pics sure bring back memories!
There is also “Mariah”, the swordswoman from the “Warlord” comic book:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=196281&GSub=58571
My own superheroine, Panther Girl (who gets knocked out in pretty much every pic she is in, because of my “superheroine-in-peril” fetish!), also has a ridiculously tiny costume:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=310363&GSub=38079
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=486659&GSub=38079
Why is Electro a hunchbsck?
You know, I never really noticed that he looked a bit “hunchback”-y
in that pic until you mentioned it. Ha! I guess that my eyes had always
been diverted elsewhere, for some reason…