The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
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Okay, so for those not aware Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotion the industry does where they give out free comic books (hence the name) in the hopes of getting people interested in comics. Generally a large part of it is to try to show the parts of comics that people might not expect to find in comics, and thus gain the custom of people who didn’t realize their were comics for them.
Apparently someone this year feels there may be people out there who don’t think comics are full of not-quite-Japanese ninja women in skimpy costumes with stiletto heels and decided to lead with that.
X-23 outfits, in order of chronological aperrance:
1) Uncanny X-Men
2)X-23: Innocence Lost
3) X-23: target X and early New X-Men
4) Late New X-Men
5) X-Force and X-23 ongoing series
6) Early Avengers Academy
7) Avengers Academy alt outfit (not pictured because of 10-pictures limit: a variation of this outfit from Avengers Arena)
8) All-New X-Men
9) All-New Wolverine
How come that among all the different X-23 costumes, most include a midriff and/or a cleavage and/or spaghetti straps? Oh yeah, because the most important thing about this Wolverine clone character is to show that she’s A GIRL, right?
Saddest part of it is, she originates from X-Men Evolution series, where she wore a fully-covering and practical costume:
Which, while being basically a standard biker outfit, looks way more memorable than a random crop top to me.
Even her “sexy” future self (shown only in the epilogue of the last episode) dresses in something that won’t slip of a boob.
Another thing I noticed is that most of the subsequent versions of the character look significantly whiter than the original. Even one in the Wolverine and the X-Men, which was the next X-Men cartoon after Evolution:
Also, again, bare belly and cleavage, because that’s what mutant clone assassins wear unless they’re dudes, apparently.
