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3->'''Hari Kurono:''' He's hidden his body to make it harder to aim at! I always thought heroes only wore those capes for show.\
4'''Mirio Togata:''' A hero's cape...is for bundling up a young girl who's in terrible pain!
5-->-- ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''
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8[[folder:Fan Works]]
9->''"Asuka Langley Soryu was determined to join the ranks of the city's super heroines, and when Asuka Langley Soryu was determined to do something, she did it, damn it.\
10However, once she'd actually gone over the "logistics" of it in her head, it quickly became apparent that it wasn't quite as simple as throwing on a cape and going out to right wrongdoings."''
11-->-- ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'', ''chapter 3''
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13->''"[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] looked at her, taking her in as quickly as possible. [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} A very pretty blonde woman]] in her late twenties or early thirties, in a blue and red outfit with a red cape."''
14-->-- ''Fanfic/TheVampireOfSteel''
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17[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
18->'''Batman:''' It's OK. I'm a friend of your son's.\
19'''Martha Kent:''' I figured. The cape?
20-->-- ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''
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23[[folder:Live Action TV]]
24->'''Kara:''' ''(trying BetaOutfit)'' Where's my cape?\
25'''Wynn:''' Capes are ''lame''. You can tell your [[Franchise/{{Superman}} cousin]] I said so...[[OnSecondThought actually, never, ever do that.]]
26-->-- ''Series/Supergirl2015''
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29[[folder:Literature]]
30->''"When you wear the cape, you do the job."''
31-->-- '''Atlas''' (and later '''Astra'''), ''Literature/WearingTheCape''
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33->''"It was hard to make capes look good. They had a way of clinging to the body, or flowing the wrong way, getting caught around an arm… it took a measure of majesty to make it work... Ironic, that the slang for a parahuman was ‘cape’, and so few of us wore them."''
34-->-- '''Taylor''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''
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37[[folder:Video Games]]
38->''"She'd need a cape. There was no getting around that. You couldn't be a superhero without a cape. Claire didn't want confusion. If you saw a cape, that made matters clear. You knew what you were dealing with. Claire was all about communication. And, you know, [[SuperNotDrowningSkills floating]] in [[GrimyWater water]]. Which was her superpower."''
39-->-- ''VideoGame/ThomasWasAlone'', Level 2.2
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42[[folder:Webcomics]]
43->'''Dorothy:''' It never gets in your way?\
44'''Amazi-Girl:''' It's very important psychologically. Adds ten bravery points. Any six-year-old knows that.
45-->-- ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''
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47->'''Green Gable:''' Greetings, fellow Caped Crusaders!\
48'''Tiger:''' Is anyone here even ''wearing'' a cape?
49-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}''
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52[[folder:Western Animation]]
53->''"No capes, no tights. No offense."''
54-->-- '''Superboy''', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''
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