The Best "New" Marvel characters (?)

[Brian Adkins]

'm going to throw out some characters who most people on these boards won't agree with due to personal bias and tastes but i who i think it's rather obvious they've achieved some level of popularity.


Cosmic Ghost Rider: Introduced in the 2018 Thanos ongoing and has since had multiple mini series, an arc in which he was featured in Avengers and currently has an ongoing. The current ongoing probably isn't going to last too much longer but it's no accident the character has been featured this much.


Knull: Another one introduced by Cates people will disagree with but whether people like it or not his Venom run was a big success and Knull was a huge part of that and is going to be featured quite often going forward as evidenced by his impending return this summer.

Gwenpool :like Cosmic Ghost Rider she's had at least one ongoing and i believe a mini series or two and some other scattered appearances and i see her getting more opportunities/appearances down the road ( also seems to be somewhat popular with the cosplayer crowd)

Isn't Cosmic Ghost Rider just Frank Castle/The Punisher with supernatural powers?

Knull-the "god" of symbiotes,right? Sure,he counts.

GwenPool too. I believe a couple of others have already mentioned her.

[ZuLuLu]

The two kids, the Skrull N'kalla and the Kree Jo-Venn, adopted by The Thing,(Ben Grimm), and his wife Alicia Masters are two characters that were a good addition to the Fantastic Four family and also has long term potential.

[your_name_here]

Miles, Kamala and Spider-Gwen, for sure. Moon Girl is just under this.

In the 2000s, we had Runaways, Jessica Jones, The Sentry and Young Avengers

If it’s a hit, I’d keep an eye on characters in Hickmans upcoming “GODS” - if it’s got Hickmans name on it there’s a big chance it might stick.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Miles, Kamala and Spider-Gwen, for sure. Moon Girl is just under this.

In the 2000s, we had Runaways, Jessica Jones, The Sentry and Young Avengers

If it’s a hit, I’d keep an eye on characters in Hickmans upcoming “GODS” - if it’s got Hickmans name on it there’s a big chance it might stick.

They look awesome so I hope he delivers.

[Force de Phenix]

Since Hickman ripped off from the inhumans to repurpose the mutants, post Disney throwing out the inhumans, I guess he's gonna take elements from Sandman for GODS. They probably have him the green light since Disney saw The Sandman series and wanted their own for the future at some point.

Disney knows branding matters, and having Sandman with a Marvel label on it will attract people.

[mung]

It's obvious who are the most popular and successful, so I'm going personal faves
Mosaic
I like his powers, his character and really wish Redjack got more time with him.
Sam alexander and Kaldera
Novas and Champions won me over with Sam. Kaldera is fun villain for Sam to interact because she is just the silliest edge lord.
Twenty years is a a long time and so Ultimate Reed fits in, specifically as The Maker which started 2011
honorable mentions (no real solid justification I just want to see them return or stick around), Blinky, Auran, Rebecca ST. Jude, Lineage, progenitors, Alt universe Phyla, Reader, Iso

[9th.]

Miles, Gwen. X23, Kamala, and Squirrel Girl are the success stories. Moon Girl too

To a much lesser extent we got Maria Hill, Quake, and also does Ultimate Nick Fury count?

I'm going to throw in a vote for the Nuhumans as well, they got unfairly shafted. Some of them were pretty cool in my book.

[Brian Adkins]

Kind of surprised at the interest for the new Inhumans. But it counts of course!

[Brian Adkins]

Miles, Kamala and Spider-Gwen, for sure. Moon Girl is just under this.

In the 2000s, we had Runaways, Jessica Jones, The Sentry and Young Avengers

If it’s a hit, I’d keep an eye on characters in Hickmans upcoming “GODS” - if it’s got Hickmans name on it there’s a big chance it might stick.

Don't know why I didn't think of Sentry!
Young Avengers-let'ss ee that was- Iron Lad, Hulking,Wiccan,Speed,Kate Bishop,Patriot/Elijah Bradley and Stature.
Does Iron Lad count? Wasn't he just a young Kang?
Later there was America Chavez ,Prodigy,Noh-Varr and ...well,Kid Loki if you want to count him. lol

[Brian Adkins]

It's obvious who are the most popular and successful, so I'm going personal faves
Mosaic
I like his powers, his character and really wish Redjack got more time with him.
Sam alexander and Kaldera
Novas and Champions won me over with Sam. Kaldera is fun villain for Sam to interact because she is just the silliest edge lord.
Twenty years is a a long time and so Ultimate Reed fits in, specifically as The Maker which started 2011
honorable mentions (no real solid justification I just want to see them return or stick around), Blinky, Auran, Rebecca ST. Jude, Lineage, progenitors, Alt universe Phyla, Reader, Iso

Except for Reader I don't know who your honorable mentions are- care to elaborate?

[JudicatorPrime]

Who is left standing if we disqualify copycats, analogues, alternate reality versions, family-based derivative characters, homages, etc.? Who is the best truly original character created in the last 20 years?

[classicgmer]

Who is left standing if we disqualify copycats, analogues, alternate reality versions, family-based derivative characters, homages, etc. Who is the best truly original character created in the last 20 years?

If we disqualify all of what you mention it's gotta be The Runaways.

[mugiwara]

I know Moon Girl is technically a replacement for poor Moon Boy, but she has so little in common with him that I have a hard time calling her a substitute.

Kid Omega is also quite successful. For some reason that is beyond me, writers tend to like that little **** and are wanting to use him.

I'd say the number one "really original" new character would be Jessica Jones.

[Digifiend]

Except for Reader I don't know who your honorable mentions are- care to elaborate?

Lineage is an Inhumans villain. Rebecca St. Jude is a Kamala rogue, her codename is Lockdown. Auran, Reader and Iso are all Nuhumans - Iso is basically New Attilan's Prime Minister. Alt-universe Phyla is a version of Phyla-Vell, Captain Marvel, who was in Guardians of the Galaxy in the two runs before the current one.

[Anthony W]

Since Hickman ripped off from the inhumans to repurpose the mutants, post Disney throwing out the inhumans, I guess he's gonna take elements from Sandman for GODS. They probably gave him the green light since Disney saw The Sandman series and wanted their own for the future at some point.

Disney knows branding matters, and having Sandman with a Marvel label on it will attract people.

So it will start in an interesting way and end in people sitting around eating and going to galas.