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John Byrne
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Didn't Peter Parker make his costume out of spandex in Spider-Man: Chapter One? *** Yup. Seemed logical for someone who's supposedly working from what he finds lying around the house. (Not sure why he'd have the Spandex -- but, then, I was never quite sure why he'd have a leotard, either!) Point there, of course, is that Spider-Man is someone who is forced to make do -- unlike Batman, or Superman, or the X-Men, or the FF or --- just about anybody else!
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John Byrne
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Just to continue this thought for a moment -- let's consider some of the Silver Age and subsequent superheroes who we know with absolute certainty do not wear Spandex:
Superman
Batman
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
Green Arrow
The Flash
Supergirl
Robin
Plastic Man
Hawkman
Hawkgirl
The Atom
The Fantastic Four
The X-Men (any of them)
Thor
Iron Man (d'uh!)
Iron Fist
The Scarlet Witch
Nova (The Human Rocket)
…and those who might (given Marvel Time):
Spider-Man
Daredevil
Quicksilver
Luke Cage
Mostly, y'see, it's about where the suit comes from.
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Michael Connell
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LOL I just can't see Luke Cage wearing spandex.
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David Whiteley
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I always pictured Quicksilver in a special outfit, not just spandex. I can see Magneto being able to set him up with something good.
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John Byrne
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My plan worked…!!
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David Whiteley
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Dare we ask what your sinister plan was, JB?
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John Byrne
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To get youse guys thinking about it. So that maybe the next time you have the urge to say "Spandex" you pause for a moment and realize the likelihood of that fabric being in use is remote.
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David Whiteley
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And we would have gotten away with it, too - if not for those pesky kids!
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Ryan Maxwell
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Alpha Flight would have had the best costumes Canadian money could buy, through Dept H.
Insert your Canadian jokes here.
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John Byrne
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Alpha Flight would have had the best costumes
Canadian money could buy, through Dept H.
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Good case in point. Puck wore leather, Snowbird
and Shaman something mystical. Guardian's suit
was a kind of armor, probably a fine metal weave of
some sort. The twins would have to have worn
something other than Spandex, given their speed.
The only one possibly in normal cloth -- but not
Spandex -- would be Marinna.
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Michael Connell
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Who needs Spandex when Reed Richards runs Unstable Molecules R Us.
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Lance Hill
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I have trouble trying to imagine what the Flash's costume (Barry Allen version) would look like in real life. I can't picture it as any sort of traditional fabric. What could they do to translate that brilliant costume into a live action film?
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