Characters

A salvage contractor who was cleaning up after the Avengers until the government handed the contract to Tony Stark, and who kept the wreckage.

Played by Michael Keaton2 titles

A witch who has been taking other witches' power for three hundred years by selling them a road that does not exist.

Played by Kathryn Hahn2 titles

The Soviet answer to Captain America, who spent his best years pretending to be a father in Ohio and has never quite understood that the pretending ended.

Played by David Harbour2 titles

A woman who can copy any fighting style she has watched, and who was made that way by her own father.

Played by Olga Kurylenko2 titles

A pilot who came back from the same flight as the others and did not get to keep his face.

Played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach1 title

A man who volunteered for an experiment because he needed the money and had run out of other ideas, and who came out of it stronger than everyone.

Played by Lewis Pullman1 title

A physicist whose own experiment left him sharing a body with something enormous and angry, and who spends fifteen years negotiating with it instead of curing it.

Played by Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo11 titles

The best friend who was already a soldier when Steve Rogers was still being turned away at recruiting offices, and who spent seventy years being used as a weapon by the people who caught him.

Played by Sebastian Stan9 titles

A test pilot who wakes up on an alien world with someone else's name, someone else's war, and no memory of the life that was taken from her.

Played by Brie Larson4 titles

A New York paramedic who starts seeing a few seconds into the future and has to work out what to do with three teenagers she has just watched die.

Played by Dakota Johnson1 title

The most powerful telepath alive, who runs a school, and whose entire method rests on persuading people to wait.

Played by Patrick Stewart12 titles

A serial killer on death row who bites a journalist, gets a piece of what is inside him, and becomes considerably worse.

Played by Woody Harrelson2 titles

A marksman who was sent to kill Natasha Romanoff and recruited her instead, and who spent the rest of his career trying to get home to a family nobody was supposed to know about.

Played by Jeremy Renner6 titles

A one-armed scientist trying to make limbs grow back, who succeeded on himself and did not stop there.

Played by Rhys Ifans2 titles

A warrior whose family was killed by someone working for Thanos, and who understands every sentence exactly as it is spoken.

Played by Dave Bautista7 titles

An investigative journalist who lost his job, his fiancee and his flat in one week, and then acquired a flatmate who lives inside him.

Played by Tom Hardy4 titles

The oldest mutant in these films, who was worshipped as a god in Egypt and wakes up in 1983 with the same expectations.

Played by Oscar Isaac, Brendan Pedder, Berj Garabedian2 titles

A man raised in Oakland by nobody, who came back to the country that left him there, won its throne by its own rules, and was not wrong about why he was angry.

Played by Michael B. Jordan2 titles

A survivor of Auschwitz who can move metal with his mind, and who has concluded that people like him will never be safe by asking.

Played by Ian McKellen8 titles

A thief who walked into an experiment by accident and came out able to become sand, who is doing all of it for a sick daughter.

Played by Thomas Haden Church2 titles

A soldier whose family was killed in front of him, who killed everyone responsible, and who then had to find out that he had been told the wrong reason.

Played by Jon Bernthal5 titles

A child taken by the man who had just killed half her people and raised as his weapon, who spent twenty years becoming what he wanted before deciding to sell him out.

Played by Zoe Saldaña5 titles

A believer who crossed a desert to reach his god, was laughed at, and spent the rest of his life proving the laughter was the answer.

Played by Christian Bale1 title

A tree who can say three words in one order, and who is understood perfectly by exactly one person.

Played by Vin Diesel6 titles

A student who is at the top of her class, works in the laboratory where it all starts, and works out who Spider-Man is before he tells her.

Played by Emma Stone2 titles

A brilliant scientist who tried to cure his own mutation and made it much more visible instead.

Played by Steve Bacic, Kelsey Grammer, Nicholas Hoult7 titles

The scientist who discovered how to change the distance between atoms, spent his career refusing to let anyone else use it, and was right to.

Played by Michael Douglas4 titles

The son of the man Spider-Man killed, and the best friend of the man who is Spider-Man, who spends three films not knowing they are the same problem.

Played by James Franco3 titles

The eldest child of the king of Asgard, written out of its history because of what she did to build it, and released the moment her father dies.

Played by Cate Blanchett1 title

A man whose family died in a battle the Avengers were fighting to save people, who decided that the right response was not to fight them but to make them come apart from the inside.

Played by Daniel Brühl2 titles

The person who should have been given the suit in the first place, who spends a whole film training the man her father chose instead.

Played by Evangeline Lilly4 titles

The Air Force officer who was Tony Stark's oldest friend and his liaison to the military at the same time, which is a conflict of interest the films take seriously.

Played by Don Cheadle8 titles

The most powerful mutant in these films, told from childhood to keep most of it locked away, by the man who was raising her.

Played by Famke Janssen, Sophie Turner8 titles

A lawyer who gets her cousin's condition from a road accident and finds that the hardest part is not the strength, it is everyone's reaction to it.

Played by Tatiana Maslany1 title

A private investigator with more strength than she has any use for, who is trying to work while the man who once controlled her mind is still alive.

Played by Krysten Ritter5 titles

The soldier the government picked to be the next Captain America, who was qualified on paper in every way that turned out not to matter.

Played by Wyatt Russell2 titles

The youngest of the four, who sets himself on fire and flies, and who is treated by everyone as the one who does not think.

Played by Joseph Quinn1 title

A teenager from Jersey City who writes fan fiction about Captain Marvel, and then finds out that her great-grandmother's bangle does something.

Played by Iman Vellani2 titles

A time traveller who exists as thousands of different people at once, most of whom would like the others dead.

Played by Jonathan Majors1 title

A champion archer who has been trying to be Hawkeye since she was nine, when an arrow saved her life during the Battle of New York.

Played by Hailee Steinfeld2 titles

A man with metal bones and no memory of who put them there, who is extremely hard to kill and has spent a century finding that out.

Played by Hugh Jackman10 titles

A prince who finds out he was taken as a war trophy rather than born to the family that raised him, and who spends the rest of his life proving the point badly.

Played by Tom Hiddleston7 titles

A man with unbreakable skin who wants a quiet job in Harlem and finds out that being the only person who cannot be shot is itself a job.

Played by Mike Colter4 titles

An empath raised alone by a being who used her to help him sleep, who learns what a friend is at roughly thirty years old.

Played by Pom Klementieff6 titles

A mercenary who shares his body with at least two other people, one of whom does not know the others exist, and who works for an Egyptian god.

Played by Oscar Isaac1 title

The girl next door in a house nobody should be living in, who spends three films being told what she is to other people.

Played by Kirsten Dunst3 titles

A blind defence lawyer who takes the cases nobody pays for, and who goes out at night to reach the people the law will not.

Played by Charlie Cox9 titles

An electrical engineer nobody at work could name, who fell into a tank and came out able to be everywhere in the grid at once.

Played by Jamie Foxx2 titles

A deaf woman who ran a crime crew in New York for the man who raised her, and went home when she found out what he had done to her father.

Played by Alaqua Cox, Darnell Besaw2 titles

A doctor with a fatal blood disorder who cured himself with something taken from bats, and got a different fatal problem in exchange.

Played by Jared Leto1 title

A bureaucrat at an agency outside time who spends four hundred years filing cases and has never once been asked whether he chose the job.

Played by Owen Wilson3 titles

The girl who grew up with Carol Danvers in her house, who came back from the Blip to find her mother had died in the five years, and who walked into a wall of static and came out different.

Played by Teyonah Parris3 titles

The king of an underwater nation that has stayed hidden for four centuries, who comes to Wakanda proposing an alliance and explaining what happens if it is refused.

Played by Tenoch Huerta Mejía1 title

A Soviet-trained assassin, handed over as a child and rebuilt into a weapon, who defects and spends the rest of her life trying to be worth more than what she was made for.

Played by Scarlett Johansson9 titles

A soldier from the future who has come back to kill a child, for reasons that are entirely sound if you have seen what the child becomes.

Played by Josh Brolin1 title

The daughter Thanos rebuilt a piece at a time every time she lost to her sister, who spends four films becoming somebody who can be in a room without a knife out.

Played by Karen Gillan6 titles

A mutant whose power is luck, which sounds like nothing and turns out to be the most effective thing in the film.

Played by Zazie Beetz1 title

The spy who saw one alien fight in 1995 and spent the next twenty years building a team for a threat nobody else believed in.

Played by Samuel L. Jackson12 titles

An industrialist who tested an unfinished performance enhancer on himself to save his own company, and got a second person out of the deal.

Played by Willem Dafoe2 titles

The general of Wakanda's royal guard, who is loyal to the throne rather than to whoever happens to be sitting on it, and who is made to prove that.

Played by Danai Gurira4 titles

A mutant who controls the weather, which in a film about people who are feared is the power that most looks like a god.

Played by Halle Berry, Alexandra Shipp7 titles

A scientist whose safety device failed, leaving four intelligent arms attached to his spine with opinions of their own.

Played by Alfred Molina2 titles

The officer who ran the programme that made Captain America, and who then spent decades building the agency the rest of these films work for.

Played by Hayley Atwell, Gabriella Graves8 titles

The assistant who was already running the company before anyone gave her the title, and who spends a decade being the only person Tony Stark cannot argue with.

Played by Gwyneth Paltrow7 titles

A teenager who moves so much faster than everyone else that the world is, to him, a room full of statues he can rearrange.

Played by Evan Peters4 titles

A teenager from Queens with abilities he did not ask for and an adult mentor he did not need, trying to do a small job well while much larger ones keep landing on him.

Played by Tom Holland6 titles

The second Spider-Man on film, whose story is built around a father who disappeared and a promise he makes to a policeman and then breaks.

Played by Andrew Garfield3 titles

The first Spider-Man on film, a student from Queens who is bitten by a spider and spends three films failing to hold a job, a degree and a relationship at the same time.

Played by Tobey Maguire4 titles

A boy taken off Earth by space pirates the night his mother died, who grew up into their least reliable employee and then into somebody's leader by accident.

Played by Chris Pratt6 titles

A very large man made of metal who keeps trying to recruit Deadpool into being a better person, entirely sincerely.

Played by Donald MacKinnon, Daniel Cudmore, Stefan Kapičić7 titles

A special effects engineer who was fired by Tony Stark, and who built a hero for the world to believe in because the world was ready to believe in one.

Played by Jake Gyllenhaal1 title

A shapeshifter who can look like anyone, raised alongside Charles Xavier and asked by him to look like everyone else.

Played by Rebecca Romijn, Jennifer Lawrence, Morgan Lily8 titles

The smartest man on his Earth, who can stretch his body into any shape and cannot make himself say the reassuring thing.

Played by Pedro Pascal1 title

An engineering student who built a working suit of armour in a college workshop, which is the part of the story that gets her into trouble.

Played by Dominique Thorne2 titles

An animal that was cut apart and rebuilt into something that can talk, who deals with it by being the loudest and most heavily armed person in any room.

Played by Bradley Cooper6 titles

A pararescueman who ran a support group for veterans, went for a jog, and ended up carrying a shield he spent years deciding whether he was allowed to pick up.

Played by Anthony Mackie7 titles

An engineer who went to prison for burgling the company that had been robbing its own customers, and who came out to find the only job available was breaking into somewhere else.

Played by Paul Rudd5 titles

A man who cannot open his eyes without destroying whatever is in front of him, and who is therefore extremely careful about everything.

Played by James Marsden, Tim Pocock, Tye Sheridan8 titles

The son of a Russian crime boss who was mauled on a hunting trip, saved by a potion, and became the best hunter alive out of spite.

Played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson1 title

A man who has spent ten years parking cars in San Francisco under a different name, because the alternative is going home to his father.

Played by Simu Liu1 title

The princess who runs Wakanda's laboratories, invents most of what makes the country what it is, and is still a teenager when we meet her.

Played by Letitia Wright4 titles

A brilliant, insufferable surgeon loses the use of his hands, goes looking for a cure, and finds a discipline that has been quietly defending the planet the whole time.

Played by Benedict Cumberbatch6 titles

A sickly volunteer from Brooklyn is turned into the first super soldier, loses seventy years frozen in the ice, and spends the rest of his life working out which orders are worth refusing.

Played by Chris Evans12 titles

A diplomat who can turn invisible and put a wall of force between two things, and who is the reason her world is at peace.

Played by Vanessa Kirby1 title

A version of Loki who was arrested as a child, escaped, and spent her whole life hunting the organisation that took her, which is a very different life from the one the other Loki had.

Played by Sophia Di Martino2 titles

The prince of a country that has spent centuries pretending to be poor, who inherits the throne in the worst week of his life and has to decide whether the secret was ever defensible.

Played by Chadwick Boseman4 titles

A warlord from a dead world who believes the universe has too many people in it, and who spends decades assembling the means to remove half of them.

Played by Josh Brolin4 titles

An Asgardian prince is stripped of his power and dropped on Earth to find out what it was for, and spends the next decade losing almost everything he was born to.

Played by Chris Hemsworth11 titles

A billionaire engineer who builds a powered suit of armour and, over roughly a decade, turns from the man who armed the world into the one who pays for it.

Played by Robert Downey Jr.4 titles

A peacekeeping program that was switched on for a few seconds, read the whole of human history, and concluded that the peace it was asked for required the end of us.

Played by James Spader1 title

A woman who turns up whenever somebody has just been humiliated, offers them work, and is running something nobody has fully explained yet.

Played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chiara Stella4 titles

The last survivor of an elite Asgardian unit that was wiped out in one afternoon, who spent the centuries afterwards drinking on a garbage planet.

Played by Tessa Thompson4 titles

A man with the same healing and the same claws as Logan, and none of the reasons to stop.

Played by Tyler Mane, Liev Schreiber3 titles

The ruler of a small European country, introduced in the last thirty seconds of a film, with a face the audience already knows.

Played by Robert Downey Jr.1 title

A body built as a weapon, given the mind of a butler and the last of the Infinity Stones, who wakes up and turns out to be somebody nobody designed.

Played by Paul Bettany3 titles

A mercenary with terminal cancer takes an experimental cure that works, leaves him unable to die and unable to look like himself, and turns him into the only person in these films who knows he is in one.

Played by Ryan Reynolds2 titles

A Sokovian orphan who volunteered for the experiment that gave her her power, and who turns out to be the most dangerous person in the story the moment she has nothing left to lose.

Played by Elizabeth Olsen6 titles

A man who is remaking New York and believes he is saving it, and who is the largest and most easily wounded person in every room he enters.

Played by Vincent D'Onofrio7 titles

The librarian at Kamar-Taj, then the Sorcerer Supreme, and the only person in the catalogue who acquired the most senior magical office in the world by default.

Played by Benedict Wong7 titles

The man who founded the organisation that has been in the background of these films since the first one, and who put it down for a while because he fell in love.

Played by Tony Leung1 title

The younger sister from a family that was an assignment, who was still in the programme when her sister got out, and who is much funnier about all of it than anyone expects.

Played by Florence Pugh4 titles

The man who was paid to deliver a child to his father, kept him instead, and never once told the child that this was a kindness.

Played by Michael Rooker4 titles