Please change Penny Yin's costume.

There's some serious dissonance going when I see the little girl whose dad I used to rescue in impractically heeled thigh-highs and a collar. I realize that in real life, this happens. In the game, it's just weird.

(I also think parts of her costume are plain ugly -- or well, disproportionate and unmatching. The thing on her head needs to either be bigger and extend out of her hair, or smaller and with less metal eyebrow going on. I like the action-girl-jacket look but it doesn't really connect with the more silver age-y tights and hose on her legs. Dazzler is not the model for a *successful* heroine costume.)

People grow up and change and she is trying to shed that 'kid' aspect of it all, seems like she is trying to do that through her costume.

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Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind I used to rescue in impractically heeled thigh-highs and a collar

That is how I read your post the first time and thought, Well he should just change his foot wear if he doesn't like them!

I got it the second time around which made me laugh at how wrong I was the first time, but still had to share.

I think Penny Yin needs a new costume. But only because her current one sucks and is inconsistent with itself.

Oxford, comma, Bond.

Sorry.

And uh... I'm pretty sure the splash art isn't being done by a dev. ;p I'd be happy with jeans, a t-shirt, and biker gloves for her in-game costume.

I just don't like the face-plate-mask...thing. I keep thinking she has grey/metal eyebrows. It looks daft. The rest of the costume looks 'meh' but I can live with it.

Edit: I mean, how does that thing even stay on? Does it have clips? Statesman's Mask was one thing, I always assumed it was attached to his spandex hood, but this thing looks like it's held on with double sided tape or something. It's daft!

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

The thing that gets me isn't the cheesecake (we know by now what our Devs...like, thank you Mother Mayhem), but it's belts. The belts! Okay, fine, bare Penny's midriff, sure, but tighten a bunch of leather (or worse, maybe they're metal!?) belts straight across it.

Ouch.

Personally I adore her costume and wish we could have pieces for ourselves like the jacket!

I read a blog article abut her costume where the author compared it to.. some kind of Dominatrix outfit...I am sorry but I just don't see it.. you say collar I see a buckle you say thigh high boots and we have like four pair off thigh high boots to choose from for our own characters.

The other comments about it mismatching I can at least understand, for you it's aesthetics. I For one feel it matches just fine.

I can see it is not Golden aged.. or standard comic book styled it is modern, techy, sexy and fun and yes with a hint of anime. It also reminds me of a costume from GI Joe.

Was there this much of a fuss over Sister's costume?

The main issue with Psyche's costume is that the in-game one looked nothing like ANY of the Renders of her. There was so much wrong with the in-game one that anything else got sidelined.

And I just hate the face-plate thing Penny has. Lose that and I can live with it. It looks stupid =/

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Don't we have that face-plate as an option now?

Penny is just expressing herlself, which is one of the main purposes of clothes

And I'm expressing my dislike*, which is the main purpose of forums.

*of the character development thereby expressed.

There are cheek options kind of like that in the Cybertech set on beta, but I didn't think Penny was supposed to be a cyborg (yet?). They haven't gone full Dresden Codak on her afaik. Also, the metal eyebrows appear to be part of the same head-piece that the cheekguards are from, but the lack of extension of the piece through her hair really fails to convey a unified element.

My objection isn't based on any perceived character dissonance, it's based on the costume looking like something from Rob Liefeld's 'rejected concepts' folder from his X-Force run.

I've seen Hero Corps contacts with better outfits.

I like her costume. It seems in part what a teen would toss together and call her super hero outfit.

Then again I like Penny and don't really see where all the hate comes from

People will be please to know that there's even more Penny action in I24.

I'm fine with the costume - it's her in-game face that I don't like. It looks ... "mannish", for lack of a better descriptor.