Character Spotlight: Echo
MARVEL SNAP welcomes Echo — a prodigal deaf athlete with photographic reflexes and superhuman physicality, capable of perfectly copying what she sees!
After your opponent plays an Ongoing card here, remove its abilities.
Echo, AKA Maya Lopez, is the current host of the Phoenix Force — her extraordinary physicality and combat skills make her perfectly suited to bear an omnipotent, cosmic force.
Maya Lopez grew up with her Cheyenne father, William “Crazy Horse” Lincoln, after her Latina mother Ms. Lopez deserted their family. During her childhood, Maya’s father and teachers discovered that while she is deaf, she has an uncanny ability to duplicate musical performances.
At age nine, Maya’s gangster father began working with Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin, who eventually murdered him. Fisk convinced grieving young Maya that her father’s murder had been at the hands of Daredevil, and became Maya’s new guardian. With the hopes of one day exploiting her talents, Kingpin manipulated Maya into training the areas she had a natural gift for — fighting and performing arts.
Maya became loyal to Fisk as both a crimelord and father figure, all the while deluded into blaming Daredevil for her father’s death. Later, Fisk was erroneously reported dead, and so Maya presumed that Daredevil was responsible for yet another murder and attacked him. However, during the course of the battle, she recognized evidence of Daredevil’s innocence and came to the realization that Fisk had killed her father. Enraged, she confronted Fisk and shot him point blank in the face.
Maya’s unique physicality enables her to duplicate any physical action she sees, ranging from musical performance and ballet to martial arts and weaponry. As such, she later joins Luke Cage’s Avengers as “Echo!”
Echo is a highly talented pianist, music composer, artist, ballet dancer, boxer,
martial artist, and markswoman. She is able to mimic the fighting styles of others much stronger than herself and is known to wield a wide array of weaponry — such as pistols, guns that fire poisonous flechettes, a billy club, and shuriken.
In MARVEL SNAP, Echo’s adaptive fighting style is represented through her effect:
After your opponent plays an Ongoing card here, remove its abilities.
Echo’s effect is great for proactively guessing where your opponents want to play their valuable ongoing abilities in order to negate some of their most potent abilities!
She can be played early to gain an advantage in locations where you intend to play your valuable late-game finishers such as Iron Man, Knull, Blue Marvel, and Devil Dinosaur.
Echo is also a great counterpart to Wong and Mystique, whom she can protect from the likes of Cosmo’s denial effect.
Let’s welcome the incredible replicator — Echo — to MARVEL SNAP!!
