Is Blade in The Avengers?
Is Blade in The Avengers?
In the mainstream Marvel Universe, Blade has had plenty of encounters with icons like the X-Men, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man. In fact, for a brief period, he adopted Hawkeye's “Ronin” moniker and worked alongside the Mighty Avengers. More recently, Blade joined the Avengers, by invitation from Black Panther.
What did Avengers Endgame have to do with Marvel?
- Yet step back 25 years and the truly extraordinary thing about Avengers: Endgame would not be its overheated storyline or glittering cast. It would be that a serious box office contender had anything to do with Marvel Comics. The caped conglomerate is today in its imperial phase.
How did blade create the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
- Indeed, the blueprint established by Blade – take an obscure Marvel character and treat them as if they’re as important as Batman or the Hulk – would soon become the foundational text of the Marvel playbook. Blade’s significance in terms of African-American representation wasn’t much commented upon at the time.
Why did blade want to be a superhero?
- For him, Blade was the culmination of nearly a decade of struggle to bring a black superhero to the screen. He had initially tried to convince studios to back a Black Panther adaptation. But he had run aground both on Hollywood’s ignorance of comic books and also because of the background radiation of racism.
Who is the purple head in Avengers Endgame?
- This year, the biggest event in cinema will be a CGI smackdown starring Josh Brolin as a huge purple head and one-time Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr as an annoying billionaire bunged inside a flying tin suit. Yet step back 25 years and the truly extraordinary thing about Avengers: Endgame would not be its overheated storyline or glittering cast.
