A trend is beginning to occur in the world of comic book movies – slightly more obscure comic book properties are being given a chance by the major companies.

Both Marvel and DC are proving that they aren’t afraid to showcase less popular/well-known characters in big-budget productions – Marvel Studios have already released Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, while DC and Warner Brothers released Suicide Squad movie.

With that in mind, you have to wonder just how far they are prepared to go when it comes to making movies about lesser-known groups of characters. We think certain lesser-known groups than, say, the Avengers would make for great movies – so let’s discuss a few here, starting with Marvel.

Here are five quite obscure Marvel properties that deserve movies…

Lady Liberators

Would Marvel ever dare to make a movie based on a team of female superheroes? It’s taken them long enough to give one a solo movie, but Captain Marvel AKA Carol Danvers will indeed be hitting our screens in 2018.

The Lady Liberators are probably Marvel’s best-known all-female team – but they’re still not exactly very prominent. That’s not to say that the team isn’t full of well-known individuals, because they really are – the likes of She-Hulk, Invisible Woman and Storm have been key members in the comics, for example – but they aren’t exactly used a lot in the comics as a group.

A movie based on them would make a really refreshing and pleasant change and, given some of the existing characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it would certainly be possible.

Black Widow, Scarlet Witch and Wasp are all former members in the comic books and all three of those characters now exist in the MCU. Give them a foe like the Red Hulk (who they have fought in the comics) and it would be one hell of a movie!