9 Marvel Superheroes Who Desperately Deserve Their Own Netflix Series

A Blade reboot? On Netflix? You know you want it.

by Ewan Paterson
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

If you happen to be a Marvel fan in this day and age, you've got to be having a good time. On top of a highly lucrative and ridiculously successful cinematic universe on the big screen, Marvel Studios have broadened their horizons to what was a few years ago one of the more unconventional media formats - that being online streaming - and have in turn managed to adapt some of their most revered and mature properties to universal acclaim as a result.

Whilst unprecedented, Marvel on Netflix is, in many ways, the company's most preeminent visual representation. It may not be the vanguard of the MCU as we know it, but it almost certainly eclipses it, with Daredevil and Jessica Jones already leading the charge for more nuanced, engaging depictions of superheroes to become the new norm of the genre. Luke Cage and Iron Fist are soon to follow, and given their predecessors uniform success, I think it's safe to expect great things in the coming months.

However, there is so much more that Marvel could be doing. Slowly but surely, they've reacquired on-screen licenses for some of their most fondly remembered characters, including but not limited to Blade and Ghost Rider. Punisher too made a trailblazing debut to the MCU in Daredevil's second season, and as more properties are gradually returned to the house of mouse, one can only hope that their eventual destination arrives in the form of a binge-watchable extravaganza of costumed melodrama.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.