With all the post-SDCC buzz about Iron Man 3,
Thor 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Ant-Man,
I felt the need to chime in with my 2 cents on the Mighty Marvel (Cinematic)
Universe.
I was originally going to do the 10 characters who should appear
in the next Avengers movie, but that was impossible…so to
save spaces, I made it characters or duos.
Still couldn’t weed it down. So
here is my Top 10 (+3) Characters or Duos Who
Should Appear in the Next Avengers Movie
First off, the Bonus Round:
13. Wonder
Man: My absolute least favorite classic Avengers character. Simon Williams started out as an Avengers
villain but quickly redeemed himself, just in time to die. Being a Marvel villain
Wonder Man naturally didn’t stay dead, and being an Avengers villain
he quickly reformed and became a member of the team.
12. Sharon “Agent
13” Carter: Captain America’s Silver Age (and most significant) girlfriend. She is more important to the Cap franchise
and needs to show up there (possibly first), but a quick cameo with SHIELD, of
which she is a member, isn’t uncalled for here.
Also, let’s all remember that Sharon is Peggy Carter’s nearly identical
looking sister/niece/whatever-the-sliding-timeline-is-currently-calling-her and
can thus be played by Hayley Atwell from Captain America: The First Avenger.
11. The
Sub-Mariner: Cap’s debut movie
featured a cameo by Marvel’s first hero The Human Torch, leaving his longtime
ally/enemy Namor – who was among the Avenger’s earliest foes – MIA and
desperately due for an appearance on screen.
Though, personally, I’d rather see him – along with Hulk, Dr. Strange,
and the Silver Surfer – in a Defenders movie.
Stan, Joss, could ya’ll get on that for me?
And now, the actual Top 10 part of this
Top 10 list:
10. The
Vision: Another classic
Avenger of whom I’m not a big fan. But
like Wonder Man, Vision *is* a classic.
Not the most glaring of errors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far,
but the lack of vision (ha, see what I did there? Comic gold) so far is in need
of correction.
9. Kang
and/or Immortus: Kang and Immortus are among my favorite
Avengers villains. Citizen
Kang being my favorite modern Avengers story. Probably just a post-credits teaser for
Avengers 3 (as my picks below will make clear, they aren’t the main villain(s)
of this story).
8. Hercules:
He should be an Avenger, he is after all one of the classics (I’m invoking that
a lot on here aren’t I?) but I’d settle for a drunken brawl with Thor either
here or in Thor: The Dark World
Fights with some of the others, such as Hulk, could also be
enjoyable.
7. Scarlet
Witch and Quicksilver: Yes, they were X-Men
characters first, and yes Quicksilver was more or less in the third X-Men
movie, but along with Cap and Hawkeye, these two were the Avengers for quite a
while.
6. Enchantress
and The Executioner: Between Thor and The Avengers how have these two not shown up yet. The Enchantress is by far Thor’s coolest
villain and is a deep, complex character – not as deep and complex as the movie
version of Loki, but deep and complex none the less. And a brawl between Executioner and Thor or
Hulk would be much more Cinematically pleasing than the whipping Loki took from
the Jolly Green Giant in Avengers.
5. Captain
Mar-Vell: Ok, so he was never
an Avenger, and he wasn’t even in the title that often, but
Thanos was in the post-credits scene and let’s face it Thanos
wasn’t an Avengers villain.
Thanos was a Captain Mar-Vell villain, an Adam Warlock villain, and a
Silver Surfer villain… Just be happy I didn’t put Adam Warlock on the list and
move on.
Side Note: Damn!
I forgot Carol! The whole list is
invalid! Side Note Ends.
4. Black
Panther: I could once again invoke the “classic” argument for T’Challa
but I think a better argument would be, in a team with a rich diverse collection
of characters, in a Universe where the traditionally white Nick Fury is African
American, why are all the characters Caucasians? Black
Panther was among the first black heroes, Marvel’s third after Waku, Prince of
the Bantu (an Atlas Comics character) and Gabe Jones (from Sgt. Fury and the
Howling Commandoes) and the first black Super-Hero (with super-power) from any
company.
3. Baron
Zemo: My first pick for the
main villain in Avengers 2 is – of course – Thanos. But my second pick is Zemo – introduce him in
the WW2 section of Captain America: The Winter Soldier first
then have him over here leading the Masters of Evil:
Enchantress, Executioner, Wonder Man, Radioactive Man (likely to appear in Iron Man 3). Maybe do
both, have this be the something “more personal. More painful” Whedon talked about and Thanos this
looming threat in the background.
2. Rick
Jones: I don’t need to say anything here. Marvel should just be ashamed he wasn’t in
The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers and
correct the situation with Avengers 2.
1. Henry
Pym and The Wasp: Ok, what Marvel and/or Avengers
fan didn’t see this coming as number 1?
Pym and Wasp were founding Avengers. They were there before all the characters listed
above as “classics”, before Hawkeye and Black Widow, even before Captain
America “The First Avengers” himself.
Avengers number 1 starred Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man (Pym), Wasp,
Rick Jones, and Loki.
By the way, I say Pym not Ant-Man for two reasons. Number 1: I want Hank Pym not Scott Lang or
any of the other Ant-Men. And Number 2:
I’d be cool with Pym as Giant-Man. Wasp
is going to give us our shrinking hero, Pym can be a growing one instead.
Now I wanna see your list… Who do you want to see in the
next Avengers film (or anywhere else in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe). Let me know in the comments
below or on my twitter page @nerdisnewcool.
