Lord Liaden Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 OTOH Hope may not get the giant growth capacity that Scott has, like most versions of the Wasp in comics. So wings and blasters would be a fair trade-off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Going off what was said in Civil War, Scott may have developed giant growth on his own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 15 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Seeing them side by side, I'm afraid I have to disagree with you. Two things I see very clearly from that photo: First, they darkened (to black) all the gray that used to be in Ant-Man's previous suit, which is hardly surprising given how much of a hard-on Hollywood has for black (as the primary element in) superhero costumes. Second, the swaths of red in his suit add way more color to its appearance than the barely noticeable patches of dark blue on hers. They match only in the sense that they both conform to the generic black supersuit design aesthetic we've been stuck with since the very first X-Men movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Again, disagree. Textures, padding, geometric contours, placement of tech pieces like wrist bands and shoulder mounts for their backpacks, and especially the shape of their helmets, all look very similar to me, more than enough to suggest a common designer. Color differences don't negate all that IMO. But we clearly perceive this differently, so I won't try to convince you. Armory, slikmar and Jagged 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 I've come to accept that the MCU is made up of people who hate how comics were in the past and while they will throw a contemptuous bone toward fans with a retro costume or a little Easter egg, have their own agenda, and that's just how it is. Meanwhile the DC guys try hard to make the characters look authentic and retain the basic themes of comics such as code names and secret identities, but write awful stories and seem to want viewers to slit their wrists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: Textures, padding, geometric contours, placement of tech pieces like wrist bands and shoulder mounts for their backpacks, and especially the shape of their helmets, all look very similar to me, more than enough to suggest a common designer. I do agree with you on that count. They do look, more or less, like evolutionary branches of a common design mindset, at least in its minute details. However, the overall aesthetic is still one that conforms to the boring, black, padded "tech" armor design that countless other characters have been forced to wear since Singer foisted it upon us eighteen years ago. There's a YouTube video that discusses the cultural origins of the classic supersuit and Hollywood's disdain for it, showing many (oh so many) examples from the myriad superhero movies that have come out since 2000's X-Men. When one is so vividly reminded of just how ubiquitous this creatively empty motif has become, it feels like a cut that never heals because it keeps getting abraded and re-opened with every new superhero movie that comes out. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armory Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Man, that trailer is fun. I still think her costume could stand more color, but it looks better on film that it did in that first pic. Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Best comment I've heard on the A-MatW trailer so far: "Hello Kitty IN YOUR FACE!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Someone else's guess, with colour. Armory and Lord Liaden 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Dang, I like the CW version. To me that looks like a superhero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I like them all. I'm especially partial to the sandy brown in the middle one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: Dang, I like the CW version. To me that looks like a superhero. Me too. That gets my pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Unfortunately, the CW version would be built on 150 pts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 The DCEU one, 1500 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 The logo for A-MatW looks like an actual comic-book logo. Finally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Captain Marvel's costume in the comics these days varies from dark blue to medium blue depending on the lighting conditions, with an overall skew towards darker blue, making that third image the closest to comic-book CM. I really like that third version, though I wouldn't mind the blue being kicked up a tiny bit brighter. The DCEU one is fairly accurate for the Snyder aesthetic, but I think the reds would be darker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I like the darker blue, honestly but I'm not fond of the quilted leather with a thousand sections sewed together look. Nobody deliberately would make a costume for themselves that took that much work. Not if they're gonna actually wear it often and have to repair it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 DCEU version needs dark clouds in the background and she should be frowning with a haunted look in her eyes. Joe Walsh and Christopher R Taylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Marvel-Fox merger at least 18 months away with no discussions on character integration yet - Kevin Feige says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Whatever Feige may or may not know about the merger and its fallout, he's too shrewd a producer to spill it in public until the contracts are signed. The deal still has hoops to jump through before it's definitely a go. But you can bet credits to Navy beans he and his team are working on contingency plans based on whether or not it goes through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 1000 quatloos on a decent Fantastic Four movie finally being made Lord Liaden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said: I like the darker blue, honestly but I'm not fond of the quilted leather with a thousand sections sewed together look. Nobody deliberately would make a costume for themselves that took that much work. Not if they're gonna actually wear it often and have to repair it. Only Spider-Man repairs his own suit, and that is only in the comics. The X-Men have a sweatshop in the basement staffed with mutants whose only powers are sewing. The Fantastic Four's unstable molecules are self-repairing. The Avengers have Jarvis. Iron Man has his fabricators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 And Asgardians have the dwarves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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