Find the Next Big Marvel Star!

[CaptainWagner]

So, in multiple threads, when the subject of diversity comes up, the fact is often mentioned that rather than focus their diversity push fully on legacy characters, many of home are inevitably short-lived, instead they should be finding new or existing characters and pushing them to the spotlight, therefore creating lasting diversity.

So what characters, of Marvel's or your own creation, do you think could be the next big additions to Marvel's increasingly diverse stable of heroes?

 

[sandwraith]

So, in multiple threads, when the subject of diversity comes up, the fact is often mentioned that rather than focus their diversity push fully on legacy characters, many of home are inevitably short-lived, instead they should be finding new or existing characters and pushing them to the spotlight, therefore creating lasting diversity.

So what characters, of Marvel's or your own creation, do you think could be the next big additions to Marvel's increasingly diverse stable of heroes?

Thunderbolts' Radioactive Man (the Chinese guy) could have been easily fleshed out and maybe even pursued a relationship with Songbird.

Dust, the Afghan burqa girl with a pretty strong powerset could be written with a lot more interest.

Sunfire is another character who is perpetually playing up this arrogant Samurai image. Maybe if they showed why he is such a dick in the first place,guy might actually be a contender.

 

[Zant]

Dust and Sunfire are mutants. Don't expect the Marvel of today to develop them.They would rather promote and develop less interesting characters like Ms Marvel, Miles, Cho. etc

 

[psylockolussus]

Hopefully Inhumans will be A-listers in few years!

 

[Set]

For Native Americans who *aren't* mutants (Like Dani Moonstar or Forge), there's always American Eagle, who has been portrayed as pretty badass at times, and lacks any of the 'magical Indian powers' awkwardness of characters like Red Wolf Crow or Black Crow or any other [Color] [Animal] clichés I'm forgetting. His power level is just right to be operating with folks like Luke Cage, White Tiger, etc., at a more 'street' level of storytelling.

White Tiger, either Angela or Ava (or both?), could quite possibly carry a book, on their own. I'd prefer they retain/regain some Tiger God power-up goodness, or maybe even develop some new capabilities along those lines (perhaps being able to manifest the spirit of the tiger god as a physical creature, like a real tiger), than just be non-powered street fighters.

I imagine that Amadeus Cho is going to return to being a tech-guy, eventually, and stop being a Hulk replacement (or a Hulk at all). It might be a year or two, 'though.

Nico Minoru also manages to avoid being a legacy, and has her own niche as young spellcaster (shared to some extent with Ilyanna and Wiccan, but they use more teleportation, soul-swording and / or reality manipulation, than actual spellcasting, much of the time).

It is annoying that so many awesome characters are mutants, and unlikely to get a huge push anytime soon. I'm a big fan of Frenzy, for instance, and she's unlikely to get much play.

For African-American woman not named Storm, there's always Monica Rambeau. She's got some fun attitude, and a unique and visually interesting powerset. She's not a legacy character spun off from some dude, like Carol Danvers, which, IMO, automatically sets her up a notch. (Granted, Carol has now been around longer than Mar-Vell ever was, so, like Zatanna, at DC, a 'spin off' of Zatara, she's pretty much outgrown 'girl replacement' status.)

 

[Zant]

Hopefully Inhumans will be A-listers in few years!

The Inhumans movie is the only chance for them to join the A-list. They certainly wont become popular from their terrible comics and Agents of Shield, that's for sure.

 

[AvengerPA]

By the end of the Infinity War films, Scarlet Witch will be more popular and be a bigger player.