Characters

Miles's uncle, the one adult who tells him he is fine as he is, and a masked enforcer for the man tearing the city apart.

Played by Mahershala Ali2 titles

The old man who raised a vampire hunter, built his weapons, and kept turning up alive when the story had already buried him.

Played by Kris Kristofferson3 titles

A perfect being made as a weapon and pulled out of the cocoon too early, so he arrives as a very powerful child.

Played by Will Poulter1 title

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 government man who turns up whenever somebody with powers has made a mess, with a folder and no sense of humour about it.

Played by Arian Moayed3 titles

The leader of the Eternals and the only one who can talk to the being that sent them, which is why she is the first to change her mind.

Played by Salma Hayek1 title

A sickly scientist who was snubbed by Tony Stark once, and built a terrorist movement out of the grudge.

Played by Guy Pearce1 title

A loud Russian gangster who is given a mechanical rhinoceros to drive in the last scene of a series that then stopped.

Played by Paul Giamatti1 title

Cyclops's older brother, recruited out of a military prison, who fires plasma out of his chest and cannot aim it.

Played by Lucas Till3 titles

The one who called everybody back together, and who is holding the group up while quietly having his own reasons.

Played by Rhenzy Feliz1 title

The senior statesman of the agency, who had been running its enemy from inside it for years.

Played by Robert Redford2 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 former police officer whose mother was a famous singer and a witch, and who walks the Witches' Road to find out how her mother died.

Played by Ali Ahn1 title

A mechanic who did not want any of this, distrusts everything alien, and ends up running the agency.

Played by Henry Simmons1 title

A teenager who can punch a hole between universes and cannot control when it happens, being chased across all of them.

Played by Xochitl Gomez1 title

A mutant whose strength runs on adrenaline, which means the angrier the fight gets, the worse it goes for the other side.

Played by Gina Carano1 title

A recruit with dragonfly wings who is offered a place at the table by the wrong side first.

Played by Zoe Kravitz1 title

A teenager who takes up her murdered uncle's amulet because the adults who could have helped were not listening.

Played by Camila Rodriguez1 title

A lawyer whose fiancé reads a confidential file over her shoulder and costs them both their jobs, and who keeps helping him anyway.

Played by Michelle Williams2 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 mutant who adapts instantly to any danger, in a film that needed somebody to die.

Played by Edi Gathegi1 title

The Red Skull's scientist, recruited by the people who captured him, who spent decades hollowing them out from the inside and then put himself in a computer.

Played by Toby Jones3 titles

A cult leader who serves an Egyptian goddess, and who wants the man who serves another one to stop fighting what he is.

Played by Ethan Hawke1 title

A woman who cannot stay solid, in constant pain, doing terrible things to make it stop.

Played by Hannah John-Kamen, RaeLynn Bratten2 titles

A red-skinned mutant with a tail and a devil's face, who moves people from one place to another and does not always put them down gently.

Played by Jason Flemyng, Eduardo Gago Muñoz2 titles

A masked killer who treats the city as a gallery and the people in it as materials.

Played by Hunter Doohan1 title

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 reporter whose crime stories nobody wants any more, with a sick wife he cannot afford, who takes one last story anyway.

Played by Vondie Curtis-Hall1 title

An FBI marksman who never misses, held together by a therapist and a set of rules, and then handed to the worst possible person.

Played by Wilson Bethel3 titles

A bodyguard with a sword made out of thought, recruited by a god and gone again before she has said very much.

Played by Olivia Munn1 title

A cell biologist whose research partner turned into something, and whose father hunted him for it.

Played by Liv Tyler2 titles

Hank Pym's old assistant, who has his own version of every story Pym tells, and a girl to save.

Played by Laurence Fishburne1 title

A boy made out of magic inside a town that was also made out of magic, who went looking for himself afterwards.

Played by Julian Hilliard, Baylen Bielitz2 titles

Frank Castle's oldest friend from the service, who found out war paid better as a business than as a duty.

Played by Ben Barnes2 titles

A king who cannot speak, because the smallest sound he makes destroys whatever it reaches.

Played by Anson Mount1 title

The Devil's son, who comes to Earth to find a contract worth a thousand souls and use it against his father.

Played by Wes Bentley1 title

A half-vampire who hunts vampires, present in this catalogue as a voice in the dark and almost nothing else.

Played by Mahershala Ali1 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

An agent who broke Fury's orders to save hundreds of lives, and spent the years afterwards being asked whose side that put her on.

Played by Adrianne Palicki1 title

A student at the school whose parents thought it was an ordinary school, and who could freeze whatever he touched.

Played by Shawn Ashmore4 titles

A weapons designer who built machines to hunt mutants, and whose death would have made them unstoppable.

Played by Peter Dinklage1 title

The man in the lift, who has been on the other side the entire time and is genuinely pleased when he no longer has to hide it.

Played by Frank Grillo2 titles

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 very large man in a helmet who, once he is moving in a direction, keeps going in that direction.

Played by Vinnie Jones, Ryan Reynolds, David Leitch, Aaron W. Reed3 titles

A pale mutant who can feel where other mutants are, which makes him useful to people he would rather not be useful to.

Played by Tómas Lemarquis, Stephen Merchant2 titles

A man who becomes whatever he touches, who worked for the wrong people until he found out what they were doing to a friend.

Played by Brian Patrick Wade1 title

A billionaire who thinks humanity has run out of time on Earth, and who is right about almost nothing else.

Played by Riz Ahmed1 title

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

An old cemetery caretaker who knows too much about the Ghost Rider, for the simple reason that he was one.

Played by Sam Elliott1 title

Charles Xavier's twin sister, thrown out of the world and given a rubbish tip to rule, with all of his power and none of his patience.

Played by Emma Corrin1 title

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

Scott Lang's daughter, who grew up while he was away for five years and did not spend them waiting.

Played by Abby Ryder Fortson, Emma Fuhrmann, Kathryn Newton4 titles

The only doctor in a hospital with five patients, none of whom are allowed to leave, and all of whom are being trained for something.

Played by Alice Braga1 title

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

Played by Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Laurence Belcher, Harry Lloyd13 titles

Written off as a jock by everyone including his father, and quietly the best engineer in the house.

Played by Gregg Sulkin1 title

A survivor in a future with nothing left, who opens doors in the air and makes a losing fight look choreographed.

Played by Fan Bingbing1 title

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 martial arts teacher with her own dojo, who turns out to be the most disciplined fighter in a story about a man who was handed his power.

Played by Jessica Henwick4 titles

The man who owns the nightclub Harlem's Paradise and everything that runs through it, and who does not make it to the end of his own season.

Played by Mahershala Ali, Elijah Boothe1 title

One of Thanos's adopted sons, sent after the stone that is embedded in somebody's forehead.

Played by Michael James Shaw1 title

The youngest of the royal family, who can move the elements and has never once been asked what she wants.

Played by Isabelle Cornish1 title

The largest of Thanos's children, with a chain hammer, and no lines.

Played by Terry Notary1 title

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 hacker who spent her life looking for the people who left her, found them, and did not like the answer.

Played by Chloe Bennet1 title

A history professor dating an immortal, who finds out at the worst moment that his own family has a story too.

Played by Kit Harington1 title

The newest arrival at the facility, whose power is to build other people's fears where everybody can see them.

Played by Blu Hunt1 title

A boy on the run with his mother from a man who wants to wear him, and who turns out to have inherited something from that man.

Played by Fergus Riordan1 title

A billionaire's son who was presumed dead for fifteen years, came back from a place that is not on any map, and can put everything he has into one hand.

Played by Finn Jones, Toby Nichols3 titles

A Kree warrior who watched her homeworld die in a civil war and blames the woman who started it, which is not an unreasonable position.

Played by Zawe Ashton1 title

The protégé who took over the company, and wanted the one thing his mentor had refused to give him.

Played by Corey Stoll2 titles

The man who trained his whole life for a title, and watched it go to the outsider who turned up from New York.

Played by Sacha Dhawan2 titles

A vampire the old families look down on, who decides to stop asking for their permission and take the whole species somewhere new.

Played by Stephen Dorff1 title

A scavenger from a ruined future who arrives in the present and finds it wonderful, which nobody else on the team can forgive.

Played by Jeff Ward1 title

The younger brother who cannot hunt, does voices instead, and ends up with the empire and a face that changes.

Played by Fred Hechinger, Billy Barratt1 title

The man with the metal hand who runs security for the company that made Laura, and who is sent to bring her back.

Played by Boyd Holbrook1 title

A being with no time in it, who eats universes, and who is beaten by a man willing to die in front of him indefinitely.

Played by Benedict Cumberbatch1 title

The first vampire, dug out of a tomb by people who wanted what he could do in daylight, and who turns out to have opinions about all of them.

Played by Dominic Purcell1 title

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

The one who can make anybody do anything, forbidden to use it, and watching seven thousand years of avoidable slaughter.

Played by Barry Keoghan1 title

The bowler hat and moustache at Captain America's shoulder in the war, who outlasts the war by decades.

Played by Neal McDonough4 titles

Thanos's preacher, who does the talking and moves everything in the room without touching it.

Played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor1 title

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

Howard Stark's butler, lent to Peggy Carter for one mission and unable to give her back.

Played by James D'Arcy2 titles

A living planet who spent millions of years looking for company and decided, in the end, that he would rather have everything.

Played by Kurt Russell1 title

A woman from Matt Murdock's past who reappears to pull him back towards the version of himself he keeps trying to talk down.

Played by Élodie Yung, Lily Chee2 titles

An Inhuman who can cross a city in a heartbeat and is pulled straight back to where she started, every time.

Played by Natalia Cordova-Buckley1 title

The daughter of a famous monster hunter, who came back for the funeral and would rather the family business ended with it.

Played by Laura Donnelly1 title

A Royal Marine who asked to be made stronger, got what he asked for twice over, and spent fifteen years learning to live with it.

Played by Tim Roth3 titles

A telepath who can turn her skin to diamond, and who is the most composed person in a film full of people losing control.

Played by January Jones1 title

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 born with every strength a vampire has and none of the weaknesses, who has spent his life hunting them for it.

Played by Wesley Snipes3 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 Swedish astrophysicist who grew up on stories about Asgard, met one of its princes in the New Mexico desert, and was never quite the same.

Played by Stellan Skarsgård5 titles

A CIA man who takes a bullet for a Wakandan, is patched up in a country that does not officially have hospitals like that, and keeps its secrets for it.

Played by Martin Freeman4 titles

A man who stole a spider's gifts in the Amazon in 1973, saw his own death, and set out to kill the three girls he saw in it first.

Played by Tahar Rahim1 title

The Irish voice that takes over Tony Stark's suits when the last one becomes a person.

Played by Kerry Condon5 titles

The charming one of Thor's three friends, played by two different actors and remembered by neither audience.

Played by Joshua Dallas, Zachary Levi3 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

The law partner who wanted to fight for the little guy, and found out what his best friend did at night.

Played by Elden Henson8 titles

A woman locked away since childhood for a scream that can knock down a wall, and the one person Cletus Kasady loves.

Played by Naomie Harris, Olumide Olorunfemi1 title

The man who ran the workshop that turned a dying mercenary into something that could not die, and who never wanted to be called Francis.

Played by Ed Skrein1 title

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 member of the same black operations team Wolverine was on, found years later in a gym, still angry about what people call him.

Played by Kevin Durand, Gustav Claude Ouimet, Mike Waters3 titles

Thor's mother and Loki's, who taught one of them everything he is good at and never let the other believe he was less hers.

Played by Rene Russo, Chanique Greyling4 titles

A being the size of a city who eats worlds, and who was a man once.

Played by Ralph Ineson1 title

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

The man who ran the Red Room and took girls from all over the world to make Widows of them.

Played by Ray Winstone1 title

A mercenary hired to do a job in the first ten minutes of a film, who turns out to have been worth keeping.

Played by Georges St-Pierre2 titles

An activist with a telepathic link to a genetically engineered dinosaur, and the sharpest person in any room she is in.

Played by Ariela Barer1 title

The strongest of them, who spent the centuries after the group broke up looking after one person.

Played by Don Lee1 title

The king's cousin and the head of his guard, who stamps and the ground answers.

Played by Eme Ikwuakor1 title

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

The team's muscle, recruited young by the man who trained him, who was never working for the people he said he was.

Played by Brett Dalton1 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

The Spider-Woman of a universe where the person who died was Peter, and her father is the officer hunting her for it.

Played by Hailee Steinfeld2 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

A vampire hunter who used to be a vampire, and who talks through every situation he cannot shoot his way out of.

Played by Ryan Reynolds1 title

Tony Stark's driver, bodyguard and friend, who outlives the job and ends up looking after the kid Tony left behind.

Played by Jon Favreau8 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 ruler of an underground country, an enemy of the Fantastic Four who becomes an ally, mostly by being asked properly.

Played by Paul Walter Hauser1 title

A vigilante whose power comes from an amulet, put on trial for a killing he did not do, and defended in court by a blind lawyer.

Played by Kamar de los Reyes1 title

The man who guards the bridge between worlds and can see all of them at once, which makes him the loneliest job in Asgard.

Played by Idris Elba6 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 second man to wear the gauntlet, who got the job by standing next to the first one when it happened.

Played by Bokeem Woodbine1 title

A Spider-Man who does not believe in leaders, on a team run by one, and who is only there to break it.

Played by Daniel Kaluuya1 title

The quiet one, who is not even from Asgard, and whose home the second film opens by liberating.

Played by Tadanobu Asano3 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

A talking duck in a suit who used to be an exhibit, drinks in the ruins of a mining colony, and has outlasted almost everyone.

Played by Seth Green4 titles

A TVA hunter who was told she had no life before the agency, found out she had, and ended up running the place.

Played by Wunmi Mosaku3 titles

A dying industrialist who owes Logan his life, and decides that the way to repay it is to take Logan's.

Played by Haruhiko Yamanouchi, Ken Yamamura1 title

The strongest of them and the one who follows orders, which are two descriptions of the same problem.

Played by Richard Madden1 title

The cruellest person in the building, for reasons the film only shows you once and does not repeat.

Played by Anya Taylor-Joy, Colbi Gannett1 title

The son of the man who invented the arc reactor alongside Howard Stark and got nothing for it.

Played by Mickey Rourke1 title

The voice in Tony Stark's house and in his helmet, an artificial intelligence named after a butler, that ends up as the seed of a person.

Played by Paul Bettany5 titles

A wealthy fiancé who is a genuinely dangerous swordsman and, for most of a series, the least dangerous person in it.

Played by Tony Dalton2 titles

A monster hunter who is himself the monster, taking part in a hunt he intends to lose.

Played by Gael García Bernal1 title

The first man to call himself the Shocker, in a job where the title turned out to be transferable.

Played by Logan Marshall-Green1 title

A survivor who can see and hear a Sentinel coming before anyone else, in a war where that is the only warning anyone gets.

Played by Booboo Stewart1 title

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 Cheadle10 titles

An astrophysicist who found a man falling out of the sky, and who eleven years later picked up his hammer.

Played by Natalie Portman3 titles

A dependable agent in the background of several films, who turns out to have been working for the other side the whole time.

Played by Maximiliano Hernández, Adam Faison7 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 police officer who thinks Spider-Man is a menace, saying so at dinner, to his son.

Played by Brian Tyree Henry2 titles

A biochemist who is frightened of everything alien and superhuman, on a team that deals with nothing else.

Played by Elizabeth Henstridge1 title

A potions witch who lost her magic, built a beauty brand on what was left, and walks a road she does not believe in to get it back.

Played by Sasheer Zamata1 title

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

Miguel's second in command, heavily pregnant, on a motorcycle, with no patience for anybody's feelings including her own.

Played by Issa Rae1 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 airman who was Sam Wilson's contact on the ground, and then his successor in the air.

Played by Danny Ramirez2 titles

The head of Hydra, who took an unfinished version of the serum that made Captain America and got the face he deserved.

Played by Hugo Weaving, Ross Marquand2 titles

A student who can control fire but cannot make it, which means he always needs a lighter and always needs somebody to give him one.

Played by Alexander Burton, Aaron Stanford4 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

A teleporting soldier who got out of the killing business, opened a gym, and got pulled back in by an old friend with claws.

Played by will.i.am1 title