Since the first Avengers outing, though, Bruce Banner/Hulk has been less integral to the team. The actor brought out a manic unpredictability to the character, who remains a skittish presence in every film. The Hulk was originally played by Edward Norton, but Mark Ruffalo took over for the Avengers films.

For many, he is overpowered to the point of being boring (despite not knowing his paprika from his cayenne), but the ambitious, emotional conclusion to WandaVision has no doubt won him legions of fans. Vision is the purple embodiment of Tony Stark’s AI butler JARVIS, brought to life by the Mind Stone. Sadly, being turned into a baby for the entirety of the sequel made his character extremely annoying, which brings his position to 17th. There’s no denying that Vin Diesel’s Groot was one of the best things about the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, and his camaraderie with Rocket Raccoon a highlight. To be quite honest, it’s hard to screw up a character who is literally a tree that’s able to speak just one word (his name). Now her origin story is out of the way, the sky’s the limit for her it’ll be exciting to see which planets her story scales next.Īlthough the father-daughter relationship between Gamora and Thanos is interesting, it’s completely overshadowed by the dynamic between her half-sister Nebula and the Mad Titan. Fresh off her billion dollar-grossing debut – the series’s first female-led superhero film – the character returned to save the day (well, help the crew out) in Avengers: Endgame. There’s no doubt that Captain Marvel could become one of the best characters in the MCU. His shift back to being a good guy, though, which will be further explored in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, isn’t the most exciting thing happening in the MCU, let’s be honest. Sebastian Stan’s Bucky was a bit of a non-entity in the otherwise underrated Captain America: The First Avenger, which is why his do-over as the brainwashed Winter Soldier in the sequel three years later injected the character with some much needed intrigue. Read more: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Easter egg you may have missed in episode one

The result is probably the coolest and smoothest Avenger yet, and someone we very much look forward to seeing again in Thor: Love and Thunder. Introduced in Thor: Ragnarok, Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie has the swagger of Han Solo and the powers of Wonder Woman.

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