The Most Controversial MCU Costumes Of All Time

Deathlok was never an A-list Marvel Comics character, but having been around since the 1970s, he’s had enough of an audience to justify continual appearances over the years. Many characters have taken on the Deathlok identity, but the main qualities they’ve all shared are that they were once dead humans who were revived with advanced technology and given an arsenal of deadly cybernetic weapons. The style most associated with Deathlok is that of a corpse-like figure with futuristic armor and half their face covered in deadly machinery.

It’s a pretty heavy metal look that’s reminiscent of the T-800 from the “Terminator” films, so there was a precedent when it came to realizing a version of the character in live action form. Unfortunately, Deathlok’s grand live-action debut on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” left fans wanting more. A lot more. In the show, he is a regular man named Mike Peterson (J. August Richards) who is turned into a cyborg with expensive high-tech abilities by Hydra experimentation.

Hydra apparently had its funding cut, so they outfitted Peterson with plastic armor that made him look like a “Power Rangers” villain. We do get the occasional glimpse of his metallic interior, but it feels too much like the show’s creators saying, “There, happy? Now shut up and embrace this more ‘grounded’ version of the character in a series about aliens, superpowers, and time travel.”