X-Men are getting stunning new costumes for the Hellfire Gala. The Gala is a twelve-issue event that will be running through the X-Men family of titles this spring and will feature a number of amazing new costumes for Earth’s mutants, and they will be debuting on a series of variant covers this June!
celebrate the rise of Krakoa, the mutants are holding an exclusive Hellfire Gala. As part of the celebration, the X-Men will dress up in elaborate costumes, and now Marvel has provided readers with a look at four variant covers featuring many of these stunning outfits.
In a special first look provided to Wolverine (Laura) and Cannonball. Each of the Hellfire Gala costumes reflects the character’s original costume, particularly Sunfire and Wolverine’s outfits. The costumes also represent the individual characters' personalities and powers—Synch’s multi-colored jacket for his ability to mimic and master any super power, for instance. Colossus’ outfit invokes opulence while Cannonball’s is elegantly simple.
The establishment of Krakoa as a safe space for all mutants has allowed them to begin developing their own culture, complete with customs and traditions. The X-Men have taken established tropes, such as codenames, and given them a new, broader social significance—they represent part of a mutant’s identity. Now, they have done the same for their costumes. The X-Men’s outfits began as a way to make them fit in with other super-heroes, but now they are taking them and incorporating them into their new society and putting their own spin on them in the process. No longer are costumes something they merely wear into battle—they now wear them for fun as well.
Wolverine, Colossus and the rest of the X-Men are preparing for the Hellfire Gala, an event which promises to rock the mutant world to its core. The stunning costumes that will be a hallmark of the Gala are on display in a series of variant covers, and further shows the development of the mutant identity on Krakoa.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
