Other snubs include OG Avengers such as Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk) and Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye). Chris Pratt (Peter Quill/Star-Lord), Brie Larson (Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel), Iman Vellani (Ms. Marvel), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) were also left out.

Everything dies.” With those words, Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers run marked the beginning of the end of the Marvel Universe. Where Hickman’s New Avengers was about death, then Hickman’s Avengers was about life.

Despite five hours of streamed casting announcements, there are still several characters and actors fans are surprised won’t be in Avengers: Doomsday. (Read the full Avengers: Doomsday cast roster.) Some we knew about – such as Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange – but the following omissions are notable given the cosmic cross-over nature of what’s shaping up to be an Avengers,