First look at Henry Cavill as Superman

I don't mind the hair (though it makes him look a tad like Christian Slater from this angle). I'd read somewhere else where the picture is displayed that the missing "spitcurl" is on his Clark Kent persona, and apparently is being kept separate as another minor disguise level like the amazing, hides-everything glasses.

The textured suit bothers me, but only because it looks a bit like scales, which makes me think "why would Supes need scale armor"?

They probably don't want to go with a smooth suit texture because they're afraid it'll look rubbery, but if they could go with a smooth more cloth-like texture I would have preferred that any day.

Looks good. But I'll probably be happy as long as he doesn't use his super-senses to spy on the mother of his illegitimate child at home. Because that was super-creepy.

I still wanna see what's on his leg.

I don't like the texture suit.
Hair I hoping is just messed up, cause if not boo.
There doe's seem to be some sort of texture or addition on the outside thigh, looks sorta diamond shaped?

I played around a bit with the colors and I don't see a brief or shorts at all, though it could just be a really shadowed.
I highlighted the colors hopefully it's just all the smoke in the image that makes it look so dark (probably not) the suit looks much better with brighter colors.

Couple of things; that promotional shot is desaturated with regards to color; there's another photo that is purportedly the unmodified shot and the blues and reds are much richer, as they should be.

The scale effect is there for contrast; a simple suit ala Christopher Reeve's would have no depth or texture for the light to play off of and you can see in this picture that there is in this costume. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it works for their purpose.

Is his hair a bit big? Yes, but this could be just a promo shot before he gets his hair a bit shorter for the actual role. There's no indication I can see that it has tights or not, either. There's also nothing on his leg, it's just the play of light and shadow.

I'd also point out these are more vivid colors than Superman Returns, which had a very muted palette.


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This was courtesy of an SGmate on our private forums, but I think it illustrates the point; it's very clear they desaturated the colors, for what reason I have no idea, but here's a clear comparison. Btw, I do have to amend my statement from before....there is something on the upper thigh and the wrists have some sort of scalloped cuff.



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Costume looks way better than the last costume with the tiny S (which looked stupid).

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I still think Brandon Routh should have been Superman again.

He looks so...serious...

Oh cool! Adam Ant never looked so good.

I love that the S emblem is big. The lack of red briefs bugs me, but as I understand it that's a Jim Lee redesign that is currently or will soon be appearing in the comics.

I don't care for the continued trend of over-texturing superhero costumes, but I can overlook that.

I think that was the Eradicator but Superman might have . Between Superman Red and Blue and all the wannabes after Death od Superman there have been a lot of different looks.

I hate the hair. I love the S. I hate the muted colours, but I'll get over it . I hate the bump mapping on the suit. Yes that's what i'm calling it. I hate the no red briefs thing, and I also hate the DC redesign.
Overall, I'm ...hopeful. Left field, right.

...The post from Zwill looks better than the real thing =p

Looks totally computer generated to me.

looks more like a bad cosplay of the drunk evil superman clone of superman 3 was it... than it does superman