Make Up a Marvel "Latin :League"

[ouroboros]

The other day I was thinking about how, during Priest's run on BLACK PANTHER, he managed to work most of Marvel's black heroes into his stories.

To my knowledge this has never been done at any company with respect to Latino/Latina characters, though there have been more than a few writers and artists who belong to that linguistic/cultural matrix. I would guess that if indeed it's never been done, it's because being "Latino/Latina" is more a matter of said matrix, rather than being a matter of a specific phenotype.

So who would be in a Marvel "Latin League?" I'd put in El Aguila and Sunspot to start.

[Anduinel]

America
Velocidad
Rictor
Shark Girl

[Michael Watkins]

Are there enough characters?

[CIA]

Hoping it never happens cause they will force America into it and make her the main character.

[Sutekh]

Oh gosh, there's tons. You could make an all-mutant 'Latin League' if you wanted...

El Aguila
Defensor (dead?)

Sunspot
Magma / Amara (not sure if she counts, she's from South America, but who knows if she's originally of Italian stock or not...)
Empath / Manuel de la Rocha
Darwin
Skin (dead)
Goldballs
Cecelia Reyes
Rictor
Wind Dancer (depowered currently)
Velocidad
Risque

Ghost Rider/Reyes
Satana
Silverclaw
El Toro
Firebird
Living Lightning
Reptil
Spider-Girl/Arana/Anya Corazon
Spider-Man/Miles Morales
America Chavez
Echo/Ronin/Maya Lopez
Victor la Mancha
Power Man/Victor Alvarez
Poison
White Tiger/Ava Ayala (currently depowered)
White Tiger/Angela del Toro (currently depowered)

I'd love to see more of Aya Ayala/White Tiger and Wind-Dancer repowered, along with Living Lightning, Reptil, Sunspot, Goldballs, Cecelia Reyes and Spider-Girl/Arana.

There are others I'm sure I'm forgetting, or less sure about, like Wraith (Hector Mendoza?) and maybe Microbe, or the Cortez siblings, or Carmella Unuscione, or her half-brother Radius, or la Bandera (who I think is also dead, and I only know from her Marvel RPG stats in an old issue of Dragon magazine)?

Some of them are kind of cheating. Victor la Mancha is a robot, but grew up thinking he was a Latino human, so I'm fine with him, but America grew up in another dimension full of super-ladies and, AFAIK, no concept of ethnic groups, so I'm not sure she really 'counts' any more than Martian Manhunter shapechanging into a black man 'counts' as African-American representation. Same with Amara/Magma, growing up in Nova Roma, thinking of herself as part of a lost Roman outpost, doesn't really scream 'the latino experience' to me. (But what do I know?)

[Lonewolf36]

The Avengers Affiliates from an issue of Red Hulk would make a good team
Silverclaw
Living Lightning
Junta
el Toro
Velocidad

You also have Spectro from Silk and Hummingbird from New Warriors ans Scarlet Spider.

[Silvermoth]

You would have to include arana, I miss her

[Riv86672]

So who would be in a Marvel "Latin League?" I'd put in El Aguila and Sunspot to start.

I came up w. this premise a few months back.

[JudicatorPrime]

Oh gosh, there's tons. You could make an all-mutant 'Latin League' if you wanted...

El Aguila
Defensor (dead?)

Sunspot
Magma / Amara (not sure if she counts, she's from South America, but who knows if she's originally of Italian stock or not...)
Empath / Manuel de la Rocha
Darwin
Skin (dead)
Goldballs
Cecelia Reyes
Rictor
Wind Dancer (depowered currently)
Velocidad
Risque

Ghost Rider/Reyes
Satana
Silverclaw
El Toro
Firebird
Living Lightning
Reptil
Spider-Girl/Arana/Anya Corazon
Spider-Man/Miles Morales
America Chavez
Echo/Ronin/Maya Lopez
Victor la Mancha
Power Man/Victor Alvarez
Poison
White Tiger/Ava Ayala (currently depowered)
White Tiger/Angela del Toro (currently depowered)

I'd love to see more of Aya Ayala/White Tiger and Wind-Dancer repowered, along with Living Lightning, Reptil, Sunspot, Goldballs, Cecelia Reyes and Spider-Girl/Arana.

There are others I'm sure I'm forgetting, or less sure about, like Wraith (Hector Mendoza?) and maybe Microbe, or the Cortez siblings, or Carmella Unuscione, or her half-brother Radius, or la Bandera (who I think is also dead, and I only know from her Marvel RPG stats in an old issue of Dragon magazine)?

Some of them are kind of cheating. Victor la Mancha is a robot, but grew up thinking he was a Latino human, so I'm fine with him, but America grew up in another dimension full of super-ladies and, AFAIK, no concept of ethnic groups, so I'm not sure she really 'counts' any more than Martian Manhunter shapechanging into a black man 'counts' as African-American representation. Same with Amara/Magma, growing up in Nova Roma, thinking of herself as part of a lost Roman outpost, doesn't really scream 'the latino experience' to me. (But what do I know?)

I suspect there are even more characters than this. It wouldn't shock me if there are some characters out there that we don't know are actually Latinx, even though artistically they look anything but.

[Sutekh]

I suspect there are even more characters than this. It wouldn't shock me if there are some characters out there that we don't know are actually Latinx, even though artistically they look anything but.

Yeah, but, really, there are so many that I like already, that I'd be happy to see more of them.

Sunspot, Empath, Wind-Dancer, Goldballs, Cecelia Reyes and Rictor are some of my mutant side faves, and Anya Corazon, America Chavez, Living Lightning, Reptil and Ava Ayala, on the non-mutant side of things.

Of them, Rictor, Empath and Sunspot have roles in X-titles, but the rest, kind of on hold, at the moment. No non-mutant Latinos to be seen, I guess. (I really thought Reptil was going places. Such a cool power! What Calvin wouldn't give to be able to turn into a T-Rex!)

Definitely not a great time for Latinas, mutant or otherwise, at Marvel, this season. Wind-Dancer and the White Tigers are depowered, America, Anya, Cecelia Reyes, Silverclaw and Firebird are off-screen. La Bandera is still dead.

[JudicatorPrime]

Here's my team, which admittedly has no real rhyme or reason other than I like these characters:

El Aguila
Allegra
MAC
Helix
Risque
La Lunatica
Ghost Rider
Cadena
Medico Mystico
Akasha Martinez
Velocidad (who probably takes a young protege when he's older and calls her/him Kid Velocidad)
Firebird
White Tiger
El Toro

[Sutekh]

Here's my team, which admittedly has no real rhyme or reason other than I like these characters:

El Aguila
Allegra
MAC
Helix
Risque
La Lunatica
Ghost Rider
Cadena
Medico Mystico
Akasha Martinez
Velocidad (who probably takes a young protege when he's older and calls her/him Kid Velocidad)
Firebird
White Tiger
El Toro

Oh my, La Lunatica? So great! (And why not, last I recall, they burned down the 2099 setting on the way out the door anyway, so might as well salvage the coolest characters from it!)

[JudicatorPrime]

Oh my, La Lunatica? I'm in heaven! (And why not, last I recall, they burned down the 2099 setting on the way out the door anyway, so might as well salvage the coolest characters from it!)

Love this character. My only concern is that they'd push her as a Harley Quinn clone. But if it was up to me, I'd definitely bring her to the 616, guest appearances with Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Punisher, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, etc., then give her a limited series run. From there, skies the limit.

[Micabe]

Technically America Chavez has no biological roots in Latin America -- in fact she not even human.

[Riv86672]

Love this character. My only concern is that they'd push her as a Harley Quinn clone. But if it was up to me, I'd definitely bring her to the 616, guest appearances with Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Punisher, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, etc., then give her a limited series run. From there, skies the limit.

That’s prob. how’d she end up getting the Quinn push.