31 Days of Scans, day 23: Least Favorite Costume - Superboy's street clothes.

[lonewolf23k]

Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine, but I have a low tolerance for the "Street clothes as Superhero Costume" trope. Especially with Superboy. I cannot stand his "t-shirt and jeans" outfit.



To me, this is a Superboy costume:


And so is this:


And I'll even grudgingly accept this:


But this? This is not a Supeboy costume:


This is a guy in street clothes wearing a t-shirt with the S-Shield. This is the least creative, imaginative or inspirational costume you could ever give Superboy. And that's why it's my least favorite costume ever.

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Superboy started as a mash up of 1990s fashion don'ts but became a real hero. Part of it was Superman realizing Superboy needed a "secret identity"

[icon_uk]

Basically because for a worryingly large number of years after his inception, Superboy HAD no identity beyond "Superboy". He wanted to be identifable as Superboy every moment of every day, so him wearing nothing but his costume made a sort of sense, though I never found it that interesting... I always like the idea of the superhero and the secret identity, as I think it makes for more flexible storytelling.