Marvel doesn't really seem to do environmental superheroes

[Silvermoth]

DC have Aquaman and swamp thing but marvel doesn't really seem to have anyone?

Can anyone think of a few?

[Haquim]

DC have Aquaman and swamp thing but marvel doesn't really seem to have anyone?

Can anyone think of a few?

Namor for one. Ka-Zar & Shanna also.

[JKtheMac]

Occasionally Thor as son of Gaia/Jord is represented as an environmental hero, but it isn't his standard mode. Of course protecting his mother is a natural inclination.

Exploitation of natural resources is a theme of Aaron's God of Thunder in the later part of the run and the following volumes.

[The Sword is Drawn]

It depends what you mean by 'Environmental'. As others have mentioned Namor is a good call (And certainly as good a call as Aquaman). Ka-zar to a degree (although he doesn't leave the Savage Land very often).

But if you mean 'Do they have the equivalent of Captain Planet'? Thankfully, no.

[Haquim]

Ultimate Thor during Millar's era Ultimate Universe certainly qualifies as one.

[JKtheMac]

Ultimate Thor during Millar's era Ultimate Universe certainly qualifies as one.

I have heard this but yet to really dig into the Ultimate stuff. Care to tell us more info on that? Use spoiler tags if you like I don't mind being spoilt on the 1610.

[Of Atlantis]

Marvel's not really pushed environmentalism in their comics as hard as John Byrne's Namor had. If they were to pursue it, that would be the character to do it with imo. Wouldn't mind seeing Oracle Inc back in business.

Always thought it made sense Storm would be involved in environmentalism somehow, but she hasn't. Thor too, but I guess they did touch on it with Ultimate Thor a bit by making him a hippie.

[charliehustle415]

Occasionally Thor as son of Gaia/Jord is represented as an environmental hero, but it isn't his standard mode. Of course protecting his mother is a natural inclination.

Exploitation of natural resources is a theme of Aaron's God of Thunder in the later part of the run and the following volumes.

Yeah Roxxon, is the Marvel version of oil companies. Last Days of Midgard really goes into it.

[Michael Watkins]

Scott Lang has had some environmental issues throughout his career. he himself isn't an environmentalist. but he has to be conscious about it because of the surrounding community. i imagine that a lot of that was Spencer's writing. he did create the last Plant Man as a somewhat ineffectual supervillain.

[Reviresco]

Namor and Man-Thing are incredibly similar to Aquaman and Swamp Thing.

You mean, Aquaman is like Namor.



From 1970, Sub-Mariner #28.



https://trinklied.tumblr.com/post/18...nch-of-student



An awesome short story from the late 80s, and some of Jim Lee's first work, was a Namor story in Marvel Comics Presents #33 called Dying in Paradise.



https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/10...ollution-1989/



Then there was the 90s John Byrne series which started out as Namor fighting pollution as a businessman.

[Digifiend]

Namor for one.

His cousin Namorita too.

[Goggindowner]

DC have Aquaman and swamp thing but marvel doesn't really seem to have anyone?

Can anyone think of a few?

Namor and Man-Thing are incredibly similar to Aquaman and Swamp Thing.

[Goggindowner]

Oh, and then there is this lesser known character named Storm that is basically all about the environment....

[Anthony W]

Brute Force has potential. Marvel just needs to call Grant Morrison.

Marvel: Hello, Grant?

Grant Morrison: Yes?

Marvel: We love what you did with We3, you took the concept of animals wearing power suits and really made it work.

Grant Morrison: Thanks

Marvel: Speaking of which we have some animals in power suits..

[MichaelC]

Comics in general mostly use environmentalists as villains, albeit villains who have a point. Namor, for example, was often as villain who attacked the surface because some individual polluted the ocean. I think it's hard to use environmentalists as heroes because the issues is usually too big or too small. It's too big when it's the side-effect of some corporation mainly staffed by innocent people. And too small when it's one person being a litterbug. Captain Planet, notably, created a very artificial situation with pollution-villains. Such villains feel out of place anywhere but children's comics.