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Snart and his Parka
I recently saw someone wondering why Snart wears a parka if he likes the cold. It's actually something I've thought a lot about over the years. It's easy to look at the parka and think he's naturally cold and needs it to keep warm.
But it's actually the opposite since he quite clearly says different times that he likes the cold and doesn't like the heat.
What I figure is it was probably cold when he first wore and kept it up afterwards because he was using it as part of his Captain Cold persona.
Notice that within the first couple of episodes of Legends he stops wearing it. Because he's no longer Captain Cold, he moves from being a villain to a hero. He even has that infamous line after Savage asks him who he is "Leonard Snart, Robber of ATMs". Not Captain Cold, not a supervillain.
Even before he joins the Legends he wasn't always wearing the parka. Barry interrupts his downtime at the bar in a couple of episodes and both times he's wearing a leather jacket. There's also a flashback during Season 3 of the Flash to show what Snart was doing the night the particle accelerator exploded, no parka. It's because he wasn't being Captain Cold in these incidences.
There is one time when Snart is wearing a parka before he becomes Captain Cold and it's when Mick travels to 2013 to say good-bye to him. We don't know what that time of the year that scene took place, it easily could have been cold out. But I also think they wanted Snart in something different rather than the jacket he was wearing all year to help show that it was a pre-Legends Snart. Plus much like Leo's eventual exit on the Flash, I think they wanted that last appearance of Snart to be wearing his traditional clothes that are most associated with him.
And then there's Leo. Like Snart, Leo wears a parka as part of his costume. But there's only two times he wears it aboard the Waverider. In Crisis on Earth-X when they're in a middle of the war and when he's about to leave to return to his own world. The rest of the time he's not wearing it. And unlike Snart he never switches to a lighter jacket, he just wears the sweater he normally wears under the parka. He also likes the cold.
So yeah, the parka is part of his costume and not something he wears because he's cold all the time. He likes the cold, doesn't hate it.
But it's actually the opposite since he quite clearly says different times that he likes the cold and doesn't like the heat.
What I figure is it was probably cold when he first wore and kept it up afterwards because he was using it as part of his Captain Cold persona.
Notice that within the first couple of episodes of Legends he stops wearing it. Because he's no longer Captain Cold, he moves from being a villain to a hero. He even has that infamous line after Savage asks him who he is "Leonard Snart, Robber of ATMs". Not Captain Cold, not a supervillain.
Even before he joins the Legends he wasn't always wearing the parka. Barry interrupts his downtime at the bar in a couple of episodes and both times he's wearing a leather jacket. There's also a flashback during Season 3 of the Flash to show what Snart was doing the night the particle accelerator exploded, no parka. It's because he wasn't being Captain Cold in these incidences.
There is one time when Snart is wearing a parka before he becomes Captain Cold and it's when Mick travels to 2013 to say good-bye to him. We don't know what that time of the year that scene took place, it easily could have been cold out. But I also think they wanted Snart in something different rather than the jacket he was wearing all year to help show that it was a pre-Legends Snart. Plus much like Leo's eventual exit on the Flash, I think they wanted that last appearance of Snart to be wearing his traditional clothes that are most associated with him.
And then there's Leo. Like Snart, Leo wears a parka as part of his costume. But there's only two times he wears it aboard the Waverider. In Crisis on Earth-X when they're in a middle of the war and when he's about to leave to return to his own world. The rest of the time he's not wearing it. And unlike Snart he never switches to a lighter jacket, he just wears the sweater he normally wears under the parka. He also likes the cold.
So yeah, the parka is part of his costume and not something he wears because he's cold all the time. He likes the cold, doesn't hate it.