The Marvel Universe has incredibly tough heroes who can up the strength quotient of the MCU.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe fell on hard times in the 1920s, but there are things to improve. Marvel is poised for a banner year in 2025, introducing new characters like the Fantastic Four, Red Hulk, and Sentry. The MCU is enjoying a strength upgrade and its embrace of the multiverse concept has paved the way for even tougher Marvel heroes to emerge.
The Marvel Universe is full of tough heroes, many of whom have never appeared in the MCU. The next few years would be a wonderful time to up the MCU’s strength quotient by turning to the comics. Marvel’s tough heroes would next make waves in the MCU, opening up new blockbuster stories and action scenes.
DC Studios is hogging a lot of the media attention when it comes to superhero cinema, with the studio building towards eventually doing the Justice League. Marvel can beat them to the punch, since they actually have their own version of the Justice League, introduced in the late ’60s and led by Superman analog Hyperion. Hyperion is the perfect hero to join the MCU, especially with the multiverse playing a huge role in Marvel stories. The Squadron Supreme were from another Earth, eventually becoming allies of the Avengers.
Many other Hyperion editions have given the impression of Marvel, but one thing remains the same: it is incredibly durable. Hyperion’s addition to the MCU not only gives them a tough new multiversal hero – the issue that brought Avengers (Vol. 5) in 2013 via Jonathan Hickman would be the best thing for the MCU and turns out to be a timeless villain – but it also hard. The Exiles series brought King Hyperion, the World Slayer, a crazy edition of the Hero who killed all the heroes on his Earth. Hyperion is incredibly versatile, making him the best and toughest addition to the MCU.
Deadpool & Wolverine have brought the X-Men to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, dazzling fans with possibilities. The X-Men open up a whole can of worms to adapt for the MCU, even taking into account X-Men ’97. That animated series has already introduced many powerful heroes and villains, but Marvel has made sure to differentiate it from the MCU by saying that it’s part of its own universe, which means one of the most powerful Marvel heroes of all time is fair game for this list — Gladiator, the leader of the Shi’Ar Imperial Guard. Fans will recognize him from X-Men ’97’s first season, but getting to see the mohawked alien in all of his glory in live-action would be a special treat.
Gladiator possesses Superman’s popular set of strengths (super strength, invulnerability, flight, super senses, super speed, and eye lasers), but he also had an added strength that makes him even more formidable, which can also lead to his downfall. The gladiator’s strengths are based on self-esteem. Basically, if you don’t believe you can be beaten, then you can’t be beaten. Conversely, if he loses self-confidence, Gladiator can be defeated.
It’s an attractive little wrinkle for the character. This has allowed him to triumph over many of the harshest forces in the universe, but he can also be defeated if he doubts himself for even a second. This opens up many possibilities for the character, distinguishing him from other hyper-resistant ones. superheroes.
Blue Marvel was born in 2008, but like Sentry, who would soon disappear in the MCU before him, he received a story that dates back to the past of the Marvel Universe. Adam Brashear was a veteran of the Korean War, where he met his best friend and long-time nemesis, Connor Sims, and became a scientist who joined Project Perseus with Sims. Its purpose was simple: to build an antimatter reactor that would harness the power of the negative zone. However, a twist of fate transformed Brashear into a living antimatter reactor, granting him powers that few humans had ever known. Sims was also remodeled and would become the evil Anti-Man. Brashear used his powers wisely and became the hero known as Blue Marvel.
Seeing as how he was Black and it was a pre-Civil Rights Amendment world, Brashear wore a mask and kept the truth of his identity from the public. However, the helmet was damaged, revealing his identity to the world in 1962. President Kennedy asked Brashear to retire and Blue Marvel conceded, but went on one final mission, saving the world from alien invasion while in the Blue Area of the Moon, where he met the Watcher. The government faked his death and assigned a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to watch him. The two fell in love, started a family, and Brashear became a professor of physics at the University of Maryland.
In the years since, Brashear has returned to the hero game several times, signing up for the 1970 edition of the Mighty Avengers, saving the world from the return of the Infinaut, fighting his compatriot King Hyperion, and battling the Anti. -Man. Blue Marvel returned to being a full-time superhero and would sign up for a new incarnation of the Mighty Avengers and later the Ultimates. Blue Marvel has it all (inexhaustible strength and an astonishing intellect) and takes advantage of a history hinted at in Falcon and the Winter Soldier with Isaiah Bradley, another black hero used and discarded in America. He’s designed for cosmic adventures or to be the driving force of a team, and the character has more than enough history to give him his own series of solo films set in the MCU’s past.