Marvel's X-Men have had some truly iconic costumes over the years. From Magneto's classic purple and red to Nightcrawler's demonic yet playful look, the X-Men have always been known for their stylish and memorable wardrobes. This article takes a look at some of the best X-Men costumes of all time.
Marvel's X-Men have spent years as the top team in comics and pop culture, ruling the 1990s. Since then, things have been up and down for Marvel’s merry mutants — great movies gave way to not-so-great ones, animated series waxed and waned, and their comic sales dropped from amazing to merely good, then went back to amazing again — but one thing that never changed is how awesome the X-Men have looked.
There are few comic teams where the members have costumes as great as the X-Men’s – even their villains have amazing costumes. Over the team’s history, the X-Men have given superhero fans some of the greatest costumes ever, bar none.Magneto has had some breathtaking costumes over the years, and any one of them could have taken this spot on the list. His white costume from the Bendis years was amazing, and the black variant was actually better. The white and black Krakoa costume is also an all-time best costume, but as great as they are, the GOAT is still the original purple and red costume. It’s his best-known costume and it perfectly captures Everything about it says power. The flowing cape is amazing, perfectly fitting his regal side. Purple and red are the best colors for a mutant such as Magneto; purple is the color of royalty and red immediately catches the eye. However, the best part of Magneto’s costume is the helmet. Even when Magneto changes the cut and colors of his costume, he usually keeps the same basic helmet design. The face area — a stylized T — hides much of his face, but always his opponents to see his eyes and mouth, so they are able to perceive his righteous anger. The stylized piece above the T is perfect, a crest that draws the eye right to it. It’s a brilliant design, as most villain costumes designed by Marvel legend Jack Kirby are. Havok is Alex Summers, the young brother of Cyclops. This has often put Havok in Cyclops’s shadow. Whatever Havok has done, Cyclops has usually done better and there’s a rivalry between the two of them that shows up at the most inopportune times. However, one thing that Havok has over Cyclops is that his first costume is much, much cooler. Havok’s original black and white costume, created by legendary artist Neal Adams, is awesome and perfectly exemplifies the younger Summers brother. The black and white coloration is simple and stark, which fits the costume perfectly. The white circle in the middle of his chest, made of concentric circles, looks like the plasma blasts he fires and is a nice design element. However, the best part has always been the headpiece. It’s a little showy and ridiculous, but that’s why it’s so cool. It’s become such a memorable part of who Havok is that most of his costumes have a similar design on the cowl even if they aren’t as ostentatious. Havok’s first costume is brilliant and none of its successors have matched it.Cyclops has always had awesome costumes. In fact, the only Cyclops costume that is anything less than spectacular is his original costume, and even that one is pretty great. However, if there is one costume that every Cyclops fan loves, it’s easily the 1990s costume, made popular by#1 and designed Jim Lee, one of the greatest artists in the history of superhero comics, it felt like the perfect evolution of Cyclops’s awesome costumes. It went back to the blue and yellow color scheme that are the Xavier Institute’s colors after years of wearing blue and colors like red or white. Blue has always been Cyclops’s best color and this costume uses it as the main one. The yellow — the chest bandoliers, the gloves and wrists, the trunks, the thigh bandolier, and the boots — disrupt the blue in the best possible ways. Finally, the “sock” mask, a design choice loved by Lee, is excellent, showing off Cyclops’s magnificent head of hair. It feels exactly like the kind of costume that a leader of Cyclops’s caliber would wear. Even the weird ’90s obsession with pouches on X-Men costumes — it’s definitely something you notice if you go back and look at the costumes of the day — fits him, as Cyclops seems like the kind of person who would carry everything you imagine into battle, just in case he needed it.Nightcrawler is yet another X-Man who has some amazing costumes. However, one of them stands out more than the rest and that one’s his first one. Designed by Dave Cockrum for#1, Nightcrawler spent about two decades in this costume and it shows how underrated a costume designer Cockrum was — every X-Men costume he created for Marvel was a hit. It captures everything about Nightcrawler; it’s both demonic and playful at the same time, each element working together to create a truly timeless look. Its black, red, and white coloration go together perfectly. The red V, starting at the shoulders, running to the crouch, then repeating that design on Nightcrawler’s back, is awesome, and the way it flairs at the shoulders makes it feel like the circus costume that Nightcrawler first used it a
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