Home Featured Content

10 Of The Least Comic-Accurate Superhero Movie Costumes

As we outlined in our list of 10 Extremely Comic-Accurate Superhero Movie Outfits, some comic book films get the look of their main character exactly right. Success doesn’t always equal simply borrowing ideas from the source material, but generally speaking, if filmmakers stick to what makes the character work on the page it will likely work on screen.

superhero movie costumes, wolverine, x-men,

1) Wolverine

Recommended Videos

While Batman & Robin’s costumes are certainly the worst superhero movie outfits, there is one more that is even further from the comics. As poorly realized as Clooney’s Batman was, at least he was recognizably Batman. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, however, never wears anything approximating his comic counterpart’s get-up.

While it made sense for Bryan Singer to eschew the classic yellow spandex for a standard issue leather jumpsuit for 2000’s X-Men – so as not to scare away non-comic book readers – the lack of a proper Wolverine costume over the years is a big disappointment. Nowadays, audiences are a lot more superhero savvy and no one would bat an eyelid if Jackman donned, at the very least, the traditional helmet.

With the actor bowing out of the role one final time in the upcoming third Wolverine movie, let’s hope he gets to wear the suit at least once. After all, we did get a glimpse of it in the alternate ending for The Wolverine, which you can see above.