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Why the suit should never change!

posted 14 years ago by kw25x
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The reason the suit never changed in all those years (400+) was to maintain the illusion that the Phantom is exactly who they say he is.
The Ghost Who Walks...Man Who Cannot Die...

Pirates, criminals, murderers all believed the Phantom was the same person (or ghost) because the suit remained the same.

From Wikipedia:
"Making a costume based on the image of an old jungle idol, he became the Phantom. When he died, his son took over the role of the Phantom, and such the mantle would be passed down to new generations, leaving people to give the mysterious figure nick-names such as "The Man Who Cannot Die", "Guardian of the Eastern Dark" and "The Ghost Who Walks", believing him to be immortal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom
http://www.toonopedia.com/phantom.htm

Changing the suit destroys the myth.

[–] sh_a_rk 14 years ago

Do you wear the same clothes every day to let everyone know you're the same person?

[–] The-Phantom-2040 13 years ago

While I agree, it should be noted that in the comics (at least until recently, with the rights being handed around) each Phantom did change his codpiece a little. Orientation and/or color of the stripes, mainly.

Further, the only good wiki in existence, PhantomWiki: http://www.schapter.org/wiki/Main_Page

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[–] jacolby65 13 years ago

The only myth is that anyone in today's actual real modern world would be scared of a guy in that costume, or that he could survive against today's evil well-armed criminals without some kind of body armor. I know what you're saying is right in a sense, but it would be hard or impossible to imagine that same costume in effect today, in the real world. The generational costume gimmick made sense when the character was created, but nobody could have forseen the world today and realized passing the costume down forever was going to be implausible at some point.

[–] The-Phantom-2040 13 years ago

I agree with the need for real armor, but still disagree on the look for the mini-series. I forget which company did it now, but one of the comic companies had the most recent Phantom update the suit to a body armor, but still kept hte over-all look. It was a little bulkier because it was well-armored, but it didn't look different enough for me, as a Phantom Phan, to have any problem with it.

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[–] SpheriZe 13 years ago

It was explained in the mini-series that the singh brotherhood had figured out that ending the walker-line would "kill" the phantom. Thus shattering the illusion. And the universe set up in the mini-series didn't seem to know a thing about the phantom anyway so it wouldn't matter if he had a costume change because he has to rebuild the Phantom-legend anyway.

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[–] hxrd-1337 13 years ago

In a sense I agree. I see the need for it being updated, but I truly believe it could've been done in a much better way, something that keeps the original look more intact. I know if I saw the original suit I'd say *beep* no too.