History AffirmativeActionLegacy / MarvelUniverse

** ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' sees Clint Barton starting up a friendship and mentorship of Kate Bishop, though it's not clear at the end if she's actively serving as a superhero now or if she's using his codename while doing so.

** Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}} in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the female [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] version instead of the older character of ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}. Downplayed due to the fact that in this adaptation, Mar-Vell is (a) [[GenderFlip a woman]], and (b) never a superhero, but rather [[spoiler:Carol's late mentor and a defecting Kree scientist.]] Interestingly, a ''Ms. Marvel'' show starring Kamala Khan and set in the MCU is in the works, so it remains to be seen how the legacy aspect will be handled since Carol never used that name in this continuity.

** ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' takes one of ''Endgame''[='s=] examples and ends up deconstructing the trope with it, in that the "Affirmative Action" part ends up complicating things immensely. [[spoiler:The title of "Captain America" is a major national symbol. How can a black man symbolize a country that has mistreated its black citizens for hundreds of years, and continues to do so? Sam starts the series deciding that he ''can't'', only for the government to turn around and give the identity to a white man instead. At the end of the season however, after said white guy goes off the deep end and Sam learns about the history of black super-soldiers in America and decides that it wouldn't be right to stop fighting for what's right despite all the injustices that happened to black people, he becomes Captain America instead and embraces the mantle.]]

** InvertedTrope regarding the Ronin identity. Originally held by Maya Lopez, a deaf Hispanic woman, then passed on to the white male (but also [[DependingOnTheWriter usually]] deaf) [[{{ComicBook/Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]].

*** Played straight with the newest Ronin, who [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil thanks to spoilers from Marvel]], was revealed to be [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Blade}}]]. He was even given Barton's old costume by ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones.

** In an AlternateUniverse seen in ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'', Eli [[SidekickGraduationsStick has become the new Captain America]]. Meanwhile, ComicBook/TheFalcon has been succeeded by his daughter Samantha, the new [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]] is an African American child named Steve (he's the son of Eli and Samantha), the new ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} is the openly-gay Teddy Altman (Hulkling, who is also half-Kree/half-Skrull, making him a rare example even outside human parameters), and the new ComicBook/DoctorStrange is Billy Kaplan (Wiccan), who is gay as well (incidentally, Billy and Teddy are dating). Furthermore, Billy is Scarlet Witch's son so somewhat following her footsteps while Teddy is the son of the original Mar-Vell and a Skrull Princess.
** Kiyoshi Morales is Commander A, the Captain America of the 25th century. He's of mixed African American, Japanese, Latino, and Native American ancestry, meant as a nod to [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace the theory that most races will blend together in the future]]. He's also implied to be a descendant of ComicBook/LukeCage. Given the name, he may be descended from Miles Morales as well.

** The Iron Man of 3030 is [[spoiler: Rhodey Stark, Tony's African-American granddaughter]].
** After Tony Stark is rendered comatose at the conclusion of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', he is succeeded by Riri Williams - an [[TwoferTokenMinority African-American female]] super-genius ''who is all of fifteen years old''. She was later spun off in her own series as ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} after Tony returned.

** The new Nightmask introduced in ''ComicBook/Newuniversal'' (Earth-555) twenty years later was a Japanese-American woman named Izanami Randall.

*** In another villainous example, the second Ultimate ComicBook/{{Venom}} was [[spoiler: Conrad Marcus, the African-American scientist who created the spiders that gave Peter and Miles their powers in the first place]].
*** After Miles was [[CanonImmigrant transplanted]] into the main Marvel Universe, he met Tiana Toomes, an up-and-coming anti-heroine calls herself "Starling." Her grandfather and mentor is Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. Peter Parker's classic rogue, the Vulture.

** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' adapts Jane Foster's time as Thor. [[spoiler:Eventually downplayed, as Jane succumbs to cancer at the end, leaving the original Thor as the sole bearer]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', Peter briefly utilizes the Iron Spider armor and identity before ditching it. The Iron Spider identity reappears in Season 3, where it is taken up by the Korean-American prodigy Amadeus Cho (who's presented as Peter's academic rival). Several other Spideys appear, including Miles Morales. Much like his comics counterpart, he became Spider-Man after the death of his universe's Peter Parker. The main Peter Parker is understandably very stunned by this (especially when he sees the gravestone.) He later reassures Miles, since Miles feels burdened that he could've done something sooner to save the other Peter.

* In ''WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow,'' Thor's successor is his daughter, Torunn. {{Inverted|Trope}} with Pym, who becomes a male Wasp rather than succeeding his father as Giant-Man.

** ComicBook/{{X 23}}, the OppositeSexClone of Wolverine, took on Logan's mantle following ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}'' as the ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine''.

** The third volume of ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan introduced thirteen-year-old [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]], of Latino and African-American heritage, who took up the mantle of ComicBook/SpiderMan.

** It has been confirmed that the upcoming ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' film will adapt Jane Foster's time as Thor, though it is unknown yet what this means for the original Thor.

** Creator/GregRucka's run featured the Punisher recruiting a young woman named Rachel Cole-Alves as his DistaffCounterpart. The series ended with Frank in jail and Rachel taking his place as the new Punisher. Unfortunately, this plot point was abandoned, and Frank soon returned as the Punisher. In a case of TheBusCameBack, however, Rachel returned post-''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' as one of the heroes Frank and ComicBook/BlackWidow recruit to help take down ComicBook/BaronZemo.

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': In ''ComicBook/DaredevilChipZdarsky'', when Daredevil pleads guilty to second-degree murder and goes to jail, ''Elektra'' decides to become the new Daredevil.