I have to agree about the importance of a superheroine's costume. I have favourite combinations, black catsuit, leather basque, boots, gloves and face-hugging mask or head covering cowl, or the Wonder Woman combination, as examples of my tastes, but as long as some effort has gone into designing the outfit - not just a mail-order look-a-like, then I enjoy it. The idea is for the superheroine to look comfortable in herself, showing off a toned athletic body and muscles. She has to be able to use her appearance to symbolise strength and to distract her often stronger opponent in order to get an edge. It is as important to see that costume torn, burned or otherwise defiled, as this symbolises her personal destruction and humiliation. As such I prefer that a superheroine in peril, bondage or death retains as much of the costume - damaged or otherwise - as possible, since for me this is not about mysogeny, not about hurting women. The physical destruction, torture, rape or killing of superheroines is about overcoming their power and strength. The best part of any story, movie or graphic novel, is the moment of realisation by the heroine that she cannot win. That all her training, honing her body, designing her costume and weapons means nothing now: it is going to be a long and painful end. I also like the idea that as she puts on her costume, she does so to protect herself as much as any secret identity, but in doing so, she loses the protection of being an anonymous woman, and instead makes herself a target without any of the conventional protection of laws or morals. Everyone knows that if she gets caught it is going to go very badly for her.