Ranking The MCU Captain America Suits From Worst To Best

11. The Original Avengers Suit

In The Avengers (2012), Captain America is meant to look like a classic superhero rather than military personnel. The result is a look that is hard to take seriously. It wants to be a skin-tight suit like in the comics, but it also wants to appear as if all of the pieces serve a purpose. Those two ideas clash because the suit is obviously impractical.

The main issue is the cheap-looking helmet, which makes Steve look goofy. Without it, the man is presentable, but with it, it is like he bought a costume from a store somewhere. A better-looking helmet would not do Rogers any justice because the body is not heavily padded anymore, leaving Steve with a disproportionately large head no matter what. The better choice would have been just a mask made of cloth.

The cardinal sin here is that we are meant to take Captain America seriously as the field leader of The Avengers, but he looks more like a guy hanging out with the team while in a Halloween costume. Whatever decision that should have looked good in theory, did not go so well in execution.