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Marvel concept artist Wes Burt shares alternate Blade costumes Deadpool & Wolverine.
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Blade’s alternate costumes include a 1998 movie outfit, a samurai suit, a trenchcoat, and a leather outfit.
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All of Blade’s alternate outfits look more elaborate than the costumes worn by Wesley Snipes’ Blade in his movie trilogy and Deadpool & Wolverine.
Marvel concept artist reveals what Blade’s alternate MCU costumes looked like during Deadpool & Wolverines development. Wesley Snipes made his MCU debut as one of these Deadpool & Wolverines multiversal characters, appearing in the void as a pruned blade variant who joins forces with other survivors to oppose Cassandra Nova. Blade fought Cassandra Nova’s henchmen, helped Deadpool & Wolverine escape the void, and dropped one of Deadpool & WolverineThe funniest Easter eggs in the form of a thrust into the MCU’s blade.
On InstagramMarvel concept artist Wes Burt Shares a few pieces of Deadpool & Wolverine Concept art featuring Wesley Snipes’ blade. The images of Burt include a blade costume that looks similar to the one worn by The Vampire Hunter in 1998 Blade movie, a samurai-inspired suit, a trenchcoat, and a leather outfit. Check out all the pictures below:
Like Blade’s Deadpool and Wolverine costume compared to his original movies
Wesley Snipes’ blade wears a lot more armor in Deadpool and Wolverine
Blade’s costume in Deadpool & Wolverine Sporting a similar look to his original costume. Its black-and-burgundy color scheme, with a silver rhombus shape on the chest, resembles the Vampire Hunter’s outfit from Blade: Trinity. Blade’s burgundy and silver accents are smaller this time around, but they’re a neat display of attention to detail as they suggest Blade’s Deadpool & Wolverine Costume is an evolved version of his last on-screen outfit.
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Blade’s new costume ditches the black leather trenchcoat and replaces it with armor plates. It is unknown whether this blade variant is equipped with his Blade: Trinity outfit and later update his clothes with armor he designed in the void, or if he spent more than twenty years fighting vampires and upgrading his costume until he was ostracized and thrown into the void. Either way, Blade is clearly older and chooses to trade agility for protection.
Blade’s alternate costumes provide material for other variants somewhere out there in the multiverse
Blade’s alternate concept art costumes would have hinted at very different backstories. did Deadpool & Wolverine Using any of these looks, Wesley Snipes’ blade probably would have lived more extravagant experiences between the events of the poorly received Blade: Trinity and his battle against Cassandra Nova’s forces. From mastering the katana (and getting a facial scar) to developing military skills and possibly becoming a vampire-killing priest, Blade’s alternate costumes provide material for other variants somewhere out there in the multiverse.
Source: Wes Burt / Instagram