Mistress Death. Marvel's heroes who deserve their own movies
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- What it should be: focused more on the atmosphere than the action miniseries with a talented actress in the lead role
- What would interest viewers to begin with: her incarnation from Avengers: Celestial Quest #1-8 or a completely new story
In the MCU, her role was partially embodied by Hela. Despite the divine attributes, however, she is far from the actual personification of death. In the end, Thor's sister was born and not immediately became a power-hungry villain. Mistress Death is a completely different story. She can't die, she's been around forever, and the fates of mortals tend to bore her. Aah... and Thanos fell in love with her. Deadpool too. The supervillain and the anti-hero also competed for her favor.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the story, but in the comics, The Mad Titan collected the infinity stones mainly to impress Death. And while it may be a good thing that they decided to make him a much more mature character, it's a pity that they didn't decide to include Mistress Death herself in the MCU. In fact, many of the Avengers' opponents were stronger than Thanos in the comics, but a large part of them were either completely indistinct characters, or so caricatural that it would be difficult to make them credible villains. Death is to me, next to Galactus, one of those individuals who has the greatest potential to become the next big bad in the MCU.
Unlike the devourer of worlds, however, lady mistress also has everything it takes to become the hero of a single movie or TV series. While Galactus would be difficult to imagine in isolation from the fight against the Avengers (or another group of superheroes), Death could star, for example, in a miniseries in the style of a dark drama captivating with atmospheric photos and mood music. Lady mistress would not have to be an antagonist at all - she would fit better even for an ambiguous character, closer to Bulhakov's Woland than to the Thanos from the comic books. However, the chances of this series ever being made are still slim. Unfortunately.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I became interested in Marvel comics when I was developing board games. Of course, I could not use the image of the heroes depicted in them in their creation, but the designs of their characters helped me in the preparation of the superhero board game (thanks for the inspiration, Stan!). My love for moments of completely naive, yet charming stories remained in me much longer. I'm still wondering which characters should join the MCU, which would sell well, and which would be marginalized by the negative fandom reaction. Unfortunately, many of them will never get a chance to appear on the big or even small screen - superhero cinema is above all an extremely intrusive business. Keep this in mind when discussing potential film productions, but... you can always dream. Unless you got into a fight with Angela or Moon Knight. Then it may be too late for dreams...
