Marvel Explains How New Avengers Costumes Make Each Member More Powerful (Beat The X-Men At Their Own Game)

As a new team of Avengers face danger across the world, The franchise makes a significant change by giving the heroes matching costumes. However, the new looks aren’t just about team unity – the new Avengers uniforms include new features that make each member more effective. This decision is particularly interesting because the X-Men Franchise is currently making the opposite change – abandoning a team uniform for more individual costumes.

Fans have known for months that Captain America’s new Avengers Emergency Response Squad would wear matching jackets emblazoned with the Avengers’ A. However, in a preview of Steve Orlando and Scot Eaton Avengers Assemble #2The team’s tech expert Night Thrasher reveals the costumes give them extra resources and protection.

While giving the new team of returning and first-time Avengers a sense of team unity, the jackets are also bulletproof and fireproof, while also having GPS locators and medical supplies. The costumes change the game for some team members, with Heroes like Hawkeye and Janet van Dyne’s Wasp can now deflect bullets. However, they also offer extra utility for powerhouse heroes like Hercules and Wonder Man. In recent years, Wonder Man has tried to live his life as a pacifist superhero, using his powers to protect but not harm. GPS and medical supplies give the unkillable hero more utility as a scout and emergency responder (the latter is exactly what Cap’s new team is intended to embody.)

The Avengers’ jackets are basically utility belts

Bulletproof, fireproof and with GPS and medical equipment

While Marvel’s chief Avengers In the series Captain Marvel’s team faces off against a series of Earth-threatening events predicted by Kang the Conqueror, the new Captain America roster is focused on providing immediate superhuman response to emerging threats. Based on Avengers Mansion, the team is something of a throwback to what the Avengers franchise looked like in previous decades, with even the jackets meant to evoke their 1990s designs. Returning heroes like She-Hulk, Lightning and Photon bring tried and tested expertise, while new recruits like Lightspeed and Night Thrasher update the roster for 2024.

Avengers Assemble #2 sees the Avengers go up against classic Fantastic Four villain the Red Ghost, while future issues will see them battle Doctor Doom and the Red Skull’s newly empowered daughter Sin. The idea of ​​this Avengers list is that they can overcome a danger before anyone has a clear picture of what threat they are facing, which makes their added protection a major plus. Carrying a fireproof suit and medical supplies keeps the Avengers focused on helping civilians in danger, and a GPS is a much-needed addition in a world where heroes are often kidnapped or punched across multiple states.

Meanwhile, the X-Men are copying the Avengers

Individual costumes spell what makes each mutant hero unique

While the Avengers make moves to create a sense of unity, The X-Men’s new ‘From the Ashes’ era is embracing individuality. For most of X-Men history, his heroes (at least the main team) have worn matching costumes, sometimes with their own unique abilities (eg, masking the heroes’ mutant genetics from Sentinel robots.) These costumes are part of Charles. Xavier’s long-term dream for the X-Men – co-opting the superhero aesthetic to build trust between humanity and homo sapien.

However, after the dissolution of the mutant nation of Krakoa, The bonds that once held the X-Men together are loose like never before. Cyclops and Rogue are on the cusp of a rivalry that will force Marvel’s mutant heroes to choose sides, while heroes including Wolverine and Kate ‘Kitty’ Pryde are officially done playing hero, trying instead to live quiet lives free of X-Men Drama. In this environment, Jed MacKay and Clayton Cowles’ X-Men Has presented a list of heroes with very different views. While Cyclops wears the traditional red and blue, Quentin Quire wears pink in reference to his telekinetic powers, while his former girlfriend Temper wears light blue and orange, denoting her temperature control. Likewise, Psylocke, Magneto, Magik and Juggernaut all have their own looks.

The obvious reason that the Avengers have always had individual costumes while the X-Men have a team look is that the teams were conceived by Marvel in very different ways. Avengers titles have always united heroes who already have their own lore and solo series, while X-Men introduced its mutants as heroes from the start. However, in 2024, the Legacies aren’t the only force at play, with the X-Men and Avengers‘ New costumes that show the teams’ very different perceptions of unity in 2024.

Avengers Assemble #2 Is available now from October 16.