speculative full body outfit theme
A garment (or wearable contraption) covering more or less the whole body that dramatically enhances an ability of its wearer is featured in a manner that makes clear it is a future technological achievement.
Examples
Sidney Stratton makes a brilliantly white business suit from an everlasting fabric made of a special polymer that repelled dirt using static electricity in "The Man in the White Suit" (1951).
14 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Guyver: Dark Hero (1994) | choice | The primary novelty of the film is an alien suit of armor called the Guyver unit. |
| movie: The Guyver (1991) | choice | The primary novelty of the film is the Guyver unit: a protective suit of armor of alien origin that increases its human wearer's innate powers by a hundred fold. |
| movie: A Scanner Darkly (2006) | major | Bob Arctor and other government agents concealed their true identities by wearing "scramble suits" that constantly altered every aspect of their appearances and voices. |
| movie: AntMan and the Wasp (2018) | major | Hank Pym invented the the Ant-Man suit: a suit allows its wearer to shrink in size but increase in strength. He was also responsible for inventing the Wasp suit: a suit much like the Ant-Man suit but with insect-like wings. |
| movie: Black Panther (2018) | major | The Black Panther suit endowed its wearer with super strength by absorbing kinetic energy from objects that struck it, like bullets, that could be later released in energetic bursts. |
| movie: My Favorite Martian (1999) | major | The Martian wore an irreverent talking suit, named Zoot, that worked as his engineer. |
| movie: The Invisible Man (2020) | major | Adrian invented a special suit that rendered its wearer totally invisible. |
| movie: The Man in the White Suit (1951) | major | Sidney Stratton fashioned a brilliantly white suit from an everlasting fabric made of a special polymer that repelled dirt using static electricity. |
| movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | minor | Iron Man suit. The Spider Man suit. Black Panther suit. The War machine suit. |
| movie: Star Knight (1985) | minor | The spaceman wore a special black suit that not only let him breathe his native atmosphere, but also functioned as an impenetrable suit of armor. |