MCU Phase 4: Predicting Every Major Character That Will Join
14. Squirrel Girl
Marvel Comics/Erica Henderson
First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes #8
Squirrel Girl might already be destined for the MCU on the small-screen, but with the New Warriors TV show said to be struggling to find a network, it could be possible that the character is heading for one decidedly bigger.
Created by Steve Ditko and Will Murray in 1991, Squirrel Girl has become one of Marvel's best and brightest characters, and (somewhat surprisingly) one of their most powerful as well. She famously toppled Galactus just the other year, and with the MCU lacking a through and through comedy, Doreen Green could be the hero to marshal that genre, particularly if inspiration is taken from the character's most recent stories.
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.
