Top 5 X-Uniforms
October 25th, 2009
There have been many teams that call themselves the X-Men over the years. One thing that has changed as much as the roster has been the uniform of the X-Man. Panel of the Week weighs in on the top five X-Uniforms of all time as well as some of the get-ups that didn’t cut it.
5. 1990’s X-Men
Big hair, big muscles, big guns, and big cans ruled the comics of the 90’s. Jim Lee’s involvement in the reboot of the X-Men meant the franchise would not be immune to the trends. Oh, and when in doubt, pouches. Yellow pouches.
4. New X-Men
When Frank Quitely got his hands on the X-Men he immediately ditched the spandex in favor of black leather and the best White Queen outfit of all time, Kanye.
3. Ultimate X-Men
With a serious nod to the 90’s with all those pouches the clean look of the Ultimate X-Men went far to relaunch the franchise in the new Ultimate Universe. No masks was also a nice touch.
2. Astonishing X-Men
As cool as it was when costumes went away with Quitely it was somehow cooler when they came back with Cassady. Well, except for Beast. That never looked right. I can’t say this enough, I should NEVER see Cyclops’ hair when he’s in costume. Well done covering it up.
1. First Class X-Men
The original costumes for the Cyke and the gang were very flared boots and 60’s. Iconic, to be certain, but in the end not great. In this re-imagining of the beginning First Class brings the essence of the originals into the future. I love the clean lines and bold simple color schemes of these uniforms. Bravo.
Honorable Mentions
These didn’t make the top five but here are some of the other contenders for the list.
Hellions
These guys came very close to breaking into the top five. Just a bit too formulaic I want to say?
X-Force
Are these pallette swapped uniforms supposed to be fooling anyone? It’s a black ops squad not an away uniform.
X-Men Evolution
Lame.
Age of Apocalypse
Outside of Logan not being able to be a third base coach because of his stumpy left arm the most memorable thing from Age of Apocalypse will obviously be Peter Rasputin the shiny pirate, ARRRRR!
X-treme X-men
Misspelling extreme immediately makes something not extreme. That’s just science.
X-Statix
Did anyone have a cooler uniform than Dead Girl or The Orphan? I submit they did not. But then it’s minus points for Phat’s uniform being a hoodie and also serious minus points for having Fireball from the ‘Running Man’ on your team.
Did I miss anything in the X-Universe? Should there be Morlocks? Alpha whoevers? Maybe a MerMax? Be heard in the comments!
great comments on the costumes!had fun reading it
p.s. the iron man wallpaper was drawn by marc silvestri
Jason,
Thanks for the spot on the wallpaper, I really should have known that was Silvestri…
Mikey Donuts
Nice list, but AoA had so much to offer. Blink’s look anyone? And how Magento just looked like he did on the cartoon.
Ok Blink was cool. At least the writers figured out how to turn teleportation into some cool offensive abilities. Here’s Blink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AoABlink.jpg