On Mar. 26, 2025, Marvel Studios determined to announce the solid for Avengers: Doomsday in essentially the most irritating approach: a reside stream unveiling a sequence of chairs with the actors’ names on them at a price of each 15 to twenty minutes. It was equally thrilling but additionally baffling. With every new title reveal, nevertheless, a better piece of the MCU’s future comes into play. The second title revealed was Vannesa Kirby, who is ready to play Sue Storm, a.okay.a. The Invisible Girl, in The Improbable 4: First Steps. But one title that probably shocked many was the announcement of Tenoch Huerta Mejía, returning as Namor.
Namor was launched into the MCU in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Without end, however since then, there was no information in regards to the character’s plans, partially as a result of Marvel Studios not having the solo movie rights for the character. But the information that Namor and Invisible Girl will probably be in the identical movie collectively is certain to get comedian e-book followers’ hearts racing. Though Sue Storm is married to Reed Richards / Mister Improbable, the duo and Namor are concerned in one in every of Marvel Comics’ most iconic and complex love triangles.
Avengers: Doomsday is perhaps Marvel’s greatest movie up to now, however the addition of Namor and The Invisible Girl, together with the anticipated return of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, might make the upcoming movie Marvel’s steamiest but.
The Reed Richards/Sue Storm/Namor Love Triangle within the Comics, Defined
The connection between The Improbable 4 and Namor is a real hyperlink in Marvel Comics historical past. Author-artist Invoice Everett created Namor, who first appeared publicly in Marvel Comics #1 in October 1939, the debut comedian of Well timed Comics, which might later change its title to Marvel Comics within the Nineteen Sixties with the creation of The Improbable 4 in honor of that unique comedian title. Namor is likely one of the firm’s first superheroes, and The Improbable 4 started the fashionable Marvel age. Namor made his return to comics in The Improbable 4 #4 in Might 1962. Ever since his reintroduction to the Marvel Comics universe, Namor has had a robust attraction to Sue Storm and has lately pursued her. Even when a foe to The Improbable 4 and coming into battle with the group, he at all times held a smooth spot for Sue Storm.
Sue’s emotions for Namor are sophisticated, to say the least. She does not deny an attraction to him and, at occasions, feels drawn to Namor when her husband, Reed Richards, feels too prioritized in his work and analysis over her. But, regardless of these struggles, the 2 have remained a loyal couple, and Sue Storm has by no means left her husband, Reed Richards, in the primary universe for him. She remained loyal even through the Civil Conflict when the 2 had been separated. Namor did remark that when Sue got here to Atlantis to attempt to persuade him to hitch Captain America’s facet, they’d a particular relationship.
Sue: “What are you speaking about? We do not have a relationship.”
Namor: “I can really feel your heartbeat by means of the water, Mrs. Richards…and it tells a really totally different story from the lies upon your lips.”
Though Reed Richards is usually misplaced in his work, his love for his household, notably Susan Storm, isn’t questioned. Reed clearly holds Namor’s standing because the ruler of an undersea kingdom in excessive regard and has labored with him many occasions. Nonetheless, he additionally doesn’t belief Namor’s intentions together with his spouse and has usually expressed his frustrations.
In Marvel Knights 4 #8 from July 2004, Namor involves the floor and makes an attempt to woo Sue Storm to hitch him in Atlantis and go away her husband following the couple’s monetary troubles. Sue Storm feedback on her earlier attraction to Namor as nothing greater than, “I used to be a lady with a keenness for Jane Austen novels, and also you had been and nonetheless are royalty! However that was ages in the past! The whole lot modified now.”
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Regardless of Namor’s pleas about how he has spent years pining for her, Sue rejects his advances. Reed Richards finds the pair having this assembly in a museum. Reed trusts Sue that there aren’t any ailing intentions on her half, however he lets his male ego get the higher of him. Even with all his mind, Reed Richards can nonetheless fall sufferer to base urges like jealousy. He insults Namor and compares him to a parasitic fish earlier than getting right into a combat that goes into the next situation. Reed lastly exhibits his frustration with Namor, who always seeks Sue Storm.
Sue assists her husband, displaying that she and Reed are a group and, regardless of some lingering attraction to Namor, she does not love him, and Mr. Improbable will at all times be her primary alternative. This definitely was not the top of the Reed Richards/Sue Storm/Namor love triangle, although, as through the years, Marvel Comics has performed on the push and pull between Sue’s love for Reed and a few lingering emotions for Namor.
Notably, although, issues play out otherwise for Namor and Sue in different continuities. Within the non-canon mini-series Improbable 4 1 2 3 4, Sue kisses Namor throughout a tough patch along with her husband, although the 2 do not go any additional. In Improbable 4: Life Story #2, which imagines The Improbable 4 gaining their powers within the Nineteen Sixties like within the comics and growing older in real-time, through the Seventies, Sue left Reed Richards for a few decade to be with Namor following her frustration along with her husband for being so centered on work.
Will the MCU Adapt This Romance in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’?
The Improbable 4: First Steps is confirmed to happen in one other actuality other than the primary MCU sacred timeline. Many count on their MCU movie to finish with their actuality being destroyed and the group discovering themselves refugees within the MCU actuality, whereas others count on the top of Avengers: Secret Wars to conclude with the assorted realities merging collectively to make one streamlined Marvel timeline the place The Improbable 4 had been at all times current. That might’ve been the proper time for Namor to satisfy The Improbable 4, however it’s now occurring prior to anticipated.
But, the reveal that The Improbable 4 and Namor will probably be in Avengers: Doomsday raises some attention-grabbing questions, notably if the MCU will adapt Marvel Comics’ past love triangle. Regardless of being referred to as Avengers: Doomsday, the film very a lot seems like a Improbable 4 film as not solely are the 4 heroes current alongside Namor, however the primary villain is their central antagonist, Physician Doom.
Physician Doom and Namor crossed paths as early as Improbable 4 #6 in September 1962. Notably, the underwater ruler turned down an alliance with Physician Doom as a result of not desirous to hurt Sue Storm. Whereas the MCU’s Namor has not met Sue Storm, it’s simple to see how the Russo brothers might make Sue Storm a voice of motive that convinces Namor to hitch the heroes in a battle in opposition to Doom, setting the stage for his or her eventual romance.
The largest issue that may impression the MCU’s adaptation of Namor’s attraction to Sue Storm is how the MCU has characterised him. Black Panther: Wakanda Without end firmly established Namor as having sturdy anti-colonist sentiments, so it feels extremely unlikely he would fall in love with a girl like Sue Storm, notably one with blonde hair and blue eyes. There is perhaps some problematic optics of getting Namor, performed by a Mexican actor, turning into so keen about the sight of a white lady like Sue Storm. If the MCU does select to go down this route, it’ll undoubtedly take a bit of remodeling, however it’s attainable.
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It definitely looks like a film as large as Avengers: Doomsday (whose solid continues to be being introduced on the time of writing) might embody one thing like Namor’s attraction to Sue Storm. Nonetheless, Marvel Studios might be planting the seeds for a long-term story that would play out throughout a number of movies. Avengers: Doomsday has been teased as a brand new starting for the MCU, and possibly the menace Namor might pose to the wedding between Mr. Improbable and The Invisible Girl might present a brand new sense of drama to increase upon in Improbable 4 sequels.
The Twilight Saga drew large field workplace numbers and passionate fan responses by having audiences select between Staff Edward or Staff Jacob. MCU Mr. Improbable actor Pedro Pascal has even discovered himself in one other much-talked-about love triangle, with Celine Music’s Materialist already having film followers debate whether or not Dakota Johnson’s character ought to find yourself with Pascal or Chris Evans’s characters. That kind of long-term engagement from followers is what the MCU wants proper now and will restore a way of romantic stress and drama that the franchise is sorely lacking.
Earlier than Peter Parker had to decide on between Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy, the love triangle between Sue Storm, her husband, Reed Richards, and the underwater king Namor was the primary. Now, with Avengers: Doomsday, it seems like it might lastly be making its solution to the massive display. Avengers: Doomsday is ready for launch on Might 1, 2026.