The X-Men Have had many costumes, but one member of the X-Men ’97 Team doesn’t make a lot of sense. Forge is recognizable in part due to his red bandana and metallic right leg. However, the designs surrounding his cybernetic leg have always been a bit odd – a fact that Skottie Young pointed out in a variant cover for the upcoming X-Force #1.
X-Force #1 (2024) Has the creative team of Geoffrey Thorne, Marcus To, Erick Arciniega and Joe Caramagna. It brings together Rachel Summers, Betsy Braddock, Forge, Sage, Tank and Surge on its mutant roster. It will be part of the From the Ashes era of X-Men storytelling.
Forge will lead the recruitment of special agents to tackle new challenges as they arise, including Deadpool. The cybernetic inventor made his debut in The Invisible X-Men #184 in 1984, but his newest adventure still has the odd element that remains consistent in his costume history.
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Forge is featured on several of the covers for the debut issue of X-Force (2024)including those by Stephen Segovia, Clayton Crain, Tony Daniel and Skottie Young. Jung’s cover features the hero discussing his leg and overall costume design with his teammates. Forge’s costumes consistently featured half pants, showing off his cybernetic legs. However, he can very easily wear a normal pair of pants even with his metallic limb, as Colossus is sometimes depicted. Fans of the hero and regular readers of the series in which he is featured would be able to recognize him, even without his leg.
While the metallic leg makes Forge even easier to spot among the X-Men, he’s also following in the footsteps of other heroes with metallic or cybernetic limbs. Cable and the Winter Soldier are both often depicted with their prostheses showing. However, in the case of Cable and Bucky Barnes, they often wear sleeveless or half-sleeved shirts. Partial sleeves, half-sleeved shirts, and sleeveless shirts are all relatively standard designs when compared to half pants. The design is especially odd in cases where Forge is seen wearing only a knee-high pant sock over the lower half of his cybernetic leg.
Forge’s thigh has always been his defining feature While the metallic leg makes Forge even easier to spot among the X-Men, he’s also following in the footsteps of other heroes with metallic or cybernetic limbs.
Overall, Forge is comfortable donning the attire of the X-Men related teams he’s on, whether it’s the blue and yellow look from the ’90s or the red and black attire recently donned by the upcoming X-Force Team. His footwear also regularly matches, even if his leg coverings do not. His metallic thigh is nonetheless readily depicted as his defining feature, with his metallic calf covered by a knee-length sock. While the look works for quick recognition, Forge’s half-hands design is one of the strangest aspects of the character Which never really made sense, even in his X-Men ’97 Days.
X-Force #1 Will be available July 31st from Marvel Comics.
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