MCU Phase 4: Predicting Every Major Character That Will Join
6. Miles Morales
Marvel Comics
First Appearance: Ultimate Fallout #4
No other Spider-Man character introduced this decade (not even Spider-Gwen) has managed to make as big an impact as Miles Morales. The part African-American, part Latino teenager made waves initially during Brian Bendis and Sara Pichelli's seminal Ultimate Spider-Man comic, before later making the leap to the Marvel Universe's main 616 timeline as a key hero of New York City.
Miles will actually be making his cinematic debut later this year in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's not connected to the MCU however, and while the character was referenced in Spider-Man: Homecoming, fans are still awaiting the moment Miles joins for proper. Of course the fact that Tom Holland is playing a young Peter Parker might delay his arrival, but there's more than enough room for both Spider-Men, especially if Marvel are as keen to divest from past interpretations of the Spidey lore as they supposedly are.
With Morales set to benefit from a burgeoning media profile in both Spider-Man PS4 and the aforementioned Spider-Verse movie, expect live-action to be his next destination.
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.
