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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.

James Purefoy – The Punisher

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James Purefoy Punisher

The Punisher may be a bit dark for Marvel’s tastes, but with a ton of demand from fans and the more open world of Netflix to play around in, it’s only a matter of time before Frank Castle finally makes his debut in the MCU. And who better to play him than Rome and The Following alum James Purefoy.

The fact that Purefoy isn’t a household name is almost criminal. He’s great at playing lovable badasses and could easily handle the complex character of the Punisher while injecting the role with a sense of danger and fun. We’ve already seen one Rome actor – Ray Stevenson – play Castle (and then go on to play a different Marvel character in Thor: The Dark World), so why not go 2 for 2?

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