MADRID, 5 May. (CulturaOcio) –
This Friday May 6th, America Chavez will debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Another character that jumps from the comics to the big screen without being, in principle, well known to the general public. But as die-hard Marvel fans will already know, This young but very powerful superheroine has been fighting staples for over a decade. But… Who really is America Chavez and what are her abilities?
In the staples, the character that in the sequel to Doctor Strange is played by Xochitl Gomez first appears in the 2011 limited series The revenge of the villains (Vengeance) The work of screenwriter Joe Casey and illustrator Nick Dragotta.
In his first appearance, America Chavez es a young girl gifted with super strength, super speed, and the ability to fly which is part of the Teenage Brigade, a secret group of teenage heroes. Also, he is the second character to assume the identity of Miss America tras Madeline Joyce Frank.
On his next adventure, Avengers: The Children’s Crusade (Avengers The Children’s Crusade), the figure of America acquires true importance. And it is that in this 2013 series, written by Allan Heinberg and illustrated by Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel and Alan Davis, America joins another group of superheroes, the young avengersand its origin is finally revealed.
Thus, it is discovered that the heroin belongs to Utopian parallela dimension completely foreign to the Marvel Multiverse, which was created by the Demiurgethe embodiment of the wild power of the living energy of the Earth.
América lived there with her mothers Elena and Amalia Chávez until she was 6 years old, when her home was attacked. To deal with the threat, their mothers sacrificed themselves and america fled to earth, where she was welcomed by a New York family who gave her shelter in Washington Heights. This new origin story gives her new and tremendous powers… of which he will show off in the new Marvel Studios movie.
And it is that now, in addition to superhuman speed and strength, as well as the ability to fly, being in contact with the Demiurge in his dimension of origin made America acquire the ability to punch open star-shaped portals to other worlds in the Multiverse. Like other Marvel characters, America is also gifted with the “cosmic consciousness”a sixth sense that allows him to be aware of any threat that develops on an interstellar scale.
Although in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness America es a teenager and it seems that she has not yet reached her full potentialthis superheroine is destined to become one of the most powerful characters in Marvel and key to its multiversal plot. Even Lokiwho dies and is reborn as a teenager in the Young Avengers series, describes her as a “nearly indestructible woman capable of launching tanks to the moon”.
America jumping from the staples to the big screen is also part of Marvel’s great commitment to diversity since this is one of the few superheroines belonging to the LGBTQ+ community and the only one who is also Latin.
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