Cool I guess.

Genis Vell is one of the coolest character designs in comics history. I hope they find a way to adapt him to the screen at some point. Maybe Captain Marvel 3 could use him as a villain, and maybe even set up Noh Varr along the way too.

More gender bending, how unorthodox and daring. If only the scripts were so

Genis-Vell? More like Penis-Gal, amirite? Guys?

I'm going to concentrate on the fact she used to be Genis and is now Latti. I'm sure James Gunn probably was the writer who thought of gender swapping Genis but it seems someone at Marvel didn't see the importance of doing for a character with limited screentime. I doubt we'll see her or the actress who is playing Phyla now again. Marvel Studios probably will age Phyla in her next appearance with another actress and will most likely have a redesign. The studio has already shown a propensity to recast young characters like Cassie Lang and Billy Maximoff.

This does highlight a problem with Marvel's decision-making in previous films. How to handle Mar-Vell's legacy going forward in the MCU after gender swapping the character in Captain Marvel. Mar-Vell has connections to several legacy characters like Phyla-Vell, Genis-Vell and Hulkling. Are any of those characters going to have a connection to Mar-Vell? Perhaps, Hulkling, due to his Kree lineage but it looks like Phyla and Genis, if they ever introduce him, won't. Phyla will most likely be another alien species introduced by James Gunn, like Mantis and Drax.

Another thing to bring up is Phase 4 started 2 1/2 years ago and in that time, we have been introduced to several young Avengers or young female characters. America Chavez, Riri Williams, Kamala Khan, Kate Bishop, teenage Cassie Lang, Phyla. I would add Love, from Thor 4, but I don't have a clue to how Marvel Studios plays that character as ongoing. If Marvel had kept with the gender-swap of Genis that would have just compounded Marvel Studios seemingly obsession with adapting female characters and almost completely ignoring young male characters. There is a record growing pretty obvious now which can't be ignored. We've yet to get a fully realized new male Young Avenger character or young male hero, for that matter, in the last 18 live-action MCU projects. Hopefully, we see some balance on that in 2024.

And yeah, I know we have a pre-Patriot, preteen Maximoff twins, kid Loki, kid T'Challa and Skaar but most of them are simply either kids or were introduced in cameo form -not properly introduced as fully realized heroes in their own right as Marvel Studios has gone to great levels in introducing their female counterparts.