A Brief Look at Black Widow and Winter Soldier's Costumes in Marvel's Avengers

A lot of people have asked what game I'm playing in the Winter Soldier section, despite the fact that I credited it at the start of the Winter Soldier section. The game is called Earth Defense Force Iron Rain. Pretty fun game, especially if you have a second person to play with. Might do a follow up video discussing Widow and WS's gameplay in this game. I think Widow feels really bad to play as and WS is pretty fun, despite being a lazy composite of other characters moves.

all the dev's of this game needed to do was to make one civilian outfit for each character just for the people who like that style. But instead, there are loads of civilian outfits for each character

For the MCU winter soldier suit I always thought that he had the glove on his metal hand to add extra grip where his normal hand wouldn’t need it because it’s flesh.

Jesus Christ, even the colors are mostly faded on all of her outfits. Guess they were really obsessed with "reAliSm"

I would love to see you go over the costumes in Midnight Suns. I'm curious as to your thoughts on the designs on that game.

Its sad Winter Soldier had such bad skins, theres not a lot to go off for him, but if the dev team didn't cut corners they may have been better

When the dev's say "more realism" you do know were seeing a unfrozen super soldier, a Russian agent, a 100 year old god with a magic hammer, a giant gamma monster and a billionaire in a iron suit i think realism is kind out the window

Considering how Bucky feels like he missed the memo in the costume department, and has sooo many more suits than Janethor, I have to assume he was from MUCH earlier in development, possibly at that point people talk about where you couldn't double-up heroes.

In the case of Black Widow, I actually do like her casual costumes more since at least they're not yet another variant of black bodysuit. And I think the coat skin could've been cool if they had played it up as a Film Noir-inspired look. Give her a fedora, make the coat look more like a trench coat, change her hairstyle to something appropriate for the time period, and it could've been a fun themed costume for Widow.

I really love your Avengers costume videos. You really give these outfits a proper critique as they deserve, pointing out the true flaws of these outfits and where they could have improved.

I wanted to weigh in and just say I do like the casual outfits. I find it really charming to see what heros look like when they are off the job. It shows that they aren't just heros, they are people, and that makes it easier to relate with them

I like the casual skins for Widow because they look like something a SHIELD agent would wear. The default turtleneck looks like something you'd see a character wearing in Bond or Mission: Impossible.

In the MCU, Bucky uses his robo-arm for power, and his flesh hand for dexterity and precision. Having a glove would get in the way of that. Of course, you have to wonder what happens to all the fingerprints he leaves. Maybe they're burned off, or masked somehow.

Probably giving them too much credit but bucky's hair colour changing could be on purpose to show how he was locked away and only sent out on night missions for such a long time as his hair darkened and the after becoming a hero again and being out in the sun more slowly lightened his hair back to a more natural shade for him

11:51 normally im a casual costume hater, but i actually like this costume and its because there are details that show the clothes actually belong to the character lmao, like she has a black widow belt on, the zipper on her jacket is the symbol as well, it looks like clothes that she would actually own and wear, wish more casual outfits even attempted this. Also love your videos!! We need more people talking about costume/character design in game, as they often go over looked!

its insane how they managed to mess up so badly on the movie suits. insomniac managed to translate the movie suits perfectly, surely it isnt too hard to double check if the seam lines are supposed to be black or grey?

As someone who ALSO doesn't care for Black Widow. I think the problem is that most people use phrases like "I don't care", "I'm not a fan" or "I don't like" in a negative connotation instead of a neutral one. Specially the later. So they just assume they are the same as saying "I hate".

Yay, winter soldier was actually so fun to play as

I Like casual costumes, becasue: 1-i like to see what characters wear outside the line of duty, it adds characterization, 2-i come from media with more fashion-focused designs for outfits, so the hereos having drip streetwear instead of their superhero spandex is a nice transition for people like me, and 3-it's just hilarious to go and beat up hordes of enemies and superpowered villains dressed in a swimsuit. With all that said, this all depends on the costumes being well-design and interesting to use. Which this game doens't. I'm a big trench coat simp but even i can admit that widow white trenchcoat is low-effort. Like at least give her a hat for the carmen santiego look. I suppose this is the inevitable conclusion of a game striving for realism over personality like avengers: the Superheroes in casual outfits don't look like superheroes in casual outfits, thye look like average joes. (and the acutal hero costumes also look like average joes in cosplay)

the fact they don’t give black widow specific hair styles for specific skins just boils my blood