I did say you were all about the quality.  Now that you pointed it out I can see the lightning on the boots AND I notice they go over the knee like a catcher's shin guard.  As far as the second skin being cheesy.  I'm not seeing it.  Super-Heroes are allowed to skintight clothing if they wish like Green Lightning.  Plus you do realistic style renders that lend itself to less tight clothing like Bane in the last Batman movie or Magneto in the first 3 Xmen movies. Heck even (movie) Batman now has armor rather than grey skintight spandex.  Works well too and makes more sense.

Lastly, Metal and a guy who shoots lightning from his fingertips?  Mmmm, no...but that's just me.

It was cheesy because I didn't know back then how to do things like take the nipples out of the mesh, so they could still be seen. I didn't know how apply a bump map to give the suit a natural feel. I could do all of that now, but what for? I know how to model the costume, so messing with a texture map to create a costume is, for me, a waste of time.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.