Eros (Harry Kinds)
Despite the fact that the shock was spoiled forward of time, the addition of Harry Kinds to the already star-studded Eternals was fairly the coup. Enjoying Eros of Titan, Kinds’ character is best often called Starfox, boasting powers starting from tremendous pace to the flexibility to induce euphoria. It at all times appeared unusual to introduce the youthful brother of Thanos some two years after the Mad Titan was dusted in Avengers: Endgame, however with a sophisticated household tree, it was a neat setup for this extra cosmic department of the MCU.Â
Chatting with MTV Information in 2022, MCU overlord Kevin Feige teased Eros’ return and stated the spacefaring adventures of Starfox and Patton Oswalt’s Pip the Troll are one thing he’s wanting ahead to. As we head into Doomsday and Secret Wars, there’s no signal of both or an actual method to convey them again into the fold. Extra worrying is the truth that Starfox appeared in Marvel’s What If…? – An Immersive Story on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, with another person voicing the character. Kinds has raised his performing profile within the likes of Dunkirk and Don’t Fear Darling, however his stint within the MCU is likely to be a brief one.
Aleta Ogord (Michelle Yeoh)
James Gunn went out on a limb when he helmed 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, taking a comparatively obscure superhero group and giving them their very own time to shine. Though going with the newer lineup as an alternative of the traditional comedian e book roster was one other gamble, it’s now laborious to think about the MCU with out that rag-tag gaggle of rogues. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 fleshed out the group’s backstory and went on to verify they weren’t essentially the first iteration of the group.
Following the introduction of Sylvester Stallone’s Stakar Ogord, the sequel additionally briefly confirmed off Martinex (Michael Rosenbaum), Aleta Ogord (Michelle Yeoh), Charlie-27 (Ving Rhames), Krugarr, and Mainframe (voiced by Miley Cyrus). Stallone and Rosenbaum returned for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and though Aleta is the adoptive sister of Stakar, who additionally takes on the mantle of Starhawk within the comics, the character will doubtless be recast or utterly deserted. Yeoh pulled double obligation within the MCU, taking part in Ying Nan in Shang Chi. A variant of Ying Nan (voiced by Michelle Wong) appeared in What If…?, whereas Aleta Ogord hasn’t been talked about since 2017.Â
Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell)
Whereas Jon Favreau’s Iron Man is praised as one in all the MCU’s finest films, the much less stated about Iron Man 2, the higher. Regardless of Mickey Rourke’s grating accent as Ivan Vanko/Whiplash and a weird Elon Musk cameo, not less than Iron Man 2 made probably the most of Sam Rockwell’s enigmatic efficiency because the sleazy Justin Hammer. Successfully a finances model of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, the pinnacle of Hammer Industries turned the film’s major adversary and ended up being incarcerated for his crimes earlier than the ultimate credit rolled.
It might’ve been straightforward to go away Hammer there, however within the aftermath of Iron Man 3’s hated Mandarin twist, the All Hail the King one-shot hoped to kill two birds with one stone by redeeming each maligned films. Rockwell briefly appeared in the identical jail as Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, however whereas the latter went on to return for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Hammer has been left to rot. Kevin Feige was requested years in the past whether or not Hammer might return in a Reddit AMA, including: “I really like bringing again characters individuals assume they’ve seen the final of.”
