When you truly look at the scale of Marvel's cinematic universe - including movies, TV, and Netflix - it's gargantuan at how many characters from the comics now have life-action representation, from Iron Man and Thor to Doc Sampson and Dum Dum Dugan. Characters both high and low-profile have exhaustively created a sprawling cinematic world in just under a decade of media.
But there's some clear gaps missing; obvious characters you're surprised they haven't pulled the trigger on and either given films or shows to yet or characters you'd think would've at least popped up in a cameo or reference by now.
Now, this is for characters that Marvel can easily use, so I'm not talking about the entire X-men universe or the Fantastic Four characters. Of course I'd like to see Wolverine and Deadpool mix it up with Thanos or Iron Man and Spider-man tussle with Doctor Doom, but that's just not realistic.
But there's some characters I'm still surprised we haven't gotten yet... and many of them are some of my absolute favorites.
For me, I'll just start with my favorite character from Marvel... Nova.
Nova was right there center stage at the Renaissance of Cosmic Marvel's brilliant revival and relaunches of Guardians of the Galaxy wouldn't even have happened without piggybacking off his exploits. He's been my favorite character since, despite rocky handling from time to time.
So what's the hold up? Well, James Gunn's not a fan of the character for some odd reason and prefers to keep Peter Quill as the only "human" character (despite the fact he's half-Celestial), while the MCU interpretation of the Nova Corps is less "human rockets" and more "inefficient Starship Troopers".
So how can they bring Richard Rider into the mythos? While I'm not getting my hopes up, if Infinity War can set the stage similar to Annihilation with Thanos just wrecking the Nova Corps to get their Infinity Stone, leaving a survivor to transfer their power to someone else before dying (RIP John C. Reilly's space cop), you'd have the character ready to go by Phase 4.
Until then, Nova oddly keeps showing up in earnest everywhere else - games, cartoons, comics, etc. - except the movie universe.
So... who else is long overdue for their cinematic debut?
But there's some clear gaps missing; obvious characters you're surprised they haven't pulled the trigger on and either given films or shows to yet or characters you'd think would've at least popped up in a cameo or reference by now.
Now, this is for characters that Marvel can easily use, so I'm not talking about the entire X-men universe or the Fantastic Four characters. Of course I'd like to see Wolverine and Deadpool mix it up with Thanos or Iron Man and Spider-man tussle with Doctor Doom, but that's just not realistic.
But there's some characters I'm still surprised we haven't gotten yet... and many of them are some of my absolute favorites.
For me, I'll just start with my favorite character from Marvel... Nova.
Nova was right there center stage at the Renaissance of Cosmic Marvel's brilliant revival and relaunches of Guardians of the Galaxy wouldn't even have happened without piggybacking off his exploits. He's been my favorite character since, despite rocky handling from time to time.
So what's the hold up? Well, James Gunn's not a fan of the character for some odd reason and prefers to keep Peter Quill as the only "human" character (despite the fact he's half-Celestial), while the MCU interpretation of the Nova Corps is less "human rockets" and more "inefficient Starship Troopers".
So how can they bring Richard Rider into the mythos? While I'm not getting my hopes up, if Infinity War can set the stage similar to Annihilation with Thanos just wrecking the Nova Corps to get their Infinity Stone, leaving a survivor to transfer their power to someone else before dying (RIP John C. Reilly's space cop), you'd have the character ready to go by Phase 4.
Until then, Nova oddly keeps showing up in earnest everywhere else - games, cartoons, comics, etc. - except the movie universe.
So... who else is long overdue for their cinematic debut?
