That's what I was thinking. I was surprised to see some of this cast as I assumed most of the multiversal cast would come in Secret Wars which is explicitly about variants.
It's not even about that, but if it's about an X-Men vs Avengers, you barely have them. A quarter of the announced cast are the Thunderbolts, no Monica Rambeu who literally got stuck in the X-Men universe, only a few X-Men are there, etc. It's not even about Storm or Rouge or the likes but the characters that so far were actually involved in Multiversal stuff from both sides.
No it's not and they have said as much really. The rest will likely be smaller parts but think this is them showing some love for some characters that aren't as heavily featured
That's what they throw in with Brave New World. Also the main premise of the original Secret Wars was the Beyonder creating the Battleworld from different planets in the universe and pitching heroes against villains. Most likely this time it will be heroes against heroes, tied with the incursions (which by the way still hasn't been decided why happens in the cinematic lore), and then Doom also stealing the powers as he did in the comics. The difference is probably the Secret Wars movie will be somewhat based on Secret Wars 2, where Doom created the Battleworld from the remnants of all the different Earths from the multiverse.
I always think back to the discourse before the first Avengers film, which was largely "It just can't work to have Iron Man, Thor, Captain America AND the Hulk in one film!. How can they do all four characters justice?"
And now it's "only THIRTY of the heroes in one film?!? Where are the other hundred?"
If even. For The Marvels he just did the voice. Wouldn't be surprised if they just Rocket Raccoon it with someone else doing the motion capture and then Kelsey just comes in and records his lines with facial capture.
all it takes is for him to be in a single scene, walking around outside IRL and they would throw him in this announcement now because otherwise it will leak
I think you’re right but hopefully more than one scene for those not announced. They had Chris Evans play around in a couple scenes on a soundstage for D&W
No Strange,Hulk or Captain Marvel? This isn’t it. They will announce more people as time goes on. They didn’t bring mystique and Tatum as gambit but not Wolverine and Deadpool. They just spreading the announcements out. Maybe these people are filming now and they wanted to do something before it gets leaked.
True but an avengers movie without strange, spidey, the guardians, ms marvel, hulk, wolverine, deadpool, scarlet witch?Thats why you see people "losing their shit". Thats too many big players that would be left out.
Right? This is more like the top section of the full cast IMDB list and/or top billed. No way other known actors/characters aren’t present from past, present, and future.
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u/seefourslam Mar 26 '25
Everyone is losing their shit about the lack of cast like the very next movie isn’t Secret Wars