An Indigenous superhero gets her own Marvel spinoff next week — the first of the company’s bets on projects that don’t require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe.
The Disney+ series Echo stars Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo, the Indigenous-Latin American leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a criminal gang run by the villainous Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin, who is Maya’s surrogate father.
The series finds Lopez, who is deaf, wears a prosthetic leg and can precisely mimic physical reflexes, confronting Fisk, played by Vincent D’Onofrio, and taking up her anti-hero mantle after she learns the full extent of his involvement in her real father’s murder
