Insomniac Games Leak Reveals Debra Wilson To Portray Race-Swapped Callisto In ‘Marvel’s Wolverine’

Cere Junda (Debra Wilson) realizes that her time among the living is nearing its end in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023), EA / Callisto returns to the X-fold in service of Krakoa in Maruaders Vol. 1 #7 (2020), Marvel Comics. Words by Gerry Duggan, art by Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado, and Cory Petit.

Cere Junda (Debra Wilson) realizes that her time among the living is nearing its end in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023), EA / Callisto returns to the X-fold in service of Krakoa in Maruaders Vol. 1 #7 (2020), Marvel Comics. Words by Gerry Duggan, art by Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado, and Cory Petit.

Reset the clock, they got another one.

According to information uncovered in the recently leaked trove of Insomniac Games’ internal files, the X-Men’s noted sometimes-ally, sometimes-enemy Callisto is set to make an appearance in the studio’s upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine – but with a very significant, race-based change made to her character.

[SPOILER WARNING: Significant spoilers for Marvel’s Wolverine follow below. If you’d like to avoid them, please refrain from reading any further.]

Callisto and Storm prepare for their long-awaited rematch in Marauders Vol. 1 #17 “The Winds of Changes” (2021), Marvel Comics. Words by Gerry Duggan, art by Matteo Lolli, Edgar Delgado, and Cory Petit.

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This race-swapping of the Morlocks’ rough-and-tumble leader was first revealed courtesy of a series of promotional casting images discovered within the aforementioned leak, each highlighting one of the game’s main characters and the respective actors whose voices and visual likenesses were used to bring them to life.

Per these images, the game’s cast includes:

Wolverine takes on Sabretooth and Omega Red on Ariel Olivetti’s variant cover to Wolverine: Origins Vol. 1 #8 “Savior: Part 3” (2006), Marvel Comics
Logan (Liam McIntyre) goes ‘snikt’ in Marvel’s Wolverine (2026), Insomniac Games
Cere Junda (Debra Wilson) prepares for her final fight with Darth Vader (Scott Lawrence) in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023), EA

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As long-time X-fans may have surely noticed, Callisto’s depiction in Marvel’s Wolverine as a black woman presents a significant departure from her original, comic book appearance.

Per her introduction to Marvel Comics canon, as penned by noted mutant scribe Chris Claremont in 1983’s Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #169, the leader of mutantdom’s resident group of sewer-dewelling outcasts was originally presented as a pale-skinned white woman.

Callisto makes her debut in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #169 “Catacombs” (1983), Marvel Comics. Words by Chris Claremont, art by Paul Smith, Bob Wiacek, Bob Sharen, and Tom Orzechowski.

Notably, Callisto’s explicit background has never been explored, and thus exact details regarding such information as her heritage and parentage remain unknown.

However, despite this ambiguity, the Morlock leader has never been depicted – in any continuity – as anything other than a white woman.

Callisto takes Angel captive in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #169 “Catacombs” (1983), Marvel Comics. Words by Chris Claremont, art by Paul Smith, Bob Wiacek, Bob Sharen, and Tom Orzechowski.

That is, every continuity save one.

Previously, the supersense-wielding mutant was race-swapped in 2005’s X-Men: The Last Stand, wherein she was portrayed by actress Dani Ramirez.

And though Wilson’s casting as Callisto represents only the second such time the character has been race-swapped, it should be noted that both such times such changes have been made to her ethnicity, it was done in service of her appearance in a ‘big budget’ production.

Callisto (Dani Ramirez) offers the Morlocks’ assistance in taking down Jean Grey (Famke Jensen) in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Marvel Entertainment

Barring any set-backs as a result of the leak, Sony’s Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine is set to claw its way onto shelves sometime in 2026.

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