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* Subverted in ''ComicBook/AllFallDown''. Wearing a cape is what saves Paradigm's life.

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* ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'': Subverted in ''ComicBook/AllFallDown''. Wearing , as wearing a cape is what saves Paradigm's life.



** In ''Batman: Gothic'', it's even noted, that in addition to a quick release function on the cape, the part where it attaches to the cowl also has a built in neck brace to protect him from whiplash or getting his neck broken if the cape is caught by something especially heavy or fast.

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** In ''Batman: Gothic'', ''ComicBook/BatmanGothic'', it's even noted, that in addition to a quick release function on the cape, the part where it attaches to the cowl also has a built in neck brace to protect him from whiplash or getting his neck broken if the cape is caught by something especially heavy or fast.



* Defied by ''ComicBook/DoctorZero''. He wears a cape as part of his carefully crafted (and deliberately misleading) benevolent superhero persona. But when he's ambushed on a submarine and knows he'll be forced to fight at close quarters, without using his usual flight and ranged attacks, he immediately detaches and discards it so that it won't cause problems.
* During the ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' edition of ''ComicBook/GenerationsMarvelComics'', Clint pulls this on Taskmaster, complete with a quip about how capes are always a bad idea.

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* Defied by ''ComicBook/DoctorZero''. He ''ComicBook/DoctorZero'': Defied, as Doctor Zero wears a cape as part of his carefully crafted (and deliberately misleading) benevolent superhero persona. But when he's ambushed on a submarine and knows he'll be forced to fight at close quarters, without using his usual flight and ranged attacks, he immediately detaches and discards it so that it won't cause problems.
* During the ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' edition of ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': In ''ComicBook/GenerationsMarvelComics'', Clint pulls this on Taskmaster, complete with a quip about how capes are always a bad idea.



* In issue 23 of the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' comic book Mega prevents [[spoiler: Break Man]] from fleeing by grabbing onto [[spoiler: his iconic yellow ScarfOfAsskicking.]]
* In ''ComicBook/PS238'', Julie Finster [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/04202011/ gets her cape stuck to a wall by a glue-gun shot]]. However, since she's a FlyingBrick the cape doesn't resist her SuperStrength. It also happens to be her BerserkButton, since [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/05032011/ the special fabric of the cape is expensive]] and her family isn't rich.
* ComicBook/{{Shazam}}[=/=]Captain Marvel, ComicBook/MaryMarvel and the extended Marvel Family have no issue with this because ''their'' capes are short and only reach the elbows. It also helps that their costumes are magic.

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* ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'': In issue 23 of the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' comic book #23, Mega prevents [[spoiler: Break Man]] from fleeing by grabbing onto [[spoiler: his iconic yellow ScarfOfAsskicking.]]
* In ''ComicBook/PS238'', ''ComicBook/PS238'': Julie Finster [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/04202011/ gets her cape stuck to a wall by a glue-gun shot]]. However, since she's a FlyingBrick the cape doesn't resist her SuperStrength. It also happens to be her BerserkButton, since [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/05032011/ the special fabric of the cape is expensive]] and her family isn't rich.
* ComicBook/{{Shazam}}[=/=]Captain ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel, ComicBook/MaryMarvel and the extended Marvel Family have no issue with this because ''their'' capes are short and only reach the elbows. It also helps that their costumes are magic.



* The ComicBook/ScarletWitch had a pair of cases in ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'', and tried a new costume without cape. It didn't stick.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Diana attempts to capture Serva by grabbing her cape, but Serva slips out of the cape and leaps from the moving car in one motion.
* The cape-wearing mutant baddie [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]] from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' usually makes his cape work as only a SuperpowerLottery winner can, but during one fight against the X-Men the wily Cajun ComicBook/{{Gambit}} was able to blindside Exodus by grabbing his cape from behind and using his kinetic charging ability to [[StuffBlowingUp make it go boom]].
* Gambit also pulled this off in his [[ComicBook/Gambit1993 1993 miniseries]], disposing of the villainous Tithe Collector by grabbing the hem of his longcoat, charging it up, and then tossing him through a window before it (and by extension, the Tithe Collector himself) exploded.

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* ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'': The ComicBook/ScarletWitch had this happen a pair couple of cases in ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'', times, and tried a new costume without cape. It didn't stick.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', Diana attempts to capture Serva by grabbing her cape, but Serva slips out of the cape and leaps from the moving car in one motion.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
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The cape-wearing mutant baddie [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]] from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' usually makes his cape work as only a SuperpowerLottery winner can, but during one fight against the X-Men the wily Cajun ComicBook/{{Gambit}} was able to blindside Exodus by grabbing his cape from behind and using his kinetic charging ability to [[StuffBlowingUp make it go boom]].
* ** Gambit also pulled this off in his [[ComicBook/Gambit1993 1993 miniseries]], disposing of the villainous Tithe Collector by grabbing the hem of his longcoat, charging it up, and then tossing him through a window before it (and by extension, the Tithe Collector himself) exploded.
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** Averted in the first episode; Wyn rejects a cape when making Kara's early costumes, but then realizes the drag helps her fly better. Then when the first cape shreds, he makes the next one out a reinforced polymer.

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** Averted in the first episode; Wyn Winn rejects a cape when making Kara's early costumes, but then realizes the drag helps her fly better. Then when the first cape shreds, he makes the next one out a reinforced polymer.

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* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', a mook yanks Batman to the ground by his cape, allowing his comrades to attack him. It only lasts a few seconds before Batman regains the upper hand.



* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
** In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', General Zod grabs Superman by the cape and throws him across the city, sending Superman crashing through half a dozen buildings before his motion slows down.
** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', a mook yanks Batman to the ground by his cape, allowing his comrades to attack him. It only lasts a few seconds before Batman regains the upper hand.



* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', General Zod grabs Superman by the cape and throws him across the city, sending Superman crashing through half a dozen buildings before his motion slows down.
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* In the original-series ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Grave", an Old West gunfighter (played by Lee Marvin) is challenged by the people in a small town to prove he's not the coward an outlaw (who they hired him to track down, but recently executed themselves) claimed he was, by visiting the outlaw's grave at midnight, and driving a knife into the ground to prove he was there. Next morning [[spoiler: he's found lying on the grave, dead]], with the knife driven through his own cloak, pinning him to the ground -- which the townspeople speculate [[spoiler: frightened him to death when he tried to rise and was pulled back down, since the outlaw had promised to reach up from the grave to kill him]].
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath", He-Man snags Superman's cape during their fight.

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* ** In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath", He-Man snags Superman's cape during their fight.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has ran into this problem. In ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'', Parasite grabs her cape, and after spinning Kara around, slams her into a railroad track.
** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', Kara gets into a bar brawl and gets hindered by a thug grabbing onto her cape.
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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has also ran into this problem. In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 an 80's issue]]'', Parasite grabs her cape, and after spinning Kara around, slams her into a railroad track.



** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', Kara gets into a bar brawl and gets hindered by a thug grabbing onto her cape.

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** * In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', Kara gets into a bar brawl and gets hindered by a thug grabbing onto her cape.''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath", He-Man snags Superman's cape during their fight.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': Inverted in one of the cartoons. Superman saves Lois from a torrent of molten steel by sheltering her under his cape.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': Inverted in one of the cartoons."WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters". Superman saves Lois from a torrent of molten steel by sheltering her under his cape.

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