Batwoman's Future Costume Highlights Flaws in Female Character Design
How long must women wait for practicality?
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Batwoman's Future Costume Highlights Flaws in Female Character Design
- Thread starter WrenchNinja
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You see the just the black and white crop and it doesn't look that bad,
not good or spectacular but like there's been worse.
you see the rest and it's like a parody.
And there's not even a cape, like I know they're not practical but no cape or even anything close to a wing? for someone in the bat family?
not good or spectacular but like there's been worse.
you see the rest and it's like a parody.
And there's not even a cape, like I know they're not practical but no cape or even anything close to a wing? for someone in the bat family?
It'd look a lot better as a "Dark Knight family member that looks like a knight" redesign if they didn't have the boob armor, that's literally worse than having no armor.
Also if her costume wasn't...hugging every contour of her body because someone wanted to draw this one-handed, so to speak.
I like the helmet, shoulder armor and colors but the rest is just terrible.
Also if her costume wasn't...hugging every contour of her body because someone wanted to draw this one-handed, so to speak.
I like the helmet, shoulder armor and colors but the rest is just terrible.
I don't mind super heroes wearing heels. They look cool! But the boob armor on this is weird. Also hate the lack of a cape. I can't articulate why but it looks like she should have one and it's missing not that it's a capeless outfit.
She's a woman superhero that was, presumably, drawn by a man, that's why.
Hours spent over a sewing machine adding that extra divot to her suit.
If she absorbs Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, she will achieve her perfection!
Even putting aside the obvious issues covered in the OP, this is still a terrible costume
1930s Batman inspired cowl?
Utility armpits?
Shoulder pads that look like they're from a piece of Skyrim armor?
1930s Batman inspired cowl?
Utility armpits?
Shoulder pads that look like they're from a piece of Skyrim armor?
The GOAT
How disappointing that they have to actually spell out that you don't boob it up.
The bottom half of the costume is so ridiculous I ddin't even notice all this.
It's really really bad.
I feel like 90% of superhero's wear skin tight latex outfits. Unless you're Superman & impervious to most what's through at you, everyone's costume is impractical. At least this costume has pants....Robin didn't have those for years. Even on Batman's current suit, you can count every ab & muscle under his skin-tight outfit.
"This isn't practical"
I mean, it's a comic book superhero. Their outfits are designed to be flashy. Nobody questions how realistic it is to prowl the Gotham rooftops in skintight bodysuits in the same way that nobody questions why a dude in his 30's and 40's is able to take down criminal empires without ever getting shot. Batman is often depicted without visible armor, and the 5-foot cape he wears is only going to be a hindrance to combat/movement.
I mean, it's a comic book superhero. Their outfits are designed to be flashy. Nobody questions how realistic it is to prowl the Gotham rooftops in skintight bodysuits in the same way that nobody questions why a dude in his 30's and 40's is able to take down criminal empires without ever getting shot. Batman is often depicted without visible armor, and the 5-foot cape he wears is only going to be a hindrance to combat/movement.
I actually don't mind the costume from the waist up, its just waist down it looks incomplete, like Clay Mann didn't bother to finish the lower half of the costume. It also doesn't help that Clay Mann can't help but sneak in butt shots of this character (and female characters in general it seems). Costume needs a redesign.
I get (and agree with) the heels complain. That stuff is just silly.
But the skin-tight issue is just a superhero thing, not just for women. And it's not being "what about!", just that that's the superhero style so you either like it or not.
That aside, I would have given her more armor, since it looks cool, and would have probably given her also a utility belt, since that's a Batman thing too.
But the skin-tight issue is just a superhero thing, not just for women. And it's not being "what about!", just that that's the superhero style so you either like it or not.
That aside, I would have given her more armor, since it looks cool, and would have probably given her also a utility belt, since that's a Batman thing too.
It's weird. It's like three costumes in one.
From above the chest, it's this kinda overdesigned, edgy early 00's look.
The mid-section looks like an Iron Man torso with boobs.
The belly-button down looks like a latex fetish suit.
Super weird.
From above the chest, it's this kinda overdesigned, edgy early 00's look.
The mid-section looks like an Iron Man torso with boobs.
The belly-button down looks like a latex fetish suit.
Super weird.
There are different levels of impractical. While Batman's outfit might not provide any real protection you can still function relatively normally. A lot of female comic designs are made for sex appeal over any pretext of function. High heels and boob armor are a bad design choice in general, but are also on another level of impractical.
This. :/ I see what they were going for: merging Batman and Catwoman's outfit. Could you just...not, though?
