Re: Spider-Man-1/6th scale Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2099 Black) - Toy Fair Exclusive
I am still confused about the "Black Suit" naming on this guy... just seems weird that they even bothered to add that,..
Re: Spider-Man-1/6th scale Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2099 Black) - Toy Fair Exclusive
It's titled the "black suit" in the game, that's likely the only reason HT also named it that.
Re: Spider-Man-1/6th scale Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2099 Black) - Toy Fair Exclusive
Because it?s based on the game, and that?s how it?s described in the game.
Re: Spider-Man-1/6th scale Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2099 Black) - Toy Fair Exclusive
I remember from the early issues of the comic series characters would say he was ?dressed in black?. Maybe it?s a callback to that as well?
Yeah it's nod to the original comic version which was in fact supposed to represent a black suit, despite all the blue.
Throughout his first appearance origin arc the first main antagonist repeatedly refers to his costume as black.
And Miguel even refers to it as black.....
"The 1/6th scale Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2099 Black Suit) Collectible Figure specially features...
Costume :
- One (1) newly developed metallic blue and red colored Spider-Man 2099 Black Suit"
So in comic parlance, you are somehow looking at a black suit.
He is fantastic, and I do prefer the darker blue, to the usual electric blue, those still wondering how this is the supposed represent a
"Black Suit" version when it's still blue?
It is a fascinating and bizarre nuance of the genre, when developers and fandom can all just knowingly agree to perpetuate something they know is innately wrong, and accommodate even things as contrary as the description above.
Of course that's nothing new or surprising in the world of comics, going back to Batman who originally was obviously meant to be Grey and Black, although to illustrate what were suposed to be highlighted(shiny) black parts on the black, they just used blue (see Superman's hair too) , yet those highlights in some costumes quickly came to be default interpreted as all blue. Same for Spider-Man who was originally meant to be black and red, yet the blue soon came to bee seen as the default.
This trend just continued with Spider-Man 2099 whose costume is conically black, yet interpreted as blue .
EG in the cover, all three Spider-Man(Peter) Spider-Man 2009(Miguel) and Venom, all use the same coloring highlight.
Yet nobody then models Venom in Blue.
I do prefer it when his suit is rendered closer to black. with the comic blue just to indicate highlights.
His original Whose Who entry ...
I'd love to see the
"Black Suit" actually done in Black.
Also agree with many they should have included a cape/web-wings element.