Avengers: Endgame - 11 New Heroes It Could Introduce
3. Stature
Marvel Comics
It's been clear for a year or so now that Marvel are keen on the idea of bringing the Young Avengers to the big screen, and though they likely won't appear as an actual 'Young Avengers' team, fans should expect characters from that comic to be integrated over the course of Phase 4.
In the comics, one of the leading members of the team was Cassie Lang, who went by the name of Stature. Cassie already played a part in both Ant-Man films, and was played by Abby Ryder Fortson. There looks to be a time-jump for Avengers: Endgame though, so 17 year old Emma Fuhrmann has replaced Fortson in the role, leading fans to speculate that she could be taking on a heroic guise a lot sooner than may have been expected.
Rumours of Marvel pursuing the Young Avengers characters have persisted for the last year now, and while the extent of Cassie's role in Endgame is yet to be revealed, if Marvel really are keen on the idea of introducing a new generation of heroes, then Stature would be a great place to start.
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.
