Fashion Meets Comics Commentary: The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's Possible Costumes for The Avengers: Age of Ultron

This past Tuesday, Marvel posted some concept costume art for the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver for The Avengers: Age of Ultron movie.


Scarlet Witch concept art

Scarlet Witch from the comics

Elizabeth Olsen who is cast to play Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. Scarlet Witch didn't have a very favorable opinion about the comic book costume.

According to an interview with Total Film, Elizabeth Olsen said this about her movie costume:

"I don’t think Joss [Whedon] ever would have hired me, honestly, if he wanted me to wear those outfits; I am not a professional athlete and nor am I a model. Wearing those costumes wouldn’t be fun for anyone who wasn’t those things. He already had a different idea. It respects and involves the comic-book character but it’s different, more rooted. It’s for someone today.”

She added, “Well, if someone walked around wearing what she wore in the comics, people would stop and say, ‘What the hell… she thinks she’s a superhero!’”

Also according to the article, she walks around the set with a cape on to cover her costume so as to keep it a secret from the media.


Quicksilver concept art

Quicksilver from the comics

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (from the Kick-Ass movies) was cast to play Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver for The Avenger movie (there is another actor who was cast for Quicksilver in the X-Men: Days of Future Past movie). So far, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has not made any comments about his costume.


I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with both concept art costumes but mainly with the Scarlet Witch's. I find Wanda's costume to be even worse because not only is it boring but it's just regular clothes. There is nothing special or original about that costume. It reminds of something they would have done on Smallville with just putting the character in regular clothes and calling that a costume. Well at least with Quicksilver's costume it looks like a costume even if it is a little boring.

Hopefully these are not the actual ones that will be featured in the movie because Scarlet Witch should have a real costume. Even though Elizabeth Olsen has an unfavorable opinion about wearing the comic book costume, however that's exactly what the fans want to see, the characters in the costumes. That was a big issue fans had with those X-Men movies and TV shows like Smallville and Birds of Prey. 

So, what do you think of the concept art? Good, Bad or Okay?