Singer's Superman
Reportedly at the direction of next year's Superman Returns director, Bryan Singer, the Superman costume Brandon Routh (who'd be wise to bury his nickname "BJ") will be wearing was changed from the traditional look. (Click on the image to see a fuller one - and click on that one in turn for a huge image. I opted for a tiny one here so as to not be forced to write a huge block of completely unecessary text.)
Darker tones to the primary colors, the family crest/insignia (remember, it only looks like an S to us Earth people after all...) made smaller and set higher on the chest, and, somewhat nonsensically, duplicated on a belt buckle. The ex-X-Men director may have gotten too locked into the idea of team uniforms. Some have accurately noted that the darker hues used in the new costume look very much like the evil version of Superman (seen on the right) from Superman III - you remember, the Superman movie and the Richard Pryor movie that were jammed and duct-taped together into a Frankenstein's monster? Well, maybe it's best if you don't remember.
I suppose the message is that we're supposed to take this Superman more seriously.
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