I am very disapointed with supermans costume in the New 52. I know they wanted to modernize superman's costume(which im okay with since underwear over costumes looks pretty stupid) but did they really have to make it look like armor. I like his movie costume better than his current comic book costume. Im not a big fan of making the comics more like the movies, but im also not a big fan of changes superman's costume so it can appeal to hipsters. Just like the title states I think they should give supes his movie costume.

I like his current costume.

I wouldn't mind if it lost all of the extra lines since so many people complain though. That the only change I would find acceptable.

The movie costume looks like shite. Not enough red and his belt needs to be more prominent.

Just my opinion.

I like the new 52 suit but my favorite suit of all time is Action Comics

The movie idc what suit Superman wears just as long as its a decent movie

@Tyrus said:

I like the original design for his New 52 costume -

I like how the cape is attached to his "S" Logo, it makes more sense unlike the one that he is currently wearing, where the cape just leads into his collar bone. Though, it looks like they ended up using the design above for Superman's costume in Injustice: God's Among Us.

As for the movie design - it actually looks awesome, more realistic unlike the one in Bryan Singer's film - the underwear just doesn't work in a movie...

If rocksteady were to make an awesome superman game, I'd want, or something similar to, this to be his main costume

@danhimself : I also really like the Smallville series suit and what they did with the technology aspect of the belt buckle.

@Selinaky : A cool sketch and I do like the wrap around of the shoulders by the cape but the s-shield is way too big (front and back) but the concept would work with a smaller symbol. The only thing I would really change is the belt for this design. Just leave it all gold and get rid of the three floating pieces around the buckle. Only say that because there is so much red in this design with the wrap around cape that look doesn't need anymore at the waist.

Though I didn't like how the suit was introduced in Action Comics (think it would have been more appropriate for it to have been created after the Collector of Worlds arc by in the first fortress) I like the idea that the suit is Kryptonian armor and it uses nanotechnology in its generation and storage. Its a good way to hide the suit, showcase the technology of Krypton, and allow his clothing as Clark Kent to not be so formal and covering but have a more natural, normal working joe appeal. I still don't really understand if the whole suit is contained within the shield or it its worn like a t-shirt most of the time...Superman #11 was a bit vague on the specifics.

I don't like that they made it look like armor all the time, they need to have the shield design all over the suit (a complaint by nearly every fan of the Superman Returns suit), and that the belt is red instead of gold (he has enough red in his suit already they could have kept the gold belt to break things up).

I wish they would have gone one extra step and identified the armor as having two distinct layers (just like you would have in any real-life armor). The first layer is a skin tight body suit that is designed to withstand friction and tearing. Basically something similar to what he's wearing in the movie as well as his earlier incarnations.That's what we see covering 90% of Superman's body (I do like the collar). The remaining 10% could be the second layer of armor at specific points of his body, like forearms, outer thighs, rib cage, and spine, as well as the shield and boots being armored (the movie costume does something a bit like this with the raised pattern design in similar areas) and have those pieces have a slightly metallic sheen to them (particularly the pieces covering the forearms, ribs, spin, and outer thighs that could be more blue-steel than the flat blue of the body suit) to stand out a bit and give artists nice reflective surfaces for flight and sunlit panels.

In terms of the cape I don't mind how its presented right now as it can be interpreted as being firmly connected to the neck of the suit given its generated in the same way. I think it would have been nice if they would have connected it to the shield since they had no problem doing it in the Earth-2 series or giving the thumbs up for the Injustice: God Among Us game, especially given the fact they so clearly wanted the reader to see how the cape is held on for the new 52's Supergirl design. If I could have my cake and eat it to I would have preferred they not use the cape as his baby blanket (really hate the silver age concept that all krypton-based objects gain near invincible levels of durability under a yellow sun) and instead interpreted as signs of rank among the Kryptonian Military Guild (having either his grandfather or uncle re-interpreted as a Commander in the Guild) and Superman wears them cape in honor of that person (thus connection to the fact that in World of New Krypton he was Commander El).

As for my thought on the armor being two-layered, to finish up my point, though we only see a very small percentage of the second layer most of the time, writers could make full use of it in particular situations where Superman is up against tougher opponents (indicating just what level his invulnerability in the new 52 is really at), traveling deep into space (indicating his level of stamina and how long he can hold his breath), or when he needs protection from high amounts of kryptonite or kryptonite based villains (stating, like in the Smallville series, that the second layer armor is of lead based composition). If everyone remembers the last Superman/Batman series, I'm thinking a full set of Kryptonian armor looks something like this

re-designed to be in keeping with the visual style of the new 52. With luck writers wouldn't abuse this feature so as to keep the "oh crap things are getting serious" moments memorable when Superman needs to don his full armor but that way be a bit too much to ask.

@Z3RO180: Nice pun by the way. Agree with you but I think the biggest reason people didn't complain about Batman as much were because he didn't have them in the movies (beginning with Tim Burton's Batman), they blended better with the rest of his costume (rather than the clash of red and blue for Superman), most of his panels have him crouching or obscured in shadow and thus hide them, and he lost them prior to the new 52 with his design change with Batman Incorporated. So by the time the new 52 was being announced and we were getting sketches of the character re-designs, people already had an expectation of Batman without outer underwear and so were more interested in seeing Superman catch up to that idea.

I hate the collar.

That's my two cents

The movie costume is pretty similar to the New52 Costume, sans the lines indicating armor.

@Selinaky: AGREED

In my opinion I would prefer something like this.

@TheCannon said:

I love the New 52 costume. While I like the costume for Man of Steel (though the New 52 is better), I think that they should keep the New 52.

^This

@Superboy101 said:

In my opinion I would prefer something like this.

Totally would not mind this.

But I like the new 52 and original new 52 design. IMO Smallville's outfit is the worst. Do not like the the dark patch at the side

Some of these costumes have their charms but they seem, well, unnecessarily "busy".

The idea of a uniform that looks like armor takes away from Superman a bit. If he's really so tough, why body armor, right?

Also, in terms of new 52 design, I know this is a nitpick, but having only one or two people (Cully Hamner, Jim Lee) design all of the costume changes may have been a poor idea. The DCU contains characters from Mythology, space, Gotham, Metropolis, Star City, etc...so why do they all eventually end up in costumes with similar designs?

Long Johns?