Araña/Spider-Girl Costume History

When Anya Corazon discovered a strange blue spider tattoo on her arm, she had no idea of what the arcane mark meant. Soon she discovered her strength and agility were boosted to near superhuman levels, and that she could cling to walls like a spider. Calling herself Araña (the Spanish word for 'Spider'), Anya took to the streets in a homemade costume comprised of a white-and-red spider t-shirt, black jeans, goggles, red fingerless gloves, and a backpack (to store her spider-shaped grapnel hooks and swing lines). Soon Araña discovered the true nature of the tattoo on her arm, when it formed a blue-and-red armor-like exoskeleton around her body. But when Araña's exoskeleton was ripped from her body by a villain called the Doomsday Man, she lost all her abilities. Anya soon tried to fight crime without powers. Her lack of powers placed her in harm's way on many of her adventures, but when a villain created a virus based on Spider-Man's DNA, Anya (now called Spider-Girl) was infected and found herself once again imbued with spider-like abilities. Wearing a modified black-and-white version of Julia Carpenter's Arachne costume, Anya used her new spider-strength, speed, agility, wall-crawling, and web-shooting powers as a truly super-powered Spider-Girl and a new member of the Avengers. Later Spider-Girl added a hooded cloak and a spider-symbol vest to her costume. Shortly after, Anya switched back to a sleeker black-and-white costume that was the combination of her Araña and Spider-Girl costumes. The Marvel Nanofigs toyline introduced a variant version of Anya as Spider-Girl wearing Mattie Franklin's Spider-Woman costume.

Emma Frost White Queen/Black Queen Costume history

When the telepathic femme fatale Emma Frost was introduced to comic fans, she was the villainous White Queen of the Hellfire Club, clad in a corset, thong, boots, and fur-lined cape (all in white). After White Queen switched sides and  joined the X-Men, she adopted a more conservative look with a white jacket over her corset, pants, and boots. When Emma was placed in charge over the junior X-Men (Generation X) she adopted a white version of the Generation X uniform (a white bodysuit with gold boots and matching x-belt). When she returned to the X-Men after Generation X disbanded, White Queen wore a provocative white leather bodysuit with cutaways in the leather forming an X symbol from the exposed skin of her torso. When at was agreed that the X-Men would look more like superheroes, White Queen adopted a white bare midriff bodysuit with a cape. When she tried to infiltrate the Hong Kong branch of the Hellfire club, White Queen wore a Asian-themed white dress with a blue dragon and a cape. Later White Queen put on a fur-lined cape and leather boots on a bare midriff white costume. When she became a student adviser to the younger X-Men, she wore a X-shaped white top with a sleeveless trenchcoat and white pants with a white x-belt. When evil genius Norman Osborne formed an evil team of mutants to pose as Dark X-Men, Emma feigned switching sides and became the Black Queen of the Dark X-Men with a fur-lined black cape and matching black bodysuit. After her return, she switched back to White Queen with a sleek white bodysuit with a white x emblem belt. When White Queen was possessed by the Phoenix Force, she adopted a golden bird themed armor plate over a skimpy white costume with a cape. After the Phoenix Force was stolen from her, Emma switched to the Black Queen in a revealing black leather costume with red-X shaped accents. In an alternate reality where Ultron ruled, White Queen wore hi-tech white body armor. And in a future where the X-Men were being destroyed, White Queen wore a bare midriff white leather bodysuit with a cape.

Rachel Grey's Phoenix/Marvel Girl costume history

Rachel Grey (actually called Rachel Summers) was the daughter of the X-Men Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Phoenix (Jean Grey) from an alternate dystopian future where all the X-men had either been captured or killed. Captured by mutant hunters, Rachel was forced to be a Hound, using her telepathic powers to track other mutants. As a Hound, she wore a black leather bodysuit with metal studs. Tapping into her natural link to the Phoenix Force she inherited from her mother, she escaped into the past. There she teamed up with the X-Men, and soon found herself embroiled with the X-Men's enemy the Black Queen. Black Queen tried to mind-control Rachel into becoming her servant and gave her a Phoenix-inspired black-and-red costume. However Rachel was able to break Black Queen's control with her rapidly growing psionic powers. Rachel soon found herself becoming one with the Phoenix Force as her powers reached their full potential, and created a red costume with a fiery bird emblem to signify her link to the Phoenix. Later Rachel was kidnapped by the evil TV obsessed monster Mojo, and he put her in a red version of her Hound costume. Even after her escape, Rachel kept the costume to make peace with her Hound past. When the Phoenix Force took her over completely, Rachel was able to regain her senses, but found herself in her mother's original Phoenix costume. Not happy with the green color scheme, she turned the costume red and gold. After a brief jaunt through time to save her teammate, and save the people of a distant future, Rachel returned wearing a darker version of her previous red Phoenix costume, with a dark crimson suit with a much larger stylized bird emblem (but ironically lost her Phoenix Force powers). When she found herself possessed by a dark telepath named Elias Bogan, Rachel's colorful costume was traded for a black leather bodysuit. When Rachel saw this timeline's version of her mother Phoenix die, she honored Jean Grey by changing her surname to Grey (also to show displeasure with her father and his new girlfriend Emma Frost). She also donned a green-and-yellow costume that Jean had designed early in her career (back when Jean was Marvel Girl and not yet Phoenix) but never wore, and took Jean's original codename Marvel Girl. As Marvel Girl, Rachel was displeased to be assigned to work with Emma Frost the White Queen, and even less thrilled to be given a new white costume with fiery phoenix designs as White Queen's White Warrior Princess when the two telepaths had to infiltrate Emma's former team. When reality got temporarily re-written to make mutants the dominant race on Earth, Marvel Girl found herself in a black-and-green costume with a phoenix symbol belt. When Marvel Girl had to head in to outer space to fight the alien race called the Shiar, she absorbed a dark echo of the Phoenix Force and donned a dark black-and-gold costume to symbolize her new powers. While in space, Rachel attempted to send a psychic message to Earth at the very moment the planet was altered by a deranged telepath, which affected her psychic self and created an golden Phoenix-like energy version of her called Revenant on Earth (trapping her thoughts and soul inside the energy form).  After the telepath was defeated, it released her psyche from the energy form, and she was able to return to Earth (and lost her Phoenix echo powers) Marvel Girl now wore red-and-yellow body armor that had ascpects of her Phoenix and Hound costumes. Finally, Marvel Girl slightly altered her suit to her earlier green-and-yellow color scheme with silver armor pieces and a brown leather jacket.

Steel Armor History

When Superman saved the life of inventor John Henry Irons, John Henry repaid that act of heroism by forging his own Superman-themed armor when Superman "died" fighting Doomsday. Calling himself the Man of Steel, John Henry wore a silver armored body suit with a silver Superman S Shield and a red cape. With servo-motors augmenting his strength, rocket boots allowing him to fly, and wrist blaster and hammer weapons, the Man of Steel was able to carry on the tradition of Superman. When Superman returned, revealing that his death was actually a intense and deep coma, Man of Steel decided to simply call himself Steel and moved from Metropolis to Washington DC. He designed a new, more high-tech armor for himself, a black-and-gray battlesuit that was more powerful than the first armor to fight a new breed of hi-tech crime that happening in his home town. Although he kept the red cape, Steel decided to not wear the S shield, as he might have to do thing that Superman wouldn't approve of. The new Steel armor was not only more powerful than the Man of Steel armor, but could be teleported on and off John Henry's body through a dimension called the White Zone. However, when the White Zone infected his armor with a dimensional parasite, Steel scrapped it and designed a new armor. The new Steel armor was a lightweight gray-and -silver battlesuit made of more lightweight metals and enhanced with new inertial dampners that boosted kinetic impact. This time Steel designed his own S Shield to wear on his armor with the red cape to evoke his connection to Superman. He wore this armor until a dark god Darkseid forced Steel to wear his Entropy Aegis armor. The suit of navy-and-red metal wielded the power of entropy itself, but was eating Steel's soul. When Steel finally freed himself from the Entropy Aegis, he designed a newer, more streamlined version of his Man of Steel armor made of a super durable silver alloy to get back to his old self, this time with a red Superman S Shield and cape. After the events of new 52, Steel is an inventor who designed a powerful suit of gunmetal cybernetic armor to help Superman. The suit has no helmet like the past history versions, or a cape, but does have the hammer and a version of the S shield.

Raven Costume History

The half-demon sorceress Raven has been an iconic DC hero. Initially she appeared a shadowy witch, clad in a dark blue dress with a bird-like cloak pinned on with raven emblem medallions. When Raven freed herself from her demonic heritage she changed the color of her costume white. When her body was once again corrupted by demon magic, Raven destroyed her physical form, her soul surviving and becoming a being of golden energy. However her golden soul-form was captured and placed into a clone of her body by a cult. The clone was younger than the real Raven, and Raven now had to deal with being a teenager again. In her teen form she wore a black bodysuit with a gray bird emblem, a bird-like cowl pinned on by a ruby amulet, and a gold-and-ruby belt. Later Raven would use magic to turn herself back into her correct age, and would don a new version of her original costume, but this time the dress would be dark purple instead of blue, with a lavender bird emblem, a cowl pinned on by golden amulets, thigh-high boots, and added a gold bird symbol belt. In new 52 Raven is a servant of her demon father and wears a demonic gray-and-blue armor with a blue feathered cape and a cowl that covers her face with a mask of gray feathers.

Barbara Gordon's Batgirl costume history

Barbara Gordon may be the second Batgirl (or first if you don't count Bette Kane as Bat-Girl), and has had others take on the mantle after her, but she is the most well known Batgirl. And over the years, she has sported a few different costumes. Her original costume was a gray, blue, and yellow version of Batman's suit with a similar cowl. Later she slightly altered the costume to a black-and-yellow version with shorter gloves and no bat shapes on the boots, and she wore this version until she was shot by the Joker and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. When Bruce Wayne designed Internet 3.0 he designed a holographic cyber suit for Barbara that was similar to her Batgirl costume but was all black with yellow accents with a sleek domino mask. Later she upgraded her holographic costume to an black-and-yellow armored version with glowing yellow designs and a helmet that resembled her first Batgirl cowl. After the events of New 52, Barbara's first costume was a gray, blue, black, and yellow version of the Batman costume with a domino mask. As before, she was crippled by the Joker, but healed after 3 years of physical therapy, and became Batgirl again once she was recovered. This time her outfit was black and yellow body armor that supported her weakened spine, with a Batman cowl and a purple cape. During the events of Gothtopia, Barbara dons an armored white costume with a domino mask similar to her first New 52 costume.

Power Girl costume overview

Every DC superhero has been known to change up their costumes from time to time, but few have had as many different looks as Superman's cousin from Earth-2, Power Girl.

Power Girl was Kara Zor-L, the cousin of Kal-L (the Superman of Earth-2) and her costume was a reflection of her desire to be seen as more than just the cousin of Superman. She chose a white body suit with a low-cut neckline, blue gloves and boots, a red cape attached by golden medals, and no symbol. She had been given a P-version of Superman's S-Shield but refused to wear it. After she escaped the apparent destruction of Earth-2 and arrived on our Earth,  she would modify the suit slightly, attaching the cape by one medal instead of two, and she enclosed her plunging neckline to create a hole (which she said was waiting to be filled with a symbol of her own choosing). When she joined the Justice league of Europe, Power Girl adopted a blue-and-white costume and added several accessories, such as a headband and shoulder armor. After joining the Justice League of America, she  created a more streamlined version her suit, removing the cape and shoulder armor, and chose a darker shade of blue with red-accents. Tired of being confused with her counterpart on this Earth, Kara Zor-El (Supergirl), Power Girl chose a simple gold-and-white bodysuit with no chest-hole or cape, and a golden jewel pendant. When on a mission for the former Batgirl, Oracle, Power Girl altered her gold costume to show her legs, and added a red sash belt and matching headband. Power Girl eventually went back to a slightly more modified version of  her second costume, just making the hole square, switching the medal into shoulder armor, and adding more stylized boots. After the events of new 52, previews showed Power Girl in white costume with golden boots and a red cape attached by a Superman-like P-Shield. However, despite the previewed costume, Power Girl made her new 52 debut in a white bodysuit with blue-trim, a stylized red-and-yellow P emblem over the left side of her chest that extended into a cape, and gold bracelets. After fans panned the costume, Power Girl switched to a futuristic version of her second pre-New 52 costume.