HAWKEYE Concept Artist Reveals Alternate Costume Designs For Alaqua Cox's Echo

@SuperBTS - same lol

@Goldboink - Exactly. I recall having posted a rather lengthy diatribe in another post a while ago ("What? You? StSteven? Lengthy posts?!?) where I was basically theorizing that due to the obvious expansive nature of The MCU (and expanding as we speak), it's only natural that whether intended or not (most likely intended) Marvel is starting to subtly migrate their characters over into various "subgenres" within The MCU, i.e. Earthbound, Cosmic, Supernatural, Street level, etc., with obvious crossovers, similar to how the comics are. And similar to the comics, they will borrow characters from one subgenre over to another when it fits the story they are trying to tell (which becomes easier as the GA becomes more familiar with the new and existing characters).

So I say all that to say that I totally agree that it's no accident that now that Marvel has all their Netflix shows back on D+ and they have all those characters back; DD and Kingpin are now in the MCU; they've introduced Echo, Clown, TSM, etc.; Spidey is now (presumably) going to be street-level, at least for the time being, etc., it seems like Marvel is building out that subgenre. Add to that Moon Knight, who will most likely be a street level/supernatural crossover character and it all just makes sense.

Either that or Feige is a raging alcoholic who has fits of rage where he throws chunks of different colored Play-Doh against a wall and when he sobers up he looks at it and says "Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Blade and the Black Knight in Eternals, and we'll throw them into Moon Knight with Banner which will introduce them to the Avengers. Just like we did with Shang-Chi. Brilliant! Now someone get me a frickin' Bloody Mary! I have work to do, damn it!".

@Goldboink - Oh, agreed. It makes logical sense that when the MCU kicked off they were going to focus on the individual characters to bring us into the team up, which lead to the (Earthbound) global threat, and then once we opened up the cosmic side of the MCU it kept spreading outward and subdividing into logical subgenres, as was my point. I think it's starting to get to the point that, like the comics, the MCU movies/D+ shows, etc. will keep growing and consequentially categorizing into subgenres that there will ultimately be branches for the individual subgenres. Like, I wouldn't be surprised if 5 years from now the D+ Marvel onscreen menu is divided into categories like "Action", "Supernatural", "Cosmic", etc. because they will ultimately have so much content that things will naturally start falling into certain categories. And I'm not complaining about that at all (actually I kinda like this idea). I think of it as becoming a live action comic book store. So for those who like more like "CA:TWS" there will be an "Action" section of D+ with movies/TV shows closely related to that subgenre. Same for Cosmic, Supernatural, etc. Seriously, if they ultimately got it to that point, how cool would that be? Like "it's Friday night, so do I feel like an action Marvel flick, or a cosmic one? You know what? Let's go for supernatural. How about that Moon Knight/Werewolf crossover series?". I'm probably reaching a bit here but I wouldn't be surprised if that's where we find ourselves in a couple of years the way things are headed.

@Goldboink - Agreed on all points. If I may draw an analogy: The MCU is kind of like a roller coaster, not in the sense where it has it's ups and downs in terms of quality (because I feel that it's pretty good if not great quality consistently), but in the terms of how the stories tend to "ebb and flow". The Infinity Saga was definitely a build up to a crescendo that ended with "Endgame", and now we are in another build up. But what is different this time is that the first time around there was a more narrowed ("Earthbound") focus of the stories to start off with that spread out to the cosmic side by the time we got to IW/EG. Still relatively narrow considering what we are getting into now. Now I feel like Marvel is heading toward the (and I don't mean to cheapen what Marvel is doing in any way because I am a HUGE fan of what they have done and what they are going to do) "buffet" approach, where folks can pick and choose what they like and leave the rest, while still building toward something big.

Likewise, when I was younger I was an X-Men and Spidey fan, first and foremost. I'd pick up Punisher and Ghost Rider sometimes, but I never really got into the Avengers. No big deal because my little high school budget only let me get so much. In retrospect I wish I had gotten more into the Avengers so that I could appreciate the current MCU more (not that I don't appreciate the hell out of it).

But, hey, that's what the comics are there for. Anyone who says that comics are going away and it's all just going to be movie tie-ins is (in my opinion) wrong. As an example I never read Moon Knight when I was younger (and admittedly I didn't even know he existed until probably 8 or 10 years ago), but now that he's coming front and center in D+ I am definitely going to be digging into the comics and everything that I have the time to get my hands on before the show airs.

My final point to you good sir is that if we all put our little CB geeky brains together and try REALLY hard we may, just may, will Howard the Duck to be The One Above All.

Until then, Excelsior my friend!

@connorblaze -

Yeah really fizzled into a lame finale.

@2050 - Totally agree! Based off of what we saw in Hawkeye, she's gonna need a really charismatic supporting character to play off of.