Marvel’s latest diversity project, Echo, premiered on Disney+ this week, marking a first for a Disney+ show in two regards. It’s the first MCU program to have all episodes air simultaneously. Two, it’s the first show to have mature audiences warning. Otherwise, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will note it’s much the same with an M-She-U girl boss diverse lead, a white male villain, and not much to latch onto in terms of audience interest.
The original character of Echo premiered in the relaunched Daredevil (1998) #9, where David Mack, famous for his indie Kabuki book, made an impressionistic book telling the origin of a new character whom the Kingpin raised to kill Daredevil, using the death of her real father as the reason to set her on the Marvel hero. Echo eventually learns Kingpin was the one to kill her father and instead vows to kill Kingpin instead of Daredevil.
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There’s a dash of romance as Maya meets Matt Murdock in an elegant story with some fun rooftop fights before she eventually realizes it was the Kingpin who killed her father and not Daredevil, leading to her shooting Kingpin and leaving him for dead.
The first episode of the Disney+ show follows a similar script, without any of the character ties to Matt Murdock and Daredevil that made for a tug of the heartstrings. Instead, they make Maya Lopez a big virtue signal about Native Americans living in Oklahoma, have her have a generic lost her mommy and blames herself backstory before sending her to New York to show how she is better than every man Kingpin has at fighting, even better than Daredevil before she decides to become “Queenpin” herself.
The story revision is cringy, more M-She-U nonsense that’s destroyed the MCU over the last few years, and Daredevil only has 90 seconds of screen time in the entire show.
Fans are reacting online about Echo, making fun of the Disney+ show for the most part after lackluster fight scenes, and generic feminist and anti-white plots have destroyed yet another Marvel character.
“Marvel Spotlight #Echo features a chunky overweight deaf amputee woman that stalemates #Daredevil in a 1v1 fight. That is modern feminism and representation right there. She is a half-Hispanic, half-Indigenous murderous criminal that knows ASL so that should please Democrats,” one X user writes.
Another gave advice on how they could have fixed it, saying, “@MarvelStudios I mean the show should have been called “KingPin Wilson Fisk”. And focused on the various lives Wilson Fisk impacts. Would have been a stronger anchor than focusing on a Charlie level Marvel character that isn’t popular. #echo #DisneyPlus”
“Good lord, Marvel’s Echo owes me a handful of hours of my life back. We should form some kind of class action vs this donkey s***,” a third user posits on how bad Echo was.
Pop culture expert Nerdrotic chimed in several times about the show during his watch, live tweeting his responses, culminating with “The M-She-U achieves Maximum Girl Boss!!!!!”
Over the show, Echo is somehow better than every other character at everything in a Marvel Mary Sue extravaganza once more. Making her an amputee and disabled on top of her already overly-diverse origin, and then having her be able to do moves better than Jackie Chan to fight off dozens of men on her own, seemingly without any real powers, is entirely nonsensical. The Kingpin is made to look weak in the show, and the viewer knows it’s because he’s the white man holding Echo down.
Disney+ and Marvel are still at peak M-She-U cringe, and with Young Avengers on the horizon, it doesn’t look to be getting better any time soon.
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