# Do comic book character costumes look ridiculous in real life?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-comic-book-character-costumes-look-ridiculous-in-real-life/789101 "2017-06-16T09:25:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-comic-book-character-costumes-look-ridiculous-in-real-life/789101/21 "2017-06-17T01:14:30Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Anyone else think Gal Gadot’s costume was, to put it as nicely as possibly, an homage to Xena, Warrior Princess.

They’re both based on Greek and Roman military gear. I don’t see why it would be a homage to Xenia, or why you would have to make an effort to be nice.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-comic-book-character-costumes-look-ridiculous-in-real-life/789101/22 "2017-06-17T01:23:15Z")

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More specifically, they’re both based on Greco-Roman military gear, as modified to fit and look good on a curvy woman. Given both of those points, of course they’re going to end up looking similar.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-comic-book-character-costumes-look-ridiculous-in-real-life/789101/23 "2017-06-17T01:26:15Z")

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There’s also some oddity introduced by the passage of time. The combination of briefs over tights that Superman and Batman wear, while hardly mainstream, reputedly would have been recognizable in the 1930s as something a wrestler or circus strongman might wear. That cultural referent has been lost.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-comic-book-character-costumes-look-ridiculous-in-real-life/789101/24 "2017-06-17T02:08:49Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Right now, Warner Brothers executives are slapping themselves on the head and saying “Sure, we’ve made two hundred million on Wonder Woman. But we could have made two billion.”

That’s why the sequel will feature [Negative Wonder Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpv1wOwRnA).

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