The Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver 'Avengers Age Of Ultron' Look. What's The Verdict?

Last night we got our first look at the designs for the Scarlet Witch and Quicksliver from the upcoming ‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron’ movie. Now we knew Joss Whedon had to put his own spin on the classic comic book characters but what’s the verdict? Has time been kind to our favourite super powered twins?

The Scarlet Witch

Considering the Scarlet Witch has been around since 1964, she was probably long overdue a bit of a makeover. The character’s best known look was an all red lingerie-esque catsuit, a red mask and a flowing cape. She also had red hair. It was a pretty sexy look and one which suited the comic book style at the time. Scarlet was of course a very feisty character and the old costume was certainly something to marvel at, but this is 2014 and Joss Whedon’s in charge.

We know Joss loves to keep his kick ass females not overly sexed up, so the new Scarlet isn't too surprising. Elizabeth Olsen’s costume will owe a lot more to the characters incarnation in the Ultimates comic book series. Less cape and leotard, more, well practical. Ok the new costume of leather jacket and frayed skirt isn’t anything extraordinary, its a bit more ‘relatable’, whether cool or not. But at least there’s a hint of red in there. Anyone dismayed at the millennial update can look to Joss Whedon’s comments a few months ago when asked about Scarlet’s costume, he said ‘obviously we want to echo the look that people know, but there’s the classic look and the Ultimates look, but you have to do it in a way that will work. But it can’t be too old school… she can’t wear a leotard.’ We understand Joss, its such a pity capes are so cool.

Next page: how about Quicksilver's look?

Quicksilver

First thing to note about the new Quicksilver is he has no white lighting bolt, (boo!) He also doesn't have white hair either (double boo!) Still the new look is very much in keeping with the Quicksilver we know, mainly he’s dressed in a blue bodysuit so what more can we ask for, really. In saying that the millennial Quicksilver does still look a lot more ordinary than his comic book counterpart, still it is an improvement on Evan Peter’s 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' look, where we saw the same character.

Come on, we all knew Whedon was going to give us something a little more ‘down to earth’ shall we say with these two character’s looks. They do at least fit in with the rest of the 'Avengers' crowd. The hardcore comic fans might be initially taken a back a bit, especially by the Scarlet Witch, but we should know by now that all our favourite comic book characters are in pretty good hands. Still lets hope at least Scarlett gets a cool headband at some point, if not how’s anybody going to know she’s got superpowers?

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