That character was Fu Manchu, a.k.a. Include other well-known characters like Wonder Woman and the Flash and Marvel was facing an uphill battle.The Phantom made his big-screen entrance in 1943 as well, while the first Marvel Comics (then known as Timely Comics) character to make it to the screen, Captain America, showed up in 1944.The description wasn’t merely melodramatic it was also incorrect.So, Marvel ended up creating a new kung fu-related series, but Thomas insisted on including an established Asian character as a commercial draw. Batman and Superman are household names that should have been difficult to compete with. Marvel ComicsActor Simu Liu, photographed in Los Angeles, makes a career-defining turn in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first Asian-led superhero film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Aside from this self-inflicted problem, competitor DC boasted some of the most iconic superheroes ever created. Phastos on the cover of The Eternals #3, published in 1985. X-men: First Class 01: Meet the first ever X-Men Five young people pave the way for a new kind of human while students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters Introducing Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman Meet the first ever X-Men Five young people pave the way for a new kind of human while students at the Xavier School for.
He has, thankfully, remained Black ever since.If Phastos has played a specific role in Eternals comic book lore, it could be argued that he’s the outsider. He stays white in all of his appearances for the next six years before an appearance in the final storyline of 2014’s New Warriors series seemingly remembers that he was actually Black all along. It wasn’t part of disguising the character into a new life, nor a feint on the part of creators to make readers suspect the Eternals had misidentified the character in his disguised form.
Even when the comics introduce the Phillip Stoss incarnation, his reluctance to accept his birthright as an Eternal lets the reader truly consider the cost of what it means to be an Eternal.Phastos in the upcoming movie, Eternals. He’s the Black man who underscores how white the original comic characters were. He’s the pacifist who clarifies that the Eternals are trapped in an endless war with the Deviants.
Instead, he’s uncovered the truth behind what makes the Eternals eternal and made a moral decision that he believes is the right one to end their line as quickly as possible.(For those who are curious: The truth is, each time an Eternal dies and is reborn, their rebirth means that a random human dies in their place. He’s not doing so out of a sudden turn to the dark side, however. The end of the series’ first story arc reveals that Phastos has intentionally sabotaged the mechanisms by which the Eternals’ immortality is guaranteed — to the point where he’s even brought Thanos back from the dead, as part of an admittedly arcane and complicated plan. Be warned: major spoilers follow.
When it comes to Marvel finally getting around to sharing a gay hero in one of its movies, even if Brian Tyree Henry only manages to portray half of what the comic book character has come to embody in the quarter-century since his debut, the contradictory, compelling Phastos is a pretty great place to start. Whether this means the same will be true of his cinematic equivalent won’t be clear until the movie’s release.But, let’s be honest. Speaking truth to power, he acts as a moral compass for the group as a whole.
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