9 Female Marvel Heroes Who Desperately Deserve An MCU Movie
2. Spectrum
Marvel Comics
Monica Rambeau might not be one of Marvel's most renowned characters, but she is an Avengers staple, and one who's been strangely missing from the conversation regarding the MCU's future.
Created by Roger Stern and John Romita, Jr., Monica Rambeau (as Spectrum) has been a leader of the Avengers, an ordinary member of the team and, on plenty of occasions, her own hero too. Blessed with the ability to transfer energy right across the electromagnetic spectrum, Rambeau can control pretty much every ray out there, be they cosmic, gamma or ultraviolet.
Those are some pretty inspired powers, and Rambeau's status as an established Avenger should undoubtedly help her on the path towards a live-action appearance. Whether that comes in the Avengers or in a solo movie matters not. What does matter, however, is that she gets into the MCU with a key part to play in its future.
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.
