Well, other than simply using technology, how does that effect having an suit you can use for situations like going on a patrol or an specific mission??
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Because going on patrol dressed-up is a ridiculous notion presuming you actually want to catch the people youâre patrolling for, for one, because people who can tell who you are from a distance can just⌠wait until youâre somewhere else to do the things youâre patrolling against.
People not knowing who and where you are is the best offensive weapon anybody ever had.
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Youâre not an undercover cop, and youâre not even an normal person. The protagonist is basically superman, when it comes to power set. Youâre not going to be waiting in a corner for someone to commit a crime, youâre going to find some superpowered lunatic trying to blow up a building, fly in and punch his face out.
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A venture much harder to accomplish when the superpowered lunatic has spotters spread across town and waits until one of them spots you in your nice distinctive uniform far away and then blows up the building before you can make your way back.
(also, youâre not Superman, because Superman can, again, literally move faster than light, which makes pretty much every problem ever moot. I cannot BEGIN to tell you how hard my eyes roll whenever Superman goes around trading punches with, say, Darkseid, instead of just punching him about 1000 times before Darkseid even knows heâs there)
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Youâre already probably going to be flying (which anyone will be able to notice unless youâre wearing camoufalge - which civilian clothes are not) on patrol if youâve gone any sense, so thereâs no reason why you have to dress like a bum when youâre doing it. Also, while superman is âableâ to go faster than light, the extreme, and i say extreme majority of works do not show him actually doing that, because that would be boring for the story. Itâs why, despite being more powerful than ever in comics like All-Star Superman, he doesnât just instantly blip to whatever place he wants to.
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Weâve yet to reach anywhere near the limits of mcâs power. Besides to even get to Earth to body-snatch mc and Lat Iâm pretty certain the creepy aliens masquerading as our equally creepy alter-egoâs have to have some trick to beat the pesky light speed barrier.
Anyway enough heroes and villains who are not superman or the Flash wear cool hero/villain costumes, Supermanâs undies on outside suit is actually pretty terrible.
As for this series if Nova, who is most like Batman, can do we probably can too. Yes, occasionally such as during the shopping trip there will be no time and mc will have to fight in normal clothes, but that doesnât have to be the norm.
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Yes, and that is, from a point of view that isnât strictly âI want to sell more comicsâ, incredibly bad. Because Superman CAN save more people by moving faster and still come nowhere his top speed and he simply chooses not to.
Youâd be surprised at how little people look up if they donât have any shiny thing to look at. How often do YOU look up?
Novaâs nothing like Batman. Heâs a composite of Iron Man, Forge, and Taskmaster.
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I would say heâs more of a mix of Batman and Taskmaster since he has what he likes to call AMM which is something that Taskmaster has as well.
As for the superhero costume, I wouldnât mind having one similar to Superman but without the underwear for the love of god
That design just doesnât make sense to me. Why is it on the outside??
@JBento agreed, no capes for me either. Thatâs a good way to get yourself grabbed from behind in a straight up battle.
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He doesnât choose not to, thatâs not how it works. Heâs not doing it because the story says he canât.
People are able to see the sky in front of them.
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In one of the story issues I remember, he can literally hear everything that goes on in the world but he has to fliter them all out. But the reason why he doesnât move at the speed of light is because he doesnât want to destroy Earth because thatâs his home and people wouldnât react well to a guy moving at the speed of light possibly wrecking alot of things just to get to Point B from Point A.
Because they were racing like you said, not exactly high stakes stuff when it was either for charity or fun between those two. But what happens when Darkseid has Lois Lane by her throat in his hand in Europe and Supes is in America?
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Thatâs exactly how it works. The story doesnât say he canât, he just doesnât. For the story to say he canât, it would need to give you a justification (with Superman, this is generally kryptonite). If the story doesnât explain why Superman isnât moving at speeds lower than we know he can easily move at to get to places faster than he does, thatâs bad story-telling.
Considering the amount of times people complain that their characters are forced to hold the idiot ball in IFs instead of just solving the problem, this is a thing.
Superman absolutely does not have to wreck things to move from point A to point B when moving at higher speeds than he does. We know this because he already made not one but TWO races with the Flash and nothing got wrecked from them moving at ridonkulous speeds.
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It can fit for some heroes or villains, I always give my sidestep a cape, for example,âŚbut I agree that given the mcâs powerset here a cape would be a poor fit for them.
My mc also wouldnât dig that colour scheme.
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I mean, maybe Lat can have a cape, seeing as she doesnât ever need to get up and close and personal with any enemy?
Itâd be a definitely dangerous liability for every other League member.
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Yâknow what, Dark Star can have a cape. He can have ALL the capes.
The stakes of one of their races was that the loserâs city would be destroyed. Thatâs not âlow-stakesâ. These people are perfectly able of hitting their top speeds and NOTHING ELSE while doing so. The Flash moves at FTL speeds all the time inside a densely populated city.
Even if Supesâs top speed would force him to wreck things (which it has been repeatedly proven it doesnât), stopping literally any plot of Darkseidâs would definitely be worth it wrecking some stuff, considering that Darkseidâs endgame is always âand now the entire universe is enslaved.â
Not gonna lie, this just sounds like a good way to have your hand cut off. 
And then Ignis barbecues you for risking Seeker. 
Look, man, thereâs only so many colour schemes you could low-cost out of a 1930âs printer. 
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Watch my MC subtly sneaking a cape on Seeker because he just wants to see Kratis get his ass beaten.
Seeing how I instantly dropped the Ignis romance after finding out Kratis pretty much gets in the way, MC no care. At this point, I prefer the others over these two.
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Seek is a pal, even if he is the reason my mc cannot keep animals at the mansionâŚForlorn on the other handâŚwell thereâs no love lost between my mc and Forlorn. 
Good for your mc, mine cannotâŚto him forlorn is exactly as bad as the judgmental mob outside the university or the trigger happy cops. So, no, my mc does not easily tolerate Forlorn, he barely tolerates Forlorn. But, hey, in my experience almost all workplaces have one or two colleagues you really donât get along with.
Meh, to my mc Darkstar=Forlorn in terms of how much he dislikes both of them. Hopefully Mars will replace DarkStar on a more permanent basis.
My mc really likes Nova too, heâs just less easy to really connect with than Mars and my mc grows to like Ignis too, once heâs over the initial shock about his radically changed circumstances. Unfortunately for Ignis that mostly happens after the forced shopping trip.
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Eh, I⌠ok, LIKE is stretching it a bit, letâs say I tolerate Forlorn easily. Seekerâs great, I agree, but Novaâs still the best of the League dudes (and above Ignis).
The only League member I object to is Dark Star.
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Kind of, though I dunno if Iâd call them straight up âsuperhero suitsâ instead of just uniforms.
Mainland Chinaâs superhero team actually wears a specific uniform to denote them. Itâs high quality and all, and meant to last them even if they get into a battle.
The EU also has the âon-loanâ heroes from their member states wear specific clothes denoting that they are under EU service when thereâs some sort of joint operation (normally humanitarian, of course) or anything like that.
Iâm also not saying where Iris is from, but she also wears a⌠well, a âhalf-uniformâ, basically. Sheâs not exactly a traditional heroine, but whenever sheâs on duty, she has to wear that black and yellow jacket which has her country marked on one of its pockets.
The League not having âuniformsâ or anything like that is actually something pushed by the team. Seeker refused, on the grounds he âdidnât want toâ, and Forlorn outright refused as well. He didnât make the reason clear, but between us, itâs because he will not wear any âmilitary uniformâ that isnât his homelandâs.
Ignis, for her part, isnât exactly thrilled with the idea of being more deeply tied with the government, so she wonât ever push the idea of uniforms. Sheâd like it a lot more if the League was more of an âunderstandingâ with the US Government.
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Sure, but custom superhero costumes donât have to be military uniforms, in most cases theyâre not and are far more specific to the individual who wears them than normal uniforms.
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Pretty sure I know where Iris is from based on my suspicions, but Iâm not telling lol
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