Beyond Black Panther: 8 Black Marvel Heroes Who Should Join The MCU Next

Blade

As the number of times we’ve heard Black Panther called “the first ever Marvel movie with a black lead” proves, the Blade trilogy is often overlooked nowadays – which is a shame as, if you think about it, those films helped kickstart the rise of the superhero movie genre that ultimately created the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With that in mind, we – and the Daywalker’s legion of fans out there – think that Blade deserves a spot in the MCU.

Unless Marvel Studios’ changes the tone and direction of its movies, though, we don’t think a Blade 4 is a good idea – sorry, Wesley Snipes. Instead, the character is a much better fit for the Marvel’s TV division as the Netflix shows have proven they can be much more gritty, mature and, surprisingly, a lot more mystical (see: Daredevil‘s the Hand) than their silver screen counterparts.

One idea for how a Blade TV series could work would be for it to follow an abandoned idea from the comics: have the Daywalker mentor his teenage daughter, Fallon Grey, in the ways of being a vampire hunter. If they wanted, they could even bring Snipes (now 55, after all, and, let’s face it, more of a TV star than a movie leading man anyways) back to play this older version of the hero.