Echo Producer Says Main Character Won't Have Her 'Lame' Comic Powers

WatchSpoilers of the Week April 4-8 CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishHowever, in Echo, she will have something else entirely, because according to Echo producer Sydney Freeland, those powers are “lame.”Advertisement “Her power in the comic books is that she can copy anything, any movement, any whatever. It’s kind of lame,” Freeland told press at an event for today’s trailer release (via Variety). “I will say, that is not her power. I’ll just kind of leave it at that.” AdvertisementWhatever abilities Echo will have remain to be seen—we don’t see anything overtly explicit in the trailer beyond hand-to-hand combat, so it’s unlikely she’ll be flying through the skies blasting energy beams or anything. The MCU already has similar abilities to Echo’s in other characters; other situations in the past have seen alterations made—like Kamala Khan’s crystalline constructs in Ms. Marvel over her stretching and embiggening from the comics—so it’s not surprising to hear a change was made. But it feels dismissive of the character to not just pretty much overhaul her entire toolkit, but call her comics counterpart lame in the process. We’ll find out what else is new with Maya when Echo hits Hulu and Disney+ on January 10.Advertisement Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest

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