Black History Month: List Your 28 Favorite Black/African American Heroes

[danielsan52]

Marvel needs to bring Bill Foster back.

[Vegeta]

Marvel needs to bring Bill Foster back.

Honestly, I am surprised they haven't since he appeared in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" for that movie synergy. They also haven't done much with his nephew Thomas, who swore revenge on Stark and Reed for Bill's death.

[danielsan52]

Honestly, I am surprised they haven't since he appeared in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" for that movie synergy. They also haven't done much with his nephew Thomas, who swore revenge on Stark and Reed for Bill's death.

I’d love to see them both. Make Tom a Young Avenger or Champion and Make William a new FF member! He would be perfect on a FF team!

[Marvell2100]

Honestly, I am surprised they haven't since he appeared in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" for that movie synergy. They also haven't done much with his nephew Thomas, who swore revenge on Stark and Reed for Bill's death.

He last appeared in an Avengers annual where he sided with Wonder Man aginstthe Avengers because Simon thought that the Avengers were responsible for the villains that do bad things.

[Marvell2100]

In no particular oder:

1. Black Panther
2. Bishop
3. Storm
4. Luke Cage
5. Misty Knight
6. Shuri
7. Prowler(Hobie Brown)
8. Monica Rambeau
9. Manifest
10. Shard
11. Synch
12. Jesse Bedlam
13. Blue Marvel
14. Patriot(Eli Bradley)
15. Night Thrasher(Dwayne Taylor)
16. Blade
17. Jericho Drumm
18. Triathalon
19. Battlestar(Lamar Hoskins)
20. Falcon(Sam Wilson)
21. Martinex T'Naga
22. Riri Williams
23. Frenzy
24. Bill Foster
25. Tom Foster
26. Miles Morales
27. War Machine(James Rhodes)
28. Okoye(Dora Milaje)

[mugiwara]

He last appeared in an Avengers annual where he sided with Wonder Man aginstthe Avengers because Simon thought that the Avengers were responsible for the villains that do bad things.

More recently, he was teaming up with Scott Lang and Atlas in Giant Men, a War of Realms tie-in.

[Tofali]

1. Storm Ororo Munroe
2. Spider-Man Miles Morales
3. Black Panther T'Challa
4. Blade Eric Brooks
5. Sunspot Roberto da Costa
6. Blue Marvel Adam Brashear
7. Spectrum Monica Rambeau
8. Prowler Aaron Davis
9. Moon Girl Lunella Lafayette
10. Doctor Vodoo Jericho Drumm
11. Flint - Jaycen
12. Stevie Hunter*
13. Princess Zanda**
14. Nova Eve Bakian
15. Nick Fury Jr.
16. Maxam

I don't think my list goes beyond this or maybe I'm forgetting some ppl

[James Hunter]

These are in no particular order

1. Jim Rhodes
2. Sam Wilson
3. Eli Bradley
4. Elijah Bradley
5. Kasper Kole
6. Eden Fesi
7. Miles Morales
8. T'Challa
9. Dwayne Taylor
10. Ororo Monroe
11. Monica Rambeau
12. Bill Foster
13. Luke Cage
14. Adam Brashear
15. Victor Alvaraz (Power Man)
16. David Alleyne (Prodigy)
17. Misty Knight
18. Josiah X
19. Everett Thomas (Synch)
20. Jesse Bedlam
21. Hobie Brown
22.Delroy Garrett Jr
23. Donald Clendenon
24. Shuri
25. Riri Williams
26. Gabe Jones
27. Trey Rollins
28. Roxy Washington

Honourable mention to Cecilia Reyes who would be in a top 30 but didn't make the top 28, likewise Silhouette Chord.

[Hypestyle]

Who are the black attorneys in Marvel? Someone who can be a superhero. Someone who can train people to file class-action lawsuits. Someone who coaches other minority law students. Why does the "legal eagle" status in Marvel always default to Caucasian Matt Murdock and tinted-but-Caucasian Jennifer Walters?

I think there's room for a new black lawyer superhero at Marvel. Seriously.

[JudicatorPrime]

Who are the black attorneys in Marvel? Someone who can be a superhero. Someone who can train people to file class-action lawsuits. Someone who coaches other minority law students. Why does the "legal eagle" status in Marvel always default to Caucasian Matt Murdock and tinted-but-Caucasian Jennifer Walters?

I think there's room for a new black lawyer superhero at Marvel. Seriously.

The below list is not comprehensive, but there are a few black attorneys. Predictably, criminal law attorneys dominate the group. Equally predictable, none of them have powers as far as I know. While a writer could easily dust one of these characters off and give them powers, my gut tells me that it's probably better for the writer if they simply created a new character with powers and a law degree.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Saman...ce_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Harri...ey_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Cyrus_Barger_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/David_Scott_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Elain...ld_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marci...th_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marti...or_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Willi...er_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/June_Decker_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Maxin...er_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_...rt_(Earth-616)

[Vegeta]

Who are the black attorneys in Marvel? Someone who can be a superhero. Someone who can train people to file class-action lawsuits. Someone who coaches other minority law students. Why does the "legal eagle" status in Marvel always default to Caucasian Matt Murdock and tinted-but-Caucasian Jennifer Walters?

I think there's room for a new black lawyer superhero at Marvel. Seriously.

She's no hero, but Janice Lincoln (the Beetle) is an attorney.

[JudicatorPrime]

She's no hero, but Janice Lincoln (the Beetle) is an attorney.

Which, if you think about it, makes no sense. Lincoln's felony conviction would result in disbarment and strip her of her legal license. She wouldn't be able to practice law in the US. She would be unable to represent anyone (except for herself) in any legal proceeding. In fact, she can't even really call herself an attorney. She's just a person with a nicely framed diploma from Columbia Law School at this point.

That said, this is comics, so it wouldn't shock me if writers completely ignored a key prerequisite of American jurisprudence just to push a story or two.

[Swamp Thing 2099]

Miles Morales
Hobie Brown
Sam Wilson
Luke Cage
Monica Rambeau
Tyrone Johnson
Joe Robertson
Joanna Cargill
Phastos
Cecilia Reyes
Eric Brooks
Eden Fesi
T’Challa
James Rhodes
Jericho Drumm
Misty Knight
Tom Foster
Everett Thomas
Riri Williams
Tiana Toomes
David Alleyne
Gabriel Jones
Shard Bishop
Elvin Haliday
Elias Wirtham
Roberto Da Costa
Delroy Garrett
Okoye

[marhawkman]

Which, if you think about it, makes no sense. Lincoln's felony conviction would result in disbarment and strip her of her legal license. She wouldn't be able to practice law in the US. She would be unable to represent anyone (except for herself) in any legal proceeding. In fact, she can't even really call herself an attorney. She's just a person with a nicely framed diploma from Columbia Law School at this point.

That said, this is comics, so it wouldn't shock me if writers completely ignored a key prerequisite of American jurisprudence just to push a story or two.

I'm kinda wondering if she actually got a felony conviction. Yes, this is fully for comic book reasons though.

[Vegeta]

I'm kinda wondering if she actually got a felony conviction. Yes, this is fully for comic book reasons though.

Hard to say, she has been arrested a few times. Ex-cons can still become attorneys in most states, and disbarment isn't always permanent. Matt Murdock has been tossed into prison a couple of times and he eventually returns to the status quo. Supervilllains also seem to serve very little time behind bars, regardless of conviction. (Even less time is you consider the sliding time scale.) It's a universe where in Dan Slott's She-Hulk, comic books could be cited in cases as legal precedent, none of it really makes sense. Their legal world just operates differently. (With the existence of mutants, intelligent robots, etc. It probably would have to.)

I do like the idea of there being an "evil counterpart" to the Matt Murdocks and Jennifer Walters of the Marvel Universe, working for the Maggia, etc. to get these costumed villains back out onto the streets.