15 Radical Superheroes To Diversify The MCU

Marvel Comics was always a place where liberal views were held in high regard - the late Stan Lee famously created the original X-Men comic book with the idea that they would tell stories illustrating that “bigotry is a terrible thing”.

Relative newcomer Chris Claremont was brought in to write the 1975 revival of the series. The All-New, All-Different X-Men - the OG comic book for diversity in comics characters - featured heroes from all over the world, including the blue-furred, demonic-looking Nightcrawler and Kenyan weather goddess Storm.

Claremont’s knack for writing strong, interesting women stood him in good stead: it was he that saved the Carol Danvers character from being written out of the Avengers, and kept her story going for over a decade. His huge ensemble cast would bang the gong for women and people of colour throughout the late seventies and eighties almost single-handed - his original, eclectic New Mutants line-up featured one white man and was 60% female.

Disney finally has the capability to bring the X-Men to the MCU, and not before time. Their story is the story of diversity and representation in comics, and their female cast is unequalled: Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Laura Kinney, Psylocke, Emma Frost and so many, many more.