# Worst/uglist CURRENT superhero costumes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966 "2006-08-09T04:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966/41 "2006-08-11T14:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] So how does the Comedian (and The Incredibles, and Robin, for that matter) keep those domino masks on (all the way to their eyelids) without having them fall off? And do they really protect your identity? They _can’t_ be as good as a forelock that falls over your forehead. Or a disappearing moustache. [/QUOTE] Isn’t the standard line that some sort of actor’s glue holds them on? The Comedian got glassed in Vietnam, and after that he switched to a leather gimp mask. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966/42 "2006-08-11T16:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] SomethingAwful did a [“Fashion SWAT” article](http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=2916) a while back about awful superhero costumes." [/QUOTE] And I laughed so hard I nearly choked! I’m at the reception desk so I need to answer phones coherently and it ain’t happening thanks to _you_, **Max Torque**! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966/43 "2006-08-12T03:58:45Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] Re: Birds of Prey I have no clue what Evil Captor is talking about. Birds of Prey got the Batgirl costume down perfectly which was skintight and sexy as hell. Huntress’ costume was just ridiculous because it consisted of a bustier, leather pants and a lace (yes lace) robe. Canary I think just dressed as a normal person which was disappointing. [/QUOTE] I’m talking about the TV show costumes. Huntress wore a black outfit and a big, floppy black cape while on the prowl – she was basically just a face floating above a pool of black – her figure got completely lost in the shadows, as the scenes were often shot in a noir, underlit way. [Here’s a pic from the Dark Horizons site for BoP.](http://www.darkhorizons.com/tv/birdsofprey.php) You may think these women are hotties, but they’re just not. Huntress was the hottest of the bunch, for sure, but the general impression of the three of them was frumpiness. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966/44 "2006-08-12T04:24:53Z")
[Frumpiness?](http://www.cinescape.com/multimedia/Master_Site/TV/Master_SiteArticle283083.jpg) [Frumpiness?](http://whitecygnus.com/BirdsofPrey.htm) I can’t imagine what your dungeon consists of if this is your idea of frumpiness. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966/45 "2006-08-12T22:49:01Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] [Frumpiness?](http://www.cinescape.com/multimedia/Master_Site/TV/Master_SiteArticle283083.jpg) [Frumpiness?](http://whitecygnus.com/BirdsofPrey.htm) I can’t imagine what your dungeon consists of if this is your idea of frumpiness. [/QUOTE] Yeah, frumpiness. I watched the first few eps of the series. They had the actress who played Huntress writhing in what looked like a black negligee in many of the show’s bumpers. Nothing like that in the show itself, mind you. That black cape that billows so dramatically behind her covered her figure most of the time. And the shot of Dina Meyers in the Batgirl outfit? Remember, she was the Oracle, the _wheelchair bound_ oracle, who spent most of her time in a wheelchair, in an outfit a lot more like the one in my promo shot than in yours. I think there were a couple of flashback shots of her in her Batgirl outfit, that was about it. And the Black Canary’s daughter. Frumpy, frumpy, frumpy. Yeah, frumpy. There’s even [a complaint about it on Jump the Shark’s page for it.](http://www.jumptheshark.com/b/birdsofprey.htm) To wit: > [@](#): > > Even the sex appeal of the female leads–which is usually one of the strong selling points for a series like this–just was not there for the most part. Only Dina Meyer’s Batgirl/Oracle character was true to the comic version, and she was also a very talented and beautiful actress. Huntress was a little too butch for my taste with that short haircut, and Black Canary (one of the sexiest female characters ever in the comics) was portrayed by an actress far too young to add any sex appeal to the cast. You would think that a series with such poor writing and acting would at least offer up some T&A to attract male viewers, but it didn’t even have THAT going for it! See, the thing is, all the comics fans in the world couldn’t generate enough numbers to make the show worthwhile for the WB. The show promoted itself to mainstream viewers as a show featuring hot, sexy babe crimefighters, and they they didn’t deliver the hot and sexy. Of course the show flopped. What were they thinking? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-uglist-current-superhero-costumes/367966.md?page=2)