Worst character costumes/designs ever

[deadboy80]

Why is Jason still wearing the Batman symbol? Isn't the whole point of giving him his own book to move him out of Bruce's shadow?

He has had the symbol since the dawn of the Nu52. The symbol is not the problem, its the stupid sweat jacket, who is supposed to be RedHood or the Scarlet Spider? And I like Arsenals armor, but the mask reeks! Please go back to the classic mask.

[fishing-for-birdie]

[Flash Gordon]

Kid Flash - The 1st costume - It doens't look right
Oh man Super Bulked up Mulletwing & Huntress looked so bad




Yeah....

None of those look bad to me. I actually really liked when Kara had a different outfit for every adventure.

Plus the Kirby-looking one is pretty rad.

[manofsteel1979]

The initial Jim Lee Superman redesign was attrocious as first introduced. When other artists started to draw it more like cloth with some extra lines it doesn't look terrible. For instance Fabok over in JLA makes it look damn good.

[BrotherMeh]

The initial Jim Lee Superman redesign was attrocious as first introduced. When other artists started to draw it more like cloth with some extra lines it doesn't look terrible. For instance Fabok over in JLA makes it look damn good.

Or you could say you don't like Jim Lees drawing, and the costume design was fine from the beginning.

[Vinsanity]

Hey Alicia Silverstone looks hot in anything.

[Stone Cold]

The winner of this thread is "Codpiece"

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He shoots lasers from his giant robotic manhood.

[Outside_85]

The winner of this thread is "Codpiece"

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He shoots lasers from his giant robotic manhood.

Actually, he couldn't win this, because that's an intentional design (thanks to Morrison) rather than someone making a design that everyone just happens to hate.

[Jim Kelly]

Hey Alicia Silverstone looks hot in anything.

If the BATMAN AND ROBIN movie costumes had appeared in a comic book, I don't think they would have appeared so absurd. It was the act of transferring comic book style designs to a movie that made them over the top. No wonder that most movies tone down the comic book costumes.

[Herowatcher]

Bring back Doctor Spectro as a Green Lantern villain.

He's was a Captain Atom villain.
However, there's no reason he can't be a good villain of both.

The most recent look of his I know of...still not great IMO.

[Robotman]

Silver Age Owlman's costume was pretty bad.

[manofsteel1979]

Or you could say you don't like Jim Lees drawing, and the costume design was fine from the beginning.

I actually like Jim Lee's art over all but he's horrible at redesigning costumes. He initially designed it to look like metallic armor. Other artists altered the design to look less like metallic armor and lost some of the lines. It looked better. Even Lee drew the suit differently by the time he did Unchained. Other artists like Romita and Fabok have further altered the design. For instance, Fabok pretty much eliminates the high collar.

So yes, the initial design as it appeared for the first 6 months of the new 52? Attrocious.

What it has evolved to? Not bad.

[Jim Kelly]

It seems like to me that some costumes are being dumped on in hindsight. When at the time that's what they were wearing. These characters were in fashion and satisfied the desires of their audience. For instance, I don't see anything wrong with Doctor Spectro.

A character like the original Green Lantern may have had bad fashion sense, but when you see his costume it fits with the era. The sin of Jim Lee is that he's designing the same costumes he would have designed twenty years ago. Jim Lee doesn't seem to be up with the trends--other than putting pants on women and taking pants off men--but his costumes are too busy with the kind of junky detail that was so popular in the '90s. We're beyond that now.

[M L A]

Silver Age Owlman's costume was pretty bad.

Why don't you like the owl hat?

[hotroddii]

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Looker's original look - with the bow on the legs ... white circles on her chesticles ... bit of a hot mess