The Watchers - Marvel's premiere omniscient extra-terrestrial observers - are really old. Like, really, really old.
They're also very important too, with the collective's main goal being to preside over the Marvel multiverse, to observe and, under no circumstance, intervene in the affairs of mortals.
Famed more for their association with the Fantastic Four than anything else, audiences actually got a taste for the big-headed beings in one of Guardians of the Galaxy's many post-credits sequences, where Stan Lee fails to capture their attention while recalling his many cameos beforehand.
The most famous Watcher of all is Uatu, who first appeared in Fantastic Four #13 before later breaking his oath of non-intervention to warn the group of the impending arrival of Galactus, who yes, is somehow even older.
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.
