As seen on The Mary Sue:

Image from P:R. Copyright Alex Mitchell.

Project: Rooftop, a superhero costume-redesign tribute site, featured artist Alex Mitchell’s redesign of the Avengers as heroes of the Sengoku/Warring States Period (15-16th c.) on today’s fun link. Mitchell explains,

I was wanting to do a new redesigned/ translated set of comics characters for a while, and the new Avengers movie presented a great team to build from. It has the kind of big iconic characters that work best for these sort of re-imaginings…. I decided that the historically based, yet still legendary figures of the Sengoku era of Japanese history would be the inspiration.

The art is great, but the artist’s commentary on the creative process and history of the costumes is the star of the show for Japanese history lovers:

Iron Man (‘Tetsu-jin’, literally ‘Iron-man’) was the first character I worked on, and the elaborate samurai armor was an obvious choice. The distinctive mask keeps him recognizable. I used a fancy way of writing ‘tetsu’, meaning ‘iron’, as part of the patterned fabric. The interest with foreign technologies such as firearms was borrowed from the life of Sengoku celebrity Oda Nobunaga. The firearms themselves are fictionalized, but based on real-world examples.

Now I’m going to imagine Tetsujin wanting to go out for oyakodon after battles. Enjoy!