Crime Against Fashion...no matter the decade!

[shadwing]

Trust me...Mirage there has got the right idea. Scans Daily...start your screaming...



So Bad Fashion? When I hear 'Bad Fashion' only one costume comes to mind it was a creation of Phil Jiminez in the 90's crack (not the good kind) comic series known as "Team Titans" After Donna lost her powers, settled down with Terry, Robert and a group of time displaced super teens they got a visitor...the Future Nightwing.

He never got a new name you see, only 'Future Nightwing' so the Evil Dark Slutty Raven (who deserves her own entry in Crimes Against Fashion...x_x) decided to fix that by giving him the same treatment that Tim Burton gave Selina Kyle in 'Batman Returns'

He woke up to a whole new outlook on life! Gave himself a makeover!



And a new name!



Oh dear lord...do I need to add commentary? It's not possible I don't think it's possible to put how bad this get up is into words.

The medusa hair?
The overabundance of shiney sharp pointy things?
The nipple ring?
The really pointy mask that looks like something the Huntress rejected as 'too much'?
The Evil Emperor collar that makes the original one subdued?
This is Bad 80's Fashion converted into Bad 90's Fashion in some hidious mutant process only known to Phil Jiminez!

A Picture is worth 1000 words...and the follow up costume is quite possibly worse, I lack scans of that.

So in closing...more commentary from the lovely Mirage...





Recommended Tags:
Character Deathwing
Character Mirage/Miriam Delgado
Publisher DC Comics
Creator Phil Jiminez
Title Team Titans

Comments

[flidgetjerome]

How did this man avoid repeatedly stabbing himself in the chest with his own outfit?

[shadwing]

GOOD QUESTION.....wish I had the answer.

Maybe Evil Raven gave him Wolverine style uber healing powers too?

[ravenjade]

How do you think he got that nipple piercing?

[kamino_neko]

Always posing. Always.

[sarno001]

For real... Cassie's "Can't raise my arms" Wonder Girl outfit makes more sense than this. Then again, extrapolating from the teeth and the tagline in the first cover, Dick's ... a vampire? So the multiple stab wounds heal quickly?

But not sparkling? I don't understand...

[tacobob]

Wow, it's like Rob Lefield threw up.

And the last cover.

Deathwing; "MWAH-Ha-Ha-Ha! Behind the curtains, I have a new costume I MADE FOR YOU!"

Mirage: "Does it have a giant collar? Does it have lots of useless pouches that will be too small for me to put anything in it?"

Deathwing: "And it's all VERY POINTY!"

Mirage: "Please let me die in the next crossover!"

[foxhack]

Rob might have made some awful costumes, but they usually didn't involve SPIKES THAT WOULD HURT YOU WHILE YOUR ARMS WERE AT REST D:

[crabby_lioness]

Someone thought this was a good idea? How?

[shadwing]

Another very good question!

People have been asking that about the "Team Titans" series for years...heck they were asking that when it was being published

[thokstar]

In defense of Deathwing, at least the blue and yellow of his costume don't clash. (The silver does, and I'm not sure why he has metallic bird's heads for shoulder pads. But the blue and yellow don't clash.)

[jlroberson]

I want to know how that clasp in his collar holds now. Unless it's EXTREEEMELY stapled to his chest.

Wow, I read no superhero(apart from DP and ANIMAL MAN, but does that count?) comics at all from 1989-1997. I missed nothing. NUSSING!

[roibenrye]

Why am I so amused that they're in the bathroom? It looks like she was puking up when he springs out of the shower, not even a WINDOW, it's so...I...there's no... I don't know what to say. It's all around just terrible.



Terribly amusing.

[shadwing]

There is a plot specific reason for the bathroom...which leads to more crack.

I prefer that she took one look at that costume and horked up her lunch.

[crinos]

I bet can just imagine that Babs keeps a picture of this on her labtop and uses it too blackmail Dick whenever she needs a favor.

And then Damian finds it.

Damian: Dude, seriously, the hell?

Dick: Look, it was the nineties, different time. trust me, you're old man dressed up in worse.

Damian: Really?

Dick: Oh yeah, some time I'll tell you about the Zebra Batman costume. and that time he put nipples on his costume.

[jlroberson]

At which point Damian nods, waits for him to turn, then splits his skull.

"Father will thank me."

[jlroberson]

Good LORD. Thank god Jiminez got better.

[tacobob]

There's nothing really wrong with the art. It's well drawn. It's just a horrible costume..And character. Ooooh! I'm you from the future and I'm evilllll! Ooooh!

[northstarfan]

Oh lord. If we're allowed to use costume as examples in Bad Fashion week, I may have just found a contender...

[icon_uk]

Worth mentioning that there is a long sequence in the arc where we see that evil!Raven used her powers to trigger pain and pleasure to an extent that this kinda-Nightwing (long story) was driven to a level of complete S&M insanity.

[shadwing]

Which leads to the second costume that defies description...at least this one can have a funky nickname

"S&M Version of the Elvis Nightwing Suit"

[levyrasputin]

OMG, this outfit is... priceless. But he doesn't really has piercing in his left nipple, it's my dumb eyes, right?

[foxhack]

He has.

[pyrotwilight]

God, I loved Team Titans but Deathwing (and Mirage) were annoying. Future Nightwing was genuinely badass though before Raven mindscrewed him, pointlessly dragging the Team Titans into that phase of the New Teen Titans.

[foxhack]

I nominate "in-joke: The 90's were AWESOME... NOT!" as a new tag.

[phosfate]

My parents saw him play Vegas before he died on that toilet.

[star_of_airdrie]

I'm so old I did the autopsy.

[halloweenjack]

It's the little spiked-ball-and-chain on his ankle band that does it for me. It reminds me of the sort of costume that you get in City of Heroes when someone goes for as many skulls and spikes as they possibly can, which in that game's character creator is a lot.

[khamelea]

The character creature possibly has every single bone in the human body available as an accessory.

[leorising]

Are those stirrup pants over those bulbous, molten-tipped cowboy boots? I. I. Wow. So many amazing levels of fail. :D

[katzedecimal]

People who wonder what went so wrong with comics in the 90s need look no further than here.

The one good thing about this costume was its politically correct equality: The character got more evil, and thus exposes ridiculous amounts of skin, also a nipple ring. Let's just be grateful they didn't give him a Prince Albert, mmkay?

[grazzt]

"Let's just be grateful they didn't give him a Prince Albert, mmkay?"

How do you know he doesn't?

[ian_karkull]

There can be only one explanation: Drunken Bar Bet between Editorial and a bunch of artist who could dream up the most horrifying, nightmare fuelling design.

Even Deathwing himself knows how terrible his costume is, he doesn't fight his enemies anymore, he just hides in their bathroom and scares them to death with his nipple rings.

[star_of_airdrie]

Soon he'll use plastic wrap on the toilet bowl! That is truly badass. oh, oh.. and vasoline on the door knob going out.

the classics are the best!

[salamangkiero]

The costume reminds me of a male version of Naga's from Slayers. Slutty, Stripperific, but epically so.

[autumn_lily]

Dick had to earn cash somehow after Bruce kicked him out. "I worked at a bar", yeah Dick, we know...

[protogarrett]

If I were a super villain my sole goal in a fight would be to rip off the nipple ring. I don't care if I go to jail and he beats me up, it would be the funniest thing in costumed antics ever.

[jelly_ace]

Ow. That's really evil!!!

[autumn_lily]

I had an alternative story to the second cover:

Mirage: Oh my sweet and fluffy lord, I got soooo wasted last night ::hork::

Nightwing: Help me Mirage! Some horrible villain superglued this outfit to me!!!

Mirgae: 0.0 ..... I think I'm still wasted...

[psychopathicus_rex]

I kinda like the epaulettes, actually. They're interesting. You don't see epaulettes on costumes much these days.