Superhero Bits: Jared Leto Hasn't Given Up On Joker, Rhodey Is Back For Marvel's Secret Invasion & More

Lauren Ridloff brought Makkari to life in Marvel's "Eternals," and not only was her character deaf in the movie, but Ridloff is deaf in real life. To help celebrate Deaf History Month, Marvel has shared the above guide so that people can learn the alphabet using sign language. So not only do we get a cool, diverse superhero, but the studio is attempting to spread some knowledge along the way.

This week brought with it the first trailer for the upcoming "Ms. Marvel" series, which stars Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan. As the footage confirmed, her powers are going to be changed in the show, and now the show's official synopsis backs that up as well. While the synopsis seems to confirm much of what readers will be familiar with from the comics, it does omit her traditional origin, which has to do with Terrigen Mist, AKA the thing that makes Inhumans into Inhumans. The synopsis reads as follows:

Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel is a new, original series that introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero mega-fan with an oversized imagination — particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels like she doesn't fit in at school and sometimes even at home — that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she's always looked up to. Life gets better with superpowers, right?

Comic books are not TV shows and TV shows are not comic books. That means things need to change when adapted for other mediums, and one can only hope that these changes work out for the better in bringing Kamala Khan to life — though fans will surely still have strong opinions about it either way.

Whether or not we ever see Jared Let return as Joker remains very much up in the air. The actor first appeared in David Ayer's 2016 "Suicide Squad" and later reprised the role briefly in Zack Snyder's "Justice League," but there has been no confirmation from Warner Bros. as to whether or not we're going to see more of this iteration of the Clown Prince of Crime. Leto, meanwhile, is gearing up for a new superhero franchise in the form of Marvel's "Morbius," which hits theaters next month. In a recent interview with Variety, the Oscar-winner expressed his continued desire to revisit Joker, should the opportunity arise.

"Never say never. For me, they're like living, breathing people. I know they're not, of course, but I get attached. It's a shame to never do it again."

Whether or not we need more of Leto as Joker is very much a question of individual taste, but the ball would firmly seem to be in Warner Bros.' court on this one.

Yet another MCU mainstay is heading back to the fold for the upcoming "Secret Invasion" series on Disney+. Samuel L. Jackson, speaking on a recent episode of Happy Sad Confused, revealed that Don Cheadle will indeed be reprising his longtime role as James Rhodes, AKA War Machine, in the show based on the seminal comic book event of the same name.

"C'mon man you walk on the set, Emilia [Clarke]'s amazing ... Ben Mendelsohn, he's awesome. Don, Don Cheadle. I got Don, that's my golf buddy. I didn't realize it, but 'til we did this thing, I was like, 'We've never worked together.' We just kinda know each other, hang out and laugh ... but we'd never worked together and we finally [got to work together]."

As for how Rhodey will fit into the Skrull-filled proceedings? That is another question entirely, and one might assume this show will be a significant help in setting up the "Armor Wars" series as well. This is an interesting development, indeed.