 We used to have good alternate Spider-Man costumes, but recently it seems like Marvel's just been putting out schlock for Spider-Man. But I mean, what else is new? Even Miles Morales got a cool alternate costume. People only hate this suit because it replaced the original. I think it's good. The only thing I'd change about it is just to give him his old mask under the hood. It seems to me that Marvel has definitely lost their spark when it comes to redesigning classic Spider-Man outfits. And do I think I could do better? Yes. Yes I do. Today I'm going to redesign three of Marvel's recent Spider-Man designs, while either trying to keep the feel of their original or completely revamp it while keeping its original lore purpose front and center in its design. Let's sit on some corporate artists. Alright, welcome to the non-scripted section of this video where today we are going to be starting with the threats and menaces suit. Now I already covered this suit in a super super old video, you should never watch any of my old content, and if I do hear about any of you watching my old stuff, I will go back and delete it, and it will be your fault. This is the threats and menaces suit. This suit is just not it for me. I already explained why I don't like it in a previous video which I don't permit you to watch, but I explained why it's not good there. I used sort of a meter to indicate where this suit was in terms of redesign, the beginning of the meter being the original classic Spider-Man outfit, and the very end of the meter being something completely new, like the black suit or the big time suit. And I said that for a Spider-Man design to be good it has to be either on the far left of the meter, which means it has to be really close to the original, or on the far right, which means it has to be something that's completely different that breaks away from the format and colors of the original. This suit is smack dab in the middle of this meter, and that's why I feel like it doesn't really work as a redesign. It's familiar yet new, it's sort of like the uncanny valley of Spider-Man outfits. The reuse of the blue from the classic suit in similar formatting is kind of what just throws this suit off for me. I made a video on TikTok around the time I made that video, and I remember getting a lot of flack for shitting on this costume. And by no means do I mean to shit on the original artist who made this, it's just that for me personally this costume doesn't really feel like a good Spider-Man outfit, and I feel like I've thoroughly explained why. The purpose of this suit, lore-wise, was to have Peter run around and stream his adventures to the internet, so it's essentially just the Twitch Spider-Man suit. So in my redesign, I wanted to implement as much streaming platforms as possible to reference them within the design, in a way that I felt like wasn't too pushy and worked really well. Also, this suit is a prime example of a lot of these Spider-Man suits not really having a name. I wish they would start naming their Spider-Man suits. So from now on, I'm gonna name this suit the streaming suit. This is my streaming suit redesign. It uses red and purple, the most popular streaming platform colors, red being YouTube and purple being Twitch. If it doesn't appear purple on your monitor, it might be a little more blueish, so trust me, it's supposed to be like an indigo purple. I wanted to implement as many streaming and just video playing iconography into this costume as possible. For example, if you look at the web shooters, they're fast forward buttons. If you look at the eyes, they're giant play buttons. The first I experimented with having the chest symbol being made out of a pause button, but then it just sort of turned into me taking these long rods and turning them and bending them into a spider logo. The lines that go down the sides of his arms and thighs are supposed to resemble the playback feed, you know, the little place where you can see how far along you are in a YouTube video. And that's pretty much it. I do understand that this suit is a little bland, but I still think the design works and it's literally something I thought of in an hour, so I do understand that there might be some retooling that would make this suit better. But for now, I think this suit does everything I think I would have wanted the original streaming suit to do. Like this suit looks like if YouTube and Twitch sponsored Spider-Man or partnered with him. I like it. I like it a lot more than the original design, I mean fair to say I'm biased. But of course, this is where you guys can come in the comments and tell me how big of an idiot I am for even touching anything Marvel's done. Is Marvel so good and they never do anything wrong ever? The Spider-Man Beyond Suit is one of the most controversial suits that Marvel has put out recently. And that's because it's kind of good. And it's also because the things people say about it are also justified. It's controversial. Either you like it or you don't. Me personally, I like it. But other people don't like it for a very, very, very justifiable reason. And today, I'm going to be fixing the Spider-Man Beyond design. Are you guys ready? Are you guys ready? Are you guys ready for my Spider-Man Beyond redesign? Are you ready? Are you ready? Look. Okay, so I had to re-record this segment in the video because I came off like such an asshole that I was like editing this video back and I was like, wait, hold on. I kind of sound like a dickhead. So I've decided to go back and maybe rethink some of the things I've said and provide more constructive criticism instead of screaming at my monitor for five minutes for you guys to all enjoy, which you probably would have enjoyed more. This costume isn't different enough from the source material or I feel like quality enough of a design to justify its existence. It's just a yellow themed Spider-Man suit with elements of teal. The color palette of this suit is good and I feel like it could work, especially because of the mischievous nature of Oscorp and that's what this is by the way. This is a costume that was made by Oscorp for Spider-Man and I feel like the color palette kind of does a good job of implying that it's not quite Spider-Man. I think placing the yellow egg sacks on his forearm without any sort of reason or justification for them to be there doesn't really work. I get why they're there because they have like mini Spider-Bots in them or whatever, but they just sort of feel plunked onto the design. The logo is nice, I like it, I don't mind it, but I also just think the yellow was more forced into the color palette of this suit than it was naturally integrated in. The shade of reddish pink I really like and again I think the teal could work for this design. I feel like the vest is really just juxtaposed onto the design of this outfit. I feel like you'd get much better results if you more cleverly integrated it into the outfit. If you look at the symbol on the back you'll actually find out that the whole thing is supposed to come off and it's supposed to be a little Spider-Bot, which is cute. I actually really like the Spider-Bot and it's the only thing about this design that I enjoy. I feel like the legs being wrapped onto the front of Spider-Man doesn't really work too well into the design, especially since we've seen so many good Spider-Man outfits that just take the back Spider legs and wrap them around the front. I feel like just doing that again wouldn't really be so looked down upon. Now that I've said everything that I don't like about this design I'm going to show you my design that I think improves on some of the critiques I have about this one. This is my design for the Oscorp suit. It has the gold, a darker teal, but the same pinkish red used before. Those legs that come off of the back Spider can still create the Spider-Bot scene in the final concept art and the egg pouch thingies instead of coming on Spider-Man's arm and just feeling placed on there with no rhyme or reason are now embedded into these big bulky yellow web shooters. I wanted to make the lenses look more menacing, something you might have seen on a Scarlett Spider suit, but if you don't like these lenses you could always just take the ones from the original and plop them onto this one. My friends in the Junk Art server edited this image so that it has the previous lenses from beforehand. I don't want to say my design is better than Marvel's or better than the artist who drew this thing up, but I think I am. I think if this was the design that was released for this arc, people probably wouldn't have lost their minds as much as they did when the Oscorp suit was released. And honestly, I think it was much less of a freakout session on Twitter than it was Oh look, Marvel put out another bad Spider-Man costume, surprise, surprise, and that's kind of how everyone feels. I think a lot of people have lost faith in Marvel and their ability to make good costumes for Spider-Man, and I think I know what the problem for that is. I think the problem is that Marvel is hiring people who just draw the comic books and not people who design the characters in the first place. I think if Marvel started hiring some character designers, you probably would have seen a lot better work than what we ended up with. And I don't want to shit on artists who design these bad costumes. There's just a lot of room to grow and I think by properly critiquing them instead of just saying, oh costume bad is the best way to do it. That's why I always try to provide a reason for why I don't really like the costumes that come out. I always explain why I don't enjoy them in great detail and honestly sometimes very incessant and overdoing it detail. I don't know why I've grown such a soft heart for the poor Marvel artists who designed this. Poor is in, I've been shitting on him for a little bit. I think people aren't ever going to get better at what they do if we don't tell them why the thing they're currently making isn't good. I think when you say, oh this Marvel costume is bad without providing any reason for it is sort of what creates this divide between our criticism and the people at Marvel. If you just say, oh this costume is shit and not provide a reason, then the people who design these costumes are going to be like, they're just haters, they're just hating and they have no genuine criticism, then maybe Marvel will actually start to listen. I'm not saying that you should attack these artists on Twitter because they made a costume you didn't like, but maybe provide some genuine criticism. Don't be an asshole. Never mind Marvel fucked it up again, god damn. You know what, I lied, I'm taking it all back, I'm taking it all fucking back because Marvel put a bad, Marvel put a bad Spider-Man design in their fucking card game that they didn't advertise as a card game at first because people wouldn't have cared, but now that we're like into the release cycle of the game actually coming out soon where they have to put out footage, it was revealed to actually be a card game and you know people don't give a shit about card games. I take back my statement about not being an asshole, be an asshole. What the fuck is this, Marvel? Get off your ass, stop making bad shit, please, I'm begging you, damn.