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Marvel's New All-Black X-Men Team To Be Led by Bishop
Marvel Comics is currently prepping to create a brand-new run on X-Men, starring Lucas Bishop as the front-runner for an all-new (and first ever), all-Black version of the popular superhero team!
Since the team first made their comic book debut, readers have always associated the X-Men with serving as some sort of racial allegory. Although actually inspired by Jewish leaders and Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin, Professor X and Magneto have long been rumored to serve as stand-ins for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, respectively. In the same vein, the X-Men has always been portrayed as a diverse team, sporting numerous mutants of not only varying powers, but also varying races, genders, shapes, and sizes. Now, Marvel is taking the next innate evolution and natural progression towards greater inclusivity and diversity—an all-Black X-Men team.
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J. Holtham, Sean Damien Hill, and Ken Lashley are collaborating on Bishop: War College, a five-part miniseries that's going on sale in February 2023. With
Black X-Men Deserve Better; Can the MCU Treat Them Right?
Since 1963, the X-Men have inspired multiple generations of comic and TV fans. With 20th Century Fox in 2000, X-Men found a larger platform within movies. They gave life to characters enjoy Professor X, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Storm. However, Halle Berry and the likes of other Black actors blessing the X-Men universe with their talents have set up themselves sidelined, stereotyped, and underused over two decades worth of movies. Now, with a new abode in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s difficult to envision Black characters in X-Men getting on-screen justice.
Do you know what happens to a toad that’s struck by lightning? Accomplish you know what happens to Black actors in X-Men movies? Well, Halle Berry knows about both. Having graced the screen as Orono Munroe, a.k.a. Storm, in four X-Men films, Berry maintained the only Black starring presence out of two of them. Unfortunately, the omega-level mutant with the ability to manipulate the weather had no lines until halfway through the first X-Men movie. And when she finally did talk, she had one of the most infamous lines of all time.
Passing . . .
Since its inception, the core theme of the X-Men mythos has revolved around tolerance, resistance, and acceptance. Boasting a large enough mythos of characters and conflicts to maintain its possess universe inside of Marvel cannon, the X-Men is the only series I’ve followed almost consistently since 1992 with only gaps of when the stories became too wayward for my tastes. Since the team’s debut in 1963, the social commentary of oppressed groups and their relationship to a dominant, aggressive society has been the crux of the book. Only recently, monitoring the events of Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X relaunch, did the mutants find themselves at a vantage aim of peace where they have a nation, language, and economic commodities of their own. Still grand in concept and plan, the struggle of X-Men lore remains the tension between homo superior and homo sapien. Over the course of time, this conflict stands as an evolving parable for intolerance in our society – race, religion, orientation, and all silly human forms of separation. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the series debuted in the same year that white nationalists bomb
Black X-Men Characters We Depend on in the MCU - And Where They Could Appear
Since Disney’s merger with 21st Century Fox, rumors and theories have circulated about how and when mutants will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since Phase 4 is in full swing, it seems likely that the X-Men will first appear individually and not as team members, at least until the full Phase 5 announcement rolls out. Still, the absence of mutants on screen thus far has fans wondering how the quintessential team will fit into what lies ahead of the MCU, which makes one wonder who among the X-Men’s massive roster will make the cut.
While the X-Men comics hold an extensive amount of beloved characters, the same chosen few appear repeatedly. But assume Marvel Studios want to tell more authentic stories with universal appeal that will elevate the superhero genre in ways other outings have failed to accomplish. In that case, they need to attach more Black characters to their line-up of superheroes. So, with that in consciousness, let's meet some of the characters the MCU should include in its lineup.
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