hey bub I'm kaya and in today's episode
we're talking about the mutant who put
the yellow and yellow spandex Wolverine
are you doing when a piece of fruit his
colorful costume has always seemed at
odds with his brooding berserk
personality and throughout his 44 year
history artists have tried their best to
improve on what's already considered in
all-time classics the results are mixed
but hey they're better than the movies
which basically didn't even try we'll
get to those later but for now sharpen
your claws and let your stogies because
this is the evolution of Wolverines
costume we start as always with the
comics and the creation of the classic
Warren was initially designed by John
Romita the same artist who created Mary
Jane Watson and the Punisher Logan's
original look was pretty close to the
eventual classic from the yellow and
blue color scheme to the black tiger
stripes and stylized pointy mask
ramita is also credited for creating
Wolverines trademark claws although as
he envisioned it it will come out of his
gloves not his body one element that
didn't stand the test of time though his
cute little whiskers whiskers after his
debut in the pages of Incredible Hulk
roaring graduated to the all-new x-men
the revamp team was built to showcase
international heroes and Logan was
chosen to represent Canada country needs
unfortunately not everyone was familiar
with his first appearance and cover
artist Gil Kane accidentally drew
Lauren's mask with big Batman style head
pieces and blank eyes interior penciler
Dave Cockrum thought it looked so cool
he redrew all of his pages to match the
mistake and the classic costume was born
though it almost didn't last someday
I'll learn not to let my guard down two
years after the x-men relaunch Cockrum
left the book but not before giving
Wolverine a new costume that would be a
pain in the ass for his replacement John
burned to draw burn wasn't a fan of the
Fang costume in part yes because it
sucked to draw but also because it
didn't have a mask
remember for the first year Wolverines
existence we never saw his face once but
when he finally in masks it was a huge
deal
Byrne wanted to keep that sense of
mystery so he convinced his editor to go
back to the
then he convinced them to dump the
colors entirely burn hated Wolverines
uniform from day one because he felt
that blue and yellow was more
appropriate for a football team than a
feral fighter by 1980 he had enough
clout to Institute the change with a
muted Brown costume that matched the
character's personality everyone
considers the blue and yellow uniform as
Wolverines classic but burns Brown Luke
is actually his longest lasting costume
ever aside from just a plain black ninja
suit with face paint Warren wore the
brown for 10 consecutive years it
appeared in the classic arcade game
and failed cartoon pilot and inspired
everything from alternate Wolverine to
x-men evolution but as the 80s turned
into the 90s it was time for Wolverine
to get back to basics and that means
back in blue when artist Jim Lee joined
the x-men book in 1991 he instituted in
a strict uniform policy just like Stan
and Jack's original team the excellent
were now clad in matching blue and
yellow costumes no exceptions but unique
looks were a big part of the x-men's
appeal and the conformist phase only
lasted for a year
in 1992 Jim Lee called up John Byrne
with some huge news he basically said
guess what I'm giving we're and his real
costume back Byrne replied I'm the one
that changed it in the first place and
awkward silence ensued regardless the
original blue and yellow made its
triumphant return just in time for the
90s x-men bum the ears were a little
bigger and the boots were a lot points
here but this was more or less the same
costume ermita dreamed up in the 70s
from the Fox cartoon to the Marvel vs.
Capcom games for most of us growing up
this was our Laurine and as a design
lasted for nearly a decade
even when magneto ripped out Logan's
adamantium and reduced him to a feral
State he still wore tattered version of
the classic clothes just with the blue
do-rag to cover his weird noseless face
maybe these were weird
in 2001 Grant Morrison Frank quietly
redesigned the x-men to bring them
closer in line to the movies and decked
out the team in high contrast black and
yellow biker gear adorned with X logos
it was a great compromise between the
colorful comics and the monotone movies
but Marvel wanted something a little
more marketable
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in 2002 they instituted a new look
Hoover in one single simplified uniform
to unify his portrayal in the mainline
comics The Ultimate Universe and their
toys and videogame tie-ins it wasn't
much of a costume just a black t-shirt
and yellow stripes really and by 2004
the mutants are ready to trade in their
black leather and become superheroes
again for astonishing x-men John Cassidy
designed a brand new blue and yellow
costume for the new millennium it
ditched the trunks on the outside and
expanded the blue sections to run along
his torso using negative space to
suggest the tiger stripes it's an
amazing redesign and a perfect
modernization of an all-time classic
with the few exceptions like his dark
grey x-force uniform or the armor he
wore when he lost his healing factor
Wolverine wore the astonishing costume
until his death in 2014 then his
daughter x-23 wore the same suit to
honor his legacy and now that the Canuck
ahead himself is confirmed to return in
September 2018
he's slipping right back into his old
duds the Cassidy costume is so cool it
could even work on the big screen but
sadly we have yet to see anything
resembling the classic uniform at the
movies for the first x-men film the
producers toyed with the idea of
incorporating the colorful Comics
costume this burden spied wolverine
concept art could have worked but even
today it's hard to imagine hugh jackman
rocking brown and yellow brian singer
chose black leather because it made more
sense from a protection standpoint even
though it didn't exactly help with
mobility
Maureen's costume looks identical to his
teammates but if you squint you can see
the suggestion of his stripes in yellow
honestly I was never impressed with the
movie costumes and the clever line they
inserted to calm fans down
didn't help although it did name this
series what would you
yellow spandex so choose your battles I
guess cuz what else oh we were gonna
call it superhero style let's just call
it Harry Styles very hairy the Wolverine
is daddy okay
I need that in the video waring wore the
same costume throughout x2 and x3 and in
origins and the Wolverine he never wore
costume at all besides his trademark
leather jacket and tank top the
Wolverine was going to hint at his
uniform but director james mangold
decides cut it he understood fans desire
to see it but said nothing seems less
Wolverine like them the desire to put on
a trademark outfit and prance around
doing good deeds and like I get that I
do but you can give him a reason to wear
it like [ __ ] I mean that was literally
the entire plot of Batman Begins like
thanks lost away that's frightened me
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and ready you can find a way to put Luke
Cage in a tiara exactly if you can find
out how to do that you can find out how
to make him wear a stupid mask you can
make a reason so I continue the closest
the movies ever got to his Comics
costume was his high-tech armor in Days
of Future past no stripes no masks but
at long last we finally got a hint of
the blue and yellow in the sleeves for
the next movie we'll remotely sat out
the apocalypse although we got a glimpse
of his Weapon X uniform or lack thereof
that's the last version of that guy
Logan was the last appearance of Hugh
Jackman in the role but he stayed in
civilian clothes throughout the bleak
r-rated blockbuster we do see what his
costume would have looked like in some
in universe comics below ghen died
before we ever got to see a ripped
australian playing a pissed-off Canadian
in a goofy mask I just got here like 20
seconds ago today the future of the
x-men franchise is in the air but
wherever it lands next time around I
want to see Wolverine in a cooler
costume no matter what he's wearing from
yellow spandex to black leather war lean
is the best there is at what he does and
he looks pretty good doing it
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