Marvel’s Echo
Summary
Marvel Studios’latest TV show release , Echo , importantly change the powers thatMaya Lopez , a.k.a . Echo , had in the cartoon strip . Echo , Marvel ’s firstMarvel Spotlightinstallment , is pretty disjoined from theMarvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) timeline . While it still connect to MCU content , it ’s think to be accessible to first - time Marvel viewers and buff who are n’t caught up on all the display and movies . It ’s perhaps unsurprising that , given that , Marvel made some change to the character .
In the funnies , Echo can learn or mime what she sees someone else do through " photographic reflexes . " InEcho , she connects to charwoman through her ancestral credit line and their various powers . Although Echo ’s mirthful book great power are compelling , they would have been dangerously skinny to a fall character inMarvel ’s 2025 movieThunderbolts . This change to Maya ’s character may import greater success for and interest in bothThunderboltsandEchobecause each append something novel , but that was n’t the grounds for the shift . In an consultation withVariety , Director Sydney Freeland explained :
" Her force in the comic books is that she can copy anything , any movement , any whatever . It ’s kind of lame . "
Rather than the ability to copy someone else ’s powers , Freeland elected for a stronger transmissible import , which aligns with Maya ’s struggle to make sense of her complicated family dynamics and her link to the bequest of her ascendent throughoutEcho .
Maya Lopez a.k.a . Echo is a key street - level MCU case with a tragical past tense and several connectedness to major Marvel heroes and villain .
Echo’s New Superpower Avoids Repeating Taskmaster’s Skillset
While Freeland had clear-cut and valid reasons for change up Maya ’s comic rule book ability , the decision has positivist implications forThunderbolts . Now that the franchise wo n’t have an overlap between Echo and Taskmaster ’s powers , Thunderboltscan case Taskmaster ’s abilities in a room that feel fresh and bona fide . Although Taskmaster appear inBlack Widow , and the cornerstone for a compelling storyline for the character has been laid out , she had little on - screen scrap time , as the film seemed much more focussed on Natasha Romanoff , a.k.a . Black Widow , and her trouble with confronting her past tense , let in her family and her role in permanently pock and almost killing Taskmaster , basically ' create ' her .
It ’s clear that the MCU intends to keep Taskmaster ’s copycat skills basic , though ; in her fight with Natasha inBlack Widow , Taskmaster demonstrates her ability to simulate both Natasha and other Avengers ' defend style . Little else is known about theThunderboltsfilm at this clock time , but the inclusion of Taskmaster , Yelena Belova , and Red Guardian suggests an exciting follow - up toBlack Widow , hopefully addressing the side effect from the destruction of the Red Room . Of naturally , the red ink of Natasha will surely play a function in that , too , and it will be interesting to see how those stories play out without her;Hawkeyealready showed how much Yelena struggled .
With Taskmaster making their first live - action mechanism coming into court in the Black Widow picture , some fans might have a few dubiousness they would like answered .
Echo Is The Second Hero To Get New Powers And Avoid Big-Screen Overlap
Kamala Khan , a.k.a . Ms. Marvel , also had her power change considerably between the comics and the MCU ’s Disney+Ms . MarvelTV show . Rather than the stretchable superhero of the comics , Kamala has the ability to control photonic , or " operose light , " energy . This may be in part to avoid yet another overlap with the stretch power of Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic 4 . While Mr. Fantastic has yet to have a right MCU first appearance , he did appear briefly in the second Doctor Strange movie , Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , indicate off this skill . This change , and that ofEcho , paint a picture that Marvel is consider strategically about interweaving these stories .
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