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10 Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters Who Are Completely Pointless

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought us some of the most recognizable, successful and just plain awesome superheroes in the whole of cinema. However, not everyone that the franchise touches turns to gold. It's only natural that, in the MCU's increasingly overpopulated movies, some of the characters end up being totally pointless.

Crossbones

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Brock Rumlow AKA Crossbones is one of Captain America’s deadliest enemies in the comics. Quite literally, in fact, as the supervillain was (mostly) responsible for assassinating Steve Rogers in the wake of the Civil War event. While the character did appear in the movie version of the classic comic book storylinehis role was a lot more superfluous and forgettable.

It’s a shame, too, as he had a promising set-up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Rumlow was introduced as a crooked STRIKE agent actually working for HYDRA who, by the end of the movie, suffers terrible burns. The stage was set then for the villain to return as Crossbones in Captain America: Civil War and be a formidable thorn in Cap’s side.

As it happened, however, Crossbones was quickly dispatched (and killed) at the beginning of the movie. His destructive clash with the Avengers did kickstart the Sokovia Accords but, as the name suggests, they were created in response to the fallout of Age of Ultron. As such, there was literally no purpose to Crossbones in the film.