Marvel's Heroes Who Need Their Own Movies!
For those less familiar with the comic book pedigree of superheroes, it may seem that MCU used all possible Marvel's heroes, adding a few new. But the truth is quite different – many of them are still waiting for their chance.
Table of Contents
- Marvel's Heroes Who Need Their Own Movies!
- Sentry
- Namora/Namor
- Angela
- She-Hulk
- Captain Britain
- Hercules
- Scarlet Spider (Kaine Parker)
- Black Cat and Silver Sable
- Mistress Death
Captain Britain
- What it should be: a drama series with the right amount of self-irony
- What would interest viewers to begin with: the genesis of the characters from Captain Britain Weekly 1
There's Captain America, so why wouldn't there be Captain Britain? Although from the perspective of 2020, the slapstick hero already seems like a relic of a bygone era, it still has a huge marketing potential. What is his weakness can easily be turned into an onscreen success. The series with his participation should not lack self-irony, because without it Captain Britain would become its own caricature.
Brian Braddock, because that's this hero's name, used to be an ordinary man. He owes his powers to Merlin and his daughter Roma. He can fly, shoot energy missiles, create kinetic shields, and at the same time in the superhero starter gained superhuman (and how could it be otherwise!) strength, speed, endurance, agility, resilience, reflexes and enhanced senses. He's a member of the Secret Avengers and Excalibur. Thus, the creators of the series could both focus on the contemporary theme, and include this hero in arturian mythology... or combine the two spheres, although it would certainly be a far riskier procedure.
Captain Britain was originally a hero created only for the British market. Over time, however, he gained enough popularity that he managed to appear in the series created for the purposes of American comics. This exclusivity could be a pretext for an extraordinary story about the clash of a lofty, albeit somewhat naive, mythological narrative with a ruthless marketing machine. A little contrary to the comic book original Captain Britain could become the next Homelander or at least Ozymandias... And even if the creators would prefer to follow a safer path, it would be interesting to see heroes fighting not only for the United States (because Kevin Feige sometimes seems to forget that in the comic book universe there are other countries besides the United States, Russia and Wakanda).
Another slightly slapstick character is Wonder Man. Simon Williams gained a number of superhuman powers after coming in contact with ionic energy. However, this is not what makes him so special (let's be honest - literally every Marvel hero is superhumanly strong, fast and durable). Simon was a con man who went to prison for embezzlement. Then he was released by Baron Zemo, who, by the way, gave him superpowers. Williams's task was to lure the Avengers into a trap, but Wonder Man changed his mind at the last moment and died... Well, not exactly. With the help of Scarlet Witch, he recovered and soon after joined the Avengers. In many ways, Wonder Man may resemble Ant-Man, so for now we should not expect a series or film about him to debut soon, but who knows!
