The Ancient One

Okay, the Ancient One is neither a superhero nor a supervillain – he’s the mentor of Doctor Strange. But he’s got powers and don’t forget that he was the original Sorcerer Supreme before Stephen Strange. And he’s a very significant character in the Doctor Strange comics – so, including him in this list didn’t seem irrelevant to me.

The character is set to make his live-action cinematic debut with next year’s Doctor Strange. But we don’t know if the Ancient One is a HE or a SHE in this movie since Marvel has cast Tilda Swinton to play the character.

So, she might end up playing either a male version of the Ancient One or a female version of the character. While defending Tilda Swinton casting, Marvel President Kevin Feige termed the character to be more of MANTLE than a specific person of a specific gender.

Even though Doctor Strange has already kicked off its filming and we’ve got our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Baron Karl Mordo, we haven’t got that of Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One. But we can expect the first look at her version of the character within the first three or four months of 2016.

On the next page – a DC superhero!