DC has been adapting their comics to the big screen since the 1940s. Comics, like any medium, shift to adapt to the fashions and fads of the time. And in DC’s case, that leads to some painfully bad costumes.
Unsurprisingly, the most notorious fashion offender is Batman. Come on, he wears a leather suit every night, Batman was bound to be a fashion disaster. Everybody remembers the notorious Batnipples from Batman & Robin, although that’s far from the worst offense. Why are Batgirl and Robin, supposedly stealthy vigilantes, running around with shiny chrome on their faces? Does Batman want them both to get shot? Not that the villains got off any easier, as Bane was turned into a luchador for no explicable reason and Mister Freeze has exactly the fashion sense you’d expect from a guy prone to cheesy puns. We’re amazed he didn’t paint a tuxedo on the front of his suit and call it “fancy.”
It’s still not as bad as Halle Berry’s notorious Catwoman. The suit in that movie was largely designed not around Berry, but around her her male stunt double, which is why it seemingly belongs more on a fighting game character than a superhero. It manages to make Superman’s outfit disasters palatable, and this is the guy who has Steel as one of his spin-offs. We’re just thankful we never had to suffer through Superman Lives; the supermullet was bad enough without Nic Cage adding to its power.
