[MUSIC PLAYING]
MARK CHU-LIN: Oh, wow!
It think the shield's fantastic.
It looks like you mean business.
I'm Mark, and watch Marvel Make Me A Hero.
I serve as the club president for a volunteer
group of Marvel cosplayers called the Avengers Initiative.
I also do event coordination.
So the Avengers Initiative, we do a lot of meet-and-greets.
We arrange visits for places that
have kids who are going to some very
intensive medical situations.
You know, a lot of kids are stuck in a hospital bed.
So it is nice, even if it's just for a few minutes,
to be that character for them, whether you're Captain
America, Captain Marvel--
one of our guys, he's an Iron Man Hulk Buster.
We have quite a few Spider-Men and Spider-Gwens.
Spider-Man being a very joyful, acrobatic, colorful character,
kids particularly love that.
When you see these kids, when you can spend just a moment
with them just to brighten up their day,
that means a lot for my people and me.
My love for Marvel goes back to my dad.
Like, Captain America, I remember
seeing the black and white serial that he grew up with.
And him being a journalist, he's got
to meet a lot of interesting people,
one of them being Jack Kirby.
So I can remember, as a child, my family
and I would go visit him, and Mr. Kirby was nice enough
to sit down with me and let me ask
a whole bunch of questions about various things he created--
Avengers, Captain America...
The one thing I wanted to ask him about that made me an Iron
Man fan, was his depiction of the character,
particularly in the initial first few Avengers.
And I asked Mr. Kirby, hey, what inspired drawing Iron Man?
And he says, well, I just wanted him to be a modern knight.
So my character's kind of a little bit
of both, elements I like of both Captain America and Iron Man.
So I envisioned a character that uses technology,
but he also has tools like Captain America.
I want this person to have a shield.
And then, as opposed to, let's say,
a sword or projectile weapon, I like the idea of a staff.
I imagine him being an Asian-American like myself.
I love armor.
Like many other armored characters
like Iron Man, War Machine, he could take off his face plate.
This suit hails to the character's heritage
as an Asian-American.
I would like him to have some basic combat skills,
much like Steve Rogers, or even someone
like James Rhodes who's been trained
by the Air Force Marines.
He's learned basic combat, but in terms
of his ability to do superhuman feats, it comes from his suit--
so flight, speed.
He has certain tactical elements, so just, like,
how I like to think as an event coordinator,
I'd like to have a large overview
picture of what's going on.
So the suit would allow him X-ray vision of what
he's going to possibly face.
For the base suit, I think, like, gray.
For the armor plating, blue, but with yellow highlights.
That way, he would look like a modernized knight that stands
out, and you know, like, wow.
That's something you need to pay attention to.
I think my hero wants to hopefully see a better world.
He'd be in a position, like a lot of Super Heroes, that when
he hears of things, he wants to be
out there where he can help--
whether it be galactic problems, but also
just if he sees a person in need he wants to hopefully
be of service where he can.
Oh, wow!
Wow!
This is fantastic!
I love the complexity, the kind of Asian, anime look.
This insect drone component, I did not imagine that,
but that's something I would really
want to have in my arsenal to keep an eye on things,
but also to act on my behalf.
I think the shield's fantastic.
I've always favored Kirby's first design of Cap's shield,
the more bad shape.
It looks more ceremonial.
It looks like you mean business.
For me being a Chinese-American, and having a young baby nephew,
I want him to know that there are heroes
out there of his own ethnicity.
We can all look to a multitude of people for heroes,
but the idea with a character like this,
or anything that comes out, he can say, like, wow!
You know, that could be me?
Thanks Marvel, for making me a hero.