{"id":272950,"date":"2025-11-20T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:16:09","slug":"the-marvel-characters-that-should-have-been-in-the-mcu-by-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272950\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marvel Characters That Should Have Been in the MCU By Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Power Pack<\/p>\n

The MCU may be a massive franchise that wants as many fans as it can get, but it superheroes remain fundamentally children\u2019s entertainment. So it\u2019s a bit surprising that Feige and co. keep giving the green light to new Spider-Man cartoons and even a Groot series before bringing in the Power Pack, Marvel\u2019s premiere toddler team. That\u2019s especially perplexing given how many elements of the Power Pack\u2019s backstory have already appeared in the MCU, specifically Captain Marvel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before gaining their abilities, the Power Pack was just the Powers siblings: Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, all children of a brilliant scientist working for a government program called Project Pegasus. Project Pegasus\u2019s experiments drew the attention of aliens called the Snarks, who kidnapped Dr. Powers and his wife, and the horse-like Kymellians, who gave the quartet super abilities. From that point on, the Power Pack\u2019s playful approach to super-heroics have made them frequent guest stars in X-Men and Fantastic Four comics. Now that those bigger characters are coming to the MCU, surely the Power Pack aren\u2019t too far behind, especially since they eventually get a fifth member: Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue.<\/p>\n

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Moondragon<\/p>\n

Moondragon is a tough character, despite the fact that she\u2019s frequently on the Avengers roster. With her bald head and scant clothing, she has a striking physical presence, especially when she creates monstrous psychic manifestations. But, she\u2019s a pretty arrogant jerk, and many of her early Avengers adventures involve her telling everyone else how much better than them she is.<\/p>\n

Second, Moondragon is tied to two other characters, who have very different stories in the MCU. She\u2019s the daughter of Drax the Destroyer, who isn\u2019t a human in the movies and who claims his family was killed by Ronan. And she\u2019s the partner of Phyla-Vell, introduced as a young girl in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Clearly, Feige would have to change the character significantly to make her work, but it would be worth it to bring in such an interesting Avenger.<\/p>\n

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The Beyonder<\/p>\n

The Beyonder is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, a cosmic being so great that he gathered together most of the heroes and villains for a battle royale in the 1985 Secret Wars event. Since that foundational crossover, the Beyonder has appeared a few different times, most often as a white man with Michael Jackson\u2019s hair (yes, really) and a beige leisure suite. Jonathan Hickman reimagined the Beyonder and his race as something more strange, while still humanoid for his 2015 Secret Wars, which only underscores the importance of the character.<\/p>\n

We know that Avengers: Secret Wars is coming, but outside of occasional references to incursions and perhaps other realities gathering defenders, nothing from any comic book Secret Wars story has been integrated into the MCU. Hopefully, they\u2019ll bring the Beyonder along, if only to recreate the scene in which Spider-Man has to teach him how to poop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power Pack The MCU may be a massive franchise that wants as many fans as it can get,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-272950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}