Editorial: Wolverine Wearing A Costume: What Took So Long?

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Editorial: Wolverine Wearing A Costume: What Took So Long?"​

"Comic books are the definitive medium for superheroes in all their costumed, super powered, full color glory. When it comes to a comic book, no story is too outlandish. Beyond comic books, superheroes were a natural fit in animation. Live action was a logical step, but with that came budgetary restrictions and the need to be at least somewhat grounded.

Superheroes in live action achieved success without having their worlds translated directly: Superman and Batman in film, the Incredible Hulk on TV. Perfectly entertaining stories made it to the big screen without effects-heavy action scenes. But when superhero movies finally got their cutting edge special effects? The genre exploded. Spider-Man could swing from building to building in midtown Manhattan. Superman could engage in a high-speed aerial battle. By that point, it wasn’t the action that superhero movies had to struggle with translating. It was the costumes."

Read the full article here.

 

[TheGuy]

The time the X Men films came out simply didn’t fit with the colorful comic book vibes and considering it came only a year after the matrix and only a few years after Blade plus the failure of Batman & Robin they probably wanted to follow what was working so therefore no comic accurate costumes. Thankfully we live in a time where comic accurate costumes are mostly the norm and hopefully MCU Wolverine will keep the comic accurate costume and of course mask/cowl

 

[Yojimbo]

I can't to see what costume and cowl the MCU version will use permanently. Yellow n blue or orange n brown. Call me weird but I'm leaning to the latter. That would be one step in a new direction for the MCU, to embrace full costumes. Ideally. But practically, we've seen glimpses of how arduous it can get in execution like Sam's first Cap suit in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

 

[TheGuy]

I can't to see what costume and cowl the MCU version will use permanently. Yellow n blue or orange n brown. Call me weird but I'm leaning to the latter. That would be one step in a new direction for the MCU, to embrace full costumes. Ideally. But practically, we've seen glimpses of how arduous it can get in execution like Sam's first Cap suit in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

Start with orange & brown and later on move towards the classic yellow and blue

 

[Neo Ultra Mike]

Let's face it; the major reason is that the person behind those original X-Men movies Bryan Singer only really cared about a lot of the themeing and political aspects of the X-Men but not the fun out there super hero elements that also defined the heroes within the comics and super popular animated series. Because yeah though after Batman and Robin it was Blade that re launched comic book movies to have this specific style towards it, we weren't stuck with a lot of other characters just being colorless and drab in their costumes for decades. Like Spider-Man came out 2 years later and proved how well bright and more accurate looking costuming can do for super heroes but yeah Singer and that style were what identified the X-Men to the film public so it's what they wound up stuck with and honestly even in the prequel movies that tried giving the team more colorful outfits they were all still the same sort of basic uniform without the individuality that the actual team wore in the books.

Plus honestly since sans attitude and some more of the superficial elements attached to the character, Hugh Jackman's take on Logan wasn't really accurate so there wasn't a push for that oufit anyway thus it was more joked or like at best teased. Especially from directors like Singer and then Manigold who wanted to GROUND the material. Even those who didn't like Ratner or Gavin hood wanted to play it more as an action movie. Levy really is the first director in the first enviornment where Jackman was allowed to majorly star as the character who fully embraced that comic book aesthetic and came obviously to the costuming as well thus why it took so long Though with how well Deadpool and Wolverine did as well as how beloved X-Men 97 is I doubt unless it's a joke on how much the look SUCKED we'll ever have to worry about a less accurate costume for Wolverine in a film ever again.