Are X-Men Movie Costumes Really That Bad?

The reason Psylocke had the most accurate in the entire series is because Olivia Munn fought for it. Anybody younger than like 30 might not know/remember this, but she was famous for being a comic book/video game nerd before she became an actor. She said she'd only be Psylocke if she actually got to look like her.

Olivia Munn actually specifically requested her costume to be comic accurate. It was originally going to be a straight black outfit, but she was adamant about wearing the body-suit. She also said that she was shocked that Bryan Singer had so little knowledge of the character and was very clearly disinterested in her background.

I hate that the end of Apocalypse finally gave us suits that reflected the comic books, and then ditched them for basic navy jackets with a yellow X over them for Dark Phoenix.

Also fun fact: The Wolverine yellow suit from the deleted scene isn’t even a suit, it’s all 3D printed pieces made to look like a suit in a case but none of the pieces are actually wearable or made of leather/fabrics.

I remember the film coming out and the general consensus was 'Yes, of course they all wear black, it would look ridiculous if you tried to put them in comic accurate costumes". Then we swung to "They SHOULD be in comic accurate costumes, these are rubbish." Now we're seemingly on the backlash to the backlash.

I remember hearing that at one point in the script for Logan, the beginning of the film was going to be the OG X-Men cast in the colorful and classic style suits. The scene was them getting ready to go out for a mission and Charles has his first seizure/episode, killing the entire team except for Logan because of his healing factor. Its a shame we did not get to see this or something like it in the film. Logan obviously worked without it, but boy would it have been awesome to see.

I know it's not an X-Men uniform, but the X2 Nightcrawler outfit was superb.

I think adapting the Morrison/Quitely New X-Men suits in Dark Pheonix wasn't a terrible idea, but the actual costumes looked so cheap. The yellow X looks printed with no texture whatsoever. Also glad to see some love for the Ultimate X-Men designs. Between those books, X-Men Evolution and the X-Men Legends game, those suits were ripe for a live-action version.

The black leather in my opinion tells me they were too embarrassed by the source material which in turn hurt the franchise, it’d be like if they thought spider-man suit was to cheesy

Olivia Munn's Costume in X-Men: Apocalypse is very aesthatically satisfying imo.

The problem with the X-Men movie costumes isn't that they are bad, it's that they are just dull and unimaginative. While I understand that in the year 2000, black leather was all the rage, they could have slowly introduced the comic-accurate costumes as time went on. The Raimi Spider-Man suit from the year 2002 was almost identical to the comic books, so I don't buy the idea that audiences wouldn't take the comic-accurate suits seriously. I'm not saying that the suits should have been exact replicas of the comics but they should have at least been somewhat similar with a more mature aesthetic. Just look at Captain America's suit in Avengers Endgame. It's not exactly comic-accurate but it's close enough with some modernized stylistic elements that make it fit the world it belongs to without looking goofy.

Love that we come full circle with that clapback in 97 What did you expect Black Leather?

Personally ya, i really wish comic book movies were not afraid to use bright colors.

Finally someone who also loves Magneto's days of future past look! Definitely his best look (tho I love the all black in Dark Phoenix too) the helmet looks so good.

You missed that behind the scenes video of the original X-Men cast struggling to clear a concrete barrier while wearing the black leather. Days of Future Past may be my overall favorite for the franchise in terms of suits, with the ending of Apocalypse coming very close second.

Never had a strong opinion on the costumes themselves. But I remember around 2000 or so, I read something from the production team which took at as self-evident that audiences couldn't handle the comic costumes. And that was a problem for me. I think I felt a lot of projects were doing dumb things around that time, party because they were treating good ideas as off-limits based on unquestioned imaginings they have of the audience.

I’m actually one of the few that loves X-Men: Apocalypse, but I 100% agree that they could’ve easily given the team more colorful flight suits (Quicksilver would’ve just given them a split-second spray-paint job or something?). What I don’t think X-Men: Apocalypse gets as much credit for as it should is the WARDROBE, I love how everyone’s clothing choices represent their classic colors. Scott wears a blue and yellow letterman, Jean wears a pastel green blazer, Kurt wears a MJ “Thriller” jacket (genius choice), etc.

In the comic books, X-men have some of the most diverse and vibrant costumes out there. And thats for a reason, X-Men is all about diversity. The color palette represents all different people coming together and forming a community in their struggle for acceptance. Having them all in black wearing basically the same outfit goes against the very message of the book itself.

And now in Deadpool 3 Wolverine has the BEST COSTUME HE WILL EVER BE SEEN IN. IT'S PERFECTION.

You say the black leather was necessary for the time it came out, but Spider-Man came out only 2 years later with a full comic book accurate costume and it was glorious for the time. I think had they gone with a more colourful comic accurate style it would have been fine. Growing up in the 90's with that old cartoon when I first heard X-Men was going to be a movie I fully expected to see my favorite characters in costume. Nobody was expecting it to mimic the matrix.