The Flash The Flash Costume Thread

[The Sarge]

Flash and Arrow do not have "proto costumes", they have costumes you just don't like.
A Proto-costume would be more along the lines of the street clothes and ski mask Spider-man wears int he first of each of his respective films. These shows have completed costumes that continue to change and evolve. Probably because it's a TV show with a lot of episodes, and changing up or improving the costume is one of the many ways they keep people interested. Or maybe the people working on the show continually come up with ways to improve the design, as they often do.

 

[luis4u]

Flash and Arrow do not have "proto costumes", they have costumes you just don't like.
A Proto-costume would be more along the lines of the street clothes and ski mask Spider-man wears int he first of each of his respective films. These shows have completed costumes that continue to change and evolve. Probably because it's a TV show with a lot of episodes, and changing up or improving the costume is one of the many ways they keep people interested. Or maybe the people working on the show continually come up with ways to improve the design, as they often do.

Your guys are lucky at least you didn't have to wait eleven 11 years for the costume

 

[Eni]

Just give me a more comic accurate Flash costume at some point. There is no reason not to. I don't like this trend of prototype costumes before we get an actual costume. I don't like that Daredevil wears a prototype costume, Spider-Man wore one in Amazing Spider-Man, Arrow wore one, and Flash wears one. It's been proven time and time again that comic accurate costumes can easily be translated to live action with the proper materials yet we still get these proto-costumes for longer than we should. This show does so much right. The one glaring exception being the costume.

I guess that one of the main problems is not so much that they don't want to translate the costume from the comic page to the TV show but that they simply don't own the budget.

Those guys put probably way more time and effort into putting the Flash (or any other TV show superhero-) costume together than most people give them credit for. I doubt that they would create costumes that don't look like the original ones from the comics because they are lazy ore to spite people.

Giving Grant a skin-tight spandex (or whathever other material they could use for this) costume probably just doesn't look good (just look at the photoshoped pictures that have been posting here - they are nice and all but I wouldn't want see him run around like that either on TV). You can do that in movies with the right budget where they put aftereffects on it and make it look great, but with how little money they already have for a TV superhero show as it is, it is most likely simply not possible.

I too would prefer a costume that is closer to the one in the comics but I think that the current one in the TV show isn't all that bad either. You get used to it and they could have done way worse (think the Flash 90 TV show - that one really wasn't something to write home about, even though those people probably tried to do their best as well).

I honestly doubt that we will ever get to a version that is really close to the one of the comic Flash but they will certainly go on improving the one on the show.

 

[OriginalMiles]

They appear to have changed the belt...

 

[Norek]

Your guys are lucky at least you didn't have to wait eleven 11 years for the costume

What costume? I waited 11 years and I still didn't see a costume...

 

[Casval]

They appear to have changed the belt...

It's the same :

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/pho...-CW-image-the-flash-cw-36781376-1280-1668.jpg

The suit seems a bit tighter though (unless Grant Gustin bulked up a bit).

 

[Kirmit]

I really wish they would change the belt buckle, I just don't understand the need to have it so big and bulky.

 

[lujho]

Yeah, the belt is the dodgiest element of the whole costume. The huge buckle and little lightning bolts... I just don't know why they went with that.

 

[Eni]

There are too many parts to the costume. I am pretty used to see the Flash in his familiar onesie and when I see a still-picture of him in the TV show it always appears to me as rather alienating.
The mask is seperated from his top, the top is seperated from his pants and from the gloves, then there is the belt, and so on. I don't like all the lines, all the connection parts, but a one-piece suit probably wouldn't go for the show... still, a pity.
I hope they can smoothe it out in future versions.

 

[Wise]

I don't really care that much about the rest of the suit I just want the damn white circle to replace the red one on the logo. Been bugging me since the pilot. Especially since the future suit doesn't have it.

 

[Eni]

I don't really care that much about the rest of the suit I just want the damn white circle to replace the red one on the logo. Been bugging me since the pilot. Especially since the future suit doesn't have it.

That is something that can be rather easily fixed and probably will be. I never really was too bothered by it, to be honest, but I generally don't like how they designed his logo, I think it looks rather clunky and turning it white will most likely only intensify this. Meh...

 

[luis4u]

What costume? I waited 11 years and I still didn't see a costume...

not on the show but in a comic tie in

 

[Compi716]

Here's The Flash in that new promo image for the Vixen animated series. Notice the slight changes in design to the suit. Could this be a preview of what we'll get at the end of Season 1/start of Season 2?

 

[Primal Slayer]

The yellow belt goes so much bettter.

 

[Lencho01]

I have a feeling the belt is just Bourassa knowing the suit needed some more yellow like the original design.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm assuming that's what the suit will look like by S2. This isn't some random offshoot with no one involved from the actual shows. I think Team Flash forewarned that that is what the suit will look like by then.

 

[lujho]

Here's The Flash in that new promo image for the Vixen animated series. Notice the slight changes in design to the suit. Could this be a preview of what we'll get at the end of Season 1/start of Season 2?

Hang on, is this meant to be in actual honest-to-God Arrow/Flash continuity? Or just "similar"?

Because costumes in different adaptations of things rarely have huge influence on eachother.

 

[Eni]

Hang on, is this meant to be in actual honest-to-God Arrow/Flash continuity? Or just "similar"?

Because costumes in different adaptations of things rarely have huge influence on eachother.

I think that is the case, at least I have heared that the show takes place in the Arrow-universe, which means we can look forward to a new belt for Barry. Yay.

 

[lujho]

I think that is the case, at least I have heared that the show takes place in the Arrow-universe, which means we can look forward to a new belt for Barry. Yay.

Hmm, even if it IS meant to be in the same universe, it's not 100% guaranteed that it means the live action suit will change. The differences could just be a bit of creative license.

I mean, that Arrow costume is similar to the live action but not exactly the same, and I doubt the suit on Arrow is changing much any time soon.

 

[Eni]

Hmm, even if it IS meant to be in the same universe, it's not 100% guaranteed that it means the live action suit will change. The differences could just be a bit of creative license.

I mean, that Arrow costume is similar to the live action but not exactly the same, and I doubt the suit on Arrow is changing much any time soon.

True too, but I think if they get a very positive feedback from the viewers regarding some changes on the animated show, they will most likely consider carrying them over to the Flash or Arrow as well.

 

[BoredGuy]

The yellow on the belt does help the design considerably
I want to see them work on Flash's mask though
his head still looks gigantic to me

 

[storyteller]

not on the show but in a comic tie in

I don't think having a drawn costume was what we desired from a live action tv show.

As to the budget? They made a Reverse Flash costume and have a very modified Flash costume from the pilot. I think they have within their budget to throw on some yellow boots and a yellow belt. We aren't all asking for them to start from scratch but to throw on some damn yellow.


Also as for the new version of the suit. I think they refitted the costume around the actor. Before he could barely get his arms up. So he did that Burton Batman movement with his shoulders. Now he's got more flexibility.


Point is they did in one episode that Smallville couldn't do in it's entire run. Seriously how the hell does Booster Gold get a suit and Superman get's a cgi cape?

 

[lujho]

The yellow on the belt does help the design considerably
I want to see them work on Flash's mask though
his head still looks gigantic to me

Can't really help that. Normal humans don't have comic-book proportions.

 

[BoredGuy]

yea, but outside of Captain America in the first Avengers, I've never seen a movie or tv superhero's dome look so large
and Flash even has Cap beat

 

[Mikelus]

Point is they did in one episode that Smallville couldn't do in it's entire run. Seriously how the hell does Booster Gold get a suit and Superman get's a cgi cape?

Well, Superman's suit is more expensive and Tom Welling didn't want to wear it:

Just out of professional curiosity, does that mean we'll see Tom Welling in some spandex tights next year? I know the fans really want to see that.

Brian Peterson: Probably not as soon as you expect, but you never know. The one person who doesn't want to see that unfortunately is Tom Welling, so that's a bigger conversation.

http://fr.eonline.com/news/120288/smallville-will-chloe-survive

Back on topic, the first cowl was better, more tight-fitting. I guess they made it bigger so Grant feels more comfortable (less pressure on his head), but it doesn't look as good. Also, he needs to work out more, he looks like a kid compared to Cavill, Affleck and Amell. I'm sure Ezra Miller will be in better shape and have a better suit, hopefully we'll see his first image as the Flash either this year or next (Justice League I comes out in 2017).