Community conversations about Marvel's Avengers have lately been focused on the game's cosmetic outfits. Indeed, Marvel's Avengers' MCU-inspired skins have been prolific since launch. While this has sated fans of the Avengers' theatrical iterations, other fans believe that Marvel's Avengers should prioritize MCU skins less.
An argument could be made that these skins are intended to tide players over while new content for the live-service title is developed. However, there are many comics-inspired suits and appearances that fans would also enjoy donning in Marvel's Avengers. Recently, it seems as if Marvel's Avengers has heard this plea. In a rare occurrence, Marvel's Avengers has announced that its newest cosmetic skin is in fact inspired by a popular comic book run.
On Thursday, March 3, Marvel's Avengers' Marketplace will feature Iron Man's Uru Armor that first debuted in Fear Itself #7. The armor was canonically made when Tony Stark, wearing the Bleeding Edge armor, submerged into a vat of molten, Asgardian Uru metal. Thus, with Uru, the same metal that composed Thor's hammer Mjolnir, Iron Man's new armor was magically enchanted. The armor's grey-and-orange palette and bodily spikes resemble Odin's Destroyer, which was also made from the mystical metal.
Marvel's Avengers' latest Iron Man cosmetic fulfills this inspiration with an almost one-to-one approach. But Fear Itself is only one of many influential comic runs that Marvel's Avengers could draw from for its current roster. Marvel's Avengers has previously added other comics-inspired skins for its characters, but it may be easy for players to overlook them with the abundance of MCU adaptations that has followed.
Outfits derived from their comic book source material could also provide fans with a look at authentic designs for their favorite Marvel's Avengers characters as each arc from the comics portrays a different development or story for the character. Iron Man's Uru Armor is indicative of that with a unique story to tell, and fans' admiration for that story can now be expressed as they wear it in Marvel's Avengers.
Whether this is an infrequent one-off for comics-inspired outfits, or if Marvel's Avengers plans to contribute more to comics as its inspiration, is undetermined. Further, Marvel's Avengers has started to create ways for players to earn these skins, such as Iron Man's Mark 42 armor from Iron Man 3, rather than purchase them solely. These are steps in the direction that fans would like to see Marvel's Avengers move toward in the future.
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