10 Disastrous Superhero Redesigns
8. Extreme Namor
Not to be outdone, Marvel used the totally tubular grimdark tone of nineties comics as an excuse to give their undersea anti-hero a little makeover as well. With, well, interesting results. Designed by now-feted artist Jae Lee, the outfit Namor The Sub-Mariner got saddled with for the better part of a decade wasn't befitting of a king of his stature. Like, at all.
Before that Namor was content to swim around in little green, scaly underpants, and not a whole lot else. A rare example of a character who appeared to be for those other than the straight male gaze, as mostly every superheroine is. The beefcake has been toned down a little in recent years by spoilsports who insist on him wearing a weird black trousers-and-waistcoat (but no shirt still) combo, which doesn't seem like itd be much good when you live underwater.
Still, thats nothing compared to the weird outfit Lee saddled him with, which was more American Gladiator than Prince of Atlantis: the short cropped hair became a wild Tina Turner mane, the speedos swapped for some pointy armour that looks ready-made for an action figure. Which might explain it.