Plus Marvel has people on the road promoting Thunderbolts* and they gave us a new teaser trailer. So what does that new trailer show us? And what does it and the quotes we’re getting from Florence Pugh and Jake Schreier tell us about the movie.

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Plus there is a bunch of news. Vulture back for Spider-Man 4? Miles Morales getting a live action film? And, I think the big news, the announcement of Marvel Spotlight and the first trailer for Echo is out. And Echo looks a whole lot more like the Netflix shows with a a TV-MA rating. The trailer is down below.

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And with a massive multiversial event coming up with The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars at the end of Phase 6, it got me thinking, what characters do I really want to see in the MCU that we haven’t so far. I am going to skip characters who might be coming up soon that we know about. The Hood for example in Ironheart might have made the list. The Fantastic Four would be obvious choices but we know we’re getting them. So without much more writing, let’s get to the list.

Top 10 Marvel Characters I Want in the MCU

10 – Squirrel Girl

Almost didn’t make my list. Squirrel Girl is such a meme at this point that it feels odd to put her on there. But she is a fun character and one of those grounded characters that works well. I’d love to see her and some other ground level characters work together. Once Ms Marvel is done with Captain Marvel, team her up with Squirrel Girl and Spider-Man and make a NY street level movie out of it.

9 – Beta Ray Bill

A character who is already hinted at in the MCU is Beta Ray Bill, but no casting and as far as I know, no plans. Beta Ray Bill’s face, or something similar, was on the Grandmasters tower with Hulks face. I’m glad they didn’t try and squeeze him into Thor: Ragnarok plot. But eventually Chris Hemsworth will be done with Thor. And instead of killing him off or recasting him, why not have a horse faced alien take over?

8 – Beast

This list could have just been X-Men and mutants. We’re obviously waiting for them to come up, but one of my favorites that I wanted to talk about is Beast. Beast, I like him because he’s like Smart Hulk without the other personality. But unlike Smart Hulk where eventually there will be smashing, Beast really never wants to use his strength. So it’d feel like a character with different motivations and I think he’s key to forming an X-Men team.

7 – Magik

I’m not sure if New Mutants technically came out after Disney bought 20th Century Fox, it was in the works for so long, but I want Magik in the MCU. We’ve had hints of things like other realms and demonic realms, so bring in Magik. Someone who has the ability to go through realms because, well, she has a lot of story connections to there. Even learning her dark magic in Limbo. Plus her character with a giant sword that can slice through dimensions is great.

6 – Amadeus Cho

Amadeus Cho, a hulk, and a character that I wish would have shown up in She Hulk but I don’t think will. But it’d be another chance to introduce another Hulk into the MCU. And one who isn’t blasted with gamma radiation, but instead using his smarts comes up with nanotechnology that allows him to control the gamma radiation and when he changes. Yes, we already do have a lot of Hulks, and I think we end She Hulk with one more, but Amadeus Cho is different enough, I think to work.

5 – Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider I hope we see sooner rather than later. I really enjoy him as a character and even Nicholas Cage’s Ghost Rider was fun. This would again like Magik tie into a story line with Mephisto or some other demon. Since Ghost Rider gets his powers that way as well. I really don’t care which version we get, I’d just like to see him show up and work with Moon Knight or Blade.

4 – Brother Voodoo

Brother Voodoo was actually rumored at one point in time to be in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He wasn’t and I’m okay with that. How do you bring him in, well, I want a Werewolf by Night, coming out so soon, style special with him. Give me in 2023 or 2024 a creepy Halloween special where Brother Voodoo is investigating something in the Louisiana Bayou, maybe even teamed up with a character higher on my list. It’d be a great vibe and he’s a character who takes the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme as well, which I think would be interesting to have Doctor Strange passed by again.

3 – Doctor Doom

I thought about, much like with X-Men stuffing the list full of villains. There are a lot of good ones out there, but Doctor Doom is the one who made it onto the list and very high on the list. I suspect we’ll see him first of any of these characters. I think he might even show up as soon as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but more like Fantastic Four. But Doom is such a great villain that I want him now.

I’ve talked on some a bit about how I’d bring them in, but I want Doom to already exist in the world. No origin story, but during the blip, he creates Latveria, the country he rules. He uses the political unrest to cut out a little country for himself. And when people come back, he greats them with open arms, but eventually we figure out that he is really a villain. Give me all that backstory before The Fantastic Four film, please.

2 – Rogue

Final two are X-Men and both of them could team up with Brother Voodoo for the Halloween special that I want to happen. Rogue is a great character mainly because she is very powerful. But with her power there is a massive drawback. There are rumors, unfounded, that she’ll be in The Marvels. There is a storyline where she drains Captain Marvel’s powers and leaves her in a coma, I doubt that they do that, though. But put her down south with my top character, put them on the run, and let them be somewhat shady good guys dealing with weird things, I’m cool with that.

1 – Gambit

My number one is Gambit. I just find his powers awesome. But to go along with that, I think he often has very interesting storylines. Gambit is a character who I wouldn’t mind seeing more of an origin for. Mainly because like an Ant-Man he goes from criminal to hero. But to get that full story and to get to see him as a criminal I think would be good. Ant-Man/Scott Lang, always seems like he was on the right side. What I like about Gambit is that he was on the wrong side and then comes over.

Plus, he’s a perfect character to provide a bit of levity to a Halloween special. Team him up with Brother Voodoo, Gambit is probably in over his head. But he’s the type of character who always tries to make it work even when the odds are against him.

Who Would Be On Your List?

Let me know who would make your list? If I had more of a connection to stuff like Jessica Jones or Luke Cage, I could see maybe having put them on the list. I like them as characters in the comics. But not enough and I need to watch the Defenders shows that they were in on Netflix. And there are some characters I’d like to see make more MCU debuts like Miles Morales, but he’s with Sony.

So this is my list, definitely could have come up with more. And I do think a number of them, will be coming in the next handful of years. But what that’ll look like, I’m not sure.

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When creating that team, I’ll get to who they are again shortly, I wanted to go in a different direction. Instead of having the “boy scout” team, I went with what could be considered a team with more questionable characters. I’ll get into their stories below before I cast them. But having a team that is trouble in space, like the Guardians of the Galaxy, where they are heroes, but they aren’t that reputable is one thing, but then putting a similar team together on Earth, that’s another thing. And them having a rough relationship with the law and a poor view of them will give credence why the rest of the X-Men are in hiding.

Let’s meet the characters:

Gambit – He has the ability to charge objects with energy so that they do more damage. He’s known for throwing around playing cards to do that. But what people don’t know is that he was part of the LeBeau Family Thieve’s Guild after he was kidnapped from a hospital at birth and then raised by them. So he’s got a nice shady background.

Rogue – Growing up on a commune in Mississippi, Rogue had two loving parents until her mother disappeared. Then her “aunt” raised her, but it was very strict. When she was a teen a boy she liked kissed her, and her powers kicked in. Because of that she ran away. Rogue’s powers include stealing super powers from someone, sapping that person’s energy, and erasing memories. After leaving the boy in a coma, she ran away from the commune.

Nightcrawler – Nightcrawler has teleportation powers, but that’s not what you’ll notice about him, it will be his odd look. His tail and slightly demonic look because he is half demon. He’s the happy-go-lucky member of the party. But he’s still shunned from society for how he looks.

Bishop – From the future, Bishop grew up in a mutant camp after humans used Sentinel robots to round up all the mutants. This was after he moved to the United States from Australia when Australia was destroyed in a nuclear attack. He has powers that allow him to absorb energy and redirect back out. He also has super human strength and the ability to know where he is at all times, which is useful being from the future.

Siryn – She, like her father, Banshee, has the power of a super sonic scream. She has more abilities as well, but I think that’s the one that they’d focus on instead of giving her full and large suite of abilities. In common super hero fashion, her mother died while her father was away on a mission and she lived with her uncle. This happened in child birth, so before Banshee knew she was still alive, he hurts her uncle and he vows revenge on Banshee bringing Siryn into a life of crime.

You can kind of see where I’m going with this. I think this is a team of characters who would do the right thing, but wouldn’t always go about doing it the right way. It’s also kind of a duplicate of what we had in my last article, but more details, so sorry for repeating myself, and I am guessing that I have some of the backstory of the characters wrong, but the motivation for them would stay the same.

So let’s get down to casting:

Gambit – Gaspard Ulliel
Who, you might ask, and I think is fair. But this French actor would be able to give Gambit the classic accent. He probably is best known for playing Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising. But I think it would make sense to take a lesser known actor and put it in the roll.

Rogue – Aly Michalka
I know her as Peyton from iZombie. And while she plays a very sweet character in that show, you do get to see her tough side. I think that’s one of the things with Rogue, she’s had struggles in life but she’s generally a sweet character.

Nightcralwer – Max Mauff
I don’t know a ton about him as an actor, so I’m borrowing some of these things from other people or using ideas from others and my own, but he has the look to play Nightcrawler, and yes, by that I mean he comes with his own tail. Okay, not that, but from his work and his look, he would fit Nightcrawler well.

Bishop – Ray Fisher
He played Cyborg in the Justice League movie, but don’t hold that against him. I think that with now being cast in True Detective, I’d trust his acting chops a bit more. Fisher is someone who people won’t recognize for playing Cyborg, so that would help him find his good super hero role.

Siryn – Saoirse Ronan
The big name of the crew, and the least known character. I’m not sure if she’d want to join the super hero world, but she’s definitely got Irish background, like Siryn is supposed to as well. I think she’d be a good foil for a film as well where Siryn might be the reason for pulling whatever job it is, and unlike some actors, she’ll be able to pull off a strong character while being a foil for the story as well.

So that is who I would cast, now obviously there are a whole lot more to look at in the long run as well. You’d bring in Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Strom, Beast, etc. at some point in time. But I think that you’d want to introduce them in a big way, showing up in some big face off event to help the New Avengers or something like that.

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