Comments on: Top 12 Latin Superheroes

By: latinageek

latinageek — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:52:31 +0000

Other Latino actors playing in hero roles (albeit not Latino characters for the most part) are Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres, Zoe Saldaña, Linda Carter, Jorge García (well, my hero at least , Jessica Alba, and Nestor Carbonell (hey, Batmanuel!). I enjoy finding out about other Latinos in the genre, and started a blog about them at scifilatino.com. Eventually I’d like to cover them all.

Thanks for the comic book names! I rarely read comics so it’s nice to know of heroes of Latino heritage I hadn’t heard of.

By: Eddi Valentine

Eddi Valentine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:10:46 +0000

Latino actors pt2: “Starship Troopers” cast white actors to portray Latino named main characters,Casper Van Dien as Argentine “Johnny Rico”, Denise Richards as “Carmen Ibanes”,and Dina Meyer as “Dizzy Flores”. Ay least they weren’t killed off the first 30 minutes of the film. Here’s a couple of old school Latino actors cast in Sci Fi/ Fantasy/ Comic book genres: Raul Julia(Puerto Rican) as “Gomez” in the “Addam’s Family” films. Ricardo Montalban(Mexican) cast as “Khan Noonien Singh” on “Star Trek” and as “Armando the circus owner” in the “Planet of the Apes” films. Speaking of “Star Trek” who when have Latino characters on the show(s) are usually played by white actors.

By: Eddi Valentine

Eddi Valentine — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:33:36 +0000

Finding Latino actors as well as characters has been a challenge in the mainstream cinema but a lot has changed in the past 10 years. John Leguizamo (Columbian) is one of my favorites because his roles are so diverse. They cover animation “Ice Age the meltdown”,sci fi “Titan A E”, fantasy “Arabian Nights”, comic book “Spawn”, and even a drag queen (which totally counts as fantasy in “To Wong Foo,…” “Sin City” featured two other great latino actors,Benecio Del Toro (Puerto Rican) and Rosario Dawson (Puerto Rican, Cuban, Black, Irish,and Native American). Does Benecio’s role as “Duke the Dog Faced Boy” in “Big Top Pee Wee” count? How about Eva Mendes (Cuban)in 2 comic book genre films,”The Spirit” and “Ghost Rider”. Then there’s Edward James Olmos’ (Mexican) star character “William Adama” in “Battlestar Gallactica”. Also there’s Jessica Alba in television’s “Dark Angel”,and cinema’s “Sin City” and “Fantastic Four”,Selma Hayek (Mexican,Lebonese) as a vampire in “From Dawn To Dusk” and Antonio Banderas (Spanish) as the vampire “Armand” in “Interview With a Vampire”. Antonio’s voice in “Shrek” as “Puss and Boots” should count too. I need a break. I’ll be back with a few more characters later.

By: Desiderio Gutierrez

Desiderio Gutierrez — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:00:57 +0000

misterio, with the cape and the eye, he had a latino acsent, he came on Spider-Freinds in the 80’s

By: Latino Superheroes at Fantasy « Bread & Magic

Latino Superheroes at Fantasy « Bread & Magic — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:28:47 +0000

[...] it, an expanded version of my post on the top Latino superheroes has been published online by Fantasy magazine, complete with pretty graphics and interesting follow-up conversation in the comments [...]

By: Cornelio

Cornelio — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:37:35 +0000

Special Greetings to fantasy magazine.
Excellent article.
I hope that in the next include Selvatico. latinsuper heroes and super heroes first set in the Hispanic world.
http://www.selvaticosuperheroedominicano.blogspot.com

By: Imani Lateef

Imani Lateef — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:48:20 +0000

where the hell is the new blue beatle

By: julio

julio — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:09:10 +0000

well yes “el santo” ofcourse he is only the biggest hero in mexico am i know most people wont know who i am talking bout but i just wanted to put “kaliman” the mentalist somewhere near the list

By: Michael M Jones

Michael M Jones — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:58:22 +0000

You should be picking up the GLA just because it’s so much fun in general. Good, goofy fun.

In re-reading your post above, I have two more comments:
“Marvel recently introduced an all-Latino team of heroes, Eleggua and the Santerians.”
– I’d never even HEARD of them until now. I had to look them up, and found they were in a Daredevil miniseries I skipped. Go figure.

“Perhaps in a sign of how depictions of Latinos in comics have begun to shift, Marvel recently re-invented the villainous Tarantula as a female superhero.”
– Ironically, DC -also- reinvented their version of the Tarantula a few years back, from the white male of the Golden Age to a hispanic woman. Unfortunately, this version may have started out good, but turned bad fairly quickly. Anyone for a face-off between the two Tarantulas?

By: Ben Francisco

Ben Francisco — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:39:54 +0000

I may have to go out and find the GLA series just for that one scene!