Bat-Family Suits - rubber or fabric

[Bat-Meal]

Do you prefer Batman and family's suits to be mostly fabric, or rubber?

In the past I would have said the rubber (pretend metal) look from the Nolan films, but after Batfleck and Batwoman I'm liking the fabric more.

Still, the Robins from Titans have a good mixture, and I think Batwoman's suit could be broken-up a bit more so the torso looks more protective.





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Sorry this last image is so small, haven't figured-out how to make my uploads not shrink.

[Bat-Meal]

These look better:


Does anyone else find the codpiece on Nightwing's suit a bit weird?


Wow, her legs look super-skinny in this pic.


The gauntlets look too soft IMO.

[Jackalope89]

Rubber is a no go from the start. Gets way too hot and protection is minimal at best.
Rubber torso, still too hot. Plus you don't have much flexibility in the torso area.
Fabric (carbon fiber weave) is the way to go. It allows the skin to breathe while also providing protection and flexibility.

[Bat-Meal]

Rubber is a no go from the start. Gets way too hot and protection is minimal at best.
Rubber torso, still too hot. Plus you don't have much flexibility in the torso area.
Fabric (carbon fiber weave) is the way to go. It allows the skin to breathe while also providing protection and flexibility.

Well, in-universe it isn't actually meant to be rubber. I mostly like the fabric look, but a bit of armored chest protection just works better for me, like the Robins in Titans. I feel like Batwoman's suit would look cooler if the upper torso looked more like armor.





I used to really like the Nolan Batsuit, but now it looks a bit too restrictive and complex IMO.

[Tzigone]

Rubber is a no go from the start. Gets way too hot and protection is minimal at best.
Rubber torso, still too hot. Plus you don't have much flexibility in the torso area.

This makes me think of how pretty much every actor that has worn a suit of this sort has complained about it - and they didn't even have to do stunts or whatnot.

[Bat-Meal]

This makes me think of how pretty much every actor that has worn a suit of this sort has complained about it - and they didn't even have to do stunts or whatnot.

Yeah, too much rubber restricts movement and would make it hard to pull off the stunts I imagine. It would also be heavy I think.

That said, I still think a bit of torso protection looks cool.

The Robin suit IMO has a good balance.



The Nightwing suit overdoes the amount of rubber IMO.



And the Batwoman suit looks a bit minimal in protection IMO.

[Heavunion]

Fabric with rubbers in some key parts like the Bat-Symbol, the Belt or the Gauntlets. It's reflective of how I see them. I don't see the Bat-Family as those dudes with almost mecha-suits like Lex Luthor, I think of them as moving around a lot, almost flying, acrobats and using a handful of gadgets to help them but with little ones, no big guns or anything like that. They don't take bullets but knock out the room fast enough that they don't get shot

[Restingvoice]

These look better:


Does anyone else find the codpiece on Nightwing's suit a bit weird?

The codpiece juts forward too much it's almost like a boob armor but for that part. The Freeze armor one is more reasonable.

By the way, it's mentioned multiple times in the (Rebirth) comic that Nightwing's suit is just a leotard, and the way it's drawn it's definitely light fabric that's shaped by his body, and torn like a fabric, so there's no padding at all, except maybe the crotch area since it's never so skintight that it shows... not that they're ever gonna show it... and there's a hard part on the knuckles while the soles of his shoes look like running shoes, but that's as much padding as I can tell.

The New 52 suit by Brett Booth that he wore in Chicago uses fantasy padding that's stronger than kevlar.

Idk about his old suits

Kate's New 52 suit is fantasy fabric that's bulletproof

Bruce's New 52 suit is a fabric that has full-body padding underneath that's strong enough to hold against Ace Chemical's acid and his Rebirth suit is a fabric that has a strong enough protection underneath that it holds against Faye Gunn's machine gun at point-blank range. Something alloy.

[Bat-Meal]

The codpiece juts forward too much it's almost like a boob armor but for that part. The Freeze armor one is more reasonable.

I'm not a fan of boob armor either, (not sure why in-universe he'd want to 'highlight' anything down there), both are distracting and an odd choice for armor IMO.

By the way, it's mentioned multiple times in the (Rebirth) comic that Nightwing's suit is just a leotard, and the way it's drawn it's definitely light fabric that's shaped by his body, and torn like a fabric, so there's no padding at all, except maybe the crotch area since it's never so skintight that it shows... not that they're ever gonna show it... and there's a hard part on the knuckles while the soles of his shoes look like running shoes, but that's as much padding as I can tell.

Yeah, reading the comics I always interpreted it as fabric, since he is an acrobat. But all the adaptions I've seen outside of animation and comics seem to make it thicker.

[Mark Trail]

The Affleck costume in BvS was the best looking suit to date.

[John Venus]

Body paint for maximum efficiency and movement.

[Ulysses]

The Affleck costume in BvS was the best looking suit to date.

Still couldn’t turn his head though. Looking forward to Batman turning his head on film.