[Snowflakian]

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Originally Posted by VonPooten

Kate's one of the key members of the Young Avengers (created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung in 2005), and co-starred in Matt Fraction/David Aja/Annie Wu's run on Hawkeye. She's not MASSIVELY famous, but damn does she have a following (and the same can be said of any Young Avenger, especially Hulkling & Wiccan).

The costume in discussion is her earlier one:




As a character, she's quite awesome.

This costume was always my favorite.
But I can see some of the sense of the plainer one. She's so badass she doesn't need a flashy costume.

That being said, it feels wrong that she doesn't have a costume that's better than Clint's. I can see the fact for the Hawkeye comic run itself that she used the tights. That makes sense for the story it told, and the fact she doesn't have so many hanging off spots makes sense too as those could caught on anything with the kind of bad guys she was facing, the locations, and the action, but I do wish they could find a nice middle ground between her costumes. I love the look of the original and how it flows, but I do have to admit that facing one grapple type bad guy and those are choking hazards and grapple points, but the purple tights is almost too "retired jaded superhero" or "newbie superhero that pulled some tights off of a rack at wal-mart" and really isn't enough of her personality to the flair of it. Plus there are entire fitness clothing lines with much more flair than those tights have.