Hey Host, if it’s not a problem, can you give us a description on how each critter’s suit looks
(Same guy how said the AT and AU rant btw)
Host: I think I can do you one better; I keep coming back to this ask and started making designs for the characters heros suits, but I cant draw, and describing them might not do them any justice, so I basically made mood boards of what I imagine them looking like.
!!LET IT BE KNOWN THAT NONE OF THESE IMAGES BELONG TO ME AND THEY ALL BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS, unless they were made with AI, though I tried to avoid using those images!!
Host: Let it also be known that these aren't completely finished, this is just what I have so far and feel confident enough to post.
the zipper on mohawk mostly makes me wonder how all the other marks are getting their suits on...
In this cartoon called Totally Spies, the main characters have a gadget that flashes light on them and changes their clothes with a push of a button (or touch on the screen). Their clothes includes their spy costumes, which are skintight leotards that don't have any visible zippers. (In the earlier seasons they had to actually change clothes but that's beside the point.)
Maybe the Marks who don't manually put on their costumes have similar technology. Could be because of nanites or the gadget has access to a pocket dimension and its technology bends the space so that the costume goes where it is supposed to go (e.g. gloves on hands instea of feet, mask on face instead of butt) as it is being teleported.
I've actually dabbled writing about this costume-fitting tech before so maybe it's easier to imagine with an excerpt from an old fic:
'You went to close the door and then examined the windows. No one was around.
Perfect.
You opened the compact mirror. It was pink and shiny and had a touchpad.
You hit the option OPEN and it displayed a 3D hologram of your hero costume. You pressed the option TRY ON. The hologram grew in size and rotated until it was of the same size and orientation as your figure.
You then hit WEAR.
Light flashed.
You were now wearing your hero suit.
Inspired by an animated spy series from back in the 2000s that your pop culture-obsessed parents geeked about, this was one of the first products you invented and patented. You called it the “compact closet,” though the name is a misnomer. The compact closet doesn’t actually contain your clothes, rather it’s a door to a pocket dimension. Right now, your school uniform was in that dimension.'
Looking at superhero suits and its like. Why are these so skimpy? Either a lack of actual fabric covering skin, or its a catsuit so tight that there's no way it would protect against anything. I want actual protection for my heroes (and villain)! Where's the Kevlar? The knife-resistant panels? The cargo pockets?
I guess I really want something more like a cross between tactical gear for SWAT and protective motorcycle gear, but with the superhero style and Flair.
I don't know what he's wearing now, but considering that I hated all of the alternatives after the perfect classic one (with the exception of his Three Jokers costume), yeah, I believe you anon.
[特別展 The World of TIGER & BUNNY] - Tokyo Exhibit - Part 2 (Hero Suits)
SO, THE HERO SUITS MADE FOR THE LIVE EVENTS FOR TIGER&BUNNY....
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to catch the Tiger&Bunny exhibit in Ikebukuro on the last Saturday it was open. It was an amazing experience and a fantastic chance to see many of the development work up close and personal.
As a cosplayer and a cosplay photographer, one of the most exciting things was having the opportunity to inspect the Hero Suits they made for Kotetsu and Barnaby. The construction was steller, and I noticed a few interesting details about it.
It kills me that I couldn't take any pictures, but we'll have to make due.
If anyone has any questions about what I could see about the construction of the suits, what was present at the exhibit, or anything else, please feel free to hit up my ask or comment.
The undersuits were, to my eye, absolutely leather. Nothing else has that flexibility with the kind of texture I could see. They were sewn really nicely, and I couldn't notice many signs of wear and tear, which was incredible to me.
I believe that a lot of the suits were made in a method very, very similar to the foam + flexible spandex covering method that's floating around the internet. Why? When you look closely at the inside edges of places such as the collar and the underside of their arms, you can see that something has been streatched over them and folded over into neat corners, and then pasted down. I'm not sure of the material, but it would have to be rather sturdy to hold up to rubbing and scraping.
If you study the shapes of the various 'hard' pieces on the suits, you can see there's a certain consistency to the thickness of the edges that also reminds me of the thick foam matts used in the method, too. None of it looked hard, in the sense that if I had rapped on it, it would sound hollow. It's definitely a little soft to allow for movement and so they don't accidentally clothes-line someone.
The gloves also appeared to be leather. As one anon mentioned, they are the most worn part of the suit--from the hand shake events, perhaps?
The clear parts appear to be thick vacuum-formed plastic, no surprise there. To get the transparency on Wild Tiger's shoulders, they did a method that I and @baronvonblitz discovered when she was working on Darkness Barnaby's shoulder paldrons. They spray painted the inside with an even, thin layer of paint! On the outside, it appears wonderfully transparent.
The edges of the paldrons are done in a similar way to the main suits, were a material has been carefully cut and applied, and then folded over the edges. Someone really took their time and care with it.
I don't recall if the suits actually light up, or are supposed to--I couldn't really track down wire channels on the suits, either.
The poor actors had absolutely ONE place that they got air flow that I could find on the suits. Both Wild Tiger and Barnaby have grills for air-passage hidden around their eyes. They are situation too high to be for vision. So wherever you see black around their eyes, that's where the grills were installed.
Just imagine: encased in leather (that doesn't breathe) and foam (that doesn't breathe) and plastic (that doesn't breathe) but with a bittty bity of air on your face in a helmet too small to have anything but the teeniest of fans, if anything at all.
How the hell did they do anything in the musical??!?
In general, the suits were constructed with immense care and eyes for detail. The tiny sigils on the suits look like hard metal or casted plastic, and don't curve to match the suit itself--they stick out a little bit.
I wanted to steal them and run away with them..
They were incredible, and I really hope that they go into someone's hands now that the Rising has rendered them old-fashioned.
