Scenes that seem like a set up for a uniform steal but aren't

[tirepanted3]

I still do like that Gwen scene - and I think it's fair to count it as a "mug and replace" scene, even if Spider-Gwen already has a duplicate outfit ready.

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Meanwhile, Jessica Drew is one of the most disappointing characters in the Marvel universe when it comes to USB scenes. The comics have established her as a skilled espionage agent and master of disguise, yet she rarely mugs anyone for those disguises.

There's an old episode of the Spider-Woman animated series where Jessica infiltrates a group of Amazons. She needs a disguise, but instead of knocking out one of the real Amazons, she just grabs a uniform that's conveniently hanging on a hook.

[tirepanted3]

In the Guiding Light episode from May 5, 2000, the villainess Carmen Santos is being held in prison. She fakes illness and is taken to the prison hospital, where she chloroforms a nurse and knocks her out.

But... rather than steal the nurse's uniform, she has a male associate bring her out of the hospital in a wheelchair, while he's disguised as an orderly. Carmen does not change her clothes at all.

Knockout scene is at 25:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyJBZGR9o-U

[tirepanted3]

This scene from an episode of The Littlest Hobo, a 1980s TV drama, is about as perfect setup for a uniform steal as I've seen lately...

A female convict has escaped from prison and hides in a stable yard where horses are kept. A young blonde in an equestrian uniform walks by, and the villainess leaps out, knocks her unconscious, and drags her into one of the stables.

We later see the blonde bound and gagged (she is freed by a dog), but still in her uniform.

Knockout at 11:15. Aftermath at 12:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZu2wUuX4Ik

[rufusluciusivan]

Black Widow (2004) #6

Black Widow is looking for a group of mercenaries who kidnapped someone and hurt a friend of hers. She begins by ambushing a female mercenary in her hotel room, after binding and gagging the mercenary's girlfriend. So there's this sexy imagery of Black Widow and a women in her underwear bound and gagged, but Natasha didn't steal the girl's outfit. (I suppose the underwear-clad woman was planning some "action" with her girlfriend when Black Widow arrived... ) Then the female mercenary shows up, and Black Widow threatens her girlfriend to make her comply.

Black Widow is then shown attacking the mercenary's accomplice. She's actually in disguise to fool the man (she wears inconspicuous clothes), but she's NOT wearing the female mercenary's outfit.

The craziest part is that dialogues heavily hint Black Widow actually forced the female mercenary to strip to her underwear and bound and gagged her alongside with her girlfriend ("discovered two women bound and gagged, semi naked in a hotel room") yet for some reason she didn't don the woman's outfit.

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[tirepanted3]

I remember that scene. My read was always that Black Widow did not strip the first woman (she was already in her underwear, with romantic plans for her girlfriend) and stripped the second woman to ensure the two of them would stay put. But alas, that's never elaborated upon.

I believe the plot of the 2004 Black Widow comic book was a partial inspiration for the Black Widow movie released a few years ago. Although at no point in the movie does Natasha leave any women stripped of their clothes.

[rufusluciusivan]

Out of curiosity, I read the whole issue, and apparently it seems Black Widow stripped the mercenary as a way to "neutralize" her - by making sure she'd be discovered in such a humiliating state and the pictures would leak. Later in the issue, the woman's employer mentions she's "dead center in a lesbian bondage scandal with photos on page nine". Quite a fascinating scene for a "not quite uniform steal"...

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https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Black- ... -6?id=9305

[rufusluciusivan]

A two for one in Justice League Adventures #6, an issue of the series Justice League Adventures (Volume 1).

Readcomics link for the curious, so don't forget the addblocker.

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Justic ... 6?id=39911

The plot is that some villain with time power captured Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, and is hosting an auction sale in which he invited a lot of DC Comics villains - including a good chunk of Batman's rogue gallery.

However, among the assembled bad guys, there are a few members of the Justice League in disguise. They take advantage of the in-fighting between the villains to capture them under the guise of "taking out the competition for the auction". As you can guess, the tone of the story is slightly humorous. Most of the heroes undercover are dudes, but there is also Hawkgirl who is impersonating Roxy Rockett. Thus, she is wearing Roxy's garb. Sadly, we never learn what happened to the real Roxy Rockett. It's never revealed if Hawkgirl mugged the real Roxy beforehand for her outfit, or if the League just crafted a spare set of clothes, or even if they captured the real Roxy Rockett off-screen.

There is a twist at the end (so minor spoiler if you want to read the issue blind). It's revealed that the "captured" Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman are holograms. The whole auction was, in fact, a ploy of the Justice League to gather plenty of bad guys in one location and capture them all. "Chronos" is in truth Batman in disguise... and Catwoman was the whole time being impersonated by Wonder Woman. However, just like with Roxy, we never learn how Wonder Woman got the costume. For all we know, Selina could even be on the ploy, and willingly lent a costume of hers...

At one point, the issue shows the Justice League has been locking the baddies they captured in stasis cells, but we don't get to see if Roxy or Catwoman are inside some of those.