DANIEL SLOSS: If he ran at me, I would
make a noise I don't think I'd ever made in my entire life.
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I'm Daniel Sloss.
Watch "Marvel Make Me a Hero."
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I am a comedian from Scotland.
This is wild that this is my career because I
still don't believe it.
I started when I was about 16, 17 just doing gigs.
My mother bought me a fake ID so I could get into comedy clubs.
It might as well just been a bit of paper,
written crayon, "I am 18."
So there's times when you go on stage
and you've thought of something really, really funny
and you hope it's funny.
And then they lose their minds and you go, yes, I'm right.
And then there's other times you go, is this funny?
And they go nope, nope, not funny at all.
And you're like, oh, well, I think you're wrong.
You know, a lot of my comedy is quite dark.
I'm just being honest about the dark thoughts that we all have.
Having people laugh at that is a really
nice moment because you go, here's
this horrible thought I've had.
And I'm not proud of it, but I'm also not going to deny
that it happened in my head.
And then saying it out loud to a roomful of strangers,
and half of them just go, oh my god, no.
And the other half going yes.
And you go, oh, I'm not alone.
My dad was this big nerd.
And he had a son who loved playing soccer and sports.
And he just couldn't get me into comic books or anything
like that.
And then Spider-Man came out, and I just loved it.
I was like what is this?
And my dad was like yes, drink it in, my son.
This is it.
I watched every single Super Hero movie that comes out
because it's now getting to the point
where they are everywhere.
I don't think I'll ever get bored of it.
I'm very proud of being Scottish,
and I know there are some Scottish Marvel Super Heroes.
But what superhero would I be essentially?
I'd like him to look a little bit like Wolverine.
I just like that sort of--
he's just a small, stout, angry man with swords for hands.
Yeah, I'd like him to look like that because he
was also one of my favorites.
I also have a massive sword in my house
because when I was 13-years-old, my grandparents are--
bless them, they bought me Aragorn's sword
from "Lord of the Rings."
So it's just this giant sword.
So I've always had that in my bedroom growing up.
I do wear a kilt often.
There's many times to wear a kilt.
You do it at weddings, any celebration, essentially.
The kilt can be very fancy and official,
but then it can also just be you're just wearing a kilt
and then big sturdy boots.
It's the Highlands.
You know, you've got to add a little pizzazz to the thing,
so I want it to be--
you know, I figured Tony Stark can make-- look,
if he can make Spider-Man that amazing suit,
he can make a cool kilt. It doesn't
really offer him stealth, it's going
to be clanking the whole time.
But I think when you're short, stocky, and you're shirts off,
and Scottish, stealth isn't your game.
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Aye, the Scottish face paint.
The blue face paint with the white across there.
The simplicity of blue and white just
makes me feel inherently Scottish because it's
such a simple flag, in the same way that
America, red, white, and blue.
That minus the red.
If there's red, then it's somebody's blood.
I don't think he's going to be particularly
trained in de-escalation, he's going
to be trained in ending things.
He's the defender of Scotland.
So it's all about across the board.
It doesn't matter what family or clan
or tribe you come from, if you're good,
he'll stand up for you.
He doesn't represent one, he represents all.
Oh Yeah, that's it.
Yeah.
I was about to say a horrific word.
He's very Celtic is what I meant to say.
I'm filled with so much Scottish pride,
all my Scottish words are coming out.
If he run at me, I would make a noise I don't think I've
ever made in my entire life.
I love the map of Scotland in the background.
The kilt, great.
I love the fur.
That's clearly from an animal he's killed.
And the less we speak of that, the better.
God, he's got two Claymores, that's even, even better.
These are historic swords.
They've been in the family for generations.
They're not swords that he had made for himself,
they've been handed down for years and years and years.
And they've been used in many great battles.
So of course they've got wear and tear.
For a man that clearly doesn't care much about anything else,
he's taken the time and patience to do his face paint,
despite everything else.
It means he stands for something.
My dad will love it and I think my brothers would love it.
I think because in all of our heads,
that's what we'd like to be.
I'm welling up with national pride on the inside.
It's amazing, I love it.
It's so cool, it's so cool.
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Thanks Marvel for making me a hero.
Genuinely, this is so cool.
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