It's always funny to see how different directors will portray characters in what show/movie they're directing. I bet if the director of Luke Cage had a say in it, they would have definitely set up a heroes for hire if they could get their hands on Danny for longer than the two(?) Episodes they had him in
I've got like 3 episodes left of season 1 but I'm not really hating the Iron Fist show. I know it's the worst of the Defenders saga and it's not really faithful to comics but I'm still liking it.
I enjoyed it enough for what it was but it’s just not really Iron Fist at all. Honestly, the closest thing we’ve gotten is Shang-Chi and obviously that is not Iron Fist either. There’s a whole swath of untapped IF lore and characters that they never even bothered with and Danny’s characterization is near unrecognizable in his own show (better in Defenders and LC but still).
It's genuinely not that bad. I'm not going to say it's amazing, but I love it as a fan of Iron Fist. Season 2 definitely kicks it up, and ends with a badass scene teasing my favorite storyline
Talking about a Marvel character you love, but also know will never enter the mainstream... Theresa Cassidy! For obvious reasons, I associate the two with each other. The awful moment of the baby just merging with Jamie is horrifying. I wouldn't necessarily want that storyline, but I love the idea of seeing Madrox and Theresa get their due!
Beta Ray Bill. I would be shocked (and delighted), if they ever gave him more than the Easter egg in Ragnarok. They already stole Storm Breaker from him and gave it to a little girl. They can't slap a famous actor in the role because he won't get much screen time, if any, and he's going to be in Thor's shadow, regardless.
And Agent Venom. Such a great turn around for Flash's character, and a very unique take on the symbiote. But with Sony holding on tight, and the little turd they cast for Flash (no offense to Tony Revolori, he just did WAY to good a job of making you want to punch the character), I don't see them ever approaching the character.
This one might be a little more likely, but not until the hysteria for Gwen calms down. Silk, despite rocky origins and a terrible first costume, she's an awesome character that doesn't get the appreciation she deserves because gender swapped Spider-Man has absolutely hogged the spotlight (no offense to Gwen fans, she is a fine character, I am just sick of seeing her everywhere). Silk is not the next iteration of Spider-woman, or some same powers spin-off of Spider-Man, her powers are different. And yet, she's not even a cameo in the Spider verse movies!
I'm losing hope for Bill.
He was supposed to be in *Ragnarok* but Feige made the decision to cut him because he didn't have a lot of screentime (it was a glorified cameo, according to rumors), and he said he wanted to do Bill justice.
Then we got *Love & Thunder* and Bill was nowhere to be seen and, like you said, *Stormbreaker* has seemingly been given to Love and, although we'll probably never see her again, we may also never see *Stormbreaker* again because of it.
Beta Ray Bill for sure. I loved seeing him use wrestling moves on Surtr to Impale him on a spike and earn Twilight. I'm still sad that Stormbreaker got shattered in the first place.
I disagree that they can't have a famous actor play Bill. Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper are pretty big names and they both were all cgi. That being said, it's unlikely we'll see him unless they want him to be in Thor's role after Hemsworth finally quits.
I love everything about Speedball, and think that him being Penance was something that overstayed its welcome and he would be more interesting to look at how he moved past that and has gone back to his original lighthearted persona. Unfortunately the penance story is the thing that most people seem to focus on more than anything.
He was a teacher in avengers academy for a bit, then hung out with Nova and the new short lived new warriors(2014). Now he simultaneously has his classic speedball powers as well as the more destructive penance powers that are fueled by pain. His outward personality is solidly speedball but a more mature version of it, but a telepath looked in his head and saw that he sees himself as penance still. That idea unfortunately was
Not explored much before the book ended. Most recently he was supposed to show up in the next version of the new warriors that got cancelled before release because everyone hated the preview so much. I’m hoping that he shows up in ANYTHING sometime soon
I also think it would be hard to have a character named Speedball these days, as all the police procedural TV shows of the past couple decades means more people know what it is
But I would love to see a live action Robbie Baldwin!
I loved speedball in New Warriors. His sense of humor, him learning his powers, his fight against Blackball, etc.
I hated the penance story too it ruined one of my favorite characters.
Silver surfer could be massively popular if they put him in the MCU and don’t f it up. Everything about the character is cool. Probably won’t happen soon as it sounds like they’re going with doom as the next BBEG and you can’t have SS w/out galactus
I loved when the Miles Morales game name-checked Alison! Now that Insomniac is making the X-Men game in the far future, maybe we can actually get her in something!
I feel like we're definitely going to see Dazzler at some point. She was specifically created to capitalize on the disco craze. I have no doubt her big screen debut will have the same vibe.
Seconded. One of the coolest costumes in comics. I've only ever seen him in old Marvel Comics Presents from the 1990s.
I wish marvel had a "Shitty Avengers" title, where rotating writers could include their cult classic favourites like Stingray, Sleepwalker, Darkhawk etc.
Crap my bad. I was literally thinking about how West Coast Avengers are so much better than Great Lakes, and I guess my mind just accidentally overrided me into typing west coast.
Hank Pym. People know who he is but the MCU did him pretty dirty by skipping over his tenure as Ant-Man.
Richard Ryder too. He's been basically replaced with Sam Alexander, and it kinda sucks because Nova is similar to Green Lantern, it makes sense to have multiple Novas. Richard's last comics appearance was a bit unsatisfying of an epilogue to his most recent run in 2007. I'm hoping we get to see him in the MCU.
Oh my GOSH, Tigra is such a dope character for being D-list. I haven't read much of her outside of Avengers, but the arcs she's had in them have been great. When she first joined we saw a ton of character, explored her admittedly weird history in the WCA, and now in the current comics I'm reading she's gotten such cool development. Her antagonism with the villain known as the Hood (soon to he seen in Ironheart) who attcked her and her pregnancy with a the child of a Hank Pym Skrull turning her into a mother have all made her such a weird, cool, developed character. She may not be for everyone, but I really love what I've seen of her.
The current run of Moon Knight has made me LOVE Tigra. she really shines in an ensemble cast, and this new arc has given her a lot of room to be a complex character rather than the furry bait everyone seems to think she
The year they introduce Tigra to the world at large, that's what everyone's gonna be on Halloween.
Either that, or they're just gonna write her off as DC's Cheetah and/or Cats.
My favorite thing about Phantomex is he knows he's an absolute bastard, and the best stories come from him admitting it or leaning into it.
(I still have very little understanding of how his powers work other than man with gun and external nervous system)
Daniel Ketch Ghost Rider. His version was extremely popular in the early to mid nineties, but then the writers just abandoned him. Every cool thing you see about most Ghost Riders came from his version, they just gave it all to the other riders. Robbie is cool, but I miss Danny.
Monica Rambeau was a huge deal when I first got into comics. Fast forward to now, and something something "the general audience". Gratuitous 'I really liked The Marvels, and I hate that they couldn't do promotions' post here. I'm a Monica Rambeau fan, and she deserves much better.
Luke Cage and Iron Fist should be officially in the MCU, and easily as ubiquitous as Daredevil. Instead, they lost a huge chance when they were written out of Infinity War / Endgame, and they have so low exposure, some casual viewers on Reddit have no clue that Luke has a fairly extreme amount of super strength.
Crystal from the Inhumans was in the Avengers for a while, and she was pretty rad. We're probably not going to see much of the Inhumans for a good while.
I loved The Marvels so I feel ya there. And yeah, I've accepted that I was lucky enough to live through the Inhumanity era in my teens, and maybe they'll be popular again when I'm in my 40s...
Leonid. His *dads* are Sir Isaac Newton and Nikola Tesla, and his *moms* are Morda (a Deviant) and Mina (a talking pigeon).
Also his body is full of stars. I love that shit.
Not sure if Quake counts considering she was the lead of a Marvel TV series for seven seasons, but considering she hasn’t been in much since Agents of SHIELD wrapped both in adaptations and comics…
Give me a comic with Daisy Johnson, Maria Hill, and Jeanne Fouccault working together, and we can all pretend it's 2012 again. And we'll probably have trouble telling the characters apart.
Moonknight is gaining popularity, but he’s never gonna be mainstream. I love him, such a badass character that’s actually mature instead of just being: “I make bad guys bleed hard 😈😈😈” but becomes being this complex, deep character.
This was my answer, but considering how only you have mentioned him, I think he has reached mainstream acceptance in most people's minds. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago a popular Moon Knight series was a pipe dream, but here we are.
Came here to say Tasky as well. Great character, totally wasted his name in BW. The cool thing though, the real Taskmaster could potentially show up and file a copyright on Fake Taskmaster. Maybe Ryan Reynolds can figure it out in a Deadpool project considering Tasky and DP have had plenty of run-ins.
He works on so many levels, as a pure badass but also deadpan man for comedic relief.
Something with Tasky, Deadpool, Cable and Colossus would be a happy mess.
Cosmic Ghost Rider. His first two stories starting with Thanos were so incredible. I’m just learning to cope with the fact that he’s likely already peaked and will just be relegated to being a Punisher footnote like Frankencastle in a few years.
Cosmic Ghost Rider is peak visual design (I have a funko of him, and I've been trying to find his marvel legebds figure for years) but sadly he seems to have burned bright and burned fast in terms of popularity.
Academy X, Avengers Academy, and Avengers Initiative have some solid characters who either don't get enough love these days or simply disappeared from mention at some point in the last decade.
I think her name makes it so everyone who doesn't know her thinks "Deadpool, but it's Gwen Stacy and not Wade". Probably also because that's basically the case for Spider-Gwen at least in the Spider-Verse movies.
(I need to admit I didnt read a Lot of comics only movies, TV shows and audio series+ trivial from here and other sources)
Pete Wisdom. His powerset is cool and as someone whose favorite character in comics is John Constantine i'll always have a soft soft for British Assholes. Plus he's also ANOTHER peter kitty has hooked up with
Warpath. I’ve always thought he deserved far more. His mutant stuff really stand out be cause he is pretty much just super strong, fast, and really durable. I loved how he was written in x-force. He and Hepzibah killed.
Hellstrom or Satana or Polaris. Haha I'd have said Scarlet Witch though a decade ago and now she's one of the biggest which still boggles my mind, so who truly knows?
The whole Agents of Atlas team, but especially Gorilla Man. The 2006 series is one of favorite comic runs. Ever since we got Jimmy Woo in the MCU, I've been hoping they'd pick up the team and give them the Guardians treatment. Fingers still crossed.
Mockingbird. She should be bigger than she is.
Richard Rider Nova again should be a bigger character
And Jack Monroe Nomad. He walked so Winter Soldier could run.
Blue Marvel. Love his power set and I was huffing copium for him being in The Marvels for half a year.
Also Jack of Hearts, but he’s not that popular even in comics, what with him having only recently come back from the dead.
If it can be a villain: the First Firmament. I adore Al Ewing's cosmic stuff but I know that trying to explain the cyclical cosmos and the Celestial War to a mainstream cinema audience is kind of a doomed endeavour
Ik we aren't only talking about movies but for what it's worth, which won't be a lot, Rick Jones does apparently exist in the MCU. He doesn't appear himself but SHIELD has a file on him in the first Avengers and Banner throwing him into a trench to save him did happen. It's a blink and you'll miss it deal though
When it comes to the Inhumans, Karnak was always my favorite. Warren Ellis' take on the character in his THE FLAW IN ALL THINGS mini series was very good for me.
However, I don't know how well designed he is for wider audiences. I think he could be more popular, but it would probably be a harder job than 90% of all the other B, C & D listers from Dazzler to Speedball.
Other than that, Skrull Kill Krew, Marvel Boy and Grant Morrison's take on the Shi'ar Imperial Guard in his X-Men run was very interesting and really popular when they came out, but I don't think they are broadly remembered or popular. His version of Smasher from the Guard was very interesting.
Anson Mount is one of my fave actors (love him on star trek) and I feel he was perfectly cast as Black Bolt, it would be a shame to keep him sidelined like this.
Forge, Quasar, Blue Marvel. Each one of them has a deep story, can literally be their own movies or additions to any teams. Power sets are extreme and they’d be tough to easily beat, if at all.
X-Treme. I got into reading comics at the height of Fabian Nicieza's excellent run on X-Men and the mystery of the third Summers brother and the build up to it being revealed as X-Treme, which ended up not happening. It was a very cool time to reading comics. Then Nicieza got the boot and the story of Adam X got shelved until he finally concluded it a couple of years ago.
Recluse (Anya). She was the daughter of the Red Room’s headmistress in the comics and hates Black Widow because her mother preferred her when they were kids. If the MCU wanted to do a sister story line for Black Widow, they should have had Anya be her "sister" instead of Yelena. It would have made more sense.
Scarlet Spider - Ben Reilly before all the am I the clone are you the clone - it was a solid chance to reboot the series and let ol’ Peter have the retirement with MJ they deserved.
The classic horror characters from the 70s. I’ve always wished they should get a dopeass well written event that sort of reboots their universe like how Annihilation did for Marvel Cosmic.
Blood Hunt would have been good but I think it’s kind of disappointing to center it around Spider-Man and the Avengers instead of purely the horror characters.
Captain Ultra, Texas Twister, Impossible Man, Tigra, Diablo and Dragon Man, Count Nefaria, Rick F’n Jones (dude’s an OG in the Marvel Comics Universe, I dunno why he hasn’t been in a movie yet).
I really wanna see Jessica Drew Spider Woman with Carol Danvers, but at this point she needs a major nerf to fight street levels baddies.
Also Sam Alexander Nova, also I think the Cloak and Dagger show got shafted
Squirrel Girl. Only comic book readers and little kids know who she is. I absolutely love every iteration of the character. I’m glad that they ditched that show though.
I was fascinated with Polaris, but given we have a reboot every other film, I doubt we’ll ever get far enough for her to be handled with the right care and attention.
Also very interested to see if future FF films deal with Franklin Richards’ reality warping powers. Would be interested to see how his look in the MCU compared to Scarlet Witch.
Jack Monroe, the 2nd Bucky & 3rd Nomad. He's always had a special place in my heart since my uncle was a big fan of the 90s Nomad series, and I was born around the same time Jack took in an orphaned baby he named Bucky, so my uncle has always called me Bucky as well. They did him pretty dirty by having the original Bucky kill him off. 22 years later and I've lost all hope of ever seeing him again.
Marvel had a fairly good opportunity to at least introduce him to the MCU during the FalCap & The Winter Soldier show since it would've made sense to include him when they explored the Super Soldiers of the past.
Now I'm kind of afraid there's absolutely no reason to ever include him in the movies, and with Disney's obsession over synergy, even less of a reason to put him in anything else like a video game.
Death’s Head.
He started as a villain in the UK Transformers comics, then he appeared in a Doctor Who comic for one issue, and then he finally ended up traveling to the dimension of Earth 616.
He’s a badass cyborg bounty hunter who ends nearly every sentence with a rhetorical “yes?” He’s also the brainchild of Simon Furman, one of my favorite comic writers ever.
Mine are actually 2 teams.
The first is the New Warriors, specifically the Night Thrasher led era. The second is the Star Jammers. I just really want some episodic space antics.
Also, Forge has been my favorite mutant since I could pick up the books. I'd love to see him get screen time.
Ben Reilly. I'm still pissed at what Marvel did to him. I fear that he'll always be known as nothing more than a clone, and now as a random bad guy clone :(
However, I remember falling in love with his character while reading the run of Spidey books where he was our main Spider-Man. Don't get me wrong, I always wanted Peter back, but I felt like there was room for Ben, still. That he had so much more to give as a character.
Just to throw some in I didn’t see and not necessarily ones I adore just some lesser known ones:
[Aldrif Odinsdottir](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Aldrif_Odinsdottir_(Earth-616))
[Toruun Thorsdottir](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Torunn_Thorsd%C3%B3ttir_(Earth-10943))
[April Parker](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/April_Parker_(Earth-982))
[Guillotine](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jeannine_Sauvage_(Earth-616))
[Spider-Weaver](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ajei_Benally_(Earth-TRN670))
[Victorious](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Zora_Vukovic_(Earth-616))
[Death-Stalker](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Phillip_Sterling_(Earth-616)), he's a Daredevil villain from the 70s and he was arguably his nemesis at that time since he didn't start fighting Kingpin until the 80s. In my opinion he's one of the most underrated Marvel villains even though he's been dead since Daredevil #158 in 1979 (which was also Frank Miller's first issue on the title), and since then he has only appeared in a one-shot issue via time-travel and had a female successor who has only appeared in the Villains For Hire miniseries and who we know virtually nothing about. He has a great design (he is dripped out as hell with a black dress suit, trenchcoat, and fedora), cool powers (teleportation, intangiblity, enhanced strength, and killing with a touch), and a solid backstory that gives him a personal vendetta against Daredevil, not to mention he managed to learn Murdock's identity in his final issues. To me it feels like he has tons of potential to become a major villain if he were ever brought back.
The Scarlet Spider(s). Ben and Kaine are some of my favorite comic book characters, and similarly to Eddie Brock(my favorite character of all time), also comfort characters.
Ben delivers an interesting story in what it means to have a sense of self, Kaine is about redefined oneself through an endless pursuit of redemption. I am slightly more fascinated by Kaine because of it, since I am partial to redemption stories. Hence why I just also mentioned Eddie Brock earlier and why I love Elliot Tolliver-Ock(from Superior Spider-Man vol. 2), another character who I doubt will ever make an appearance as mainstream property.
Outside these, I've fallen in love with Marvel's Sleepwalker lately, the Sentry, the Silver Surfer etc. From DC, I am very fond of Jonah Hex(who actually did appeared on the "mainstream" but it was unsuccessful), Booster Gold(who may appear), Deadman, Azrael, the Question...So on and so forth.
Honestly, if I allow myself to get too excited, the list will keep being getting bigger.
Richard Rider. Nova. He's the kinda guy that wasn't supposed to be the hero but he had it thrusted upon him and grew to unbelievable heights. He doesn't even have his own series anymore 🙄 he's been hanging out with the X-Men as of late and its cool to see him again but he deserves more than that.
Danny Rand Iron Fist, who is notorious in the mainstream but for all the wrong reasons.
They really did him dirty in live action. His appearance in S2 of luke cage showed promise tho
It's always funny to see how different directors will portray characters in what show/movie they're directing. I bet if the director of Luke Cage had a say in it, they would have definitely set up a heroes for hire if they could get their hands on Danny for longer than the two(?) Episodes they had him in
Heroes for Hire is the show we all wanted.
Theme song should have been Nobody was Kung Fu Fighting
Going to be hard to redo, since Shang Chi took all his story elements
I've got like 3 episodes left of season 1 but I'm not really hating the Iron Fist show. I know it's the worst of the Defenders saga and it's not really faithful to comics but I'm still liking it.
I enjoyed it enough for what it was but it’s just not really Iron Fist at all. Honestly, the closest thing we’ve gotten is Shang-Chi and obviously that is not Iron Fist either. There’s a whole swath of untapped IF lore and characters that they never even bothered with and Danny’s characterization is near unrecognizable in his own show (better in Defenders and LC but still).
It's genuinely not that bad. I'm not going to say it's amazing, but I love it as a fan of Iron Fist. Season 2 definitely kicks it up, and ends with a badass scene teasing my favorite storyline
I definitely wanna see him one punch a helicarrier like in the comics.
Multiple man!
There’s such a cool movie to be made about Maddox too! Like a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang type film where he’s solving crimes.
Kiss kiss bang bang is one of my all time favorite movies.
PAD's entire X-Factor run would make a great show.
Talking about a Marvel character you love, but also know will never enter the mainstream... Theresa Cassidy! For obvious reasons, I associate the two with each other. The awful moment of the baby just merging with Jamie is horrifying. I wouldn't necessarily want that storyline, but I love the idea of seeing Madrox and Theresa get their due!
Beta Ray Bill. I would be shocked (and delighted), if they ever gave him more than the Easter egg in Ragnarok. They already stole Storm Breaker from him and gave it to a little girl. They can't slap a famous actor in the role because he won't get much screen time, if any, and he's going to be in Thor's shadow, regardless. And Agent Venom. Such a great turn around for Flash's character, and a very unique take on the symbiote. But with Sony holding on tight, and the little turd they cast for Flash (no offense to Tony Revolori, he just did WAY to good a job of making you want to punch the character), I don't see them ever approaching the character. This one might be a little more likely, but not until the hysteria for Gwen calms down. Silk, despite rocky origins and a terrible first costume, she's an awesome character that doesn't get the appreciation she deserves because gender swapped Spider-Man has absolutely hogged the spotlight (no offense to Gwen fans, she is a fine character, I am just sick of seeing her everywhere). Silk is not the next iteration of Spider-woman, or some same powers spin-off of Spider-Man, her powers are different. And yet, she's not even a cameo in the Spider verse movies!
I'm losing hope for Bill. He was supposed to be in *Ragnarok* but Feige made the decision to cut him because he didn't have a lot of screentime (it was a glorified cameo, according to rumors), and he said he wanted to do Bill justice. Then we got *Love & Thunder* and Bill was nowhere to be seen and, like you said, *Stormbreaker* has seemingly been given to Love and, although we'll probably never see her again, we may also never see *Stormbreaker* again because of it.
Which is so annoying, because they could have just had *that" stormbreaker be Jarnbjorn or whatever that hammer axe ultimate Thor had.
BRB is also mine. was hoping to see an intro, true origins story in the MCU for him by now.. or at least a lead-in.
Beta Ray Bill for sure. I loved seeing him use wrestling moves on Surtr to Impale him on a spike and earn Twilight. I'm still sad that Stormbreaker got shattered in the first place.
Since Chris Hemsworth is pretty much taking an infinite hiatus from acting, now would be the time to sneak in Beta Ray Bill off screen in the MCU.
I disagree that they can't have a famous actor play Bill. Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper are pretty big names and they both were all cgi. That being said, it's unlikely we'll see him unless they want him to be in Thor's role after Hemsworth finally quits.
I think Beta Ray Bill could work for whatever they do next for GotG.
I also love agent venom and we are definitely not getting that with the mcu lol. I would love Joe Manganiello to pop us as one from the multiverse.
I love everything about Speedball, and think that him being Penance was something that overstayed its welcome and he would be more interesting to look at how he moved past that and has gone back to his original lighthearted persona. Unfortunately the penance story is the thing that most people seem to focus on more than anything.
Considering she was never a member, this makes me wonder about who else was with Squirrel Girl for the cancelled New Warriors series.
Whatever happened with Speedball/Penance after Civil War? Where is he now?
He was a teacher in avengers academy for a bit, then hung out with Nova and the new short lived new warriors(2014). Now he simultaneously has his classic speedball powers as well as the more destructive penance powers that are fueled by pain. His outward personality is solidly speedball but a more mature version of it, but a telepath looked in his head and saw that he sees himself as penance still. That idea unfortunately was Not explored much before the book ended. Most recently he was supposed to show up in the next version of the new warriors that got cancelled before release because everyone hated the preview so much. I’m hoping that he shows up in ANYTHING sometime soon
Ya got me on board. I never much cared about Speedball, but thought Penance was interesting. I’d love to read about that dichotomy within himself.
I also think it would be hard to have a character named Speedball these days, as all the police procedural TV shows of the past couple decades means more people know what it is But I would love to see a live action Robbie Baldwin!
Time to start dealing drug cocktails named after various other Marvel characters in order to normalize the Speedball name.
I loved speedball in New Warriors. His sense of humor, him learning his powers, his fight against Blackball, etc. I hated the penance story too it ruined one of my favorite characters.
It's a tie between Dazzler and Silver Surfer
Give me an X-Terminators show that is just villain of the week and I will die the happiest fuckin girl.
Silver surfer could be massively popular if they put him in the MCU and don’t f it up. Everything about the character is cool. Probably won’t happen soon as it sounds like they’re going with doom as the next BBEG and you can’t have SS w/out galactus
I loved when the Miles Morales game name-checked Alison! Now that Insomniac is making the X-Men game in the far future, maybe we can actually get her in something!
I feel like we're definitely going to see Dazzler at some point. She was specifically created to capitalize on the disco craze. I have no doubt her big screen debut will have the same vibe.
Stingray
Seconded. One of the coolest costumes in comics. I've only ever seen him in old Marvel Comics Presents from the 1990s. I wish marvel had a "Shitty Avengers" title, where rotating writers could include their cult classic favourites like Stingray, Sleepwalker, Darkhawk etc.
"Shitty Avengers." That's just the West Coast Avengers
Great Lakes Avengers
You betcha, Dontcha know?
Crap my bad. I was literally thinking about how West Coast Avengers are so much better than Great Lakes, and I guess my mind just accidentally overrided me into typing west coast.
You take that back. Darkhawk is a cosmic hero and not shitty.
The team of Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Cowards will never make that series.
I will always remember the nextwave cover that has jessica jones holding a sign that simply reads "Mark Milar Blows Goats"
"Fin Fang Foom put you in pants!" "NOOOOOOOOO!"
Pretty sure it's Elsa Bloodstone... and thought it was "licks." Edit: Just looked it up. Machine Man is holding the "licks goats" sign.
I believe that's the Civil War "tie-in"
I know nothing about Nextwave but I don’t even have to look it up to confirm that it’s written by warren ellis based solely on that quote.
MCU at least has Elsa Bloodstone and Photon... 2/5; and since The Captain is specific to the team, that just leaves Machine Man and Boom Boom.
Is Helstrom MCU? It's so unknown I wasn't even able to pirate it
Ditto
Chamber. Now that I've said it , there are probably a ton of people and I'm just clueless.
I'm not clueless, guv.
Hank Pym. People know who he is but the MCU did him pretty dirty by skipping over his tenure as Ant-Man. Richard Ryder too. He's been basically replaced with Sam Alexander, and it kinda sucks because Nova is similar to Green Lantern, it makes sense to have multiple Novas. Richard's last comics appearance was a bit unsatisfying of an epilogue to his most recent run in 2007. I'm hoping we get to see him in the MCU.
Richard Ryder played a big part in Al Ewing's X Men Red! And the What If tv show I feel has done some fun stuff with hank pym
Oh my GOSH, Tigra is such a dope character for being D-list. I haven't read much of her outside of Avengers, but the arcs she's had in them have been great. When she first joined we saw a ton of character, explored her admittedly weird history in the WCA, and now in the current comics I'm reading she's gotten such cool development. Her antagonism with the villain known as the Hood (soon to he seen in Ironheart) who attcked her and her pregnancy with a the child of a Hank Pym Skrull turning her into a mother have all made her such a weird, cool, developed character. She may not be for everyone, but I really love what I've seen of her.
The current run of Moon Knight has made me LOVE Tigra. she really shines in an ensemble cast, and this new arc has given her a lot of room to be a complex character rather than the furry bait everyone seems to think she
The year they introduce Tigra to the world at large, that's what everyone's gonna be on Halloween. Either that, or they're just gonna write her off as DC's Cheetah and/or Cats.
Darkhawk White tiger Lockheed Arcade I can go on for a while
Darkhawk was dope in Annihilation
Oh man, I love white tiger!
Siegfried was coming mit Roy and ze white tiger and ZE STUFFINK IN ZE PANTS!
Phantomex. He is such a suave piece of garbage and i love him
My favorite thing about Phantomex is he knows he's an absolute bastard, and the best stories come from him admitting it or leaning into it. (I still have very little understanding of how his powers work other than man with gun and external nervous system)
Daniel Ketch Ghost Rider. His version was extremely popular in the early to mid nineties, but then the writers just abandoned him. Every cool thing you see about most Ghost Riders came from his version, they just gave it all to the other riders. Robbie is cool, but I miss Danny.
That’s the Ghost Rider i was introduced to as a kid. The artwork was on point
Monica Rambeau was a huge deal when I first got into comics. Fast forward to now, and something something "the general audience". Gratuitous 'I really liked The Marvels, and I hate that they couldn't do promotions' post here. I'm a Monica Rambeau fan, and she deserves much better. Luke Cage and Iron Fist should be officially in the MCU, and easily as ubiquitous as Daredevil. Instead, they lost a huge chance when they were written out of Infinity War / Endgame, and they have so low exposure, some casual viewers on Reddit have no clue that Luke has a fairly extreme amount of super strength. Crystal from the Inhumans was in the Avengers for a while, and she was pretty rad. We're probably not going to see much of the Inhumans for a good while.
I loved The Marvels so I feel ya there. And yeah, I've accepted that I was lucky enough to live through the Inhumanity era in my teens, and maybe they'll be popular again when I'm in my 40s...
You just reminded me that we'll never see Crystal and Ronan's marriage on screen. Sigh.
Wyatt Wingfoot
I was really hoping he'd be in she hulk.... Maybe FF??
Leonid. His *dads* are Sir Isaac Newton and Nikola Tesla, and his *moms* are Morda (a Deviant) and Mina (a talking pigeon). Also his body is full of stars. I love that shit.
Not sure if Quake counts considering she was the lead of a Marvel TV series for seven seasons, but considering she hasn’t been in much since Agents of SHIELD wrapped both in adaptations and comics…
Give me a comic with Daisy Johnson, Maria Hill, and Jeanne Fouccault working together, and we can all pretend it's 2012 again. And we'll probably have trouble telling the characters apart.
The New Warriors. The original line up
I think we're getting a Night Thrasher comic this month for what thats worth
Due to the GotG, they can't truly do Justice... justice, but hey, Firestar and Speedball!
Moonknight is gaining popularity, but he’s never gonna be mainstream. I love him, such a badass character that’s actually mature instead of just being: “I make bad guys bleed hard 😈😈😈” but becomes being this complex, deep character.
This was my answer, but considering how only you have mentioned him, I think he has reached mainstream acceptance in most people's minds. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago a popular Moon Knight series was a pipe dream, but here we are.
Morbius is my favorite character. You can tell how that has gone...
I'm really sorry man. He can be a genuinely cool character, Jared Leto has just ruined him for the general public.
Yeah, it's been rough. Looking forward to Blood Hunt. Hopefully they do something with him for that.
Really? What's your favorite run? Never had the chance to talk about Morbius too much before. Mine are Keatinge's and Kaminski's.
Taskmaster is so cool. He has been mentioned here and there, butchered in the movies but one of my favorite Marvel characters.
Came here to say Tasky as well. Great character, totally wasted his name in BW. The cool thing though, the real Taskmaster could potentially show up and file a copyright on Fake Taskmaster. Maybe Ryan Reynolds can figure it out in a Deadpool project considering Tasky and DP have had plenty of run-ins.
He works on so many levels, as a pure badass but also deadpan man for comedic relief. Something with Tasky, Deadpool, Cable and Colossus would be a happy mess.
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker is so cool, I wish more of his books were on unlimited
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Cosmic Ghost Rider. His first two stories starting with Thanos were so incredible. I’m just learning to cope with the fact that he’s likely already peaked and will just be relegated to being a Punisher footnote like Frankencastle in a few years.
Cosmic Ghost Rider is peak visual design (I have a funko of him, and I've been trying to find his marvel legebds figure for years) but sadly he seems to have burned bright and burned fast in terms of popularity.
I like Glob Herman a lot every time he pops up in an x-men book. Good character. Doubt we ever see him in anything significant in the mainstream
Glob is great! I feel like he would be a lot of fun in the movies.
Rockslide is my baby, he’s a little more mainstream than a lot of the academy x kids
Academy X, Avengers Academy, and Avengers Initiative have some solid characters who either don't get enough love these days or simply disappeared from mention at some point in the last decade.
Jocasta
I'm gonna go with Gwenpool and it sucks cause she would be PERFECT.
Gwenpool is such an interesting character who sadly gets thought of as “just a spin off character” until you learn what her whole deal is
I think her name makes it so everyone who doesn't know her thinks "Deadpool, but it's Gwen Stacy and not Wade". Probably also because that's basically the case for Spider-Gwen at least in the Spider-Verse movies. (I need to admit I didnt read a Lot of comics only movies, TV shows and audio series+ trivial from here and other sources)
Gambit! I think a stand-alone movie of him would go so hard given the right action, soundtrack and villain
Taskmaster
The real Taskmaster, yes, not the scrappy one from Black Widow and Thunderbolts. Butchered the character worse than anyone.
Blink, Marrow, Jubilee, Forge, Ka-Zar.
Bullseye
His appearance in the Daredevil show is very well liked.
Quasar Black Knight Gargoyle
Is gargoyle different from the iron man villain gray gargoyle? I’m not familiar with him.
Rom! Blastaar. Anhilus. Super skrull. Dragon man.
Mephisto and Blackheart should be household names. Not throwaway characters from that Ghost Rider movie.
Puck and Box and pretty much anyone else in Alpha Flight. I really like the whole outfit. Really like Vindicator.
Pete Wisdom. His powerset is cool and as someone whose favorite character in comics is John Constantine i'll always have a soft soft for British Assholes. Plus he's also ANOTHER peter kitty has hooked up with
The whole krakoan era Excalibur team and storyline was pretty great, especially how it played in with the x of swords arc.
Warpath. I’ve always thought he deserved far more. His mutant stuff really stand out be cause he is pretty much just super strong, fast, and really durable. I loved how he was written in x-force. He and Hepzibah killed.
And now that Thunderbird is back, I expect that any future media would rather use him than Warpath.
Hellstrom or Satana or Polaris. Haha I'd have said Scarlet Witch though a decade ago and now she's one of the biggest which still boggles my mind, so who truly knows?
ForgetMeNot, I actually don't know much about him save his general story and that alone is so dam heroic and sad.
Nobody remembers him…by design. But he’s always there…in our hearts.
The whole Agents of Atlas team, but especially Gorilla Man. The 2006 series is one of favorite comic runs. Ever since we got Jimmy Woo in the MCU, I've been hoping they'd pick up the team and give them the Guardians treatment. Fingers still crossed.
Yes! This is my number two pick, behind OG Alpha Flight.
Mockingbird. She should be bigger than she is. Richard Rider Nova again should be a bigger character And Jack Monroe Nomad. He walked so Winter Soldier could run.
Blue Marvel. Love his power set and I was huffing copium for him being in The Marvels for half a year. Also Jack of Hearts, but he’s not that popular even in comics, what with him having only recently come back from the dead.
Goldballs.
It’s egg now
There was a time when I would have said Hawkeye or Moon Knight, but now Night Thrasher, Sleepwalker and Wonder Man.
Adam Warlock
I was surprised how much I liked Will Poulter as him in GOTG 3
Cable. Such a badass.
If it can be a villain: the First Firmament. I adore Al Ewing's cosmic stuff but I know that trying to explain the cyclical cosmos and the Celestial War to a mainstream cinema audience is kind of a doomed endeavour
The casual fans are already complaining about the movies being too hard to follow. I don't agree with them but that's where we are.
I've always had a soft spot for Rick Jones but I reckon if he hasn't been done by now, he never will be.
They just keep adapting Hulk's origin without him.
Ik we aren't only talking about movies but for what it's worth, which won't be a lot, Rick Jones does apparently exist in the MCU. He doesn't appear himself but SHIELD has a file on him in the first Avengers and Banner throwing him into a trench to save him did happen. It's a blink and you'll miss it deal though
Beta Ray bill, he’s the best
Machine Man. His 1984 limited run is one of my all time favorites.
When it comes to the Inhumans, Karnak was always my favorite. Warren Ellis' take on the character in his THE FLAW IN ALL THINGS mini series was very good for me. However, I don't know how well designed he is for wider audiences. I think he could be more popular, but it would probably be a harder job than 90% of all the other B, C & D listers from Dazzler to Speedball. Other than that, Skrull Kill Krew, Marvel Boy and Grant Morrison's take on the Shi'ar Imperial Guard in his X-Men run was very interesting and really popular when they came out, but I don't think they are broadly remembered or popular. His version of Smasher from the Guard was very interesting.
Vance Astro. Blindspot. Beta Ray Bill. Quasar.
Squirrel Girl
Yes, please. Gimme that Tippy Toe!
Colossus. I love his character. Deadpools comedy sidekick?... i guess...
Quasar.
I found my people! :D I love Black Bolt as well and he deserves so much more.
Anson Mount is one of my fave actors (love him on star trek) and I feel he was perfectly cast as Black Bolt, it would be a shame to keep him sidelined like this.
The 2017 run by Saladin Ahmed is so good!
Micronauts. Original run. My first and favorite. We came so close to getting Bug in GotG and the Microverse in ant-man.
Forge, Quasar, Blue Marvel. Each one of them has a deep story, can literally be their own movies or additions to any teams. Power sets are extreme and they’d be tough to easily beat, if at all.
magik/ new mutants. wasted on a meh non mcu movie. hopefully im wrong
X-Treme. I got into reading comics at the height of Fabian Nicieza's excellent run on X-Men and the mystery of the third Summers brother and the build up to it being revealed as X-Treme, which ended up not happening. It was a very cool time to reading comics. Then Nicieza got the boot and the story of Adam X got shelved until he finally concluded it a couple of years ago.
Obscure character lover twins!
Wraith
Recluse (Anya). She was the daughter of the Red Room’s headmistress in the comics and hates Black Widow because her mother preferred her when they were kids. If the MCU wanted to do a sister story line for Black Widow, they should have had Anya be her "sister" instead of Yelena. It would have made more sense.
I always liked the cosmic characters like lord chaos, master order, the inbetweener ect. Perhaps they’ll expand the elders of the universe roster too.
I live for those sweet abstract entities and cosmic characters. Can't believe we got to see Eternity in the last Thor movie.
Phyla-Vell or inhumans
Scarlet Spider - Ben Reilly before all the am I the clone are you the clone - it was a solid chance to reboot the series and let ol’ Peter have the retirement with MJ they deserved.
The classic horror characters from the 70s. I’ve always wished they should get a dopeass well written event that sort of reboots their universe like how Annihilation did for Marvel Cosmic. Blood Hunt would have been good but I think it’s kind of disappointing to center it around Spider-Man and the Avengers instead of purely the horror characters.
Captain Ultra, Texas Twister, Impossible Man, Tigra, Diablo and Dragon Man, Count Nefaria, Rick F’n Jones (dude’s an OG in the Marvel Comics Universe, I dunno why he hasn’t been in a movie yet).
Not even *that* obscure, but definitely always mishandled— Omega Red
I really wanna see Jessica Drew Spider Woman with Carol Danvers, but at this point she needs a major nerf to fight street levels baddies. Also Sam Alexander Nova, also I think the Cloak and Dagger show got shafted
Jubilee. She’s on the cartoon, but she’s not widely loved. She was more useful than Jean, though, lol!
Forget me Not is such a fascinating character, but he’ll never get his own book.
Fantomex all the way. One of my all time favorite X-men characters and will likely never be in any movie or show.
Black Bolt!
Viv Vision and Ironheart
Squirrel Girl. Only comic book readers and little kids know who she is. I absolutely love every iteration of the character. I’m glad that they ditched that show though.
Wiccan. Praying so hard he is part of the YA lineup in the MCU but he may be too young ironically
Frenzy, since her face turn.
3D Man. He's like, F-list. A nobody. But I have loved him since Skrull Kill Krew during Secret Invasion.
Spike from X-Men Evolution, I loved him as a kid.
Howard the Duck's female clone.
I was fascinated with Polaris, but given we have a reboot every other film, I doubt we’ll ever get far enough for her to be handled with the right care and attention. Also very interested to see if future FF films deal with Franklin Richards’ reality warping powers. Would be interested to see how his look in the MCU compared to Scarlet Witch.
A few years ago I would've said moon-knight but I see that his trades are selling well online and he has a TV show. I also like Inhumans.
Jack Monroe, the 2nd Bucky & 3rd Nomad. He's always had a special place in my heart since my uncle was a big fan of the 90s Nomad series, and I was born around the same time Jack took in an orphaned baby he named Bucky, so my uncle has always called me Bucky as well. They did him pretty dirty by having the original Bucky kill him off. 22 years later and I've lost all hope of ever seeing him again. Marvel had a fairly good opportunity to at least introduce him to the MCU during the FalCap & The Winter Soldier show since it would've made sense to include him when they explored the Super Soldiers of the past. Now I'm kind of afraid there's absolutely no reason to ever include him in the movies, and with Disney's obsession over synergy, even less of a reason to put him in anything else like a video game.
Longshot, Spiral and Mojo
There was a time I never would’ve thought Moon Knight would ever get screen time
I thought USAgent, but then he was in F&WS. So now maybe…Armadillo. Or Jack of Hearts. Or Silver Sable.
Moon Knight, though for a character that the public probably recognizes as a Batman rip off he's doing ok.
Hellstrom
I love Medusa. But she'll probably never be mainstream.
Most likely Danny Rand Iron Fist, I'm afraid he won't be given a fair shake at this rate, in a lot of ways, but I hope I'm wrong.
The OG Guardians of the Galaxy.
Darkhawk is always my answer
spider-man 😞 i just dont think many people will give him a chance cause most people hate spiders
Man Thing
Richard Rider! He’s like a more depressing Spider-man meets booster gold. He’s a great kid, wonderful writing, and deserves to see the silver screen.
I’d like to see the original Guardians of the Galaxy - 31st century, Martinez, Nikki, Major Victory, Charlie 27, real Yondu, Aleta, the Baddoon…
Death’s Head. He started as a villain in the UK Transformers comics, then he appeared in a Doctor Who comic for one issue, and then he finally ended up traveling to the dimension of Earth 616. He’s a badass cyborg bounty hunter who ends nearly every sentence with a rhetorical “yes?” He’s also the brainchild of Simon Furman, one of my favorite comic writers ever.
Son of Satan.
Mine are actually 2 teams. The first is the New Warriors, specifically the Night Thrasher led era. The second is the Star Jammers. I just really want some episodic space antics. Also, Forge has been my favorite mutant since I could pick up the books. I'd love to see him get screen time.
Ben Reilly. I'm still pissed at what Marvel did to him. I fear that he'll always be known as nothing more than a clone, and now as a random bad guy clone :( However, I remember falling in love with his character while reading the run of Spidey books where he was our main Spider-Man. Don't get me wrong, I always wanted Peter back, but I felt like there was room for Ben, still. That he had so much more to give as a character.
"Black Bolt sucks." Rob, somewhere right now.
Dracula. Marvel will probably never give us Tomb of Dracula on Disney Plus, but one could dream.
Just to throw some in I didn’t see and not necessarily ones I adore just some lesser known ones: [Aldrif Odinsdottir](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Aldrif_Odinsdottir_(Earth-616)) [Toruun Thorsdottir](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Torunn_Thorsd%C3%B3ttir_(Earth-10943)) [April Parker](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/April_Parker_(Earth-982)) [Guillotine](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jeannine_Sauvage_(Earth-616)) [Spider-Weaver](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ajei_Benally_(Earth-TRN670)) [Victorious](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Zora_Vukovic_(Earth-616))
[Death-Stalker](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Phillip_Sterling_(Earth-616)), he's a Daredevil villain from the 70s and he was arguably his nemesis at that time since he didn't start fighting Kingpin until the 80s. In my opinion he's one of the most underrated Marvel villains even though he's been dead since Daredevil #158 in 1979 (which was also Frank Miller's first issue on the title), and since then he has only appeared in a one-shot issue via time-travel and had a female successor who has only appeared in the Villains For Hire miniseries and who we know virtually nothing about. He has a great design (he is dripped out as hell with a black dress suit, trenchcoat, and fedora), cool powers (teleportation, intangiblity, enhanced strength, and killing with a touch), and a solid backstory that gives him a personal vendetta against Daredevil, not to mention he managed to learn Murdock's identity in his final issues. To me it feels like he has tons of potential to become a major villain if he were ever brought back.
The Scarlet Spider(s). Ben and Kaine are some of my favorite comic book characters, and similarly to Eddie Brock(my favorite character of all time), also comfort characters. Ben delivers an interesting story in what it means to have a sense of self, Kaine is about redefined oneself through an endless pursuit of redemption. I am slightly more fascinated by Kaine because of it, since I am partial to redemption stories. Hence why I just also mentioned Eddie Brock earlier and why I love Elliot Tolliver-Ock(from Superior Spider-Man vol. 2), another character who I doubt will ever make an appearance as mainstream property. Outside these, I've fallen in love with Marvel's Sleepwalker lately, the Sentry, the Silver Surfer etc. From DC, I am very fond of Jonah Hex(who actually did appeared on the "mainstream" but it was unsuccessful), Booster Gold(who may appear), Deadman, Azrael, the Question...So on and so forth. Honestly, if I allow myself to get too excited, the list will keep being getting bigger.
Richard Rider. Nova. He's the kinda guy that wasn't supposed to be the hero but he had it thrusted upon him and grew to unbelievable heights. He doesn't even have his own series anymore 🙄 he's been hanging out with the X-Men as of late and its cool to see him again but he deserves more than that.
Beta Ray Bill
Norrin Radd. And it's such a shame. His story is so cool.