Hollywood’s biggest franchise is at a turning point. In the six years and 11 movies since the all-conquering Avengers: Endgame, few entries in the franchise have felt like a genuine event. It’s partly the arrival of lesser-known new heroes,

Though it took roughly 70 years since his first comic book appearance for Captain America to anchor a theatrical movie that didn’t star J.D. Salinger’s son, this Marvel Comics legend has made up for lost time in the last 14 years of cinema history.

Carl Lumbly played TV's first Black superhero on the 1994 series, 'M.A.N.T.I.S.' Now, he returns to the hero world and is back in action as one of the stars of 'Captain America: Brave New World.'