The Avengers comics always felt like an amazing amalgam of characters with wildly different styles. The comics medium allows for so many variations of style and design.
Different artists bring different visual styles and can come up with inspired designs. One of things I love about comic books is the wild variation of styles and designs. A leather flight jacket thrown in to ground it further to reality. Mechanical wings with sharp rigid lines and fractal plates. Don’t get me wrong, it looks EXACTLY like what I thought a Marvel Cinematic Universe Vulture would look like. I was looking at the new Marvel action figures for Spider-Man: Homecoming and looked at the design for The Vulture. That’s fine and all, but if I’m being honest… it’s kind of boring.
The idea that all this tech stems from a basic core set of technical principles and materials that allows it to exist in this fictional universe. And the otherworldly Nova Corps looked like very earthly riot police uniforms with some helmets only worn by characters without a line or a reason to exist.Ĭertainly there are reasons for this: Production designers following a basic blueprint. There’s some slight variations in Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor, but even Star-Lord’s ship, The Milano, has the same kind of basic design principle that shapes the Marvel engineering aesthetic. There’s a striking similarity to all of the technology in the Marvel Universe. Glowing embers of energy emerging from a power cell in blue or red. Sharp, rigid lines stacked atop one another to create something flexible and animated. Armor with a lot of different plates and pieces. But it all looks like it came from the same basic design. From Iron Man’s eight thousand suits of armor to the various weaponry employed by heroes, villains, S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, etc. In nearly 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been a lot of technology on display.
Why does all the technology in Marvel movies look like it was designed by the same guy? So much like an episode of Seinfeld, let’s not try to assign any depth or weight to the material. An observation that feels more akin to noticing that a coquettish female has man-hands or thinking a woman you’re dating is always wearing the same dress. This is something more Seinfeld-ian in its origins. I have made my feelings on this subject clear and have tried to express my ambivalence in no less than twenty columns. It’s safe to say that I may be the most vocal critic of the Marvel movies in terms of consistency and output. Anghus Houvourus on superhero movie costumes…īe warned: This is going to be some epic level nitpicking right here.īy now my laundry list of complaints about the Marvel Cinematic Universe are well known.
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