You know. I just had a thought. Overall my favorite characters haven’t had very good luck when it comes to the MCU. The only outlier is Iron Man.
Hulk is one of my three tied favorites and I really do think that The Incredible Hulk is incredibly underrated. Like I know it doesn’t do a great thing with Edward Norton but if Mark Ruffalo had been there, as the director originally intended, I REALLY think Hulk’s Solo movie could’ve been up there with the best of the MCU. Other than that he’s played second fiddle I’m movies like The Avengers, Ragnarok and barely did anything in Age of Ultron and Infinity War. Endgame was the best characterization so far but even then it was still Bruce Banner more than Hulk even though it was cool for Hulk to FINALLY take up most of the screen time. But yeah, a new Hulk movie might be on the horizon and he’ll almost certainly show up in She-Hulk so his future looks bright.
Another tied favorite is Wolverine. All things considered, unless they bring back Hugh Jackman Through a some form of devil magic, I don’t think I WANT to see him in the MCU. Same thing with Magneto. If it ain’t Fassbender or McKellan I don’t want him. Fassbender KILLED IT as Magneto and I don’t think anyone else would even ever come close.
Quicksilver had a good shot, a good start, in Age if Ultron but because of Joss Whedon’s weird insistence on someone ALWAYS having to die we lost him before who could do much of anything substantial. Damn shame too because I think what they had was excellent but just needed to be fleshed out more. At least X-Men did him justice. And now with the dimension splitting WandaVision landing Evan Peters it might mean we get THAT Quicksilver now.
War Machine. *sigh* There was a point in time where War Machine was going to his own big thing. Marvel and Paramount entered into this idea of War Machine getting his own movie but decided against it after Iron Man 3 took his character in a completely different direction. His film got canned and that just sucks man. I personally like his aesthetic a lot more than Iron Man despite Irony being my 3rd tied favorite. Really now is a good time to make a War Machine movie or show giving the fact that Falcon and Winter Soldier are getting theirs. War Machine could get the ones that tracks down the 10 Rings and then helps Shang-Chi a la Falcon in Ant-Man. It COULD happen but I just don’t think it will.
And then there’s Venom. All things considered I like Sony’s Venom. I know it ain’t good, it’s a guilty pleasure, but the fact that they got one of my favorite actors to play one of my favorite characters makes it easy to see why. All in all Spider-Man is GREAT at getting my favorite actors in Villain roles with Michael Keaton, my all time favorite Jake Gyllenhaal, and now they got my mom’s fave in Jared Leto. So, I HOPE that the Sony characters have a future in the MCU. I hope Spider-Man 3 is a Sinister Six movie but all in all my hopes aren’t very high.
So, yeah. Just a thought. Hopefully all that changes soon but not soon enough thanks to Co-Vid.