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Do you think we'll gonna get a Latino/Hispanic Superhero in Hollywood?


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With the recent announcement of Shang-Chi as the first ever Asian Superhero in MCU and a stand alone movie in the works with the promise and hopes that it would follows the same Cultural Impact and Phenomena Black Panther has.


 


 


 


 


And with the rising demand and audience for a more diverse cinematic universe.  Shang-Chi is just one and part of the movement along with the newest batch of diverse superheroes like KAMALA KHAN; the current Miss Marvel whose a Muslim and Pakistani/Southasian descent. WAVE, Marvel's Filipina Superheroine ( rumors that Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 is gonna bag her ) and finally a Gay Superhero!


 


 


 


Do you think we'll also gonna have a Major Superhero of a Latino/Hispanic background? I mean that's not an impossible idea considering Disney which owns Marvel is gonna soon introduce their very first official Latina Princess. 


 


 


 


 


 


What are ur thoughts?


 


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Blue Beetle is in development, though I'm not sure if they're going with the Jaimie Reyes version or if it'll be a Ted Chord Blue Beetle & Booster Gold team up movie. They should do both tbh, use the Jamie Reyes movie as a launching pad to set up the teen titans, and make the BB & Booster gold a buddy cop team up movie

 

Here's an article about it: 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming superhero movie 'Blue Beetle' will feature DC Comics' first Latino lead

 

DC Comics’ Extended Universe is becoming bigger — and a little more Latino.

The American comic book publisher and Warner Bros. are developing the superhero movie “Blue Beetle", which will feature comic book character Jaime Reyes as the first DC standalone Latino lead, according to reports of the collaboration.

 

Reyes is a Mexican-American teenager from El Paso, Texas, who finds his life turned upside down when he discovers the Blue Beetle scarab tool, which gives him the technology to activate a bio-mechanical suit.

The Mexican-American superhero was created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Cully Hammer and introduced in a comic in 2006. Reyes is the third iteration of the “Blue Beetle†series hero, which is part of the DC Comics â€œTeen Titans.â€

Hector Gonzalez Rodriguez III, creator and writer of "El Peso Hero"comics and co-founder of Rio Bravo Comics, sees the forthcoming “Blue Beetle†movie as “a positive step towards representation,†but he said it’s important to get Latino culture right so it doesn’t perpetuate inaccurate Latino stereotypes in Hollywood.

 
“As a comic book consumer and creator, there are reservations, because in order for representation to take hold there needs to be (Latino) writers and creators,†Gonzalez Rodriguez said.
So far, the people attached to the project are Mexican writer Gareth Dunnet-Alocer as screenwriter and Zev Foreman as executive producer. Dunnet-Alocer is the writer behind Universal’s Scarface remake and the remake of the upcoming Mexican action-drama Miss Bala.
 
Though "Blue Beetle" is being promoted as the first Latino superhero movie, one way to ensure it reflects Latino culture is to acknowledge that such films already have somewhat of a legacy in the U.S. Movies starring El Santo, (The Saint) a Mexican superhero, were dubbed into English and shown in the U.S. years ago.
 
“I grew up watching those,†Gonzalez Rodriguez told NBC News.
DC’s competitor, Marvel, has also recently released “Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse,†which stars Afro-Latino Miles Morales as its hero.
The movie creators should also look to independent Latino comic books such as El Muerto by Javier Hernandez or Gonzalez Rodriguez’s own El Peso Hero, he said. Both works “have a pulse on the Latino community and are very grassroots,†Gonzalez Rodriguez said.



La Borinqueña, a Latina superhero of Puerto Rican heritage, is the only independently published comic book included in a Smithsonian National Museum of American History "Superheroes" exhibit that runs through September 2019, according to the comic book's creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez.
Gonzalez Rodriguez suspects that “Blue Beetle†has the potential to become a box office hit, as “Coco†was earlier this year — if it’s done right.
 
“If it’s done respectfully and truthfully, it can be an even bigger hit commercially [than “Cocoâ€] and right now they are focusing on the Hispanic market,†Gonzalez Rodriguez said. “They know more than a quarter of moviegoers are Hispanic.â€

 

 

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Renee Montoya (Question) will be in Birds of Prey

 

They should have Catwoman be a Latina again, cause she is technically half cuban.

 

idk about solo films but if they do a Green Lantern Corp movie we might get a Jessica Cruz.

 

I want DC to do a Fire and Ice, Fire is Brazilian and I forgot what Ice is, shes a Norsewomen.

 

 

For Marvel I can only think of Miss America who maybe can be added, shes also an openly gay superhero in the comics.

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