12 Easy Solutions To Save The X-Men Franchise

The X-uniforms. Dear god, the leather, the armour… the flight suits, the zippers, everything. It’s all so homogenised, so dull. In X-Men: Apocalypse, they all looked like Star Wars villains who’d lost their helmets.

The Fantastic Four are a literal family - a husband and wife, her kid brother and the grumpy ‘uncle’ - and so can get away with wearing identical uniforms. The X-Men, on the other hand, tend to wear a whole panoply of different colours and styles to reflect the fact that they’re all individuals who’ve come together by choice to form a team.

Obviously you have to be a little careful, or you run the risk of having your cast looking like randy cosplayers at San Diego, two Jager shots away from some inappropriate sticky groping behind a Pixar display. But is there really any justification for these people not to have their own clothes that they dress in to fight and save lives? Why are they picking them all off the stormtrooper rack at the X-Mansion?

And isn’t looking like a fascist paramilitary squad the last thing that this team need if they want to make people feel more secure about mutants in society?