We Got 5 Reasons White Tiger Needs to Join the Netflix MCU

By now you should have blessed your life by watching the black joy that is Luke Cage. I mean Sweet Christmas, season 2 is coming out so don’t get left behind! Through its focus on Harlem as not only a geographic location but a living and breathing cultural entity, director Cheo Hodari Coker was able to create something we had never seen before even though all POC know it to be true: Superheroes + POC culture/history = prime television. We ate that shit up. Then we saw it proven AGAIN on the big screen with Black Panther #WakandaForever As usual, what hundreds of white executive producers and media moguls said wouldn’t work, worked. They said we wouldn’t watch and we watched, we lived and we were rewarded. Luke Cage is FULL of Black culture from literature to Hip-Hop to celebrity puns, it lives and breathes true. This is why I believe we can’t stop the train. This is why we need Angela Del Toro, aka White Tiger.

White Tiger was originally introduced in 1975 as Hector Ayala, the first Puerto Rican superhero in the history of comics. He was born and raised in the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan and came to New York City for college. It was here that he came into contact with three mystical tiger amulets from K’un-L’un that granted him superhuman abilities (let’s leave the necessary discussion of cultural appropriation of Asian culture for another time *cough*Danny Rand*cough*). After protecting Nueva York for years, READ YEARS Y’ALL, Hector is shot and nearly killed. He recove…