History Main / MySuitIsAlsoSuper

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* Comicbook/BlackPanther's costume is lined with [[MadeOfIndestructium vibranium]], the same metal used to construct ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield. This makes the suit effectively bulletproof and very resistant to blunt force trauma. It can also [[InstantArmor instantly form around his body]], as well as retract when he no longer needs it.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange's Cloak of Levitation is enchanted and all-but-indestructible, meaning he can use it for cover in a firefight. (The rest of his clothing, however...)

* In ''Comicbook/PowerPack,'' the titular characters have unstable molecular clothes created by [[SapientShip Friday]]. This is most notable for whichever kid currently has the HollywoodDensity power (usually Jack), since otherwise their clothes won't change with them. They also have a nifty InstantCostumeChange ability, appearing whenever one of the kids says "[[ByThePowerOfGreyskull Costume on]]!"

* [[AllThereInTheManual Ancillary material for]] ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' confirms that during his time as a member of the team, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk wears a special pair of high-tech microfiber pants that expand with him when he transforms. In all of his other film appearances, the Hulk simply relies on MagicPants.

* ''Comicbook/UltimateMarvel'': When Giant-Man grows, he winds up naked, and his 60-foot costume was confiscated when he left the Ultimates, leading to embarrassing publicity when he has to grow in public during an unsanctioned rescue attempt. Oddly enough, when Wasp later has to become a giant, her costume grows with her.

* Subverting this trope for the sake of FanService is pretty much the whole point of ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''. The titular heroine's costume seems to be about as durable as wet tissue, and her main weakness is the loss of powers as she accrues ClothingDamage. [[spoiler:Played with in that the actual durability of her suit is linked directly to her psyche. The less willpower she has, the weaker her costume and powers become, which makes for an unfortunate catch-22 when her self esteem is already so low. If something motivates her enough to break that cycle, her costume can instantly regenerate and become nigh-indestructible.]]
* [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] Fairchild of ''Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}'' often finds her costume shredded by attacks, with a good deal of {{Fanservice}} resulting, as well as the occasional {{lampshade|Hanging}}.
* Comicbook/SheHulk has often been the butt of this trope's joke. There is a partial handwave in that much of her clothing is made of unstable molecules or is "approved by the Comics Code Authority" (for modesty purposes) however she often loses items of clothing that she is fond of during fights. Her shoes are a full handwave, however. A 6'7" woman with a body weight of close to 700 pounds needs some nigh-indestructible Jimmy Choo's. Hers are made with Adamantium heels.
* Comicbook/{{Superboy|1994}} (Kon-El) originally had his tactile telekinesis protect his clothes, but in later years as he grew more and more into his Kryptonian powers, he relied less on it and more on natural invulnerability. This, coupled with the fact that his last costume was just a t-shirt and jeans led to rips and tears. In a story arc in ComicBook/ActionComics, this trope was subverted entirely by Kon hilariously losing bits of clothing as he progressed through a fight with a ton of Superman villains, from battle damage (tearing, napalm, an exploding gas tanker...) It ended with him wearing only his underwear. (Apparently, he's a briefs man).

* Franchise/SpiderMan has gotten gradually more super suits over time. Early suits were made of cloth or spandex, while modern suits are typically described as being akin to a more lightweight version of an ComicBook/IronMan suit, making them this trope. His black costume takes this to its logical conclusion, as it is a fully sapient {{Starfish Alien|s}} that has superpowers in its own right. When the normal human Eddie Brock wears it, it becomes a case of ClothesMakeTheSuperman as Eddie uses it to become the supervillain ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}''.
* Miguel O'Hara, ComicBook/SpiderMan2099, wears a suit made from the above mentioned unstable molecules. However, being from the future, the material has entered the mainstream market, though he comments on how expensive it is to have a wardrobe solely made of that (civvy clothes too). His Spider-Man costume was actually something he already had in his closet from a recent Day of the Dead festival just in case things got a bit too rowdy.

* Franchise/SpiderMan's costume is apparently more prone to rips than most, but still keeps his ability to cling to walls. A sub-example is some artists being picky enough to suggest while his ability to cling works through a skintight costume, this shouldn't work if he's wearing shoes. Within [[VideoGame/TheAmazingSpiderMan the tie-in video game of]] ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' if the player is attacked frequently, the suit will begin to show tears, eventually getting shredded and Peter becoming bruised and bloodied.
* When the Comicbook/UltimateMarvel counterpart of Giant-Man grows, he winds up naked, and his 60-foot costume was confiscated when he left the Ultimates, leading to embarrassing publicity when he has to grow in public during an unsanctioned rescue attempt. Oddly enough, when Wasp later has to become a giant, her costume grows with her.

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* The provided image is from the [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] WesternAnimation/{{Superman Theatrical Cartoon|s}} "The Mechanical Monsters". In context, the scene has Supes just saving Lois from being dipped in molten lead, only for the mad scientist of the short to pour a whole vat of the stuff to try and kill them both -- cue Superman saving Lois by ''using his cape to deflect it''.

* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' [[SuperpowerLottery M'gann]] explains that her clothes are an organic Martian substance that she can shapeshift based on her thoughts. Also, in the next season, [[{{Animorphism}} Gar]]'s superhero outfit turns into a collar when he takes animal form, and returns to normal when he looks [[LittleBitBeastly more]] human; WordOfGod confirms that it's also Martian clothing, except "programmed" with only two forms (since Gar doesn't have the PsychicPowers necessary to make it into anything else).

-->-- '''Edna Mode''' to Elastigirl, ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' had costume designer Edna Mode make them (and likely all the other Supers) super-suits that could stand up to their powers and do things like turn invisible in reaction to their wearer doing so. One of the [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]] is that Edna is herself a Super, and being able to engineer fabrics with such otherworldly properties is her power, somehow. In a [[DVDBonusContent DVD extra]], Elastigirl complains about having to constantly repair her suit. It is later demonstrated in ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' when Violet, having renounced her status as a superhero (and the NSA) after [[spoiler:Dicker accidentally erases all memory of her from Tony]], attempts to destroy her suit. She tries to destroy it in the garbage disposal, only for it to flail ineffectually. She tries tearing it with her teeth before finally throwing it against the wall, the suit still completely intact.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Celty's clothes are created using her ability to manipulate shadows. [[ManipulativeBastard Izaya]] wonders out loud at one point if shining a really bright light on her would leave her naked. (She gets a couple of spotlights put on her in [[BonusEpisode Episode 12.5]] and nothing happens.)

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}},'' the characters couldn't figure out how to morph clothing at first, leading to two occasions when Tobias morphed out of his clothes and demorphed naked. [[TheChick Cassie]] somehow figures out that tight clothing, like spandex or bike shorts, [[MagicPants will morph with you]], so after the first book the characters have standard "morphing suits" they wear under their normal outfits. A later book mentions something about their powers creating a "morphing field" around them, which may have something to do with it. The ability to morph clothes is also related to one's proficiency with morphing. Cassie, the best morpher among the Animorphs, is the first to figure out how to morph clothing. Later, the team crosses paths with a young female Andalite who can morph normal, non-skintight clothes due to her advanced skill.

* In ''The Vanishing Man'', Nick Cameron finds a jump-suit and a motorbike that have both been subjected to the same procedure as him, so they becomes invisible under exactly the same circumstances. [[FridgeLogic Fortunately]], given that getting wet triggers the invisibility, the suit is not even remotely waterproof.

* In ''The Vanishing Man'', Nick Cameron finds a jump-suit (and a motorbike) that has been subjected to the same procedure as him, so it becomes invisible under exactly the same circumstances. [[FridgeLogic Fortunately]], given that getting wet triggers the invisibility, the suit is not even remotely waterproof.

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10894754/1/Trump-Card Trump Card]], Taylor builds a "Manton Field Generator" into her PoweredArmor. This extends the benefit of whatever power she's currently copying to the armor and has the convenient side-effect of making both her and the armor count as organic to powers that only affect the inorganic and vice-versa.

* In John Ostrander's run as writer on ''Comicbook/MartianManhunter,'' it's established that the telepathic, shapeshifting Martians wear clothes that are actually bioengineered organisms that shapeshift in accordance with the wearer's telepathic commands.
* ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}} (Kon-El) had "Tactile Telekinesis" that let him extend a telekinetic field into anything he touched. This is directly related to the phenomena that used to protect Superman's costume (see below.) This extends from Franchise/{{Superman}}'s Post-Crisis power set as defined by Creator/JohnByrne. His invulnerability was due to an aura extending slightly from his body that also protected skin tight clothing. He had a lot of torn and burnt capes during this period.

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

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Alura makes her daughter's costume, saying that it will become indestructible super-cloth on Earth, which explains how ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} can fly through a supernova without ruining it.

* Common among the ComicBook/XMen. [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Kurt Wagner]]'s, [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]]'s and [[Characters/XFactor Jamie Madrox]]'s clothes are {{teleport|ation}}ed, [[{{Intangibility}} phased]] and [[MesACrowd duplicated]] as well. The same goes for whatever they are holding. The {{story break|erPower}}ing potential of this is rarely touched upon. The reason for this is briefly explained in ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1 as the X-Men's costumes being made of unstable molecules, provided by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] (see below). Common in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as a whole, really. Reed Richards's suit stretches with his body, for instance, because it too is made of unstable molecules. In the cases of Kurt and Kitty, this applies even when they're not in costume; they can bring anything they're touching along for the ride if they want. And can also leave their clothes behind if they want, but any such activity would happen off-panel. As for Jamie Madrox, apparently even some of his ''street clothes'' are made from unstable molecules; he once wore a trick [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] T-shirt that, when he duplicated, left one of him with a Ren shirt and the other with a Stimpy shirt. Jamie never explained to his mystified teammates how that worked.

* Common among the ComicBook/XMen. [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Kurt Wagner]]'s, [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Kitty Pryde]]'s and [[Characters/XFactor Jamie Madrox]]'s clothes are {{teleport|ation}}ed, [[{{Intangibility}} phased]] and [[MesACrowd duplicated]] as well. The same goes for whatever they are holding. The {{story break|erPower}}ing potential of this is rarely touched upon. The reason for this is briefly explained in ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1 as the X-Men's costumes being made of unstable molecules, provided by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] (see below). Common in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as a whole, really. Reed Richards's suit stretches with his body, for instance, because it too is made of unstable molecules. In the cases of Kurt and Kitty, this applies even when they're not in costume; they can bring anything they're touching along for the ride if they want. And can also leave their clothes behind if they want, but any such activity would happen off-panel. As for Jamie Madrox, apparently even some of his ''street clothes'' are made from unstable molecules; he once wore a trick [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] T-shirt that, when he duplicated, left one of him with a Ren shirt and the other with a Stimpy shirt. Jamie never explained to his mystified teammates how that worked.

* Pretty much every FirstPersonShooter, where despite being shot at and surviving missiles, mines, and all forms of deadly explosions, then [[HealThyself healing]], they never seen to damage their clothes.

* Similarly, the unstable molecules in [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]'s costume allow her to instantly transform it into street clothes or vice versa by charging it with electricity. Memorably, she did this in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' to fight some Sentinels in a shopping mall.
* [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]]' traditional costume had MagicPants made of unstable molecules, exposing his thighs when he was in his metal form and allowing them to be decently covered while in human form. "Had" is the operative word. Ever since Colossus' [[BackFromTheDead return]] in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen,'' whenever he's in his otherwise-just-like-day-one costume, he shows just as much leg in human form as in metal form. [[FanService No complaints]].

* Subverting this trope for the sake of FanService is pretty much the whole point of ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''. The titular heroine's costume seems to be about as durable as wet tissue, and her main weakness is the loss of powers as she accrues ClothingDamage. [[spoiler:Played with in that the actual durability of her suit is linked directly to her psyche. The less willpower she has, the weaker her costume and powers become, which makes for an unfortunate catch-22 when her self esteem is already so low.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', it is explicitly stated that the Logia Devil Fruit powers also make the user's clothing affected by their powers - it transforms along with its wearer. Other powers and even ''{{badass normal}}ness'' also usually affect the clothing: when Luffy inflates to giant size, his clothes grow with him, Chopper's pants pretty much come from the same brand as Hulk's, Sanji's suits do not burn when he sets his legs on fire (with air friction), Zoro's clothes ''do'' rip, a bit, but nowhere to a degree you'd expect from something that was in the path of a sword strike that slices ''buildings'' like pizza.
** When someone in the question corner asked why Ms. Doublefinger's spike powers don't rip her clothes, Oda basically says that if he had that happen it would [[{{Hentai}} change the tone of the comic]] quite a bit.
** In general, most Devil Fruit powers change along with the user, or are unaffected by said user's powers. According to Oda, this is because the manga would have too much unnecessary nudity if the ClothingDamage was portrayed realistically. Still, there are some Devil Fruits that don't affect clothing, like Jewelry Bonney and Ain's [[FountainOfYouth deaging abilities]], or Honey Queen's Logia fruit.

* In Franchise/TheDCU, the reason why the various [[Franchise/TheFlash Flashes]] and other speedsters don't burn their clothing - or themselves for that matter - from air friction is that each has an invisible aura around their bodies to protect them. In fact, that's how the Barry Allen Flash first defeated his evil counterpart, [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Professor Zoom]]. The villain bragged how he used a chemical coating to protect himself from air friction and Allen successfully bet that his aura was better protection when he starting pushing Zoom fast enough to have the resulting heat overwhelm his coating. [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] literally had a super-suit made out of the Speed Force that powers all "speedsters". In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch, Barry Allen's super-suit is constructed of metal plates because regular clothes would simply burn off when he ran. The metal in his super-suit reacts differently to the Speed Force.
* ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}} (Kon-El) had "Tactile Telekinesis" that let him extend a telekinetic field into anything he touched. This is directly related to the phenomena that used to protect Superman's costume (see below.) This extends from Franchise/{{Superman}}'s Post-Crisis power set as defined by Creator/JohnByrne. His invulnerability was due to an aura extending slightly from his body that also protected skin tight clothing. He had a lot of torn and burnt capes during this period.

* Common among the ComicBook/XMen. [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Kurt Wagner]]'s, [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Kitty Pryde]]'s and [[Characters/XFactor Jamie Madrox]]'s clothes are {{teleport|ation}}ed, [[{{Intangibility}} phased]] and [[MesACrowd duplicated]] as well. The same goes for whatever they are holding. The {{story break|erPower}}ing potential of this is rarely touched upon. The reason for this is briefly explained in ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1 as the X-Men's costumes being made of unstable molecules, provided by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] (see below). Common in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as a whole, really. Reed Richards's suit stretches with his body, for instance, because it too is made of unstable molecules. In the cases of Kurt and Kitty, this applies even when they're not in costume; they can bring anything they're touching along for the ride if they want. And can also leave their clothes behind if they want, but any such activity would happen off-panel. As for Jamie Madrox, apparently even some of his ''street clothes'' are made from unstable molecules; he once wore a trick [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] T-shirt that, when he duplicated, left one of him with a Ren shirt and the other with a Stimpy shirt. Jamie never explained to his mystified teammates how that worked.

* Justified in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': costumes made by [[VillainProtagonist Skitter]] are woven of Black Widow spider silk, and are as such extremely tough and bullet-resistant, if not bulletproof. Later she gets access to Darwin's Bark spiders, and the costumes she makes get an order of magnitude tougher.

** Phase (the aforementioned wealthy teammate) has a density warping power which can affect his clothes and possessions, but he had considerable problems [[HowDoIShotWeb learning how to control it]], which often led to [[ClothingDamage parts of his clothing]] either disintegrating or falling off while [[{{Intangibility}} intangible]], or getting torn apart when [[SuperToughness ultra-dense]]. It was speculated at the time this was partly due to his alienation from his [[GenderBender now mostly-female body]], as he had trouble accepting that he was shaped very differently from before - he couldn't get his powers to 'hold on to' the clothing in the areas which were different from how he pictured himself.

* In The Universe of WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}, someone's aura, an energy derived from their souls, can create a forcefield which also protects clothes and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade make weapons sharper]]. In fact a nearly depleted aura allowed someone to go through a lava pillar and just end up unable to fight and covered in [[AshFace ashes]].

* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': The Yozakura family members are all supergeniuses in their fields who can do everything from creating [[LatexPerfection masks that can perfectly imitate someone's appearance down to the number eyelashes]] to converting security programs into video games for Shion to play. As a result, even their sweatshirts are bulletproof, blade resistant, super lightweight, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking machine washable.]] Considering the fact that Mutsumi is constantly being targeted by assassins and kidnappers, it doesn't hurt to be CrazyPrepared.

* The costumes of the ComicBook/FantasticFour are explicitly made of "unstable molecules". Even beyond that, though, the Invisible Woman transfers whatever makes her invisible to anything she picks up, the Human Torch can flame on while carrying a paper PlotCoupon, and The Thing doesn't always crush whatever he holds into dust.
** After Sue got her Force Fields powers, it became a Retcon that her Invisibility was a result of the Force Fields, and she can make anyone/anything Invisible. So she technically doesn't need a "special" costume anymore.
** Eventually, unstable molecules became pretty standard for Marvel superheroes, or at least for the ones who are either on good terms with the Fantastic Four or rich enough to just buy the stuff (there being a substantial overlap in those groups, of course).
* [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]]' traditional costume had MagicPants made of unstable molecules, exposing his thighs when he was in his metal form and allowing them to be decently covered while in human form. "Had" is the operative word. Ever since Colossus' [[BackFromTheDead return]] in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen,'' whenever he's in his otherwise-just-like-day-one costume, he shows just as much leg in human form as in metal form. [[FanService No complaints]].

* Franchise/SpiderMan has gotten gradually more super suits over time. Early suits were made of cloth or spandex, while modern suits are typically described as being akin to a more lightweight version of an ComicBook/IronMan suit, making them this trope. His black costume takes this to its logical conclusion, as it is a fully sapient {{Starfish Alien|s}} that has superpowers in its own right. When the normal human Eddie Brock wears it, it becomes a case of ClothesMakeTheSuperman as Eddie uses it to become the supervillain ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}''.
* Miguel O'Hara, ComicBook/SpiderMan2099, wears a suit made from the above mentioned unstable molecules. However, being from the future, the material has entered the mainstream market, though he comments on how expensive it is to have a wardrobe solely made of that (civvy clothes too). His Spider-Man costume was actually something he already had in his closet from a recent Day of the Dead festival just in case things got a bit too rowdy.
* In ''Comicbook/PowerPack,'' the titular characters have unstable molecular clothes created by [[SapientShip Friday]]. This is most notable for whichever kid currently has the HollywoodDensity power (usually Jack), since otherwise their clothes won't change with them. They also have a nifty InstantCostumeChange ability, appearing whenever one of the kids says "[[ByThePowerOfGreyskull Costume on]]!"
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange's Cloak of Levitation is enchanted and all-but-indestructible, meaning he can use it for cover in a firefight. (The rest of his clothing, however...)
* Comicbook/BlackPanther's costume is lined with [[MadeOfIndestructium vibranium]], the same metal used to construct ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield. This makes the suit effectively bulletproof and very resistant to blunt force trauma. It can also [[InstantArmor instantly form around his body]], as well as retract when he no longer needs it.
* In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' Franchise/WonderWoman's suit is said to be indestructible, a claim supported by the Sangtee Empire drawing the same conclusion after confiscating it while enslaving her. It is implied to be interwoven with [[MadeOfIndestructium feminum]], the same indestructible metal as her bullet repelling gauntlets.
* In the short-lived "Threeboot" version of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', it's established that Brainiac 5 had a very hard time designing a version of the Legion flight ring that would triplicate with Triplicate Girl when she used her powers.
* ComicBook/LukeCage at one point undergoes the process that made his skin invulnerable a second time while wearing a leather duster. The process doubles his powers while also making the duster invulnerable.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' had costume designer Edna Mode make them (and likely all the other Supers) super-suits that could stand up to their powers and do things like turn invisible in reaction to their wearer doing so. One of the [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]] is that Edna is herself a Super, and being able to engineer fabrics with such otherworldly properties is her power, somehow. In a [[DVDBonusContent DVD extra]], Elastigirl complains about having to constantly repair her suit. It is later demonstrated in ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' when Violet, having renounced her status as a superhero (and the NSA) after [[spoiler:Dicker accidentally erases all memory of her from Tony]], attempts to destroy her suit. She tries to destroy it in the garbage disposal, only for it to flail ineffectually. She tries tearing it with her teeth before finally throwing it against the wall, the suit still completely intact.
* In ''Film/{{Blankman}}'' the titular character has accidentally invented a way to turn ordinary fabric impact damage absorbent and proceeds to put together a costume in which to fight crime. [[spoiler:Unfortunately he neglects to do this for the costume he puts together for his future sidekick and then neglects to mention this to said person when they finally put it on, most likely for that one reason.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanManOfTomorrow''. Clark Kent's CivvieSpandex BetaOutfit gets burnt off during his fight with Lobo leaving him [[FullFrontalAssault literally exposed to the world]], so his parents wear out several bandsaws cutting and sewing the alien material used in the blanket Clark was wrapped in as a baby, to make a more indestructible outfit that matches his classic cape-and-tights look.

* In ''Literature/SuperMinion'', everybody in Hellion's Henchmen gets a mask which is bulletproof and stuffed with electronics to allow them to communicate remotely, navigate automatically, and a few other functions, and which can fold into an inconspicuous wristband, along with a bulletproof minion suit. Powered minions tend to get extra features when the resident Tinker learns enough about their power to get the "tinker twitch". For example, Tofu's suit is designed to unravel along spiralling seams to accomodate his stretching attacks, and snap back when he returns to human shape.

* In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', the titular hero's new suit has a nanoweave that focuses and amplifies his powers, as well as being bulletproof. The suit also allows Jefferson to fly by projecting electrical blasts out of his hands downward. Later on, the suit's maker Gambi also [[spoiler:agrees to make a bulletproof suit for Anissa (AKA Thunder)]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' has this in addition to the 'Attunement' example above, in the form of a [[AppliedPhlebotinum form of living silk-like fibers that bond to the Nova in question]] called Eufiber.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', the "[=DEMOuntable=] Next Integrated Capability Armor" (or [[FunWithAcronyms Demonica]]) is a LatexSpaceSuit (plus bulky helmet and optional magazine[=/=]field equipment vest) that protects regular humans from the unbelievably hostile environment of the [[HellGate Schwarzwelt]]. In fact, when you earn experience, ''you'' don't level up, the ''Demonica'' does --which means, [[ClothesMakeTheSuperMan the suit is the one responding to enemy attacks, adapting to become more resistant as it's exposed to more dangerous foes and magic]]. Strip an endgame-level human of the suit, and he's just as squishy and vulnerable as when he started the mission.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Uryuom worker suits are made by and for a species of shapeshifting aliens. As such it [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-12-29 fits any possible body shape including human]], can shrink (and probably grow) to a large range of sizes [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-29 down to that of a ''squirrel'']], can survive [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-01-26 the wearer growing hedgehog spikes]] and is even [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1250 fire resistant]] (if not outright fireproof).

* The provided image is from the [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] WesternAnimation/{{Superman Theatrical Cartoon|s}} "The Mechanical Monsters". In context, the scene has Supes just saving Lois from being dipped in molten lead, only for the mad scientist of the short to pour a whole vat of the stuff to try and kill them both--cue Superman saving Lois by ''using his cape to deflect it''.

* It's never really focused on, but the costumes of Miraculous heroes in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' are magical and thus much tougher than their skintight nature would have you believe. Their masks are also impossible to remove- one [[VillainOfTheWeek Akuma]] tries unmasking Ladybug, and it doesn't work.

* Some superhuman characters prove their strength by surviving infernos [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat that would have disintegrated lesser men]]. While this sometimes destroys the clothes, more often it doesn't.

From the outside it looked almost as if Shinji was wearing a set of black robes, but in truth that was merely an illusion for his clothes did not impede his motions nearly as much as robes might. Their purpose was to conceal what lay beneath, namely the custom designed armour, costing a little over twenty million yen to incorporate the most advanced technology money could buy. Polymers most people had never heard about and involved the best materials technology know to man with such buzzwords as “nanotechnology”, “non-Newtonian fluids”, “dilatant” and “pseudoplastics”. It was all very bleeding edge stuff, still mostly experimental, but the upside was that Shinji could take anything up to -but not including- a 20mm autocannon shell to the chest and have a greater than 50/50 chance of surviving, while retaining almost all of his mobility.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Harry Dresden has to regularly spell his [[TrenchcoatBrigade duster]] to keep it bullet/claw/fire/etc-proof. It comes with all sorts of cool side effects - you can clean slime off it by ''throwing it in a fire and then peeling the hardened slime off'', it can shrug off most conventional attacks, it's waterproof because of the kinetic defenses, but it still ''breathes''. [[ShoutOut Sufficiently advanced technology]], his ''[[TakeThat ass]]''. Most of his accessories have also been known to be spelled - including a bear amulet with stored energy, his original kinetic ring, and his ten newer triple-linked kinetic rings. He's griped that he doesn't have the skill or money for the materials to make the enchantments more permanent, [[InformedAbility as some of]] the Senior Council does.
** In ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', Lea amps Harry's defenses up significantly, to his slight chagrin and awe. During the ensuing battle, it takes so much damage that when the enchantments wear off (at noon - she's a fairy godmother from Winter, after all), the whole thing collapses into shreds.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', items worn or carried by a PlayerCharacter are generally assumed to share the PC's Saving Throw values and are usually unaffected by area effects, meaning that a silk cloak can somehow become vastly more resilient to fire when a PC is wearing it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' Karura quickly breaks any ''normal'' sword she is given. Since this is anime the solution is to get a {{BFS}} as a FullPotentialUpgrade.

* A common exception is ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. His healing ability lets him recover from things that melt his skin off (such as orbital re-entry in one Creator/JossWhedon issue), but his costume stays gone. One issue saw him take a nuclear blast from Nitro at ground zero; he recovered in short order despite being ''reduced to a skeleton'', but he had to spend the entire next issue fighting in the buff. This one goes back almost to the very beginning of his existence - one of the earliest issues of X-Men he appeared in had him blasted by a fireball that burned off most of his clothes and roasted him. So he beat the crap out of the nearest {{mook|s}} and stole his outfit. Of course Wolverine is still often susceptible to the modesty retaining powers of MagicPants (technically Magic Remains of Former Pants…) Sometimes, but just as often his pants get destroyed too. He just happens to find new pants almost immediately after a naked brawl.

* Subverting this trope for the sake of FanService is pretty much the whole point of ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''. The titular heroine's costume seems to be about as durable as wet tissue, and her main weakness is the loss of powers as she accrues ClothingDamage. [[spoiler:Played with in that the actual durability of her suit is linked directly to her psyche. The less willpower she has, the weaker her costume and powers become, which makes for an unfortunate catch-22 when her self esteem is already so low.]]

* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' has the total subversion of Paul. After being turned to diamond, blown up, and reformed with SuperStrength, he completely shreds his clothing as he thrashes around trying to contain himself. Later, after he's shed most of his power but is still extremely strong, he attempts to put on clothing and destroys it in the process. He has to be taught an illusion spell to clothe himself—which turns out to have unexpected utility later, as it lets him turn himself invisible too.

* This happened in the Franchise/StarWars book ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'', when the titular Jedi is caught in a massive firestorm of explosives. He just absorbs all the energy (sending most of it straight up in a PillarOfLight) and his lightsaber is made of sterner stuff than most objects, but nothing is left of his clothes except a distinctive smell.

* On ''Series/LukeCage2016'', the titular character is bulletproof but his clothing is not. It's [[Main/LampshadeHanging mentioned]] a few times and even becomes a plot point when he's on the run as people start wearing bullet-riddled hoodies to make it harder for the police to find Luke.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has no problem letting you dive into lava with a bag full of paper notes, fur armor and a wooden staff. As long as you get out before the lava kills you, there's no economic hardship, and even if it does take you out, the worst you have to pay for is repairs for the armor. You pay the same cost for repairs (10% of all your equipped items durability) regardless of how you died (lava, falling, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou being mauled by wildlife]]).

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Nox}}''. If you don't take care of your weapons and armor, they will break. If you take your armor off and leave it on the lava, it won't sink, it'll just quickly lose vitality, then break. There are only really three types of items that never break: potions (despite being made of glass), the clothes that came from PC's home world with him and the CosmicKeystone.

* Pretty much every FirstPersonShooter, where despite being shot at and surviving missiles, mines, and all forms of deadly explosions, then [[HealThyself healing]], they never seen to damage their clothes.
** Especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', in which for the entire game you wear a watertight diving suit. No matter what happens, it never stops being watertight. Of course, big daddies are made by [[BodyHorror melding the subject's insides to the armor itself]], if they weren't made to endure what rapture dishes out, they'd probably spill out like soup if they ever got gashed enough.
** Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' (and just about any FPS which includes armour as an item) which has armour shards (basically a piece of bullet resistant material which can be slid into "pockets" on a protective jacket and replaced when damaged) and full suits of body armour as a pickups. Implying that at least the PlayerCharacter is suffering ClothingDamage to some equipment.

* ''VideoGame/{{Area 51}}'' is an FPS, and therefore you can't look at your character during gameplay. By the end of the game, it's shown that the originally pristine environmental suit is now mostly shredded and destroyed, with large sections missing.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252'', Alura makes her daughter's costume, saying that it will become indestructible super-cloth on Earth, which explains how ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} can fly through a supernova without ruining it.

* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, there is more than one kind of power-set to be [[FlyingBrick a brick]]. One type, as demonstrated by the main character Lancer, is a [[MindOverMatter PK field]] about and through his body, which provides (for him) five tons of motive force and absorbs up to five tons of impact. But the PK field extends slightly past his skin, to protect his clothes. In fact, by the end of Lancer's first term at Whateley Academy, he has learned how to extend his field over objects he holds, as long as they aren't too long. He has a pair of foot-long paper 'swords' in his pocket, and when he extends his field over them, he has short swords that have a PK 'knife edge' that can cut through a LOT of stuff. He has also done a similar trick with a baseball bat, essentially making the bat as indestructible as he is. How's that for Handwavium?

** Good thing too, or they'd be [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/XpxYu.jpg hard to take seriously.]]

* Franchise/SpiderMan has gotten gradually more super suits over time. Early suits were made of cloth or spandex, while modern suits are typically described as being akin to a more lightweight version of an ComicBook/IronMan suit, making them this trope. His black costume takes this to its logical conclusion, as it is a fully sapient {{Starfish Alien|s}} that has superpowers in its own right. When the normal human Eddie Brock wears it, it becomes a case of TheClothesMakeTheSuperman as Eddie uses it to become the supervillain ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}''.

* Franchise/SpiderMan has gotten gradually more super suits over time. Early suits were made of cloth or spandex, while modern suits are typically described as being akin to a more lightweight version of an ComicBook/IronMan suit, making them this trope. His black costume takes this to its logical conclusion, as it is a fully sapient {{Starfish Alien|s}} that has superpowers in its own right. When the normal human Eddie Brock wears it, he uses the symbiote's powers (and their shared hatred of Spider-Man) to become the supervillain ComicBook/{{Venom}}.

* In Franchise/TheDCU, the reason why the various [[Franchise/TheFlash Flashes]] and other speedsters don't burn their clothing - or themselves for that matter - from air friction is that each has an invisible aura around their bodies to protect them. In fact, that's how the Barry Allen Flash first defeated his evil counterpart, [[ComicBook/EobardThawne Professor Zoom]]. The villain bragged how he used a chemical coating to protect himself from air friction and Allen successfully bet that his aura was better protection when he starting pushing Zoom fast enough to have the resulting heat overwhelm his coating. ComicBook/WallyWest literally had a super-suit made out of the Speed Force that powers all "speedsters". In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch, Barry Allen's super-suit is constructed of metal plates because regular clothes would simply burn off when he ran. The metal in his super-suit reacts differently to the Speed Force.

* Common among the ComicBook/XMen. [[ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} Kurt Wagner]]'s, ComicBook/KittyPryde's and [[ComicBook/MultipleMan Jamie Madrox]]'s clothes are {{teleport|ation}}ed, [[{{Intangibility}} phased]] and [[MesACrowd duplicated]] as well. The same goes for whatever they are holding. The {{story break|erPower}}ing potential of this is rarely touched upon. The reason for this is briefly explained in ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1 as the X-Men's costumes being made of unstable molecules, provided by [[ComicBook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] (see below). Common in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as a whole, really. Reed Richards's suit stretches with his body, for instance, because it too is made of unstable molecules. In the cases of Kurt and Kitty, this applies even when they're not in costume; they can bring anything they're touching along for the ride if they want. And can also leave their clothes behind if they want, but any such activity would happen off-panel. As for Jamie Madrox, apparently even some of his ''street clothes'' are made from unstable molecules; he once wore a trick [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] T-shirt that, when he duplicated, left one of him with a Ren shirt and the other with a Stimpy shirt. Jamie never explained to his mystified teammates how that worked.

* The costumes of the ComicBook/FantasticFour are explicitly made of "unstable molecules". Even beyond that, though, the ComicBook/InvisibleWoman transfers whatever makes her invisible to anything she picks up, the ComicBook/HumanTorch can flame on while carrying a paper PlotCoupon, and ComicBook/TheThing doesn't always crush whatever he holds into dust.

* Comicbook/{{Colossus}}' traditional costume had MagicPants made of unstable molecules, exposing his thighs when he was in his metal form and allowing them to be decently covered while in human form. "Had" is the operative word. Ever since Colossus' [[BackFromTheDead return]] in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen,'' whenever he's in his otherwise-just-like-day-one costume, he shows just as much leg in human form as in metal form. [[FanService No complaints]].
* Similarly, the unstable molecules in Comicbook/{{Storm}}'s costume allow her to instantly transform it into street clothes or vice versa by charging it with electricity. Memorably, she did this in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMen: The Animated Series'' to fight some Sentinels in a shopping mall.
* Franchise/SpiderMan has gotten gradually more super suits over time. Early suits were made of cloth or spandex, while modern suits are typically described as being akin to a more lightweight version of an ComicBook/IronMan suit, making them this trope.
** His black costume takes this to its logical conclusion, as it is a fully sapient StarfishAlien that has superpowers in its own right. When the normal human Eddie Brock wears it, he uses the symbiote's powers (and their shared hatred of Spider-Man) to become the supervillain Venom.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' had costume designer Edna Mode make them (and likely all the other Supers) super-suits that could stand up to their powers and do things like turn invisible in reaction to their wearer doing so. One of the [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]] is that Edna is herself a Super, and being able to engineer fabrics with such otherworldly properties is her power, somehow. In a [[DVDBonusContent DVD extra]], Elastigirl complains about having to constantly repair her suit.
** It is later demonstrated in ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' when Violet, having renounced her status as a superhero (and the NSA) after [[spoiler:Dicker accidentally erases all memory of her from Tony]], attempts to destroy her suit. She tries to destroy it in the garbage disposal, only for it to flail ineffectually. She tries tearing it with her teeth before finally throwing it against the wall, the suit still completely intact.

* [[AllThereInTheManual Ancillary material for]] ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' confirms that during his time as a member of the team, the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk wears a special pair of high-tech microfiber pants that expand with him when he transforms. In all of his other film appearances, the Hulk simply relies on MagicPants.

* {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le Fairchild of ''Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}'' often finds her costume shredded by attacks, with a good deal of {{Fanservice}} resulting, as well as the occasional {{lampshade|Hanging}}.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the [[spoiler:Godteir suits]] are frequently called magic pajamas. Dave says [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006617 here,]] "[[spoiler:they're magic fucking pajamas they stay like perma clean or something]]."

** Spider-Man's black suit takes this to the logical conclusion, as it is a separate entity that has its own super powers independent of Peter. The suit eventually bonds with Eddie Brock to become the supervillain Venom.

* Franchise/SpiderMan's costume is apparently more prone to rips than most, but still keeps his ability to cling to walls. A sub-example is some artists being picky enough to suggest while his ability to cling works through a skintight costume, this shouldn't work if he's wearing shoes. The black outfit Spidey wore at one point takes this trope's name literally, mostly because it really ''is'' more organic. Within [[VideoGame/TheAmazingSpiderMan the tie-in video game of]] ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' if the player is attacked frequently, the suit will begin to show tears, eventually getting shredded and Peter becoming bruised and bloodied.

* In ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'', the shark suit wasn't intended to be a superhero costume. It's a titanium mesh combined with a chainmail weave designed to protect the wearer from being bitten to death by a shark so the aquarium workers could clean the shark tanks safely. However, it's only stab-proof and Akira still feels the pain of the bites even if he isn't at any risk of having his skin broken and being infected. Getting dogpiled by a bunch of zombies out to eat him leaves him sore and covered in bruises by the time he manages to throw the zombies into a nearby river.

** In ''ComicBook/Supergir.l2011'', her costume is Kryptonian armor and nearly as indestructible as her.