Kate Bishop
With Avengers 4 likely to wipe out a few key figures, the MCU is going to have to start introducing legacy heroes sooner rather than later. And with rumours pointing towards Hawkeye meeting his end in the upcoming team-up movie, someone who needs to appear sometime in Phase Four is Kate Bishop, Clint Barton’s successor as the Archer Avenger.
In the comics, a lot of Kate’s stories see her as a sidekick or crime-fighting partner to Clint, but the MCU version might have to go it alone if those rumours about him are true. But hey, that’s OK. Just team her up with a band of Marvel’s mightiest female heroes. Kate Bishop has been an A-Force member since almost the very beginning of the team.
She’s also a member of the Young Avengers, another team that would a perfect to helm their own movie. See, we’re already starting to build up connections between different Phase Four films. Kevin Feige, feel free to hire us to do your job for you anytime.
Ms. Marvel
A lot is said about how superhero movies need to have a much more diverse array of leads than they do now, and Marvel is finally starting to move away from an endless procession of white male heroes, with Captain Marvel and Black Panther coming up in the next couple of years. It would be great if Phase Four could push things even further in that direction though, and one of the best characters to do that with is Kamala Khan AKA Ms. Marvel.
As the first ever Muslim Marvel hero, Kamala received a lot of praise when she first appeared just a handful of years ago in 2013. The trick to her success was that, hey, she was actually a great character in her own right, regardless of her ethnic or religious background. She’s been called by some a modern-day Spider-Man: an ordinary New York teen who has great responsibility thrust upon her.
If an A-Force movie ever happened, Ms. Marvel could be a great candidate for the audience’s point-of-view character – a young heroine who discovers her powers and joins the all-female team. In the comics, Kamala idolizes Carol Danvers, hence taking on her old mantle of Ms. Marvel. Now that Brie Larson is bringing Carol to life very soon, it makes sense for Kamala to follow shortly after, right?
