X-Men ’97 creator Beau DeMayo has some criticisms about how the MCU is dealing with Namor and Johnny Storm.
DeMayo created the primary season of Disney+ and Marvel’s X-Males ’97 present, which premiered in March 2024. At the least two extra seasons are presently within the works; nonetheless, DeMayo was fired because the present’s head author across the time that the primary season premiered.
What did X-Males ’97’s Beau DeMayo say about Namor and Johnny Storm?
On X, DeMayo shared an announcement that Joseph Quinn, who performs Johnny Storm/Human Torch within the MCU, instructed Entertainment Weekly about how his character will differ from Chris Evans’ Human Torch in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
“He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care man, however is that horny lately? I don’t assume so,” Quinn mentioned. “This model of Johnny is much less callous with different individuals’s emotions.”
DeMayo mentioned, “They pulled this softening sh— with Namor too.”
They pulled this softening shit with Namor too. https://t.co/NoKz6PewtT
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 11, 2025
DeMayo responded to a lot of individuals within the feedback, saying, “[Namor] got here throughout as a traumatized baby throwing a mood tantrum towards a black nation, not a king.”
Concerning Johnny Storm, DeMayo criticized Marvel’s “modernizing” of characters, saying the “modernizing is advantage/signaling pandering.” In one other remark, he mentioned, “Marvel doesn’t do [storytelling] anymore as a result of no author needs to work with an organization the place you might be instructed ‘Kevin is the movie star and the face or the work, however working for us will assist your profession after.’”
View his feedback beneath:
There’s a strategy to — when you needed — inform a very compelling story a couple of braggart white boy who lacks empathy — and possibly is somewhat womanizing — who’s checked and humbled after being reworked into a celeb hero, the place he himself is handled like a product and thereby…
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 11, 2025
That requires storytelling, however Marvel doesn’t do this anymore as a result of no author needs to work with an organization the place you might be instructed “Kevin is the movie star and the face or the work, however working for us will assist your profession after.”
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 11, 2025
He got here throughout as traumatized baby throwing a mood tantrum towards a black nation, not a king
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 11, 2025
One other approach of taking a look at it — Emma Frost, one of many causes she’s drawn to Namor is — like herself — he’s petty. Nobody fucks with Emma. You screw up her espresso order, she’s going to telepathically insert a nasty childhood reminiscence into your thoughts so that you spend the remainder of your life…
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 11, 2025
Marvel Studios’ The Improbable 4: First Steps can be launched in United States theaters on July 25, 2025. Together with Quinn, the film stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Improbable, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Girl, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Factor.
In the meantime, it was not too long ago introduced that Tenoch Huerta Mejía will reprise his function as Namor in Avengers: Doomsday, which releases in 2026.
Initially reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.
