Originally Posted by
Restingvoice
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.