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MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
2023-05-13 21:03:49
There's Helmets Are Hardly Heroic for heroes ditching any face-concealing headwear ASAP, but I don't know if we have anything for the rest of the costume.
jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)

A hero uses a disguise to infiltrate a place. As soon as he's past the guards/cameras, he'll toss the costume away (or at least remove the helmet) and get back to his usual togs.
In-Universe, it might be because the disguise is physically or psychologically unpleasant, or because the hero doesn't want his friends already inside to think he's a guard.
Out of universe, it's cause the hero's clothes are cooler and easier to recognize.
Edited by Mac_R