9. Where Do The Costumes Come From?
Marvel ComicsIn most cases we know the place that superheroes source their costumes for - there are even minor characters that have been introduced in both Marvel and DC, tailors who do quick-fix jobs and know their way around a skin-tight lycra suit - but why do they even wear them in the first place? Once you've discounted the secret identity conceit, as we rather expertly did just then, they make even less sense. Plus those domino masks totally wouldn't conceal your true self from anybody, and taking off his glasses doesn't make as much difference as Superman thinks it does. In Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men, the unreasonably hated and feared mutant team reject the uniforms they were wearing before - which all looked the same, and were supposed to make them seem more like a team - in favour of costumes that make them look more like the superheroes people know and love. But we don't actually have any reasoning as to why people recognise some buff dude in a body-fitting one piece and mask as a superhero and not, say, a pervert? The underwear-over-tights thing adopted by Superman and Batman came from muscle men and wrestlers of the time they were created, which makes them horribly dated by now. There are some heroes that where armoured suits, but they're in the minority. So really there's no good reason Catwoman can't dress like a normal person, basically.