WAY back when, what we now call Marvel started out as a little known entity called "Timely Comics". Of that original company, pretty much only three concepts have survived to the modern incarnation of Marvel Comics. Timely gave us Captain America, a version of The Human Torch who was actually not human at all but a robot (confusing, that) and Namor The Sub-Mariner.
Namor is also known as "the first mutant" in the Marvel family, so he has ties to the X-Men as well as deep roots in Marvel's history. He was created in 1939 and thus predates DC Comics half-Atlantean King of Atlantis, Aquaman, by a couple of years.
As big a presence as he has always been in the comics and for all the story-telling potential wrapped up in an environmentally conscious character with a decidedly anti-heroic bent, Namor never made it to the big screen and only rarely to the small one. As lately as 2018 Marvel Studios had called the rights to film and distribute the character on the silver screen "complicated". It seems they've got all that cleared up.
It had been rumoured for a while that Namor would be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in the Black Panther sequel. Confirmation has hit the web.
Given the character's seriously minimalist look, I was fully expecting a MAJOR redesign for his big screen debut. Turns out they simply added a bunch of chunky South American flavoured jewellery and a goatee.
Namor isn't high on my list of favourite characters, but I'm happy to see him finally get his due and it looks to me like they stayed pretty true to the comics when it comes to the design. Of all the comic book stuff hitting in the next little while, the Black Panther sequel has been the one I'm most jazzed about and this reveal hasn't changed that one bit.
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