If you were a super hero, would you wear a cape?
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How about a cape, a thong, and no tights. I think I just channeled ucme.
Oh yeah. Why be a super hero and not wear one? Every kid wears a towel as a cape pretending to be a super hero.
Clip on. They are rockin’, but even cops know bad guys grab on to them. Clip on, they grab the cape, think they have me, then I laser eye beam them in their face.
@SavoirFaire I just got done watching The Incredibles again which inspired this question :P
I think @Imadethisupwithnoforethought may be on to something though with the clip on. I mean most super heroes capes are just for show but someone like Batman uses his cape to his advantage but capes get ya killed. With the whole clip on deal you’d be fine.
@Tropical_Willie I think I better borrow your duster. I’m showing too much cheek.
@uberbatman I give Batman a pass on the cape because he’s so superhumanly skilled that he can get away with it. Plus, the writers bothered to come up with a backstory about how his training taught him to use it. In general, though, I just don’t see the need.
The clip-on cape idea might work, though. I like the idea of tricking the villain into thinking it’s a vulnerability and then turning the tables on him.
@Adirondackwannabe I may have won a contest of “guy with the best buns” but that was 32 years ago.
Firmly in the Incredibles camp on this one.
Aw, dammit! @SavoirFaire beat me to the punch with the Incredibles clip.
I would dress like Inuyasha.
I design and make capes, so – yes, I would certainly wear one, in fact, I already do.
I don’t think my mom would let me wear a cape. I wasn’t allowed to wear tops with hoods when I was young and climbing and running around in the play ground. It could get caught on something and choke me. Seems like a cape might cause the same hazard. I’m assuming I can fly, or at minimum leap far distances, maybe be fighting off some bad guys. I’m pretty sure my mom would see a cape as very risky.
No. I’d wear a leather cat suit. Cats don’t fly. Meow.
I’d wear a cape, but not a Super hero type cape, something more cloak like.
Yes. It might even have a little ermine collar.
Well, if I was Dracula, then yeah. Dracula is a super hero, yeah?
No capes. What were they for anyway? What practical purpose did they serve? What was Stan Lee thinking?
I wore a cape even when I wasn’t a superhero.
(Actually it was more like the cloak that @zenvelo pictured.)
When I was a little kid, I repeatedly borrowed the silk scarves out of my mother’s bureau drawer and tied them around my neck because I thought they’d let me fly. (Much floatier than a towel.) I don’t know why they didn’t.
Nope, like Edna said, they’re way too cheesy & just get in the way.
@Adirondackwannabe No, you just made me barf…a lot.
@woodcutter Very few Stan Lee characters wear capes, especially early Stan Lee characters. The capes were popularized by Superman (Siegel and Shuster) and Batman (Kane/Finger).
It was mentioned that Batman’s cape has a purpose, which is awesome. There’s another hero who’s cape has a purpose other than just being there though, Spawn. His suit is sentient and connected to his nervous system, and he can manipulate the suit to benefit from various abilities like shapeshifting, attacking or deflecting attacks. The cape comes into play many times when he’s fighting, it can stretch and tie people up, he can disappear in it and quickly travel to some other location, stuff like that.
But since the suit itself is a major part of his powers, and is alive, is it really a standard suit and cape? But it definitely has its uses, and is not just there for show.
Liberace had a cape so did fat Elvis in those crap Vegas shows, be hilarious if they’d been superheroes…epic fail.
No cape. Even with my super powers, why add more air resistance? Besides, it’s hard enough keeping the rest of my super suit clean. And, on top of that, ironing the darn thing!
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