Keeping his love for the sport of boxing intact, Trudeau (Justin) is seen posing as a boxing champion-but not without being flanked by a swarm of superheroes like Sasquatch, Puck and Aurora.
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Marvel’s Civil War II comic book storyline is throwing another player into the ring: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “You don’t want to have just like stiff phototrace image, you want to have that twinkle in his eye”.
‘I wanted to kind of evoke a little bit of what’s different about him than other people in power right now, ‘ Perez told CBC News.
I didn’t want this to just be like a walk-on … rescued by superheroes and he thanks them and that’s the end of the story.
“He seems to be the popular culture association with Canada right now, right behind (Toronto rapper) Drake – and I probably couldn’t get Drake in the comic”, Zdarsky added, laughing.
This isn’t the first time a Canadian Prime Minister, or a Trudeau, has appeared in Marvel. Former Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau appeared in Volume 120 of The Uncanny X-Men in 1979.
“Their stance was basically, they can’t endorse anything like this for obvious reasons, but they also wouldn’t stand in the way”, Zdarsky said. “It’s easy to write the Spiderman’s dialogue, we all have an idea of what he sounds like, but there is no real Spiderman to get angry at me”. However, he said that “I can’t say who he punches, but his boxing skills definitely play a part”.
The Marvel heroes are divided on how best to capitalize on the predictive power.
Despite being part of an global agency, the team feels they’re “Canadian first” and seek out Trudeau for advice, he added. “Iron Man is in the background”, said the spokesperson.
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“There’s a big Marvel Comics event called Civil War II that centres around a new character named Ulysses who can predict upcoming disaster”, Zdarsky told BuzzFeed Canada.
