How The MCU's X-Men COULD Look

If you ask anyone which film franchise kicked off the modern-day superhero craze - which has given us the likes of the stellar MCU, the mixed bag that is the DCEU (which is hopefully on an upswing), and Sony's fledgling Spider-verse, among others - they'll give you one of two answers: Sam Raimi's Spider-Man or the original X-Men trilogy. The impact of these films is truly difficult to understate. Although the franchise seems doomed to die with a whimper (unless New Mutants is excellent), it nevertheless laid the groundwork for the modern cinematic landscape, and paved the way for superhero movies to dominate the global box office.

That's not to say it was all perfect. One major point of critique has always been the costumes. Indeed, the X-Men of yore were characterized by muted, cheap-looking black leather and a notable absence of color. Perhaps the franchise made an impact through this failure, as well. Standing in stark contrast to these films, the MCU - and more recent DCEU films like Shazam! and Aquaman - have really leaned into the colorfulness of the comic book characters. It's entirely possible that this came as a course-correction from the monochromatic X-Men costumes of yesteryear.

In an almost poetic turn of events, the costumes that may have inadvertently influenced the vibrancy of the MCU will get a reboot in that very same universe, and they will surely get the color treatment. What will will these new and improved X-Men costumes look like? That's where prolific artist Lucas Werneck comes in.

Werneck took to his Instagram to give us his interpretation of what some of the X-Men could look like in the MCU. Now, it's important to keep in mind that these are in no way official, but they might give us some idea of what direction Marvel might take them.

9. Colossus

First up, we have Colossus.

Werneck's interpretation of Colossus is significantly more faithful to his comic counterpart than any film adaptation. His costume in X2 a simple vest with an X on the chest, though the X was the same color as the rest of the outfit. As a result, it didn't stand out too much. That same design carried over into X3 and Days of Future Past with very little variation. His look in the Deadpool films did a little more in the way of comics accuracy. Gone was the almost unnoticeable black X. In its place, we saw a red X, keeping in line with his comic costume (insofar as the costume featured some red coloring), though the red was still fairly muted. Like the X2/X3/DoFP costume before it, it also featured the X belt buckle.

First, let us address the most obvious difference between Werneck's Colossus and the film incarnations: the gold. Just like most of his comic book iterations, this outfit features a good deal of gold coloring, though this version seems to distribute the gold a little more evenly than the comic (which relegated most of the gold to Colossus's chest). Keeping with the topic of color, this Colossus lacks any red, which has always been a staple of his character. Assuming Marvel were to go with a design similar to this one, perhaps they could incorporate some red into the shoulder pads or the gloves (which, hey, he has gloves!).

Also noteworthy is his hair and beard. Traditionally, we've seen Colossus sport a flattop and no facial hair. This art is certainly a deviation from that, with Colossus sporting a well-kept beard and a dapper fade with what looks to be a side-part. Of course, this isn't unprecedented. It seems to be drawing inspiration from his design in Humberto Ramos and Jeff Lemire's Extraordinary X-Men, which ran from January 2016 to May 2017. In that series, Colossus sported a beard and a fade that are strikingly similar to Werneck's design. Colossus is sexy, now. Moving on...