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10 Actors Who Need To Join The Marvel Cinematic Universe, And Who They Should Play

With Avengers: Age of Ultron capping off Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this May, and the studio moving boldly forward into Phase Three, which will bring new characters like Captain Marvel (yes, the Carol Danvers version!) and the Inhumans into the fold, the future is beyond bright for comic-book fans. So far, Marvel has put nary a foot wrong (we're just going to go ahead and overlook the weaker aspects of Iron Man 2 on account of it giving us Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow), both in terms of its films' plots and the actors that the studio has cast as its super-powered protagonists, and there's no reason to think that trend is going to end anytime soon.

Dylan O’Brien/Jared Padalecki – Nova

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Nova

This one depends on a few things. If Marvel starts with Nova in high school, donning a suit given to him by a dying Nova Corps officer, then The Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien has the dramatic gifts and youthful appearance to play a strong version of that character. However, Marvel has got to know that we’re tired of high school superheroes – Sony beat that trope to death with two Spider-Man franchises in one decade (no amount of Emma Stone can make up for that).

So, unless there’s a really good idea about how to do a younger Nova, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if Marvel shook things up and went with an older version of the character. And if that’s the case, Supernatural actor Jared Padalecki has the fan support and the right look – not to mention over a decade of small screen badassery under his belt.

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