America Chavez Ushers in MARVEL’S Pride Week Celebration With Her Debut in STRIKE FORCE

America Chavez Ushers in MARVEL’S Pride Week Celebration With Her Debut in STRIKE FORCE

Marvel has introduced America Chavez, aka Miss America, as a playable character in Marvel Strike Force, and is set to further celebrate Pride Week with a special Unity Event! Check out a gameplay teaser.

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By PamelaNunley - Jun 11, 2019 10:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel
Source: MARVEL Strike Force
Miss America has joined the ranks of playable characters in Marvel Strike Force, bringing with her the attributes of superhuman speed, strength, invulnerability and flight!

Additionally, players of Strike Force will be treated to the Unity Event which includes a Unity Login Calendar, Unity Blitz Milestones and Unity Orb, all of which will award character shards for America Chavez.



Miss America, a Latin-American powerhouse from another dimension, made her comic book debut in the 2011 series, Vengeance, much like Deadpool, as an extra in a larger series. Eventually, after a couple more cameos, she was granted her own comic in 2017, making history as both Marvel’s first LGBTQI and Latina character to headline an on-going series.

We can’t think of a better way for Marvel and Strike Force to show its support during Pride Week.
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rebellion
rebellion - 6/11/2019, 11:06 AM
I like that marvel is actually trying to push some of their newer characters instead of letting them fall into oblivion/obscurity. Id just prefer them to be a bit more compelling.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 6/11/2019, 11:10 AM
I think we'll be seeing her get her own series somewhat soon on Disney+ (or Hulu).
Asturgis
Asturgis - 6/11/2019, 2:27 PM
@L0RDbuckethead - She's way too powerful and too unknown to have a TV show, she's Captain Marvel level. They would invest or agree to dedicate that kind of crazy CGI budget and action to an A-lister everyone knows and loves, but not someone so confidential. It's too big a risk. And without a crazy CG budget, it would look like Supergirl on the CW, and I don't think Disney would allow that. Then again, I would love to see it, so I pray you're right and I'm wrong.

I don't really understand the hate this character gets, she's definitely in the top5 of the female characters I wanna see in the future in the MCU. Riri Williams? Hell no. But America, 100%.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 6/11/2019, 2:41 PM
@Asturgis - Yeah, you raise a good point that I hadn't thought about, which is the display of her powers. On network TV, that would be a bit of an issue.

However, Disney+ is about as far from "traditional TV" (and the budget that comes with it) as you can get, so I feel like the shows on there could have an increased budget, simply because it's coming from the House of Mouse, and it's not needed to be distributed to ABC, CW, etc.

I'm just basing my initial assumption on what Feige and Marvel Studios have mentioned about America in the past, and their desire to bring her to the big screen (very similar to how they've been talking about Kamala Khan for years now).

We'll see, but I just don't see this character selling enough tickets to justify her own solo movie. But that's just my opinion, and FWIW, I'm often wrong.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/11/2019, 2:47 PM
@Asturgis - "I don't really understand the hate this character gets."



It's easy to like someone like Kamala Khan. In the depictions I've seen, she's personable and upbeat and plucky. It's a harder sell for a lot of people to like female characters who are arrogant, brash, or stand-offish.

If someone did a faithful (but gender-swapped) reproduction of the Ditko-era Spider-Man, most people would hate Penelope Parker. "All she cares about is money and boys! She says she wants a social life, but all she does is think and say catty things behind her friends' backs!" Etc.

But so much of our society has trained us to tolerate (or even celebrate) men who are assholes and pricks, but despise women at the first hint of "bitchiness".
Radders
Radders - 6/12/2019, 1:26 AM
@Spock0Clock - or we expect men to be d*cks but expect better of women?

It's not just "society" training us its a basic truth that men and women are diferent phisically, physiologically and emotionaly. Women are mothers so will always be held on a pedastal to some degree.
Theiveslikeus
Theiveslikeus - 6/11/2019, 11:27 AM
Cool!!
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 6/11/2019, 12:03 PM
Yeah, she looks pretty cool in the game. I won't unlock her until they release an event though. Currently, you can only get her by paying up.
DENNISsystem
DENNISsystem - 6/11/2019, 12:09 PM
Hate her character, love the support.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 6/11/2019, 12:12 PM
WOW !!! That was Gutsy of Marvel :) lol
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 6/11/2019, 12:18 PM
Cool. Don’t know much regarding the character, but I like the plainclothes design.
FearTheLiving
FearTheLiving - 6/11/2019, 1:17 PM
Just a warning to anyone who might have interest in the character. Read her Young Avengers and Ultimates stuff stay away from the America title for your own sanity.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 6/11/2019, 1:17 PM
On one hand, Northstar, who got married, is snubbed again. On the other, Chavez is still a better rep than Bobby Drake.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/11/2019, 1:38 PM
@Reeds2Much - The more I think about it, the more believe Northstar should get a solo film. Especially with the MCU's Quicksilver dead, there is an available niche for a slightly douchey superfast dude-twin.

A major reason to do it as a solo film is the name, though. Northstar. Building a film around a set of guiding principles, something that Jean-Paul will never waver from. The idea that he can be a beacon to others, to help guide them, too. That's all very cool symbolism. Nobody in the MCU has that going for them right now, since Cap Dorian Gray'd himself.
kaethar
kaethar - 6/12/2019, 1:43 AM
@Reeds2Much - I wonder if they have any insights into the future of the MCU. We know the X-Men are far off but there have been rumours about an Ultimates movie floating around, and then Ms. America could be on the rooster. So this could be them pre-emptively trying to build hype for that movie.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 6/11/2019, 3:03 PM
Happy Pride Month!

Likely in the next 10 years ahead Miss America will appear in a team even if she is introduced through a Disney+ show.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/11/2019, 3:21 PM
Mostly off-topic, but it does connect to the Pride thing a bit. I'm reading X-Men Red now (it's a really interesting premise and I love seeing Jean and Kurt together, even if the comic is a bit too slow and obvious). And I'm reading the annual and something struck me. (For context, Jean has just returned from the dead and encountered an anti-mutant bigot throwing a hotdog at Nightcrawler.)



And I realized that for all of the allegories about minorities and tolerance and bigotry against mutants in the X-comics (and most of them are fine), the X-Men also offer the potential to explore the privilege of power. Jean is threatening to expose a bigot's darkest secrets to the world because she can. Emma Frost reduces crowds of bystanders into quivering unconsciousness because she can. Professor X in movies freezes crowds of extras because he can.

Moreso than shooting lasers out of their eyes, telepathy provides an immense upheaval of power dynamics between any two people (strangers or friends), and in the X-Men generally, it's treated as a superpower like any other. But it isn't. It's a social power. It provides the telepath with complete control over every interaction they have.

And that could be an avenue to explore privilege. The burden of it. The power of it. The danger of not recognizing it.

A man throws a hotdog at a stranger. Yes, he's a dick. But that's all he can do. Imagine Jean's reaction if that man had threatened to blackmail her with all of her darkest personal thoughts... because that's what she did. X-telepaths as a whole don't seem to really check that privilege, and I would like to see someone dig into that, I think.

(And yes, I recognize that mutant powers are a fantastical means of empowering the oppressed, but the truth is there are people of disadvantaged groups who have their own kinds of privilege, too. Whatever your favored mutant allegory, black/gay/nerd/outsider/whatever, these groups aren't themselves monolithic.)
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 6/11/2019, 4:21 PM
@Spock0Clock - That actually is interesting and could be a cool storyline. Emma Frost and Professor X seem to get away with it pretty often in the comics but to a lesser extent it’s been a thing with Jean too. In the Dark Phoenix movie they do something like what you’re describing with Professor X but in my opinion they don’t do nearly enough with it, still it is one of the most interesting parts of an otherwise kind of boring film.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/11/2019, 5:21 PM
@noahthegrand - They do touch on this occasionally with Professor X, but mostly as a personal betrayal of whoever he's manipulating.

Telepaths (and in Marvel that almost always means mutants) have an innate power over other people the way that other superheroes don't (Spider-Man can't just punch someone and get away with it the same way that Emma Frost can whammy someone). And because they're mutants, it's a power they've gotten by chance or inherited.

Jean threatening someone like this with her telepathy is no different in principle than some entitled rich kid shouting "my father is an important man who can ruin your life".
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 6/11/2019, 7:03 PM
@Spock0Clock - X-telepaths as a whole don't seem to really check that privilege

They really are. Ultimate Spider-Man said it best:

Emma Frost is a bad example, because she's supposed to be an elitist jerk that looks down on people, but Jean and Xavier go around reading and changing peoples' minds and behavior all the time as often, if not more.

Xavier used his telepathy to cheat in school, erased Beast's existence from the minds of his friends, family, and loved ones "for his own good", and erases everyone's memories of Scott Summer's youngest brother Gabrielle.

At least Dark Phoenix got that right about Xavier.
Jarvisjackrabbit
Jarvisjackrabbit - 6/11/2019, 4:16 PM
AmChav definitely amps up the effectiveness of the already strong hero brawler team in Marvel Strike Force.
Not entirely sure why her (or any other characters’) sexual proclivities would be pointed out in a game like this though.
rabid
rabid - 6/12/2019, 4:45 AM
America ruins every comic she stars in. Pray that it doesn't work the same for games
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