Cap's movie costume

[sunshineclouds.livejournal.com]

There's now a description (I don't know how reliable) of Captain America's costume for the upcoming movie.

The first thing I noticed is that the trademark wings that flank the side of Cap's hood are gone. In fact the "hood" is gone entirely. In its place is a more traditional M1 Army helmet though this helmet does come over the eyes to give Cap a traditional "domino mask" look. Still present is the white "A" in the middle of the hat (nothing fancy, this is the traditional font), though like the rest of the costume, the blue of the helmet is much more muted than the blue in the comic costume. A thick black strap comes down over the ears and connects under the chin.

On his chest still lies the white star though it's not as prominent as the comic version. The costume is still split horizontally through the middle with blue on top and red and white stripes on the bottom. But instead of stripes, it's actually just a white base with two red utility straps acting as stripes. These straps affix to a metal loop at the midpoint of the chest and a black strap extends up to the shoulders from that point.

His shoulders have pads over them that extend down to about mid-bicep and are attached via a brown strap under the arm. The sleeves (for lack of a better word) are white with a fairly standard brown glove.

The fabric of the costume doesn't look like the scaled material of SPIDER-MAN but more of a leather fabric, like something you'd see on one of the X-MEN. Cap wears an old school utility belt, the likes of which we haven't seen much in modern superhero movies. (more here)



I don't know, sounds good to me.

Comments

[lilpocketninja.livejournal.com]

Nice. Kind of like the ultimate Steve's World War II helmet is I'm picturing.

[melisus.livejournal.com]

Like lilpocketninja said, sounds a lot like Ultimate Cap's WWII outfit, which I am a BIG fan of so this sounds really great to me!

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

This definitely sounds like Steve's WWII costume in Ultimates. The only difference I'm really spotting are the red strap things that they're using instead of stripes, and I will have to dig out my TBP to be sure of that. I am currently too lazy to dig out my TBP.

The fabric of the costume doesn't look like the scaled material of SPIDER-MAN but more of a leather fabric, like something you'd see on one of the X-MEN.

This bugs me, but only because I've seen the preconceptions the producers and whatnot have been throwing around, and it has developed into a pet peeve.

Steve wears Leather. Not spandex. Not tights. Leather. GRAWR. *huffhuff* And if they're going with the Ults aesthetic, definitely not scale mail. (Which I always thought was kind of useless. It didn't come down low enough to protect his soft, squishy bits, and it isn't going to do anything to stop a bullet. It is pretty, but not meant for modern warfare, and blatantly useless when it comes to aforementioned Soft Squishy Bits.)

/rambly

[valtyr]

Actually, for a WWII piece scale mail is pretty decent armour - and he carries a shield for his midsection. For a balance of weight, protection and flexibility, the classic costume+shield combination isn't so bad. All it needed was a helmet.

Oh, and WWII Ult Steve: