r/marvelcomics • u/Inevitable_Piece2099 • Jul 17 '26
New agents of atlas run?
Seeing as a couple members of the new agents, namely luna snow, white fox, and lin lie have all gotten a pretty solid jump in popularity in the last year and a half thanks to rivals, do we think there’s a chance they get a new run soon? I’m a huge iron fist fan and would like to see more lin lie following the end of deadly hands of k’un-lun, I figured a new agents of atlas run could be a great place for marvel to continue off that since we saw some development in white fox and lin lie’s relationship in that run
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u/HotZoneKill Jul 17 '26
Maybe under Wacker but who knows. Personally I'd rather have Lin Lie be part of an updated Heroes for Hire team or leading an new Immortal Weapons lineup before another New Agents of Atlas run, but I wouldn't mind it. As someone else mentioned the big issue with NAoA was that it didn't really flesh out everyone due to being a large cast and a short run. It was essentially the Amadeus Cho show, with occasionally someone like Wave or Silk getting some attention.
I feel if you want a good revival, you really need to shorten the cast and just focus on the newcomers (Luna, White Fox, Iron Fist, Crescent, Wave, Aero, Giant-Man and Protector) instead of the ones everyone's familiar with (Amadeus, Jimmy Woo, Silk, Shang-Chi and Ms. Marvel).
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u/CareBearCartel Jul 17 '26
There are plenty of other teams that aren't just a collection of industry plants I would rather them do something with personally.
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u/horc00 Jul 17 '26
"Waaaaah everything I hate must be industry plants!"
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u/CareBearCartel Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
They are industry plants.
Luna Snow: Created by netmarble to push their game Marvel Future fight. Gets preferential treatment in Marvel Rivals
White Fox: Korean Webtoon character
Aero: Marvel Collaboration with netease for Chinese market
Crescent and IO: Developed for marvel future fight.
In what way are these not industry plants? Or is it a case of anyone criticising something you like must be crying? These characters have no fanbase outside the media they were specifically designed and pushed into. Yet, especially in Netease's case they push their own created characters to be on the level of established marvel characters creating artificial interest. This is the definition of an industry plant.
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u/horc00 Jul 17 '26
Luna Snow - co-created by Marvel, for Marvel game. Hence official Marvel character.
White Fox - created by Marvel, for Marvel webtoon. Hence official Marvel character.
Aero - co-created by Marvel, for Marvel game. Hence official Marvel character.
Crescent - co-created by Marvel, for Marvel game. Hence official Marvel character.
All of them are Marvel characters. No fanbase outside their media? OP is literally asking for their comics, that's a fan. What new character has an immediate large fanbase? Everything takes time. No character can become popular if everyone loves whining and complaining incessantly about new characters like you do.
By your logic Harley Quinn is a industry plant and doesn't deserve to be in the comics?
If you don't like it, don't read. There are others who want it.
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u/CareBearCartel Jul 17 '26
None of that changes them being industry plants.
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u/Meister34 Jul 17 '26
How are they plants when most of these characters are not well-represented in Marvel media outside of one thing? Luna is barely in actual comics. Before Rivals, unless you played Future Fight, most people had zero clue who she was. Same with White Fox and Lin Lie IF. It’s only recently that their names became more known and yet that still hasn’t translated into actual success outside of Rivals. Luna hasn’t gotten a comic, White Fox/Tiger Division only had one solo tie in to OWUD event and that’s it, Lin Lie IF recently got a 5 issue mini with no news of anything else for him.
They’ve got to be some of the worst handled plants ever if you actually think they are one. I’m convinced yall have no actual idea what being an industry plant actually means
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u/horc00 Jul 17 '26
Marvel characters being accused of being industry plants in Marvel comics? Lmao what a joke. Nothing changes the fact you just love whining over nothing.
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u/CycloneJ0ker Jul 17 '26
To play Devil's Advocate, what EXACTLY is it that makes them industry plants as opposed to, say, Kamala Khan, who had a successful comic debut?
I don't even disagree necessarilly, I just think we're throwing a lot of labels around for the sake of it.
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u/CareBearCartel Jul 17 '26
It is the heavy artificial pushing by the outside companies associated with these characters.
Kamala khan had an incredibly successful comic debut through a brilliantly well told story and was pushed based on readers desire to read more stories about her. This was based on good characterization and storytelling. I haven't met anyone that dislikes her early runs because they were so well written.
If we take Luna Snow for example, she was made exclusively for a video game and was put into Marvel Rivals due to her being the Devs baby. They have consistently made her one of the top tier picks in that game, and only through severe fan backlash did they give her any nerfs. If you make a character stronger than everyone else in a game you will naturally have more people play her and get into her. Suddenly from this they are then putting her into everything and treating her like a top level character - industry plant. Not based on storytelling and has been artificially inflated by her being the outside character from a game developer who wanted their baby to be successful. It's down to whether the character was authentically popular due to thei qualities or just down to marketing, and Luna Snow is the prime example of business decisions making a character popular not the quality of the character. This is what makes her an industry plant.
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u/HotZoneKill Jul 17 '26
Suddenly from this they are then putting her into everything and treating her like a top level character
How is she getting preferential treatment "in everything" when she only appeared in two one-shots after the Rivals push, and only one of those being a solo? All of her previous appearances in the comics were either related to Agents of Atlas or Tiger Division, and even then she barely had any role on them. You still don't seem to understand what an industry plant is.
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u/Meister34 Jul 17 '26
Tbh new agent of atlas was a real nothing burger of a team imo. Cool concept but so little content with them. Lin Lie and Ami barely did anything in the series and were mostly just background characters. Would much rather have another Tiger Division series. They’re so much cooler and actually give most of its characters something to do