Madripoor - the Marvel comics history of the MCU's exotic and dangerous island nation

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Madripoor is back. 

The fictional rough-and-tumble island nation made its Marvel Cinematic Debut debut in 2021's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as the headquarters of the Power Broker, AKA Sharon Carter, and now it has made another MCU appearance …

… or at least another MCU mention, anyway, briefly name-dropped in episode 3 of Disney Plus's Moon Knight.

Slight as the mention might have been, it appears the mysterious and exotic MCU location has not been forgotten by Marvel Studios and likely will continue to show up in or add flavor to future Disney Plus streaming series and perhaps even feature films.

But where is Madripoor, and what's its role and importance in Marvel Comics, the inspiration for the MCU? And perhaps more importantly, what could Madripoor mean to the MCU in the future?

In a word - mutants.

So grab your fake passports and if you have the means some bodyguards as we're about to be your travel guides on a jaunt through one of Marvel's most interesting and dangerous locations: Madripoor.

The fictional nation of Madripoor is a southeast Asian island, somewhat modeled after Singapore – although Madripoor's political and social environments don't resemble anything in the real world. In the MCU, Madripoor is identified as a sovereign island nation in the Indonesian archipelago.

Since its debut in New Mutants #32, Madripoor has had a special place in Marvel's X-Men history, though the X-Men aren't the only characters to visit or spend time there.

Rather than be ruled by a traditional government, Madripoor is usually run by a rotating variety of criminal gangs and terror organizations. As the island was once home to many international pirates, it's become one of the Marvel Universe's biggest hubs of black