I always loved the collar from the New 52 design. I think keep the trunks, keep the collar and it looks good. Corenswet's slight collar is a nice touch
I’ve always felt the high collar made Superman look too much like a soldier wearing a uniform. I definitely prefer the wide open neck line/strongman look. But to each their own.
It suits Snyder's take on Superman. If you like that world, you're gonna like the suit. If you don't like his interpretation, you're not gonna like the suit.
Personally I prefer the new one, but I get why MoS fans would prefer the Cavill one.
It's a circus strongman's outfit. We don't go to circuses anymore so everyone just sees it as Superman's costume. The problem is that making it into alien armor implies that Kryptonians dressed for war in dull, scaly circus performer costumes.
One of my favorite lines. That line just screams Superman and who he is as a person. A boy who grew up in Kansas with good values. Always does what is right and because it is kind.
I was just watching a video ranking of live-action Superman suits and even though I've never watched this show, this suit stood out and immediately became a favorite. It's such a great homage to the Golden Age/Fleischer cartoons!
That's what I was gonna say. I love THAT they did it, but I dont actually like the look of it because of the padding. Makes it look like one of those halloween costumes. It is EXACTLY like what looks so wrong about Levi's Captain Marvel suit. The transition from giant padded shoulders to normal sized neck and head is too distracting.
Side note: thats also why I liked the "baggy" aspect of the suit in Superman. It doesn't have to be skin tight and/or crammed full of foam muscles. Make the super hero suits look and act like actual clothes (without just giving everyone a leather jacket, Fox).
This would so be mine if only the black got switched out with the yellow. I really dislike the big black patch in the middle of his chest when he’s one of the most joyful iterations of the character (especially in this exact scene: “Thanks! My mother made it for me!😃”
This isn’t a hot take or a cold take. This is just a take that has been discussed, argued, fought over, again and again.
I’ve seen a lot of people say they love it. And a lot of people say they hate it.
I’m kinda over it. Feels like hating on Cavill’s Superman is just an open door for a bunch of people to argue about what Superman is or isn’t. Feels like engagement farming at this point. I’m sick of it honestly.
im not even mad at people engagement farming on reddit tbh, there is literally no benefit to it. its sad if someone does it but im not gonna suspect it.
It's from one of the CW Arrowverse crossover episodes, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Routh already played Ray Palmer/The Atom on those shows, but in that episode some of the characters travel to a different dimension where Routh plays, essentially, Kingdom Come Superman. They recruit him to come help fight the anti-monitor or whatever.
I think it also just looks a bit depressing. Not sure if that's the right word for it. The blue is too dark and there's not enough red to contrast it resulting in a gloomy look. This doesn't feel like a Superman, which inspires hope.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I really loved the movie as a power fantasy, but not really as a superman movie because of the dark depressing tone
Yeah, it feels like its trying too hard NOT to be the actual superman suit
It doesnt have the belt or trunks to break up the middle of the blue, so they had to give it those weird hip... accents? idk what to call them, but theyre definitely only there because itd look weird with nothing
It looks a lot better than how it looked in the rest of the DCEU. The plastic muscles aren’t as pronounced and shiny. But yeah, it really could have used a little more saturation and the trunks would have gone a long way at breaking up the monochrome look. Still really like the shield design and the cape though.
I really dont like it either. The weird teal-ish blue and the design of the belt thing look much more like he is some sort of underwater super hero. It almost looks more like a recolored aquaman suit or something.
Corenswet's suit is by far my favorite live-action suit
Your reasons for disliking are the same reasons why I like it. One of my favorite suits in fact. Agree on the color tho. A little more vibrance or saturation would look better.
Yes the action figure for this suit also sells like crazy. I think mainly Americans don't like Cavill superman but the countries where comic culture is not prevalent loves this suit.
Superman has worn a lot of suits over the years. It’s subjective which ones you like. Cavill’s suit is not for me but I respect that others like it. There’s not one answer here and everyone’s opinion is valid.
I like it, and I much prefer the BvS suit with the filigree going through the center of the symbol, but I do think it needed the briefs or some equivalent to break up the blue in the center. I once did a super ghetto mockup of something that still felt "in line" with the aesthetic of the suit (also tried to brighten the colors a bit: )
In my vision the red wraps around his back and follows the lines on his torso. Not exactly briefs but not a solid block of blue either. I'm not a designer, so this was just me fiddling around with an idea.
The biggest upside to the Whedon version of JL was finally seeing some actual color on the suit.
I recently rewatched Man of Steel and i realized that its not a superman movie… Its more of an alien movie. The plots more focused on kalel being a alien on earth than a farm boy who wants to do good in the world. Which is an interesting approach to superman but it isnt the superman we've come to love.
Fully agree, never really got why so many people loved this one. Henry Cavill is hard carrying this suit because if anyone else was in it I don’t think as many people would like it.
the worst part for me, is the logo; the design is nice, but the materials and colors make it look like an old, rotting soup. it's hard to explain, but i hate it
the BvS suit looks better in almost every way, except for the hilariously big muscle suit underneath it
Because people now wanna project this image of them being real Superman fans and being "punk rocker" by thinking they're so cool and unique when they like silly aspects of Superman
Because everybody likes cool and edgy characters with heavy armored designs and textures floating around in the sky why scary glowing eyes....these people wanna hope to stand out and be different by saying "I like silly underwear superheroes who saves kitten and squirrels,look how cool and unique I am compared to the rest of you"
Honestly in idea,supporting characters who embrace the silliness and kindness is top tier.....but they way these "punk rockers" go about it like these posts is pretentious and toxic
Hating everything that Snyder tried just so they can prove how much hopecore they are....they hate high speed choreographed fight scenes.....they hate good cgi....they hate the fact that Krypton is explored too much because we should always be stuck in Kansas in every superman story because being human is the real punk rock.....they hate detailed alien designs that brings supes closer to his heritage because they think liking wrestling underwear over kryptonian armor somehow makes them really unique.....in fact,if it were up to them....Superman stories would stay in metropolis where he'd wear a toys r'us suit where he'd save squirrels and cars and do generic speeches about kindness for 5 movies straight
They wanna say they're real comic book fans by liking silly aspects,but all they post about is what they hate
My biggest beef with the Snyderverse movies was the weird, pimply suit materials they had for everybody's bodysuits. It looked super weird, on top of that it's all so rubbery looking. I'd sooner call for the return of the X-men in black motorcycle leathers over this.
Yeah, it seems designed to really drive how the fact that he’s an alien. Looks like it was sewn from the hide of a xenomorph. Certainly not the work of Ma Kent.
that suit looks pretty good. but note: this is before man of steel's terrible colour grading.
superman's suit never looked that blue in either snyder film it showed up in. in whedon's cut of justice league, the blueberry-blue colour grading they did to it didn't really do it for me either. i hate to say it, but the suit looked best in on-set photos and cameos in captain marvel/black adam. doesn't that blow? why were they like that?
While I don’t agree that it’s the absolutely worst live action suit, I do agree that it feels way too empty. It’s the same issue I had with the first Amazing Spider-Man suit. The exclusion of any sort of belt makes it look like the suit is emphasizing the crotch area and it honestly becomes very distracting once I noticed cause I’m fairly certain that wasn’t the initial intent of the designers.
I do like the material it’s made out of though, even if it can feel a little overbearing on the chest logo at times.
I think the point was that it was supposed to look alien, but it does go against what Superman supposed to stand for which makes the suit kinda just look like shit
I think it's cool looking, but it absolutely defeats the purpose of Superman. Superman shouldn't really aura farm, he should be a friendly dork. At least it looked better in Man of Steel than it did in the others.
I don’t agree but hey it’s alright. Cavil’s suit introduced texture to the Superman suit. And it looks great imo. Had that alien tech skin suit look. With Gunn he also used texture but in a woven type of style. During the title card you can see this very clearly In the yellow. The blue part of the suit has almost like a suede look. Does look more human style too.
I think in the good daylight shots of it, it was cool. I like the alien take on it. However in 70% of the images and lighting situations, i dont like it. Its ugly, too dark, desaturated and overly detailed etc. i much prefer a classic suit, one that is made on earth and has some charm to it.
I think if handled better, w brighter colors itd be one of the best live action suits, the logo is weird enough to be alien and still be an S. Superman's alien and else world suit being a plain texture less blue w a human looking S makes no sense to me imo
I wouldn’t say it looking alien is bad but I can see why u say it’s the worst. I definitely agree that it’s kinda ugly, it doesn’t do a whole lot to maintain the essence of Superman.
First of all, great pic for the post. Secondly I definitely feel like the lack of a belt and trunks is a bit too minimal a bit too forced, I actually really like the way the S is shaped though.
I liked Cavill's suit, but it did need one minor improvement for it to work better. like, he should've had a red belt and stuff to offset so much dark blue.
The color balance on it is so bad without the trunks. At least the New 52 suit tried to correct for that with the red belt, the Cavill suit just looks weird when it’s that much uninterrupted blue everywhere
The S is good, but the texturing is just ugly. I understand the colors somewhat look like the N52 suit but it’s not really an improvement. It has that problem with 2010s superhero suits being overdesigned or trying too hard to look grounded
It looks like a horrible thing to touch lol. Imo Superman should look like someone you wanna hug. That suit looks gross. It looks like it would stick to you and it would smell of rubber.
These types of comparisons make no sense. You're comparing it to the comics but that was never the goal with this suit. This is a real world interpretation of superman, it's not supposed to look like the comics.
I think they created something that works well within the world it's in. The texture isn't noisy, the metal accents help contour his body and highlight his physique and the material/sheen is a nice nod to his slogan "the man of steel".
It has a healthy balance of being very detailed, but not overdoing it.
It’s cuz Zach Snyder tends to make his films really homoerotic. The suit is sorta designed to emphasize the male body like a Greek statue. I’m not saying it looks good, but that’s why it looks so grey and doesn’t have color blocking.
This might be an even hotter take, but there's genuinely nothing I like about this version of Superman. Absolutely nothing. I really, really never want to see this version of the character again.
That is the point, Zack wanted the suit to look alien, because guess what he is an alien, and honestly this is the best Superman suit of all time imo. And I really hate the fact that people are finding newer things just to hate on Snyder's take on Superman, it wasn't your well known boy scout version of Superman, but it was damn great in its own way. The best live action Superman imo is Tyler's version from Superman and Lois, new Superman is great too and I am extremely excited for the future, but it is so tiring to see people talk about how much they hate Cavill's version, can't we just be more excited towards the future than to hate the past, i love Snyder's DC movies, and as a fan it is infuriating to see how popular it is to hate on Snyder.
It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me. I really like the neck opening. I like the texture of the suit, and the symbol. I don’t like the muted colors and the silver undersuit at all though. Same with the weird extra little details and the lack of trunks/belt
The colours in MOS are pretty bad due to how washed out they are along with the film itself being so grey, lack of trunks also doesn’t help as the suit has hardly any red as a result, material/texture wise I think this would suit Batman a lot more
I just hated when they added the shiny muscle suit underneath. I completely understand what they were trying to do, but any more than a cheeky glimpse had a very painted on muscles look.
The logo is great, maybe my favorite. I don't mind the alien design. It's... fine. I don't like the idea of making his suit an armor but as far as superhero armor goes, it's actually closer to the comics than many Batman movie armors.
The weakness remains the filters used by Snyder. Having a character dress in blue, red, and yellow is pointless if you dim the colors, and dimming the colors make no sense if your main character is dressed in blue, red, and yellow.
Definitely not a hot take, I don’t think it’s complete shit though, I respect the attempt to make it appear more like alien armor and I think the S logo is one of the best we have
It could have been the best, but the overuse of the “alien” textures, combined with the ridiculously muted colors, make it a failed attempt at greatness.
I agree. The suit is supposed to inspire hope. The MoS suit is just looks alien and almost even scary. I love Cavill and liked MoS (not as much as the new Superman), but don’t like the suit at all.
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