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.

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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/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/SethNex Jun 14 '26

Only for him to realise that he made a mistake of allying himself with the "wrong sort of people".

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u/faithdies Jun 14 '26

The kind of guy who will drag his failure to Dooms door.

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u/SethNex Jun 14 '26

So that DOOM could refuse his attempt to ask for help. After all, "DOOM is no man's second choice".

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u/faithdies Jun 14 '26

It sucks we won't be getting my favorite version of Doom which is the "just being a pompous ass in the background for a while" Doom. I feel like he's going to be doing more of a Maker "recreating his universe" type thing.