The New 52 Nightwing costume

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On September 21, 2011 DC Comics relaunched Nightwing with issue #1 as part of The New 52, and Dick Grayson also received his new nightwing costume, no too different from his traditional black and blue suit.

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The new costume has changed the color of the Nightwing symbol from blue to red, and the emblem rolls over the shoulders, rather than traveling down the arm onto the middle and ring fingers. The new nightwing suit has also shifted from a skin-tight unitard look to an armored, full body suit, with spiked gauntlets such as Batman’s rather than simply long gloves.

In The New 52, Dick has returned to the Nightwing identity after briefly serving as Batman. He becomes the new head of Haly’s Circus after the former owner, Mr. Haly, dies.

What’s up with Cyclops stealing Nightwing’s costume?

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I know it shouldn’tirk me as much as it does, but I can’t seem to get over the uncanny (no pun intended) similarities between DC’s Nightwing and Cyclops’ Phoenix costume from the Avengers Vs. X-Men event. Cyclops’ new ‘Phoenix’ threads were introduced in Avengers Vs. X-Men #5 and they’ve already got a good number of fans riled up over the originality of the suit; namely calling attention to the fact that it looks as though it came right out of the pages of DC Comics’ Nightwing.
Granted, it’s not the end of the world but it’s enough to make me question some of the original ideas that Marvel COULD have explored in creating the new costume for Cyclops.
What do you think about the new costume?