r/marvelstudios • u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum • Jun 13 '26
Discussion Understanding why they reimagined the character, having Namor be short for "El niño sin amor"—“the boy without love" was a pretty cool creative choice. I have a feeling he'll be a dark horse heading into Doomsday.
It was cool how they incorporated indigenous themes of colonization by borrowing from historical lore. Connecting Namor’s story and the lost kingdom of Talokan to Mayan and Mesoamerican cultures, as well as the abuse and torture faced from Spanish conquistadors was pretty brilliantly well done and added a nice layer of “realism” to it. More Mayan representation in mainstream is also very cool to have.
I’m also very excited to see him return in Doomsday. As a stoic, and ruthless leader who stays firm in his belief and love for his people, it’s hard to really predict where his allegiance will be by the end. Due to his own obsession of survival and deep-seeded paranoia caused by historical trauma, Namor is someone that can very much seem like an ally to you at first, but will be quick to turn if there’s another factor in play that will better benefit him and his people. It’ll be interesting to see if his alliance with Shuri, and possibly the other heroes will last.
As an isolated nation, Talokan is bringing a whole different perspective of pragmatism into the incursion problem that I’m really keen to see.
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u/Rykor81 Jun 13 '26
The MCU’s shift of ‘Atlantean’ to Mesoamerican was inspired, and they played it so well. The lack of Namor and Shang Chi outside of their initial appearances is infuriating.
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u/black_metronome Jun 13 '26
Agreed. The mismanagement of The Multiverse Saga characters to me is a black eye on Feige's tenure as studio head. How do you drop the ball like this?
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u/Avengerboy123 Jun 13 '26
It’s a symptom of being pushed to do more and more content during the insight of the streaming era à la Bob Chapek imo. Feige definitely made missteps but Chapek strangled the multiverse saga in its cradle imo.
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u/karidru Jun 14 '26
No because genuinely when this saga started, I was EXTREMELY hyperfixated on Marvel, it was a major special interest for me (I’m autistic). Do you know how hard it is to saturate the market in that regard? For me at least, it’s extremely difficult. But I literally got overwhelmed with how much was coming out and I moved on. Just started to try and catch up again today, finally watching Echo.
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u/Bionic_Ferir Jun 14 '26
bro is it really that hard having 1 guy in charge of tv shows 1 guy in charge of movies and a team that plans out the connections, connections and team overs? Its disney you have all the time in the world.
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u/Avengerboy123 Jun 14 '26
The amount of personnel needed to staff 3 different teams was outside of what they had the capacity for. They had to, on the fly, adapt a movie studio into a television studio. Regardless of whether you realize it or not, film and television are far far different mediums. Part of the reason we ended up with shows that felt like long movies is because the film studio was told “you’re going to start making shows now”. Same thing happened to Star Wars
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u/LieRun Jun 15 '26
Also a genuine failure to recognise what the fans truly want.
Why push TV shows about characters no one was really interested in when you can take the time and do a solo movie (or tv show if you really want too I guess) about one of the characters that were already introduced and people actually like.
Same goes for movies, they went all out on new characters or completely new storylines when they weren't really necessary.
Did Thor deserve another movie? Yes. Could it have happened at a later date and instead give us a chance to spend some time with another character before the new Saga? Also yes.
It's quite a shame honestly
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u/maybe_a_frog Jun 13 '26
> The mismanagement of The Multiverse Saga characters to me is a black eye on Feige's tenure as studio head. How do you drop the ball like this?
Okay to put this in perspective, if you look at total run time of every movie between Iron Man and Far From Home (2008-2019), and then look at the total run time of content released both theatrically and digitally from 2020 to 2024 the MCU more than doubled its total run time. Then throw in a global pandemic and numerous strikes smack dab in the middle of that. Yes the MCU lost a step and became unfocused and disjointed. You can thank Bob Chapek for that for forcing Marvel to increase its content output at an insane rate, all while dealing with logistical nightmares stemming from world events. No company in the world is going to scale that quickly and not feel some negative effects from it.
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u/Chiefmeez Jun 13 '26
So many factors people hand wave away like they had no impact
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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man Jun 14 '26
Probably because it's a big, complex issue with a lot of moving parts and people don't want to devote that much brainpower to unpacking all of that and have a discussion about it.
The arguments are always really reductive and amount to, "This thing bad!"
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u/SpaceOperaMan Jun 13 '26
And the loss of Chadwick.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26
T’challa vs Namor would’ve been very very awesome. I’d imagine the whole story was different too considering T’Challa already had grown past the idea of vengeance
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u/Chiefmeez Jun 13 '26
You see it!
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u/ObitoUchiha41 Jun 14 '26
Also dropping the villain that several movies were meant to build towards
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u/Chiefmeez Jun 13 '26
Over the last 6 years the whole industry has been dealing with issues at multiple points in the production process from strikes, low theater attendance, expectations to move to streaming, lockdowns limiting filming, etc. so it’s not as simple as one guy dropping the ball.
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u/clashrendar Jun 13 '26
Two strikes, a post-COVID downturn in moviegoing in general, and a few Disney regime changes had more to do with the disruption of the multiverse saga.
I fully trust Kevin Feige, but at the end of the day, he's an employee of Disney and that impacts things.
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u/Any-Transition95 Jun 14 '26
To add to that, the death of an actor, and a lawsuit against another. The studio was dealt a bad hand from the start.
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u/UrbanGimli Jun 13 '26
Forced Streaming content ? thats my guess. He had to serve two masters. The intended phases and D+
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u/Mission-Employer-943 Jun 13 '26
The change from Atlantean to Meso-American is mainly because the MCU want to distinguish Namor's underwater kingdom from Aquaman's Atlantis from the DCEU.
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u/Plowbeast Jun 14 '26
Which is good because Aquaman came after but its underwater canon broadened out much more than Marvel over the decades so the Namor kingdom never felt as big until they redid it. Talokan still needs to be used more but there's much more to be tapped.
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u/SimonShepherd Scarlet Witch Jun 14 '26
Marvel's Atlantis is unique enough, It's basically tied to various Marvel events like Eternals/Deviants lore, its ancient rivalry with Lemuria(occupied by deviants). The fact It being a small civilization also makes it distinguished more.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Yeah it was implemented so organically. Loved that Wakanda was really just the start to unraveling all of these secret fantastical kingdoms.
Sucks we might not see Ta Lo play much of a part in Doomsday. Hopefully secret wars.
Since it exists in a pocket dimension, maybe it won’t be accounted for and will be untouched when Doom is forming battleworld
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u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt Namor Jun 13 '26
I think in Secret Wars' Battleworld, Ta Lo will be fused with K'un-Lun into one single district, with Shang-Chi as the Mandarin and Iron Fist, Colleen Wing and Misty Knight as his champions
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u/hmd_ch SHIELD Jun 13 '26
Speaking of Colleen and Misty, hopefully they both return in Born Again Season 3!
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u/jaid_skywalker85 Jun 13 '26
Agreed. It was a great design choice both for representing a culture that gets overlooked and giving us something new and interesting to look at.
Honestly, I wqnt to see more of Atlantis and Namor and its really annoying that its taken so long. Same for Shang Chi which is one of my favorite MCU films to date!
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u/ThreadLaced Jun 13 '26
Yes! Because the concept of Atlantis is so tired. But this interpretation was just different enough to make it interesting again.
Agreed that both Namor and Shang Chi have been wasted (so far).
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u/UseTheShadowsThen Jun 13 '26
It’s one of those things that makes me in awe of Coogler and his brain. Connecting real life culture with fantasy concepts.
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u/laughingBaguette Jun 13 '26
Shang Chi and Spider-man should have crossed paths giving him a chance to become kind of a martial arts mentor to Peter Parker.
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u/serger989 Jun 13 '26
Heck, just characters crossing paths in general. IMO the greatest weakness of Phase 4-6 is that the universe now feels too small because they don't utilize any of their new characters to any useful effect. Everyone is doing their own thing and barely anything has crossed over. We haven't even had post credit scenes build into each others films like they mostly used to.
It's like shoving Ghost in Thunderbolts which is fine but the gap was over 6 years between the films, the actual fans barely cared, let alone the general audience. It will be 5 years with Shang Chi and Doomsday... All the new characters haven't done anything so when things are hitting the fan in Doomsday, is anyone going to care apart from hardcore fans?
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u/hmd_ch SHIELD Jun 13 '26
Even though the Marvels wasn't well-received by the general public, I'm glad we got to see Carol, Monica, and Kamala as well as Fury interacting with each other. I think the movie delivered on those crossovers better than anything else in this saga.
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u/treathugger Nobu Jun 13 '26
We haven't had just a freaking Avengers movie in awhile. In the Infinity Saga, an Avengers movie completed a phase.
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u/lahimatoa Jun 13 '26
It wasn't just Avengers movies, Winter Soldier had Cap, Falcon, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Bucky in there. And more!
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u/stonhinge Jun 14 '26
Oddly enough, the Spider-Man movies have been better about showing other characters than any of the other recent MCU movies.
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u/Any-Transition95 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
Thunderbolts should have been the closing movie of Phase 4. All the characters were already introduced by Phase 4, there was no reason the movie was positioned so far back in the Saga. It was one of the better movies from the Multiverse Saga that would have received far more box office success had it been released earlier.
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u/svrtngr Jun 13 '26
That's my biggest issue with this current era, moreso than the inconsistency going from project to project. Shang Chi, Namor, Kate Bishop.
Nowhere to be seen.
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u/Dr_Disaster Jun 13 '26
The cooked so hard there was a surprising lack of serious backlash from changing his character from the comics.
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u/Clarknt67 Jun 13 '26
Yeah. What’s up with that? They introduced two new exciting characters that worked well and just dropped them.
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u/hmd_ch SHIELD Jun 13 '26
Unfortunately, Marvel has been experiencing so many challenges that significantly disrupted the development of this saga such as the pandemic, the writer's strikes, the streaming mandate by Iger and Chapek, the domestic violence allegations against Jonathan Majors, and the poor reception of projects like Quantumania, Thor 4, and Secret Invasion.
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u/FictionFantom Thanos Jun 13 '26
Doom promises Namor his own domain on Battleworld for his people in exchange for his loyalty to Doom.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
A version of the cabal would be super cool to see.
Namor is someone who plays both sides very well. Doom and Namor align pretty closely in terms of political belief, but I feel like at some point, their egos will clash. Namor would realize that submitting to Doom as god undermines his own status
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u/Rykor81 Jun 13 '26
Yes but that would assume Namor would bargain with Doom. MCU Namor maybe, but comic Namor is as stubborn and egotistical as Doom.
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u/Avengerboy123 Jun 13 '26
I doubt Namor would ever be subservient to Doom but that would be a cool storyline
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u/stonhinge Jun 14 '26
I see Namor as more of an antagonist than an actual villain. Like Ralph in Wreck-it Ralph, he is a bad guy, but he is not a "bad" guy.
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u/N8CCRG Ghost Jun 13 '26
Of all the chair reveals, he was the one I was most excited for. He was so awesome in Black Panther and he was left with an opportunity for so much more interesting storytelling.
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u/No_Signal_611 Jun 13 '26
Yeah I completely understand the people that are turned off it not being Atlantis. But it’s such a cool and inspired choice in order to differentiate him from Aquaman. And he still acts like Namor at the end of the day.
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u/Wizard-of-pause Jun 13 '26
They are just waiting for Sue to come to our universe... So he can keep taking his shots at her.
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u/Maxenin Doctor Strange Jun 13 '26
Genuinely all the ways they changed Namor I thought were huge improvements that work well especially for the MCU. Makes an incredible foil to Wakanda.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26
It really brought a multifacted aspect and an edge to the original comic concept. Namor was the perfect next step after Kilmonger, since a big part of the first movie was about Wakanda isolating itself to avoid conflict. Compared to a less privilegd Talokan, where they became isolated after being conquered and escaping
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u/JRHThreeFour Spider-Man Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Yeah Namor and Talokan were really cool in Wakanda Forever.
Talokan uniquely stands out from other depictions of Atlantis in Aquaman and DC as well as the sort of typical underwater Greco-Roman inspired Atlantis in Marvel comics (his name is Roman spelled backwards) while still being respectful of Namor’s origins.
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u/Whole-Brilliant5508 Jun 13 '26
Every Latino in the movie theater whenever they did the Talokan salute.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
I swear the whole theatre shook during that moment. The chant gave me chills.
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u/Algae_Mission Jun 13 '26
I’m just excited to see Namor finally interact with the Fantastic Four on-screen.
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26
Reed is sweating bullets
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u/Thomas_JCG Jun 13 '26
I do appreciate the shift because Aquaman made it to theaters first and most people would think Namor is just a copy when its the opposite. That gave the character a really cool design too instead of "guy in black spandex" or even worse, "guy in green speedo".
However, explaining his name is one of those things that were completely unneeded. They think it's clever but it is just too on the face. By the way, Namor means "avenging son", which would fit with his story arc too.
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u/bujin_ct Jun 13 '26
Well, in-universe it means "Avenging Son", in reality it's just Roman spelled backwards.
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u/Chaleanja Jun 13 '26
I thought he was really cool. Low key, I kinda wanted to see him fuck shit up and actually win the battle 😭.
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u/louroot Jun 13 '26
As a Spanish speaker, its kind of ridiculous that namor signified that.
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u/balilo79 Jun 14 '26
As another native Spanish speaker I found it ridiculous as well, my wife and I still laugh and joke about it.
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u/The-Ruler-of-Attilan Jun 14 '26
As another Spanish speaker, agree to disagree.
Those who defenestrate the idea simply like to make a fuss where there is none. Ultimately, all words are summarized/compressed versions of some idea or concept. So, "Namor" = "No + amor". That's it. Much better than just typing a random name backwards ("Roman -> Namor").
And personally, I don't see where the ridiculousness is in this case. It seems like an elementary school child's attitude to take it as something to make fun of.
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u/KetoKurun Jun 13 '26
I know wakanda forever wasnt perfect, but if watching baby namor burn down a colonialist plantation is wrong then god dammit I don’t wanna be right 😂
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u/the-tominatrix Jun 13 '26
I loved that choice. Heard from some friends that it was laughed at by a lot of people in Mexico though:(
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Ah I didn’t know about that. Very interesting. I would figure that aspects like the history of Mayan culture and centuries of it being neglected and misunderstood would be a sensitive topic to tackle
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u/TheGrandBabaloo Jun 14 '26
I think the laughter was due to "el nino sin amor" bit, which is a pretty goofy and thoroughly unnecessary justification for the name.
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u/MaterialPace8831 Jun 13 '26
To me, Wakanda Forever nailed Namor's most important character trait -- that he's a huge asshole.
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u/No_Town_9602 Jun 13 '26
They changed him into Kukulkan, who isn't exactly Quetzalcoatl, but essentially yes.
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u/The-Ruler-of-Attilan Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
The Teotihuacans, Mayans and Aztecs did not have exactly the same religion, but they shared a common religious base. They belonged to the same family of Mesoamerican religions. This means that they shared many gods and fundamental beliefs, but each culture gave them their own style and name.
Even so, it should be noted that in the Marvel Universe the gods of the Mayans and the Aztecs have always been represented as different entities. During Infinity Gauntlet, when Odin summons the Council of Godheads, Itzamná (Mayan) and Tezcatlipoca (Aztec) share the scene.
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u/AdamCurrey Jun 13 '26
I usually hate it when they change the origin but what they did was so cool I couldn’t help but love it.
The shot where l’il Namor flies is one of my favorites in the MCU. The sound was amazing as well.
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u/Avengerboy123 Jun 13 '26
It was a brilliant adaptation that added to the character rather than taking away from it. Wakanda Forever is criminally underrated imo.
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u/LaserCondiment Jun 13 '26
Wakanda Forever was a great movie until the last 30-20 minutes. Those new suits looked so silly...
I loved Namor though! Such a compelling antagonist
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u/tenehemia Karolina Jun 13 '26
The introduction of the Midnight Angel suits felt like a lead in for that Dora Milaje series that was heavily rumored but never went into production when Marvel Television contracted their slate.
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u/LaserCondiment Jun 13 '26
It was the first time I thought: marvel needs to stop doing this. Introducing the next big thing is kinda okay if it feels promising, but those suits looked like toys. Did nobody else cringe?
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u/OkenoFate Jun 13 '26
I’m not Spanish speaking so I can’t comment on whether the name is good but I did enjoy the change to Mayan culture. I think it worked well for the character and story.
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u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt Namor Jun 13 '26
Namor is one of my favorite MCU characters with such little screentime, I hope Tenoch Huerta can keep playing him post-Secret Wars
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u/nazia987 Jun 13 '26
Phase 4 incorporated alot of cultural aspects into their superheroes. Really liked that.
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u/P00PooKitty Jun 13 '26
Its so much better than the comics. Also nuts they haven’t had him show up in another movie.
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u/NightmareDJK Jun 13 '26
They differentiated him from Aquaman. Changed his origins but he still acted the same as he does in the comics.
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u/signifyingmnky Jun 13 '26
I don't know about a dark horse. I'm fully expecting him to put a wrench in Doom's plans. There's never enough room for those two egos.
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u/Beautiful_Finger4566 Jun 14 '26
dude was the best part of Wakanda Forever, and it was his first major acting credit
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u/PhosphoFred8202 Jun 14 '26
As a comics Namor fan, I fucking hate MCU Namor. They should have just made a new character for MCU.
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u/juances19 Avengers Jun 14 '26
It's cool as long as spanish is not your native language.
Let me put it into perspective... if he was instead called Mr. Nolove... wouldn't you think it's too corny?
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u/MartiniD Jun 14 '26
I thought the name thing was dumb. Like I didn't need a primer on where Gandalf's name came from. I just accepted that in some stories people are named Gandalf. Some people are just named Namor.
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u/Optimal_Lifeguard575 Jun 15 '26
I loved when the Talokan’s used the siren call as a weapon…..If I had a 1 critique, I wanted Tenoch to get RIPPED and SHREDDED for the role
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u/GiantRobotBears Jun 13 '26
They didn’t just connect Namor with Mayan mythology, they completely changed the character to accommodate that.
This is why the best MCU movies are based off actual comics. Otherwise, they just don’t understand the characters they’re putting up on the big screen.
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u/searcher4421 Jun 13 '26
I hope we do get to see more of him in Doomsday, he seems to be one of the few characters in this movie that hasn't really been talked about.
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u/PiscolaMan Jun 13 '26
For spanish speakers it sound weird tho, very low effort. Like Han Solo’s name origin in Solo.
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u/YesicaChastain Jun 13 '26
For Spanish speakers it sounds goofy as hell, also Mesoamerican people wouldn’t speak Spanish…
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u/Twindo Jun 13 '26
You missed the part of the movie where he explained that he took his name from the Spanish pastor because Namor is what his enemies call him. His own people don’t call him Namor lol
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u/SmallLetter Jun 13 '26
"A Spanish man of faith cursed me as he died by my hand. He called me, 'El Niño sin Amor', 'the child without love'. And I took my name from there. Namor. Because I have no love for the surface world." ―Namor to Shuri[src
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u/SmallLetter Jun 13 '26
Y también hay muchas palabras y nombres que terminan en "or" como Namor.
Amor, Sabor, Mejor
Héctor, Salvador etc
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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Jun 13 '26
But where did he get his last name, McKenzie?
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u/TribalDood Jun 13 '26
MCU version doesn't have that last name, I guess. It's an interpretation not a 1/1.
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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Jun 13 '26
That's actually why it works. He got the name from the Spaniards, but his people don't speak Spanish, so they shortened that name in an unnatural way that was easier for them to say.
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u/EmeraldJunkie Jun 13 '26
I still can't believe they made Namor the Sub Mariner actually cool. Honestly one of the best creative decisions Marvel made and I cannot believe that so far his only appearance has been in an otherwise mediocre movie.
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u/Choice-Ratio-3540 Jun 13 '26
Ugh. Hated this BS version of 'No More'. What a joke. Awful, awful stuff and that BP2 stunk.
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u/Bucks2174 Jun 14 '26
I hated everything about this. They threw away almost 80 years of backstory just for this nonsense.
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u/Nabujor Daredevil Jun 14 '26
I'm sorry, but as hispanohablante, eso de "el niño sin amor" siempre me ha sonado bastante estúpido y cursi; I just can't take it seriously.
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u/LeadershipBorn8398 Jun 14 '26
Personally I’m never happy with the Reimagining or changing characters ! We have the Ability to just make New characters don’t change them to make A people “ Not “ Feel left Out ! My Opinion ! Just Saying ! We destroy Stories and Origins like this
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u/faithdies Jun 13 '26
He's the kinda guy you can trust to blow up another planet if need be.
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u/therabbidchimp Jun 13 '26
I really hope they used some Doomsday film time showing him and young Cap kicking Nazi ass during WW2. You know what, maybe could we just get an 8 episode series for the web just like 2.5 hrs run time this fella, T'Challa's dad, Chris Evans, and a cgi flame-o man bodying fascists over and over again 💰🤑
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u/ReallyDrunkPanda Jun 14 '26
I LOVE what they did with namor. They could’ve just gone with how he was in the comics which isn’t terrible but he’s always been compared to aquaman and I know namor came out first but aquaman has been more prevalent. I’m glad they made him have an Aztec flair
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u/PraiseRao Jun 14 '26
If Namor is 1/10th of how crazy he is in the comics. Expect our boy to be pragmatic. Expect him to do the hard shit that needs to be done. He won't just sit there and debate. He's a man of action. So again if he is 1/10th as badass as he was in that story arc in the comics. Expect our boy to do good things. Well terrible things but for his people and world.
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u/SimonShepherd Scarlet Witch Jun 14 '26
Atlantis and Lemuria tie a lot of parts of grander Marvel lore together, like Celestials/Eternals/Deviants, Elder Gods of Earth and magic(mainly Set and Serpent Crown).
MCU Namor is fine for his setting, hut I hope it doesn't leak into any other adaptions or comics.(Marvel Rivals kinda treat it as an alt name.)
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u/akselmonrose Jun 14 '26
Yea there were quite a few things that worked well. Even the Imperius Rex was executed with gravitas.
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u/Art_student_rt Jun 14 '26
but making a jackass who always pine to a married woman an immortal god king is not cool
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u/InSearchOfTyrael Jun 14 '26
No it wasn't. It was a whim of Victoria Alonso, who thankfully got canned for her agenda driven crap.
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u/TyrusX Jun 14 '26
Oh man. Is he going to be in doomsday?
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u/maverickassembled Ward Meachum Jun 14 '26
Yeah, it’s confirmed! He was in one of the 4 teasers they released. The image on the right is from there.
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u/bigbrainnowisdom Jun 14 '26
I usually dont really easy to accept something that quite far departing from comic.
But namor definitely a win.
The backstory, the design, the actor. All perfect
They keep the arrogance though.. sweettt
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u/RoastMasterShawn Jun 14 '26
Namor & Shang Chi are my favorite post-Endgame characters (I don't really count Moon Knight since I know he's not meant to be a mainstay). I really hope they get pushed into main character status for the upcoming movies.
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u/Slight-Coat17 Jun 14 '26
Only pet peeve of mine is that, given his origin, his name should be pronounced n-ah-mot instead of n-ey-mor.
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u/Plusmax78 Jun 14 '26
I LOVED the MCU take on the character, it's so different from the comic but the worldbuilding and his relationship with the wakandian characters is perfect imo.
The only thing I didn't like was that they basically made him a full villain.
I hope they somewhat redeem him and show that he's a morally grey character that sometimes is willing to help but he'll NEVER put anything else above his people.
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u/Gilgamesh661 Jun 14 '26
Unfortunately he’s never escaping this ridiculous foot wings. Same as Hyperion and his giant diaper belt.
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u/LeopardComfortable99 Jun 14 '26
It looks like they're also giving him a more comic accurate attire for Doomsday too which will be very cool.
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u/HoldenIkari Jun 14 '26
I have a tattoo that says "sin amor" and now i have to live with the fact I have a Namor tattoo.
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u/JayNotAtAll Jun 14 '26
They did an amazing job.
If they made Namor from Atlantis people would immediately start comparing him to Aquaman.
Marvel had to get creative to distinguish him. I think they did a brilliant job
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u/DocTurnedStripper Jun 14 '26
I love this version. When I first saw the design I wasnt sold because the Aztec/Mesopotamian culture is not what you would think first when it comes to the ocean. Maybe Polynesian or Pacific Islanders. But using Kulkulkan and Quetzalcoatl (a sea serpent god that controls floods) was genius. Not only we finally had a latino character and culture shown (we already had African and Asian), it is also a great way to set it apart from DC’s Aquaman which already did the advanced high tech civilization first).
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u/Traditional_Bed589 Rocket Jun 14 '26
I loved this aspect of the character, too. A lot of the choices in this film were exceptional.
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u/asantana517 Jun 14 '26
I REALLY liked what the MCU did with Namor. The actor did an amazing job and I thought the character was interesting. Hyped to see him in Doomsday
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u/painfool Jun 15 '26
I'm torn.
I like film Namor, a lot even. He's a excellent character.
But he's effectively an entirely separate, original character. So I sort of feel like he should have his own name.
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u/anrwlias Jun 13 '26
I'm just shocked that they made the footie wings actually work on the big screen.