Name: The Real Reason Marvel Changed How The Avengers Looked
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Comic books aren't like real life — they're so much cooler.

Lifting characters from comics and adapting them to the big screen is a complicated process.

And for Marvel, that meant a redesign of some pretty iconic characters.

The impact of the Avengers is a lot greater if you think they could actually show up on

the evening news, but getting them from all their brightly-colored comic book glory to

living, breathing characters took some heavy revision.

Here's why Marvel changed how the Avengers looked when they brought them to the movies.

Sharp-eyed viewers will notice that in Avengers, Age of Ultron, and Civil War, Jeremy Renner's

Hawkeye sports some gear that pays tribute to the character's original comic look with

its purple coloring, but without getting quite so crazy.

Of course, it's thankfully missing some traditional details: when Renner went on stage at Wizard

World Chicago's MCU panel, one optimistic young fan asked if he was going to get to

He confirmed that the answer was a resounding "no."

If Marvel had kept Clint Barton's original look … just, no.

It's not clear what's worse: the purple-on-purple outfit, or that mask.

Even still, his comic costume sort of made sense.

The character's parents died when he was a kid.

But when it came time to stay in the orphanage, he said, "nuts to this" and joined the circus

And, without question, this get-up belongs in the circus.

Marvel was going for a serious feel with The Avengers, after all, and this one just had

Of course, they could've gone a step further and given him, oh, you know, a gun, too.

When it came to getting down to the business of war, Marvel Studios made the right moves

They kept the iconic red, white, and blue, but opted for something a little more serious.

It makes sense, because soldiers on either side wouldn't take him seriously if he'd kept

Actor Chris Evans was well aware of the positive changes, too, telling Empire, "Given the fact

that his costume is red, white, and blue, and it's tight, it could be kind of flash

and over the top … they've done a really good job of making it look really cool."

Sure, it's a classic, but it's fitting that Cap only wears it when he's parading on-stage

The movie treats it like a joke, because it pretty much is.

So what if Cap had worn the original comics outfit into the field?

Well, he might feel a little silly with such a brightly colored costume as he charged into

And those little wings on the side of his head couldn't have offered much tactical advantage,

The original costume for Thor, Marvel's resident Norse god of thunder, was pretty dang cool.

It was also — to put it simply — completely unfilmable.

And the first time Thor made it to television in 1988's The Incredible Hulk Returns proves

this to be true, since they didn't even bother trying to come close:

"No Thor let's save him, give me the hammer."

But by 2007, Marvel redesigned his outfit in the comics.

And that's more or less what made it to the silver screen in 2011's Thor movie.

Only it's missing one thing...where's his helmet?

The helmet made a brief appearance in the first movie, and then it's never seen again.

That's mostly because Thor actor Chris Hemsworth really, really hated it.

And the amount of times it would fall off and like the bridge would be smashing me in

the nose or the wings to the helmet in one of the fight scenes was getting clipped off…"

Because, let's face it: no one really looks badass when they're wearing a hat with wings,

as we've already proved with Captain America.

That goes double for the helmet Thor used to wear in the comics before his redesign,

It looks like he's wearing a flying Hershey's Kiss.

That may work for Peter Jackson and his army of orc-food, but that's just not gonna fly

It's a case where you can draw things that you can't easily translate into the real world.

Thor's hat is one of those things that just didn't work.

When Ant-Man made it to the big screen, they threw away his silly comic costume, giving

him an updated, redesigned costume that was made in the best possible way ever — with

The movie-making geniuses over at Marvel consulted with a very real-world genius, Dr. Spiros

Michalakis from the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.

According to the good doctor, when you look at the problems of shrinking a full-sized

human to ant-sized, you're messing with all kinds of laws.

Like density: if Paul Rudd really was compacted to the size of an ant, he'd about the same

From breathing oxygen molecules too big for your tiny body to process, to a smaller body

that generates too much heat, there are lots of reasons why comic book Ant-Man's outfit

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