Welcome to Heroes Like Us, our video series where we look at a certain identity and we
talk about comic book characters that have that identity.
And today we're doing Latin American countries.
Now why I say "Latin American countries" is because we already did Mexico and Puerto Rico,
and we're probably going to do at least another Mexican, another Puerto Rican video.
But some of the other countries don't get a lot of love, which means there's not a lot
of heroes from them.
So this video is going to include some of those countries that maybe only have 1 or
2 notable characters.
We're going to make sure we include them here.
First up from Marvel Comics and from the country of Brazil, we've got Sunspot.
Roberto da Costa.
He's a mutant with the ability to absorb solar radiation and he can use it to basically make
himself indestructible, so he kind of takes on this black sleek oily look which basically
makes him indestructible.
He can also funnel this energy back out in terms of fiery blasts and he can fly.
Lately in the comics, Roberto has grown up and taken over his father's business, which
makes him now a millionaire.
And he bought the criminal organization known as A.I.M. and he is now using it to benefit
the Avengers and to benefit heroes and use that technology for good.
He is almost always alongside his best friend Sam Guthrie, Cannonball.
They were together in the New Mutants and then they served on the Avengers together,
so they are nearly inseparable.
He was featured minimally in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past, played by Adan Canto.
I apologize if I pronounced that wrong.
Up next, also from Brazil, we have a DC heroine by the name of Fire.
Beatriz Bonilla da Costa.
Now she began as a kind of secret agent in the Brazilian government where she then stumbled
upon this accident and it gave her this ability to become and control this kind of green fire,
which is how she gets her name.
She can fly, she can withstand damage, she can shoot this fire...
Again, pretty basic fire abilities.
She's turning for teaming up often with her best friend Ice, so "Fire and Ice" and they
served together for a long time on the Justice League International.
Up next, we've got the villain Bane.
Now Bane is a little confusing because in the comics, they make up a country that he's
from, called Santa Prisca.
But in most television and movie outings, they say clearly that he's from Cuba.
So we're just going to kind of include him in this Latin American general category and
talk about him that way.
So Bane...
Bane has an interesting backstory.
He was born and his father was serving this life sentence in kind of the worst of the
worst prison, where the worst people go, down in Santa Prisca.
His father escaped, so now his newborn son had to stay there to kind of serve his sentence.
Which is kind of messed up.
So Bane grew up in this prison, he had to fend for himself, so he grew up and learned
how to fight and survive.
He also is very intelligent, so he was always reading books and learning from all these
people around him.
He is incredibly smart.
Eventually he became the top dog in the prison, which made him a prime candidate for this
experiment with this thing called "venom."
Venom is a toxin that is injected into you and it basically bulks you out.
So BAM, you're super strong now.
The problem is, you can become addicted to it.
So you shoot up this venom, you need it, you need it, you need it.
So he is kind of known for being this raging monster because the more venom he takes, you
lose control, you go into a frenzy, and you become addicted to it.
Bane was featured in The Dark Knight Rises played by Tom Hardy.
Now up next, you really need to forgive me for this pronunciation because this is a Peruvian
god from Marvel Comics by the name of Ai Apaec.
So this is a Mochican god who is also known as the Decapitator.
He is this chimera creature, where it's like spider legs and like snakes for hair.
It's a little different in the actual Mochican mythology.
In the Marvel universe, he's very real and he's captured and he's imprisoned alongside
Norman Osborne, the Green Goblin.
So eventually, they are freed and Green Goblin is able to use this god for his own bidding.
So he kind of... gosh this is really kind of confusing.
He changes his appearance to look like Spider-Man except with six arms.
So he goes from this big monster looking creature into this six-armed Spider-Man, kind of wearing
a black suit.
So he serves as "Spider-Man" on Norman Osborne's Dark Avengers.
So again in mythology, he's a god.
In the Marvel universe, he's a monster, who becomes Spider-Man with six arms.
Up next from Marvel Comics...
Sofia Mantega, the Wind Dancer from Venezuela.
She is a relatively new member of the X-Men, so she's kind of one of the young ones.
She can control air and flight.
Didn't do a lot, there's not very good pictures of her.
But eventually she lost her powers during the event called M-Day.
She still wanted to fight crime, so she built this suit that had kind of these six tentacles,
kind of like a Dr. Octopus kind of situation.
And so she continued to fight crime that way, with these tentacles that could shoot blasts.
But as of now, she still has no mutant powers.
She also hasn't really been seen since about 2009, when she was serving in the New Warriors
and they disbanded.
So who knows what she's up to.
So that is basically it for this video.
That is a random handful of other characters from Latin America.
If there are others that you think of...
Like "You forgot this Argentinian character," let me know in the comments, we can do more
stuff like this.
You know, if I see enough characters from one country, I will do a dedicated video.
So let me know in the comments what you think, if this was interesting...
We'll see you next time on Heroes Like Us.