The Best "New" Marvel characters (?)

[Brian Adkins]

Whom do you think has been the most popular/successful new character(s) for Marvel in the past 20 years and why?

[Batman Begins 2005]

Miles Morales is the biggest. After Morales, Spider-Gwen.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Miles Morales is the biggest. After Morales, Spider-Gwen.

Seconded and I'd add Miss Marvel to that duo.

I'd probably add Runaways but they seem more like a cult classic than Miles and the others.

[Digifiend]

Miles, Kamala and Squirrel Girl.

Doreen doesn't count. She was created in the 90s in an Iron Man story. It just took her some time to become popular, peaking when she had the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl solo book seven years ago.

Definitely agree about Miles and Kamala though. Miles is the lead of the Spider-Verse movie franchise and Kamala's in the MCU, not bad for two characters created only 12 and 10 years ago respectively.

[Brian Adkins]

Doreen doesn't count. She was created in the 90s in an Iron Man story. It just took her some time to become popular, peaking when she had the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl solo book seven years ago.

Definitely agree about Miles and Kamala though. Miles is the lead of the Spider-Verse movie franchise and Kamala's in the MCU, not bad for two characters created only 12 and 10 years ago respectively.

Wow. If I knew that had completely forgotten SG had been around that long! Was she in many-or any- stories before she was in Unbeatable? Because if she only had the 1 appearance in an Iron Man story, she might be an exception to the 20 year rule.

[skyvolt2000]

Wow. If I knew that had completely forgotten SG had been around that long! Was she in many-or any- stories before she was in Unbeatable? Because if she only had the 1 appearance in an Iron Man story, she might be an exception to the 20 year rule.

She popped up in some Great Lake Avengers mini right before her graphic novel. Then came the Unbeatable run.

She like Rocket Raccoon was collecting dust for a period of time.

Flint was on Agent of Shield for part of a season.

Inferno was included in the Marvel Rising tv special and two minis.

[mugiwara]

Wow. If I knew that had completely forgotten SG had been around that long! Was she in many-or any- stories before she was in Unbeatable? Because if she only had the 1 appearance in an Iron Man story, she might be an exception to the 20 year rule.

It's Dan Slott who brought her to reader's attention with his GLA mini and one shots. He doubled down on the "SG beats big names villains" meme.
Then Bendis used her a little bit in New Avengers, giving her even more visibility.

[Digifiend]

Ah,yes! The Runaways! Wasn't Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm being used quite a bit for a while?

Yeah, she was in Avengers Arena and Avengers Undercover, then officially became an Avenger by being on the all-female A-Force team. And then the Runaways reunited. She's also been used in Strange Academy.

Wow. If I knew that had completely forgotten SG had been around that long! Was she in many-or any- stories before she was in Unbeatable? Because if she only had the 1 appearance in an Iron Man story, she might be an exception to the 20 year rule.

Yeah, she was in Bendis's Avengers run after the 2010 relaunch, became the babysitter to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones's daughter Dani. She was also on the Great Lakes Avengers before that. Unbeatable is so popular that GLA was rebranded in a TPB to have Squirrel Girl's branding. But there was a long gap between her debut and her joining GLA.

Right. You'd think Gert and the dinosaur,Old Lace would have been used by someone.
And has the villain group,The Pride, been used since?

Gert couldn't be used, she died in Runaways vol 2 and was resurrected in the most recent series.

She was but the others didn't pop up outside of the core title.

Nico wasn't the only Runaway used in Arena and Undercover. Also, Victor Mancha appeared in Avengers AI and The Vision.

Miles and Moon Girl are pretty much the ONLY two at both companies of recent new folks who can boast having over 50 solo issues (ongoing and minis and one shots) since 2016.

Almost everyone else has been victims of toxic fans, bad company leadership and or horrible talent getting their hands on them.

Kamala has less content than Miles, but can still claim to have more than 50 issues in the last seven years. She was on LGY 75 when Ahmed's run finished (of which all but 19 was after Secret Wars, therefore 2016 or later), she's had three minis since then so is now on 80something. That's at least 60 issues after 2016.

[Brian Adkins]

Seconded and I'd add Miss Marvel to that duo.

I'd probably add Runaways but they seem more like a cult classic than Miles and the others.

Ah,yes! The Runaways! Wasn't Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm being used quite a bit for a while?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Ah,yes! The Runaways! Wasn't Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm being used quite a bit for a while?

She was but the others didn't pop up outside of the core title.

[Brian Adkins]

She was but the others didn't pop up outside of the core title.

Right. You'd think Gert and the dinosaur,Old Lace would have been used by someone.
And has the villain group,The Pride, been used since?

[Brian Adkins]

She was but the others didn't pop up outside of the core title.

I just saw that Victor Chase Stein was used in Avengers Undercover.

[Brian Adkins]

Miles Morales is the biggest. After Morales, Spider-Gwen.

That's a good start! Thanks!

[Force de Phenix]

The New Inhumans, especially Reader. Ms. Marvel is probably the most popular/successful new character for Marvel in the past 20 years along with Miles Morales.

[Steroid]

Miles, Kamala and Squirrel Girl.