{"id":342736,"date":"2025-12-30T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:47:11","slug":"the-terrible-x-men-costumes-we-dare-avengers-doomsday-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342736\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terrible X-Men Costumes We Dare Avengers: Doomsday to Adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortunately, Marvel dropped the conceit, but not before forcing us to see Scott in his mutant buster gear, a horrible blue sweat suit that seems designed for a light aerobic workout or doing nice breakdancing moves.<\/p>\n

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The Amazing Nightcrawler<\/p>\n

The legendary artist Dave Cockrum originally designed Nighcrawler for a Legion of Superheroes spinoff comic. When Cockrum jumped from DC to Marvel to help relaunch the X-Men, he and writer Len Wien remade Nightcrawler into Kurt Wagner, the German swashbuckler we know and love. For that reason, few of Nightcrawler\u2019s redesigns stray too far from what Cockrum did.<\/p>\n

That said, the one time that Nightcrawler had a very different costume, it also had a fantastic design\u2026 because it\u2019s Spider-Man\u2019s. Yes, in the mini-series Uncanny Spider-Man<\/a>, Nightcrawler took Peter Parker\u2019s place for a while. Crazy as it sounds, Uncanny Spider-Man is pretty fun and it only lasted a few issues, so we can\u2019t be too mad at it. Still, it would be bold for Marvel to make Nightcrawler into Spider-Man in Doomsday.<\/p>\n

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Mystique Embraces the \u201990s<\/p>\n

In the comics, shapeshifter Mystique has an incredible design, a cool sleek white dress to match her blue skin and red hair. For some reason, the movies decided she should be just naked and scaly, a design they kept when Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> stepped in to replace Romjin in the role. The comics did sometimes adapt the naked scaley version of Mystique, but most of her looks stick to the white and blue look.<\/p>\n

Strangely, the worst variation isn\u2019t black sports bra that she briefly wore in the 2000s. Rather, it\u2019s the \u201990s nonsense that Mystique had while serving in X-Factor. The costume has the usual white base, but it\u2019s covered with extraneous red belts and pouches. Now, to be clear, lots of superheroes had extra belts and pouches in the \u201990s. But it really makes no sense of Mystique, a shapeshifting spy. The belts and buckles make the otherwise lithe character seem clunky and clumsy.<\/p>\n

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Gambit Goes Yellow<\/p>\n

Unlike the other characters on this list, Gambit has rarely had a good costume. He\u2019s so defined by his famous pink head sock and leather coat look that even attempts to update him retained those \u201990s qualities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortunately, Marvel dropped the conceit, but not before forcing us to see Scott in his mutant buster gear,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}