<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-actor-says-weve-had-enough-of-studios-churning-out-stuff-that-dilutes-wanting-to-go-to-the-cinema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marvel</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-investor-slams-shift-to-woke-marvel-films" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney</a> are once again courting controversy by casting a female actress to take on the typically male &#8220;Fantastic Four&#8221; role of the Silver Surfer in the upcoming reboot.
Actress Julia Garner has been picked to play a female version of the iconic comic book character and Herald of Galactus, <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/04/fantastic-four-julia-garner-silver-surfer-1235873034/">Deadline magazine</a> reported. Sources told the outlet that the Emmy-winning &#8220;Ozark&#8221; star will play the Shalla-Bal version of the Silver Surfer from the comics.
<a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/04/03/marvels-fantastic-four-casts-inventing-anna-star-julia-garner-as-female-version-of-silver-surfer/">Bounding Into Comics</a> reported that Marvel Studios dived deep into the comic book lore to find justification to not use the Norrin-Radd version of the comic book hero played by a male.
In 1968, in an issue titled &#8220;Silver Surfer Vol. 1,&#8221; Shalla-Bal is depicted as the Silver Surfer&#8217;s love interest. For the next fifty years, her role is just that, a supporting one. Then in 1997, her character is part of the final two issues of &#8220;Earth X&#8221; when she&#8217;s briefly granted her lover&#8217;s super powers so she could stop an invading force, the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/fantastic-four-reboot-female-silversurfer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blaze</a> noted.
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Shalla-Bal&#8217;s total time as the Silver Surfer was four pages across two issues. In 2016, in Silver Surfer Vol. 8 #2 &#8220;Things Change,&#8221; writer Dan Slott changed Shalla-Bal from &#8220;Radd&#8217;s love interest&#8221; to Zenn-La&#8217;s Keeper of the Great Truth, Bounding Into Comics reported.
In the 2007 film &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486576/">Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer</a>,&#8221; the title character was played by male actor Doug Jones. His character was also voiced by male actor Laurence Fishburne, the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/fantastic-four-reboot-female-silversurfer">Blaze</a> reported.
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Even in the official <a href="https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/who-is-silver-surfer-the-official-marvel-guide">Marvel Guide</a>, the company uses he and him to describe the &#8220;Silver Surfer.&#8221;
&#8220;Since his debut in 1966, readers have seen the Sentinel of the Spaceways serve as Galactus&#8217; loyal Herald, revolt against his leader, live on Earth and cruise the cosmos on his trusty board,&#8221; a description on the site reads. &#8220;In that time, we have learned the answers to some of the burning questions about the Silver Surfer!&#8221;
And now, the decision by Marvel to cast an actress as the Silver Surfer has sparked a debate online.
&#8220;Love all the female Silver Surfer fans that are popping up out of nowhere using the one image on her wiki,&#8221; one person <a href="https://x.com/MasteroftheTDS/status/1775891589690438036">wrote</a>. &#8220;Nobody tell them the character only appeared in 4 comics. They might strain something.&#8221;
Another <a href="https://x.com/Dougyfresh13/status/1776038455912382911">added</a>, &#8220;They should&#8217;ve casted Julia garner has Nova, a actual female character who is a equally powerful herald of galactus, instead of making her silver surfer for &#8216;Fantastic Four.'&#8221; 

While a third <a href="https://x.com/aduder999/status/1775754393830207770">wrote</a>, &#8220;Not to sound like one of those &#8216;everything&#8217;s woke&#8217; guys, but why change Silver Surfer to a woman? I know there was a female silver surfer in the comics. But the main Surfer was always the guy.&#8221;

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