3 MCU Characters The Franchise Must Either Leave Behind Or Reboot, Including 1 Fan Favorite
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has many great characters, but not all of them necessarily have a future within the franchise. Since the MCU first began in 2008 with the release of Iron Man, it has grown into one of the biggest and most successful franchises in cinematic history. Its many movies and T
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The film that planted the MCU's moral compass into 1940s wartime establishes Steve Rogers as the franchise's only true idealist — a character whose values predate any superpower and survive every institutional betrayal. The WWII backdrop gives the conflict genuine historical weight while introducing the Tesseract, Red Skull, and HYDRA as the connective tissue for the next decade of storytelling. Chris Evans finds depth in Rogers' pre-serum determination, making the transformation feel earned rather than arbitrary. It is the franchise's most classically structured origin film: a man who is already a hero before he becomes a superhero.
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