{"id":319841,"date":"2025-11-29T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319841\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:22:18","slug":"7-most-powerful-mcu-heroes-who-were-never-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319841\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Most Powerful MCU Heroes Who Were Never Avengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is full of incredible characters, with many of its heroes and villains boasting incredible powers. Since the very beginning of the franchise in 2008, the MCU has grown to encompass an ever-expanding range of characters, with the core hero team of the Avengers at its very center. Many of the movies of the MCU<\/a> have put the Avengers at the heart of the franchise\u2019s narrative, establishing them as the most powerful hero team within the live-action Marvel continuity. Audiences have seen many strong heroes introduced into the MCU, but just because they are immensely powerful, it doesn\u2019t immediately qualify them as an Avenger.<\/p>\n

Even the heroes who command the best MCU powers<\/a> aren\u2019t always valued members of the Avengers. In fact, many of the franchise\u2019s strongest heroes have never been able to claim membership in the iconic superhero team across both the MCU and the comics. Though some of the following characters have abilities that could seriously shake up the MCU, they haven\u2019t ever qualified as being worthy of joining the Avengers.<\/p>\n

7) Wong<\/p>\n

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Though he isn\u2019t quite among the MCU\u2019s strongest magic users<\/a>, Wong is undeniably a powerful character. As the current Sorcerer Supreme of the MCU, Wong\u2019s magical expertise cannot be understated, and that makes him a pretty powerful character. However, Wong has never been an Avenger. The closest he came was when he acted as a housekeeper for one iteration of the New Avengers, which, in all honesty, is a complete waste of his powerful talents.<\/p>\n

6) Thena<\/p>\n

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Eternals is considered one of the MCU\u2019s worst team-up movies<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that its heroes wield god-like powers. Thena\u2019s MCU abilities involve using cosmic energy to craft powerful weapons, but she also possesses other powers due to her physiology. In the comics, she has even more powers, but she has still never been a member of the Avengers, despite having joined the Heroes for Hire at one point as well as being a prominent Eternal. <\/p>\n

5) Ikaris<\/p>\n

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Another member of the Eternals who has never been a part of the Avengers is Ikaris. In the MCU, Ikaris possesses the power of flight and can project beams of cosmic energy from his eyes, and stands out as one of the most powerful MCU characters to have died<\/a>. The comics see him boast an even larger array of powers, but despite being one of the characters occasionally named as a Marvel counterpart to DC\u2019s Superman, Ikaris has never been asked to join the Avengers.<\/p>\n

4) Black Bolt<\/p>\n

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Black Bolt is commonly cited as one of the most powerful male heroes in the Marvel Universe. His ability to create shockwaves with his voice is remarkably powerful, even though he wasn\u2019t able to use it in his brief appearance in the MCU. Despite being one of the most powerful characters to have appeared in the MCU, Black Bolt\u2019s allegiance has always lain with the Inhuman Royal Family and the Illuminati, and he has never been an official Avenger despite fighting alongside them on occasion.<\/p>\n

3) Adam Warlock<\/p>\n

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Officially introduced into the franchise in 2023 as part of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Adam Warlock is one of the most powerful heroes in the MCU<\/a>. The powers that he commands are as plentiful as they are varied, and though the MCU has only really scratched the surface with the character, he\u2019s already hugely powerful. He may be a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but he\u2019s never been an Avenger, instead claiming allegiance only to the Guardians and the Infinity Watch.<\/p>\n

2) G\u2019iah<\/p>\n

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Secret Invasion may have been one of the worst entries into the MCU, but it established one of Phase Five\u2019s most powerful characters<\/a>. G\u2019iah is a Skrull, but in addition to her natural shapeshifting abilities, she has been enhanced by the Harvest, giving her the combined powers of countless MCU characters. As she doesn\u2019t command such an impressive array of abilities in the comics, it\u2019s perhaps unsurprising that she has never joined the ranks of the Avengers.<\/p>\n

1) Franklin Richards<\/p>\n

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Franklin Richards\u2019 MCU story has only just begun, but he has already been set up as one of the franchise\u2019s strongest characters. In the comics, Franklin is a hero in training, but the scope of his power is truly massive. As one of the most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe, it\u2019s perhaps surprising that Franklin Richards hasn\u2019t ever been an Avenger, but then again, he is only a child, so that could well change some time in the future.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marvel Cinematic Universe is full of incredible characters, with many of its heroes and villains boasting incredible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[51919,88,125058,15077,206],"class_list":["post-319841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers","tag-entertainment","tag-list-feature","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}