![]() ![]() She must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward. Streaming exclusively on Disney, the origin story of Echo revisits Maya Lopez, whose ruthless behavior in New York City catches up with her in her hometown. Marvel has a poor track record of appreciating female talent, but I hope this will be different. This is Maya/Echo’s show, and I’m so excited to see how much ass she kicks. Basically, she’s a human badass who manages to even become the new host of the Phoenix Force at one point.įrom what has been shared by Marvel, there will be a lot of Native talent involved in this project, and considering the constant infringement on Native rights, hopefully, this can shine a light on some of those issues. This has included Bullseyes’s aim and Daredevil’s acrobatic abilities after studying tapes of the two. Maya is an Olympic-level athlete and can use her “photographic reflexes” to copy other fighting styles, perfectly echoing other people’s skills. The character first appeared in Daredevil #9 back in 1999 and was created by writer David Mack and artist Joe Quesada. Maya Lopez, in the comics, is the adoptive daughter of Kingpin, of the Cheyenne Nation, and also deaf. She was fantastic on Hawkeye and, in her debut role, brought so much charisma and power to the performance. Echo will be the first Marvel show focusing on a Native American, deaf lead character, not to mention Alaqua Cox is also deaf and an amputee doing her own stunts. But that doesn’t mean he should overshadow this show’s title character. Charlie Cox was great in the Netflix series, and I think that, despite some missteps (cough Defenders cough), those Netflix series especially seem more compelling in the face of some of the middling current Disney+ Marvel stuff-except Iron Fist, obviously. I want Daredevil to be back as much as any Marvel fan.
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