A seemingly throwaway line from Avengers: Endgame may have been a huge hint teasing the arrival of a huge Marvel villain.
The interaction arrived early on in the film with those who survived Thanos’ destructive finger-snap attempting to adjust to life without those they lost five years later.
We see Natasha Romanoff AKA Black Widow host a hologram meeting with several characters, includingBlack Panther‘s Okoye (Danai Gurira). Okoye briefly mentions that there’s been an underwater earthquake off the coast of Africa and, when Natasha asks her how Wakanda will deal with the incident, she simply says they were going to avoid it.
To the casual viewer, this line will bear no weight. However, some Marvel fans have been questioning whether this revealed the existence of Namor, the Sub-Mariner in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Whether this means the character – an underwater mutant – will appear in Black Panther 2 remains to be seen, though director Scott Derrickson recently fuelled speculation he’ll appear in the Doctor Strange sequel after posting a comic book cover featuring the heroic sorcerer and Namor on Twitter.
Considering Derrickson went on to delete the tweet, it seems likely that Namor could one day face off against Benedict Cumberbatch’s character.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has spoken about his desire to get Namor in the MCU, but admitted that acquiring film rights to the character have proved difficult.
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Marvel’s next film will be Spider-Man: Far From Home, which is released 5 July.
