Echo, real name Maya Lopez, who is Deaf, is a vengeful and bitter Native American hero with a distinctive fighting ability that allows her to copy her opponent's moves. The uppercase “Deaf” refers to deaf people who share a language, identity and culture.
All told, Echo is fine. I enjoyed the first three episodes well enough, even if it's a bit slow for a show that's only five episodes long. All five episodes drop tonight, which also feels like a bad decision, not giving the series enough time to build up any hype.
So, while Echo (Alaqua Cox) was a villain in 2021's Hawkeye, her transition from antagonist to protagonist is wholly persuasive, particularly since dead family member(s) are the core motive in these hero/villain origin stories.
“In Hawkeye, Maya was a villain,” says director Sydney Freeland. “And while she's our protagonist in Echo, we wanted to embrace those darker sides and flaws within the character, who is on an extreme emotional journey trying to navigate the pent-up anger inside her.
(**) In the comics, she's called Echo because she has the ability to literally copy the movements and actions of any non-superhuman. Had the MCU version stuck with this, she could fight as well as Shang-Chi, shoot arrows as well as both Hawkeyes, etc.
Maya Lopez, aka Echo, is an anti-hero. She cannot be considered a classical superhero due to her extreme anger and bloodlust. Superheros aren't conventionally associated with such an extreme desire for vengeance. However, once Maya has made her peace with her family, she can no longer be considered a villain.
Echo was a nymph who was destined a fate that she could only repeat the sounds and last words of others. One day she spotted and fell in love with Narcissus. She followed him through the woods but could not speak without repeating his words.
Echo is a multirole, adaptive robot with the most sophisticated artificial intelligence in the world, originally designed by Dr. Mina Liao for use during combat missions with Overwatch. Damage heroes seek out, engage, and obliterate the enemy with wide-ranging tools, abilities, and play styles.
Maya Lopez is a deaf member of the Choctaw tribe who moved out of her hometown as a child with her father William Lopez, and became the protegée of Wilson Fisk, growing up under his care. Losing her father due to Ronin's hunt for criminals, Lopez became the Tracksuit Mafia's commander, vowing revenge on Ronin.
Echo, AKA Maya Lopez, possesses photographic reflexes and superhuman physicality. She is a prodigy, a master combatant, and deaf. All the things that make Echo unique make her perfectly suited to bear an omnipotent, cosmic force.
In fact, some fans took to the internet ahead of its premiere to describe the live-action version of Echo as “woke” and criticized Maya's disabled Indigenous deaf character as prioritizing an agenda over storytelling or meaningfully expanding the Marvel universe.
Echo also suffered from bad editing with the pacing and storyline feeling like they were all over the place. The show had so much promise and I did appreciate the efforts made to honour the native American and deaf communities, but it didn't have to be at the expense of a coherent and gripping story.
Considering the previous events of Hawkeye, where viewers first met Maya, she starts off the series largely known as a foe. And along with Maya's growing body count in Echo, director and executive producer Sydney Freeland tells Marvel.com, “The goal was never to turn her from a villain to a hero.
It features a solid premise and an intriguing story, but ultimately, its promise of gritty, action and mature storytelling just fell short. It is TV-MA, but while “Daredevil” showed its rating in almost every episode, “Echo” only has two scenes that were more visceral than the average MCU project.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest Disney+ series, Echo, has its fair share of highs and lows but ultimately disappointed many fans in its execution.
Echo was a beautiful nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to the forest. She was a favorite of Diana and attended her while hunting. But Echo had one flaw: she was fond of talking, and whether in chat or argument, would have the last word.
The curse of Echo was to only repeat back the last words spoken by others. This curse was put on her by Hera, Zeus's wife, because Echo distracted Hera from finding out who Zeus was sleeping with.
And just to answer the question above: no, Kingpin does not die. In a post-credit scene, New York's own Pat Kiernan tees Wilson up for the idea that — presumably in Daredevil: Born Again — he should run for Mayor of New York.
From the fifth through seventh seasons, Echo sets aside her villainous past and becomes a friend and ally of the protagonists, even beginning a romantic relationship with Bellamy.
Maya Lopez has been described as Marvel's first deaf and indigenous superhero. She is the first deaf, indigenous, and amputee character portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Her own miniseries Echo became the first Marvel television show centered on a deaf Native American superhero.
Echo is Overwatch's 32nd hero - and the original game's last. For now, Blizzard's plan is for any further new heroes to arrive once Overwatch 2 has been released.
The most famous version of Echo's story is outlined in Ovid's Metamorphoses. According to Ovid, Echo, who was known for being a great talker, was tasked by Zeus, king of the gods, with distracting Hera, Zeus's wife, so he could go and have an endless stream of affairs without being caught.
To punish Echo, Hera deprived her of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words of another. Echo's hopeless love for Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image, made her fade away until all that was left of her was her voice.
Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. Echo, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to her.
