Aquaman’s outfit<\/a>, actually) and the big plastic S-shield on the chest just looked, well, like a big plastic shield.<\/p>\nI understand that it’s hard to make something like tights and a cape look cool, or like something that someone would actually wear in the real world (reference the very funny line in X-Men<\/i> about “yellow spandex”), but is a dingy wetsuit the best they could do?<\/p>\n
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