I’d like to see a superhero acknowledge playing a part in perpetuating unhealthy and unrealistic aesthetic standards and boldly proclaim that spandex was always profoundly uncomfortable anyway.
By the way, did anyone else here read Wildbow’s “Worm”? Some fine superheroics-with-consequences there. (Finally finished the sequel, “Ward”, not so long ago; I suggest saving yourself some time and looking up a summary if you’re curious. It’s not awful, but there are better things to do with that much time.)