With Echo, Marvel bets on Indigenous superheroes and standalone projects as its cinematic universe struggles
Actor Alaqua Cox stars as Maya Lopez, an Indigenous-Latin American woman who takes up the anti-hero mantle of Echo, in a Marvel spinoff series that doesn't require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe.
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Actor Alaqua Cox stars as Maya Lopez, an Indigenous-Latin American woman who takes up the anti-hero mantle of Echo, in a Marvel spinoff series that doesn't require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe.