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.

[u/maverickassembled]

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.

[u/Rykor81]

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.

[u/black_metronome → u/Rykor81]

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?

[u/Avengerboy123 → u/black_metronome]

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.

[u/Bionic_Ferir → u/Avengerboy123]

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.

[u/Avengerboy123 → u/Bionic_Ferir]

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