The Fantastic Four’s New MCU Costumes Break a 30-Year Rule of Marvel Movies

Summary

• Marvel Studios has revealed the official costumes of the titular team in
  Fantastic Four: First Steps
  with a blue and white design.
• Previous live-action iterations of the Fantastic Four have primarily worn blue and black costumes, with the exception of the unreleased 1994 episode.
  The Fantastic Four
  movie.
• The return of blue and white suits for the MCU suggests
  Fantastic Four: First Steps
  will have a light tone that builds on the optimism of the film’s 1960s setting.

Marvel Studios has revealed the first costumes for the titular team Fantastic Four: First Stepsand they break a 30-year-old rule from previous live-action adaptations of the upcoming MCU team. Fantastic Four: First Steps is one of Marvel’s most anticipated projects, as audiences have been waiting decades for a faithful live-action version of Marvel’s first family. The first updates regarding First steps suggest that the team will finally be served justice, and the Fantastic Four’s MCU costume design supports this idea.

The Fantastic Four were confirmed to be joining the MCU shortly after Disney completed its acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, but it wasn’t until Valentine’s Day of this year that the cast of Fantastic Four: First Steps has been confirmed. Since then, Marvel Studios’ presentations at SDCC and D23, as well as leaked set photos, have revealed more information about the exciting Fantastic Four reboot, which is set to release in July 2025.This included a first look at the team’s new MCU costumes, which are very different from previous live-action renditions.

Fantastic Four wear blue and white costumes in early MCU installments

Marvel Studios has only revealed Johnny Storm’s costume, the others remain to be seen

A short video of the casting of Fantastic Four: First Steps The episode aired at D23 and revealed Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm in a blue and white costume, proudly sporting the Fantastic Four logo on his chest. This gave viewers their first look at the team’s official MCU superhero costumes, resembling the blue and white suits first introduced in Marvel Comics in the 1980s by John Byrne. This marks a divergence from previous versions of the Fantastic Four costumes, which were primarily blue and black.more similar to the team’s original Marvel Comics costumes.

The first official live-action adaptation of Marvel’s First Family was released in 2005, with The Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel, The Rise of the Silver Surfershowing Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis in blue and black superhero costumes. While the The Fantastic Four The reboot completely butchered the team’s classic costumes, John Krasinski’s suit in 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Chris Evans’ new costume in 2024 Deadpool and Wolverine also used blue and black patterns. However, The Fantastic Four’s blue and white costumes have already been seen once, three decades ago.

The Fantastic Four’s blue and white costumes were only seen in the unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four film.

1994’s Fantastic Four marked the team’s first-ever live-action adaptation.

In the 1980s, German producer Bernd Eichinger’s company, Constantin Film, purchased the film rights to the Fantastic Four and, in an effort to retain that option, set to work producing a low-budget film centered on the team in the early 1990s. Under the supervision of B-movie specialist Roger Corman and music video director Oley Sassone, The Fantastic Four was developed on a budget of just $1 million, but was ultimately exhibited only once. Although it didn’t come out, The Fantastic Four I saw the titular team fighting Doctor Doom in blue and white superhero costumes.

1994s
The Fantastic Four
starring Alex Hyde-White as Reed Richards’ Mister Fantastic, Rebecca Staab as Sue Storm’s Invisible Woman, Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm’s Human Torch, Michael Bailey Smith as Ben Grimm, Carl Ciarfalio as the Thing and Joseph Culp as Doctor Doom.

It is interesting to note that the low-budget costumes used in the 1994s The Fantastic Four were much more comical than the costume Joseph Quinn wears as Johnny Storm in the footage of Fantastic Four: First Steps. However, both of these designs were inspired by the same era of Marvel Comics, as the team wore blue and white costumes between 1981 and 1996. Fantastic Four #416. The fact that Marvel Studios brought back the blue and white costumes, rather than sticking to the usual black accentssays a lot about the new direction of the Fantastic Four.

Why Blue and White Costumes Are the Best Choice for the MCU’s Fantastic Four

Blue and white costumes separate the MCU’s Fantastic Four from previous incarnations

Marvel Studios Revives the Fantastic Four’s Blue and White Costumes First steps is clearly an attempt to separate this newly revamped version of the team from previous incarnations. These versions of the costumes have never been officially seen in live-action, with the exception of the unreleased 1994 version The Fantastic FourSO Introducing them as the team’s first costumes in the MCU is a bold move that proves this iteration of Marvel’s first family will be unlike anything that has come before.Gone are the dark days of the Fantastic Four under the supervision of 20th Century Fox.

Fantastic Four: First Steps will take the team in a lighter direction than previous installments.

The new blue and white suits suggest that Fantastic Four: First Steps will take the team in a lighter direction than previous iterations. The Fantastic Four should be a lighthearted and entertaining team to show on screen, but some past lineups, including the 2015 version featuring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell, were far too dark. Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four new costumes build on the optimism and hope of the reboot’s 1960s settingso it will be great to finally see them in action next year.

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