Eh, Mantis is an empath. She deals with emotions while telepaths deal with thoughts.
Shouldn't be hard to make them feel different.
Was just talking about this in the Ms. Marvel thread, and I gotta say it pisses me off that we can have dozens of people with super strength or nebulous energy powers, but something like stretching or psychokinesis and suddenly you can only have a single hero with the powerset. I don't get why it's fine for Thor, Hulk, Cap, Carol, and whoever else to be capable of throwing tanks across a battlefield, but it's not okay for two characters to be capable of reaching the top shelf or reading a mind.
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Then I don't really get why they didn't mention that. Unless she just really doesn't fight much.
I know, but they're talking about her as if her main thing is being an empath.
Granted I wasn't really crazy about how they handled adapting Mantis to begin with.
Exactly. For some reason, we can have a bunch of flying/running bricks but two mental powers or stretchy characters or whatever is too much. I don't get it. The more "out there" powers are the most interesting. And outside of Tony's nanosuit, the O6 MCU Avengers have the most basic powers (and least interesting in BW's and Hawkeye's cases)
We'll have a chance to see how different Monica will be from Carol in The Marvels. Aside from energy absorption and channeling, Monica can actually become energy and thus intangible and invisible while Carol can't. If solid energy construct manipulation is what Kamala will do in both her series and the movie, it will at least look and act distinct. But I hope she won't use energy (unless it is just the visible manifestation of her body's powers), to make her stand out from her two co-stars.
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I don't know if I'd ever read a comic with Mantis before seeing her in the films so I don't have the same attachment to the source material. I think the character works well within the MCU, but I get why Mantis fans don't like it. I'd be pissed too, if I had been a fan to begin with. Hell, I'm pissed about this Kamala rumor and that's just a rumor I don't even fully buy into.
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~ Black Panther.
Well Mantis has/had a penchant for referring to herself in the third person. "This one" instead of "I". At one point She-Hulk called it out during a superheroine team-up. Maybe if they retained it in the MCU people would think Marvel wants to give someone their own speech pattern like Yoda, though he has far greater impact in the Star Wars universe. (Just my rambling thoughts.)
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I mean, someone enlarging and stretching out her body would probably stand out well to begin with in my opinion. Not sure why we need to throw constructs in there.
I was introduced to her in the DnA Guardians run where...she was fairly different, to say the least.
I also just really didn't appreciate the Drax dynamic.
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