488: Echo (Marvel Comics)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Get your swords ready to dive into the history of ECHO! This week, we unravel the history of Maya Lopez, the trailblazing superhero making her Disney TV debut. From her roots in Daredevil comics to the small screen, join us for an in-depth exploration of Echo's origins and what she's up to nowadays.

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0:00.0	In the Marvel Universe, Daredevil is of course a blind superhero and the character
0:18.8	Echo was originally designed as a daredevil martial arts villain who is deaf.
0:27.0	Does that make sense?
0:28.0	Martial arts villain?
0:29.0	Yes.
0:30.0	martial artist villain who is deaf.
0:32.0	Now, I want to rein check the conversation that giving
0:34.8	a character a disability as a quirk is kind of an ableist writing trope. I want to
0:40.5	have the conversation that is echo just on paper martial artist, deaf, female.
0:49.1	Is that a good foil slash companion for a character like Daredevil?
0:53.9	I definitely think that if you are setting out
0:55.8	to create a contemporary Daredevil villain
0:59.1	that can stand up in the canon,
1:00.8	the idea of having a deaf female martial artist is a great idea. the
1:05.0	common, the idea of having a deaf female martial artist is a great idea. It's a nice, the same but different kind of idea.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	I actually think it's one of the ways that this character really succeeds
1:14.7	Ooh and I know we're gonna get into that. Oh well then I think that's a perfect way to begin our lesson
1:19.6	Welcome to Geek History lesson everybody. I'm Jason's Secret Ninja Inman. I'm Ashley
1:24.4	Victoria Robinson and welcome to your mind university. You have stumbled on to the
1:30.0	podcast where a screenwriter from the midwest and a comic book
1:33.0	writer from the north of New York takes one character, one construct, and one
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