Being the meat and potatoes of so many updates long after it was released, it’s evident how influential and focal suit ‘skins’ are in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Indeed, Marvel’s Spider-Man nearly has it all between costumes that are comic book-inspired, Sam Raimi and MCU-inspired, and original designs, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 pedestaling suits even further with additional customization options. There are still costumes that haven’t been adapted or iterated, of course, and Insomniac has outright demonstrated why the suits that aren’t in-game may be as important to note as the ones that are.
Marvel’s Wolverine is presumed to have a costume catalog for its titular mutant as that has become a popular trend in not only the Marvel’s Spider-Man series but Marvel games in general, and although it’s possible that Insomniac could forgo a suit selection menu tab it may be advantageous to include one regardless. It may be far too soon to be giving serious thought to a Marvel’s Wolverine sequel already; however, if Insomniac has the same foresight with Wolverine that it did with Spider-Man, withholding particularly special costumes for remarkable relevance in the story could be worthwhile.
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A colossal implication was made when Insomniac rightfully chose not to feature a symbiote-inspired skin in Marvel’s Spider-Man because it knew it would be iterating on it and having it play a huge role in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Having a black suit in Marvel’s Spider-Man would’ve diluted that suspense. Even if it chose to feature a one-to-one copy of the suit from the comics as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 also did, having a wider selection all beholden to the sequel gave the alien symbiote a lot more gravitas as a costume, especially with the black suit adapted from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3.
Interestingly, the idea that a suit being important to the story means it wouldn’t casually or thoughtlessly be available as an alternate, unlockable skin simultaneously suggests that any important comic book run’s costume being featured in-game instantly annihilates the chances of that storyline being adapted. For example, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 having a Superior Spider-Man suit seems to determine that Insomniac will not be adapting that run—unless it does so with a brand-new suit design in mind, at least.
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Wolverine’s costume catalog may not be as lengthy as Spider-Man’s, but there are more than enough iconic suits for him that could have roles of their own in a Marvel’s Wolverine sequel if they don’t make the cut in the original game. Wolverine could logically swap to any number of costumes for story-related reasons in the series, including the following:
- Patch (eye patch complete with a white tuxedo).
- Madripoor (blue, sleeveless bodysuit).
- Uncanny X-Men’s blue and yellow training uniform.
- X-Force (black-and-grey suit).
- Old Man Logan (’nuff said, bub).
The ‘Old Man Logan’ aesthetic and comic run is definitely one of Wolverine’s most popular now, and no game featuring it in order to set up for an eventual adaptation of that story could be phenomenal. Either way, assuming that it will have skins at all, it might be incredibly telling which costumes make it into Marvel’s Wolverine as well as which ones don’t.
A Weapon X skin would be perfectly reasonable since that experience is far into Wolverine’s past, for instance, while donning the Patch disguise might be a story beat that the game or its sequel gradually and gratifyingly leads into. Otherwise, it will be fascinating to see what original costumes are designed for Marvel’s Wolverine after they proved to be massively important in Marvel’s Spider-Man, such as whether Logan will get his own take on what an ‘Advanced’ suit may look like or if suits are paramount to Wolverine being able to overcome a flagship villain.