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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
New looks are also good marketing
You can hype up a movie without revealing anything by showing off a new costume
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMCU Iron Spider is straight-up better than comics Iron Spider, hands down. At least partially because it's actually less Stark-ified than the comics version, which is literally a Spidey suit restricted to Iron Man's red/gold color palette. Also no DCEU Flash is not simple, the classic red is literally broken up everywhere with black mesh and wires and if we're gonna pick on unreleased material then the upcoming new suits for Flash and Shazam are covered all over with LINES.
Like that's what it boils down to, this aesthetic of using lines and off-colors to enhance musculature as well as emphasizing textures for realism. And I know he himself acknowledges it as a nitpick but it really is like the nitpick of all nitpicks. It's fine.
It’d look busy on the page but I think more complicated suits work better in motion
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't dislike the MCU Iron Spider suit (and I will agree that the comic one is even more Iron Man-y).
However, I do like the kind of sinister look of the comic Iron Spider suit. It reminds me more of the Black Suit in appearance.
Whereas the Iron Spider suit in the movie has the look of a standard Spider-Man costume. Just with robotics. Kind of reminds me of Batman's Power Armor in Batman Vs. Superman. Which granted, makes sense because in the MCU, the Iron Spider suit is Peter's usual costume.
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I thought my post was going on too long, but I was thinking of exactly this when Browntable brought up the DCEU as a counterpoint. He barely gave lipservice to the CW counterparts, and it was just to retread the tired "uses leather" comment that the universe has been moving away from.
Grant Gustin's suit has only gotten more comic-book accurate, yet still makes sensible concessions for semi-realism and practical reasons. (Namely the chin-guard, which works much better on Grant's figure than the Season 6 season where he lacked it just to mirror the comics.)
So besides the "overdesigned" complaint, there's also the critique that the MCU designs are borderline militarized? Which, besides the actually military-related characters like Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, and Steve's solo Captain America suit, I don't really see it?
Edited by XMenMutant22 on Jan 16th 2022 at 12:15:49 PM
Raimi suit is also my favorite one, though I'm also partial to the suit in Homecoming for being simple and having the comic-accurate "reactive eyes".
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have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI kind of love the "seen together from basketballs" tidbit. It's nice that it's a suit I could believe make could make. You can even see individual stiches and seems on his gloves during the POV moments.
I'd rate it definitably below the second Amazing suit, and if that suit had gotten a second film I think it would have really outstayed it's welcome, but I like it as a first suit.
The Rami suit I always felt didn't look like it existed in universe it was so perfect with its fixed mask underneath it. Though it looked great when it enevitably got shredded each film.
I imagine Spidey's next suit is going to be my favourite once we get a good look at it (if they nail the logo, I've always hated the homecoming suit's tiny blocky spider logo)
Personally, I have to see them side-by-side to even notice the difference, with the exception of the ones that are meant to really stand out like the Iron Spider. But for basic Spidey suits, a Spidey Man is a Spidey Man. Unless they're right in front of me, I'd swear to you that Maguire, Garfield, and Holland all wear the same costume.
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I get the costume complaints. Adding gold piping to every costume possible is really weird. Sometimes I feel it's a matter of people wanting to make like one minor change to the costume so they can call it their own.