7 Mistakes Marvel Has Already Made With Phase Three

4. Atlantis Is Still Undiscovered

With Thor already setting up the idea of fantastical hidden worlds housed by super powered hunks, surely the time would have been perfect to have introduced the world to Prince Namor, the Submariner. Apparently not so. The arrogant Prince of the lost undersea world of Atlantis, Namor is an easy fit for the Marvel universe. Some people might say he's a bit too similar to Thor, Iron Man and Star-Lord, but there are plenty of ways in which Namor could carve out an good niche on screen. For as start he doesn't soften as easily as the God of Thunder, and he doesn't have the vulnerability of either Tony Stark or Peter Quill. He's a bit of a dick actually. Namor is most often shown as petulant, incredibly self-important, and given to charging in without all the facts, all of which would make him perfect anti-hero material. Namor eventually turning into an uneasy ally fits perfectly with his comics history too, as he can often turn the tide (sometimes literally, given how he's basically a Merman without the tail) but nobody would particularly want to be stuck next to him at a dinner party, not least because he probably smells rather a lot like brine. Seemingly only tangled rights issues have kept Namor off screen so far. He's most often a foil for the Fantastic Four, especially since he used to keep trying to kidnap Sue Storm and make her his wife, but he made his debut some 22 years before Marvel's first family, making him safe from Fox's flailing attempts to put the FF on screen. Fox of course also own the X-Men's film rights so they could decide to be picky over the fact Namor is half-mutant but if Marvel could find a way for Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to appear I doubt that'd be an issue. Unusually most of the rights apparently belong to Universal, but since they also have some hold over The Hulk (preventing the 'other guy's solo movie career so far), that's not the reason why Namor hasn't emerged from the depths already. Still Atlantis was totally name-dropped in Agents Of SHIELD, which makes Marvel a bit of a tease.