The Official Costume Thread - Part 4

[camp Blood]

Superman was once described as a boyscout, I think that was a very good comparison

 

[JamalYIgle]

I enlarged the S, but I still like the scale of the symbol from the previous version.

He wouldn't be wearing much-- less is more; his skin would turn to steel as with Collossus.

Thinking about Clark Kent carrying around a brief case with two knee high red boots and a full length cape inside, and wearing four layers of clothing every day makes my mind trip over its own feet trying to picture how you put this on film in a realistic manner.


It's simply a visualization of Superman as a literal man of steel.

These pieces with people pasting the actor's head onto a red and blue suit are mostly fantasy art rather than modernizing the design. You already got the red, blue, and yellow suit with updated materials-- it was called Superman Returns.

So your concept for updating Superman is to turn him into the Silver Surfer?
it's been done:

 

[WonderWitch]

So your concept for updating Superman is to turn him into the Silver Surfer?
it's been done:

i was waiting for this.

 

[Wheels]

So your concept for updating Superman is to turn him into the Silver Surfer?
it's been done:

"shudders"

 

[Godzilla2014]

Superman was once described as a boyscout, I think that was a very good comparison

I agree. The way I see it, Superman doesn't wear a mask because he wants the people he protects to connect with him and feel as though they can approach him with their distresses or just talk to him. He's sort of the ultimate nice guy.

 

[Wheels]

I agree. The way I see it, Superman doesn't wear a mask because he wants the people he protects to connect with him and feel as though they can approach him with their distresses or just talk to him. He's sort of the ultimate nice guy.

Agreed. For some reason there are people who think nice guy = wuss. Just because Superman is a nice guy doesn't mean he can't bust some skulls if the situation calls for it

 

[Godzilla2014]

Agreed. For some reason there are people who think nice guy = wuss. Just because Superman is a nice guy doesn't mean he can't bust some skulls if the situation calls for it

Agreed.

 

[Chiroptera]

Wow! that's what you call a superman suit!! I think is about 95% perfect cz i think you can still improve the red boots(looks like dr.martens w/o string). the \S/ is a bit too large, maybe still can reduce by around 5-8%. love the chris reeve neck cut.

is this from SR, or is this a smallville suit?

Thanks, Thats a manip I made, I used the superman returns suit as a base, if thats what you're asking.

 

[camp Blood]

I am commonly called a nice guy I laugh and smile I am somewhat of a funny guy and I make people laugh a lot and I babysit my nieces all the time make them laugh and smile

Yet I am 6'5 with a beard and will hosptialize a M'Fer if they screw with my niece or muder them outright if they hurt her

Just being a nice guy doesn't mean that he won't get his hands dirty

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

#333
Nice manip of the Returns suit. I am mentally drooling in anticipation of seeing an official release picture of the new suit for Cavill.
I wonder how much longer until we get that?

 

[Slugster]

people say i am a nice happy go lucky and most people wouldnt mess with me.
this pic was taken just Monday night

 

[Krumm]

people say i am a nice happy go lucky and most people wouldnt mess with me.
this pic was taken just Monday night

Count me in as one of those people who wouldn't mess with you...

 

[Kurosawa]

The only way the \S/ just meaning Superman would work and not make Clark look like an egotistical dick would be if he puts on the emblem AFTER Lois names him Superman in the papers. I don't know how I'd feel about Clark's first appearance in costume without the \S/ though.

He wears the \S/ for Superman before Lois "names" him because he was either 1) Named "Superman" by Pa Kent on his deathbed, or 2)Named Superboy by Pa Kent when he was a kid and began his Superboy career. People talk about Lois naming him Superman when it was the Donner movie that started that. A good way to make this movie different from the Donner films is to go back to Pa Kent naming him. Then his human name (Clark Kent) and his superhero name (Superman) were both given to him by the Kents, and his real name of Kal-El was given to him by his birth parents.

 

[JAK®]

He wears the \S/ for Superman before Lois "names" him because he was either 1) Named "Superman" by Pa Kent on his deathbed, or 2)Named Superboy by Pa Kent when he was a kid and began his Superboy career. People talk about Lois naming him Superman when it was the Donner movie that started that. A good way to make this movie different from the Donner films is to go back to Pa Kent naming him. Then his human name (Clark Kent) and his superhero name (Superman) were both given to him by the Kents, and his real name of Kal-El was given to him by his birth parents.

I like that Superman was invented by Lois. He's called Kal-El by his birth parents, he's called Clark by his Earth parents, and he's called Superman by the world.

 

[Kurosawa]

I like that Superman was invented by Lois. He's called Kal-El by his birth parents, he's called Clark by his Earth parents, and he's called Superman by the world.

Not a fan of it myself. It makes the \S/ HAVE to be a family crest or a Kryptonian letter/symbol if he hasn't already been named Superman by Pa Kent. It just adds another level of convenience to Superman. He just happens to wear a symbol that looks like an S and that gives Lois the idea that his name is Superman? The S standing for Superman because he had already been named that works better; him being Superboy first of course works best and makes by far the most sense but I know they won't go there even though they are allegedly going in a different direction than the Donner/Reeve series.

Plus he's going to go on this very public mission of helping people and saving lives with no name? Seems pretty stupid to me.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

The Superboy origin bothers me because it makes Superman out to be like some former child star who's trying to get out of the shadow of his past career. When everyone's already seen Superboy and all that he's done, then what's so exciting about SuperMAN? It's just a name change then, not some Earth shattering debut.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Not a fan of it myself. It makes the \S/ HAVE to be a family crest or a Kryptonian letter/symbol if he hasn't already been named Superman by Pa Kent. It just adds another level of convenience to Superman. He just happens to wear a symbol that looks like an S and that gives Lois the idea that his name is Superman? The S standing for Superman because he had already been named that works better; him being Superboy first of course works best and makes by far the most sense but I know they won't go there even though they are allegedly going in a different direction than the Donner/Reeve series.

Plus he's going to go on this very public mission of helping people and saving lives with no name? Seems pretty stupid to me.

If they wanna work around this they can have Clark learning about Krypton from a young age and his family crest is more like the ancient version with the \8/. Martha can then ask Clark what the English translation is, thinking it too alien, Clark says his family's name became an equivalent to the letter S and a alien looking S is adopted in to the symbol and Jon and Clark decide the name Superman based of Nietszsche's concept.

 

[GreenKToo]

I know it won't happen, but I could kinda invision him having a homemade suit at first, but it can't hold up to the rigors of superman, so he goes to star labs and they help design one from some new super-strong materials they created.

 

[Krumm]

I know it won't happen, but I could kinda invision him having a homemade suit at first, but it can't hold up to the rigors of superman, so he goes to star labs and they help design one from some new super-strong materials they created.

Probably not, but that'd be cool. I hope Star Labs gets a shout or is present in the franchise somewhere. There is so much in the Superman universe that has been neglected in the films.

 

[BrlntDsgse]

Not a fan of it myself. It makes the \S/ HAVE to be a family crest or a Kryptonian letter/symbol if he hasn't already been named Superman by Pa Kent. It just adds another level of convenience to Superman. He just happens to wear a symbol that looks like an S and that gives Lois the idea that his name is Superman? The S standing for Superman because he had already been named that works better; him being Superboy first of course works best and makes by far the most sense but I know they won't go there even though they are allegedly going in a different direction than the Donner/Reeve series.

Plus he's going to go on this very public mission of helping people and saving lives with no name? Seems pretty stupid to me.

First let me say I agree w/not being a fan of the S as a Kryptonian symbol. It's such a superficial attempt to ascribe some "deep" meaning to the symbol, but only comes off as either too coincidental or contrived when you think about it. Although when it comes to him having the name because of a career as Superboy, I don't see that ever working on the big screen, not because of anything inherently wrong w/the idea of Superboy, but just because the meager amount of time you'd be able to spend on Superboy in a SuperMAN film doesn't justify it. The concept works much better in the comics where you can delve into it every month. In a two-hour movie it would seem just thrown in "just cause". Much better to just focus on him becoming Superman as an adult, which by all indications they are going for in this new film. Given that, I'm personally a fan of Lois naming him that in the papers. Now I'd imagine that you(Pre-Crisis purist that you are) probably won't agree w/this but, while I hope for the characterization of Superman himself to lean more towards Pre-C , I still think that Byrne's version of his first public appearance was great, where he saves the space shuttle in just regular civilian clothes, leading to Lois naming him a "Mysterious Superman" not because of seeing an S on his chest, but because that's what he IS... a superman. If they MUST have some Kryptonian connection to the symbol, I'd prefer the Kryptonian symbol to be this....

.......and then have Clark reinterpret it into the S symbol in order to "make it his own" AND to go with the name Superman that the press and public have taken to calling him. My own idea on how he'd do that is that this....

......would be either the logo for Smallville High's lettermen's jacket's or it would be the lettering used on the "Welcome to Smallville" sign on the edge of town, hence Clark combines both of his heritages into his own, new insignia....the S we all know and love. But alas, since it has become the new standard since STM, the reboot will probably just default back to the S itself as the El family crest idea.

 

[Indy Flash]

Wow! that's what you call a superman suit!! I think is about 95% perfect cz i think you can still improve the red boots(looks like dr.martens w/o string). the \S/ is a bit too large, maybe still can reduce by around 5-8%. love the chris reeve neck cut.

is this from SR, or is this a smallville suit?

This Rocks. Something like this could work.

 

[Stephen K. Hone]

The Superboy origin bothers me because it makes Superman out to be like some former child star who's trying to get out of the shadow of his past career. When everyone's already seen Superboy and all that he's done, then what's so exciting about SuperMAN? It's just a name change then, not some Earth shattering debut.

That makes so much sense!! If people already knew about Superboy, it would totally reduces the impact (or steals the thunder)of any Superman reveal. It would be like..."Superpowered demi-God. Saw that years ago...Been there, done that. yawn!"

 

[Saint]

First let me say I agree w/not being a fan of the S as a Kryptonian symbol. It's such a superficial attempt to ascribe some "deep" meaning to the symbol, but only comes off as either too coincidental or contrived when you think about it. Although when it comes to him having the name because of a career as Superboy, I don't see that ever working on the big screen, not because of anything inherently wrong w/the idea of Superboy, but just because the meager amount of time you'd be able to spend on Superboy in a SuperMAN film doesn't justify it. The concept works much better in the comics where you can delve into it every month. In a two-hour movie it would seem just thrown in "just cause". Much better to just focus on him becoming Superman as an adult, which by all indications they are going for in this new film. Given that, I'm personally a fan of Lois naming him that in the papers. Now I'd imagine that you(Pre-Crisis purist that you are) probably won't agree w/this but, while I hope for the characterization of Superman himself to lean more towards Pre-C , I still think that Byrne's version of his first public appearance was great, where he saves the space shuttle in just regular civilian clothes, leading to Lois naming him a "Mysterious Superman" not because of seeing an S on his chest, but because that's what he IS... a superman. If they MUST have some Kryptonian connection to the symbol, I'd prefer the Kryptonian symbol to be this....

.......and then have Clark reinterpret it into the S symbol in order to "make it his own" AND to go with the name Superman that the press and public have taken to calling him. My own idea on how he'd do that is that this....

......would be either the logo for Smallville High's lettermen's jacket's or it would be the lettering used on the "Welcome to Smallville" sign on the edge of town, hence Clark combines both of his heritages into his own, new insignia....the S we all know and love. But alas, since it has become the new standard since STM, the reboot will probably just default back to the S itself as the El family crest idea.

Yeah, I like the idea that there's a Kryptonian symbol that doiesn't look exactly like an S (like the one you posted) that Clark adapts after being named Superman into the true S. Take a little bit of the Birthright approach (with the kryptonian glyph having a personal meaning to Clark), and that's that. Best of both worlds, I think.

 

[Alien Anal]

I am going to be a little upset once the suit is revealed. I enjoy trying to guess what they will come up with.

 

[JAK®]

I am going to be a little upset once the suit is revealed. I enjoy trying to guess what they will come up with.

Let's hope that's the only reason you'll be upset.