The snappy seersucker super-suit worn by Henry Cavill in ‘Man of Steel’ got us thinking about hero costumes. Sure, some of them are truly iconic, from Spidey’s eye-scorching primary colours to Batman’s shut-up-I’m-brooding black leather ensemble. But other masked avengers just don’t have the same instinctive feel for fashion. Here are the ten daftest, cheapest, most deeply embarrassing superhero outfits.
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Batman & Robin (1997)
The Batman suit is a design classic: black, shiny, threatening. But you know what automatically makes something less threatening? Nipples. Nonetheless, there they are, all embossed and tweakable, like the dials on a Bang & Olufsen hi-fi. Amazingly, George Clooney managed to walk away from this with his dignity intact. His equally perky sidekick Chris O’Donnell wasn’t so lucky.
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