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Aaantlion posted...

...or they could have done X-Force's black & gray color scheme. It's still dark and subdued enough.

Yeah, but if they went that route, they could just as easily go the early X-Factor route and put them all in blue jumpsuits.

Or God help us, the more recent X-Factor costumes:

http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/5c/All-New_X-Factor_Vol_1_1_Larroca_Variant_Textless.jpg
http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/8/8f/All-New_X-Factor_Vol_1_12_Textless.jpg

The ones you were referring to were just individually modified versions of the original team costume anyway (in the same way that the original New Mutant costumes were just black-and-yellow X-Men uniforms - which have always kind of been my favorite variation).

Ironically, I think the best costumes they could have had for them were just plain-clothes. In a world without costumed heroes, the best possible way to blend in is to just dress normally (the only reason they wear costumes in the comics is because Xavier is deliberately trying to evoke the idea that they are "mutant heroes" in the vein of the Fantastic Four and Avengers). And it makes sense for a group that are just teachers and "normal" people 99% of the time - they're not fighting super-villains every week in the movie universe. Just like Logan spends a lot of time in his jacket and Rogue has her hooded deal that kind of evokes her comic costume and Cyclops is going to be Cyclops no matter what he's wearing as long as he's got the glasses/visor, they can easily fight in normal clothes without needing some kind of tactical uniform.

But if you went that route people would complain because people assume "superhero movie" must equal "costumes".



Aaantlion posted...

But they've also gradually been toning down or dropping the goofier elements of their changes. And part of it is likely less a matter of "this won't work!" and more a matter of what they think most movie-goers would prefer.

Yes, but that's sort of the point - most people prefer a more subdued version of most costumes, because most costumes don't really work on screen the way they do on the page.

That's pretty much the entire point of the scene in Captain America where they show him on-stage in what is the closest version to his comic outfit, to highlight how it sort of looks goofy, before switching him to something more functional but still era-appropriate. Then over various movies we see how they shift the design in an attempt to stay close to the comics while still having something that works on screen (and in the case of the first Avengers movie, to put him in something that evokes his Ultimates version, since that movie was basically a deliberate hybrid of 616 Marvel and Ultimate Marvel - which is sort of true of the MCU as a whole in a lot of ways).

Spider-Man may be the one character who seems to work with the tight spandex regardless - which might be something inherent to that character or costume, or just because we've kind of been desensitized to it over the years via cartoons and general live-action parodies and the like. He's kind of too iconic to look goofy.
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