Dark Raven
It's not about what you deserve...
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How did everyone feel about the change in Elektra and Bullseye's costumes in Daredevil (2003)? I was fine with it, because, especially with Bullseye, I think that their comic book outfits might not have worked very well. Now I don't mean that their costumes wouldn't work on screen at all, but I think that it depends on the film. The reason I say the outfits wouldn't work as well as it does in the comics. In the comics, Daredevil and his associated rogues and supporting cast characters exist amid a whole universe of superheroes and supervillains in colorful costumes so those costumes aren't particularly outlandish by that universe's standards. In the movie, there was Daredevil, Elektra, Bullseye, maybe Kingpin (he doesn't really wear a costume),...and that was it. That would mean that Bullseye and Elektra would be the only assassins in the world who would be wearing costumes, which would make them stand out like a sore thumb.
The Elektra movie still inhabited the same world as movie DD, and yet she wore a variation on her red costume (but without the red thong and sash). In Daredevil, I think the reason she had a black costume was probably because DD was in red, and they wanted to reserve that colour for him alone and not have Elektra clash with that. I know it's a dumb reason because it's not like people would mistake her for DD, but that is often the director's reasoning. I'm guessing it's for when there are fighting in fast action scenes and you can't see whose limb belongs to who, so they want colours that will distinguish each actor. In Elektra, there was no DD so she could then wear red.