History Main / IconicSequelOutfit

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', Mario was usually depicted wearing a blue cap and overalls and a red shirt, while Luigi wore a green cap and overalls and a brown shirt. Starting with the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', official artwork usually depicted Mario in a red cap and overalls and a blue shirt. Ingame, however, Mario wore a red hat and overalls with a brown shirt, and Luigi (who was not featured in any artwork) wore a white hat and overalls with a green shirt, the outfit now associated with Fire Luigi. Mario and Luigi settled into their series-standard "Blue overalls, red/green shirt and cap" outfits in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' ingame (artwork took a bit longer to catch up).

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Many fans often associate Zuko with either the clothing that he wore when he was hiding from the Fire Nation in Book 2 or a red and black tunic that he wears in Book 3 more than his Fire Nation soldier uniform he wore in Book 1. In addition, many fans now remembered him with a head of hair when he has a BaldOfEvil in Book 1.

** [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Carol Danvers']] first outfit was a red and black bodysuit that showed her legs and was basically a femme version of [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar Vell's]] costume. In Issue #20 of her original series, Dave Cockrum gave her the black LeotardOfPower, gloves and boots that the character was identified with for decades. These days, Carol is more well known for the [[PrimaryColorChampion red, blue and yellow]] costume she wears as Captain Marvel.

** [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Carol Danvers']] first outfit was a red and black bodysuit that showed her legs and was basically a femme version of [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Mar Vell's]] costume. In Issue #20 of her original series, Dave Cockrum gave her the black LeotardOfPower, gloves and boots that the character was identified with for decades. These days, Carol is more well known for the [[PrimaryColorChampion red, blue and yellow]] costume she wears as Captain Marvel.

* PokemontheSeries: While what oulfit fans associate Ash and Brock with tends to vary on when each person began watching that’s not the case for Gary. In spite of being DemotedtoExtra after Johto more people are likely to associate Gary with the Black Jacket from Gen III onwards than the Purple shirt he wore in the original series.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] depending if you consider Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil (the first game of the "Windows era"), or the five previous PC-98 games as the beginning of the saga. If you consider the later, Reimu and Marisa had a very different look than they had afterwards. Reimu had a white kimono and a red hakama, as well as purple hair. Marisa had a purple dress with white or yellow ribbons, as well as [[FirstInstallmentWeirdness red hair in her very first appearance]], but blonde afterwards. Marisa got her iconic black and white dress in Mystic Square, the last game of the "PC-98 era". Reimu got her red and white dress with detached sleeves at the beginning of the "Windows era" (as well as black hair), albeit slighty less detailed than her later outfits.
** Regarding secoundary characters we have Yukari Yakumo, who debuted in Perfect Cherry Blossom with a dark purple western style dress, but whose most known outfit (a purple and orange tabard with tigrams over a light pink western dress) is the one she wears from Imperishable Night and Immaterial and Missing Power onwards. She did appear with her first outfit in several printed works though.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] depending if you consider Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil (the first game of the "Windows era"), or the five previous PC-98 games as the beginning of the saga. If you consider the later, Reimu and Marisa had a very different look than they had afterwards. Reimu had a white kimono and a red hakama, as well as purple hair. Marisa had a purple dress with white or yellow ribbons, as well as [[FirstInstallmentWeirdness red hair in her very first appearance]], but blonde afterwards. Marisa got her iconic black and white dress in Mystic Square, the last game of the "PC-98 era". Reimu got hers at the beginning of the "Windows era", as she got black hair and a sleeveless red and white dress with detached sleeves, albeit slighty less detailed than her later outfits.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] depending if you consider Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil (the first game of the "Windows era"), or the five previous PC-98 games as the beginning of the saga. If you consider the former, Reimu and Marisa had a very different look than they had afterwards. Reimu had a white kimono and a red hakama, as well as purple hair. Marisa had a purple dress with white or yellow ribbons, as well as [[FirstInstallmentWeirdness red hair in her very first appearance]], but blonde afterwards. Marisa got her iconic black and white dress in Mystic Square, the last game of the "PC-98 era". Reimu got hers at the beginning of the "Windows era", as she got black hair and a sleeveless red and white dress with detached sleeves, albeit slighty less detailed than her later outfits.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] depending if you consider Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil (the first game of the "Windows era"), or the five previous PC-98 games as the beginning of the saga. If you consider the former, Reimu and Marisa had a very different look than they had afterwards. Reimu had a white kimono and a red hakama, as well as purple hair. Marisa had a purple dress with white or yellow ribbons, as well as [[FirstInstallmentWeirdness red hair in her very first appearance]], but blonde afterwards. Marisa got her iconic black and white dress in Mystic Square, the last game of the "PC-98 era". Reimu got hers at the beginning of the "Windows era", as she got black hair and a sleeveless red and white dress with detached sleeves, albeit slighty less detailed than her latter outfits.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] depending if you consider Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil (the first game of the "Windows era"), or the five previous PC-98 games as the beginning of the saga. If you consider the former, Reimu and Marisa had a very different look than they had afterwards. Reimu had a white kimono and a red hakama, as well as purple hair. Marisa had a purple dress with white or yellow ribbons, as well as [[FirstInstallmentWeirdness red hair in her very first appearance]], but blonde afterwards. Marisa got her iconic black and white dress in Mystic Square, the last game of the "PC-98 era". Reimu got hers at the beginning of the "Windows era", as she got black hair and a sleeveless red and white dress with detached sleeves, albeit slighty diferent to her latter outfits.

** [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Captain Atom's]] ComicBook/PostCrisis silver/white containment suit with red gloves and blue boots is more well known than the red and yellow number he wore in his original Creator/CharltonComics series.

A sub-trope of CostumeEvolution and SignificantWardrobeShift. See also IconicOutfit and BetaOutfit.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': Ezio Auditore takes his father's Assassin robes at the beginning of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' and wears them throughout the game until he canonically claims the Armor of Altaïr shortly before the Bonfire of the Vanities. However, he loses both his father's robes and the Armor at the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'', before being given a [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Ezio_Auditore_da_Firenze.png new set of robes]] upon his arrival in Rome. Between looking closer to Altaïr's outfit in the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI original game]] and being the first robes that uniquely belonged to Ezio, this new outfit has proven popular enough to be used in most promotional material involving Ezio, and is the only Legacy Outfit that has appeared in every single main game since ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII III]]'', with the exception of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla Valhalla]]''. That outfit is also worn by Ezio in his GuestFighter turn in ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV''.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': Rocksteady took the opportunity to go full-out with the batsuit in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. Designed to look like the Batmobile in wearable form, the final batsuit has become synonymous with the video game series to the point that it is the only one of the five batsuit designs to receive a Lego minifigure.

** Chun-Li's traditional Chinese qipao with nylon leggings is her most iconic outfit by far, but in the ''Alpha'' series, she was given a tight one-piece. Due to some of the staff members preferring that outfit, while others prefer the classic, Chun-Li has usually kept the onesie at least as a secondary outfit.

** The first outfit worn by Goku during the first saga was a blue gi which is quickly forgotten about after his Oozaru/Great Ape transformation and he proceeds to wear his iconic orange gi for the remainder of the series. Even his weighted clothes with the blue shirt and boots don't even appear until the ''23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc'', which was about four years into the manga's run.
** These days, Vegeta is recognized for his simplistic Bulma-designed Saiyan armor that consists of the the blue bodysuit with a single torso piece that was introduced in the ''Android arc''. This attire is more iconic than his original outfit with the red scouter, pointed shoulder pads, and padding around the waist.

* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Aquaman. In [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 both]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague versions]] of ''Justice League'', Aquaman wears a suit of somewhat-generic, dull green armor with bronze accents and wields a black quindent. A major plot point in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' (his second film appearance) is Arthur earning his classic golden/green royal Atlantean outfit that's closer to his orange/green suit from the comics as well as his golden trident.
** Wonder Woman's golden armor in ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' has become quite popular.
** Superman's black suit in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': Samus Aran's Varia Suit was redesigned in ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' with an orange color scheme and massive ShouldersOfDoom. It has since become the most iconic and recognizable design for Samus, far eclipsing the standard Power Suit (and flat-shouldered pink Varia Suit) from the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1''.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': While Link's iconic outfit was always the green tunic and cap (though relegated to an unlockable in ''Breath of the Wild''), Princess Zelda's outfit went through radical changes until ''Ocarina of Time''. In most subsequent games, her dress is based on the ''[=OoT=]'' one, with comparatively-minor variations (until ''Breath of the Wild'' which gave her two unique outfits).

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', Mario was usually depicted wearing a blue cap and overalls and a red shirt, while Luigi wore a green cap and overalls and a brown shirt. Starting with the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', official artwork usually depicted Mario in a red cap and overalls and a blue shirt. Ingame, however, Mario wore a red hat and overalls with a brown shirt, and Luigi (who was not featured in any artwork) wore a white hat and overalls with a green shirt, the outfit now associated with Fire Luigi. Mario and Luigi settled into their series-standard "Blue overalls, red/green shirt and cap" outfits in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', [[Characters/{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru's]] famed ElegantGothicLolita costumes didn't appear until the second series.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', [[ComicBook/NicoMinoru Nico Minoru's]] famed ElegantGothicLolita costumes didn't appear until the second series.

** Aquaman wears the golden/green royal Atlantean outfit that's closer to his orange/green suit from the comics in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' (his second film appearance). The suit he wore in the two versions of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' was substantially different.
** Wonder Woman's golden armor in ''Film/WonderWoman1984''.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'': In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Bruce Wayne makes his first batsuit by basically cobbling a custom mask and his ninja gauntlets with an armored Nomex bodysuit. In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he requests a new suit made of a mix of Kevlar and titanium armor plating in order to increase his agility. While the batsuit in the first movie is more comic-accurate, the second batsuit is so synonymous with [[Creator/ChristianBale Christian Bale's]] incarnation to the point that the original suit never once appeared in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.

** Aquaman wears the golden/green royal Atlantean outfit that's closer to his orange/green suit from the comics in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' (his second film appearance). The suit he wore in the two versions of ''Film/{{Justice|League 2017}}'' was substantially different.