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Mild spoilers below forMarvels Luke Cageseason two.
Jelani Cobb has become canon.
However, maybe we shouldnt be so surprised.
I loved Wolverine, who, I think, is one of everyones favorite characters, he tells Vulture.
Storm, I like a whole lot I was an X-Men guy.
Tony Stark and the Avengers.
And, weirdly enough, I really liked the Vision.
But his powers were also pretty cool.
And what about Luke, thatbastion of the70s blaxploitation era?
Well, its not so simple.
I have an ambivalent relationship to the character, Cobb says.
[Lukes comic] was riddled with stereotypes, he says.
That was one of the things I liked about Netflix and what Cheo did with the series.
Look at what the implications of what that means.
A black male character whos bulletproof thats utilitarian.
Those characters speak to a very different sense of imagination.
For black people, that imagination is connected to something like,Damn, I wish we were bulletproof.
So impressed was Cobb that he and Coker did adialogueforThe New Yorkerin 2016.
It was their first notable interaction, though theyd likely met before then.
We traveled in similar circles, though we didnt know each other very well, Cobb says.
Their quasi-relationship paid off while the second season was in production.
I went back and forth on it, he says.
Due to that Marvel confidentiality, he then had the challenge of staying mum about his cameo.
My strategy was just to make myself forget, he says.
It was just,Okay, I guess Ive done this cameo.I was super self-conscious.
When asked about becoming canon, he responds with a massive belly laugh.
So Im waiting for that to happen.
