MCU Team-Ups From The Comics That Have Yet To Happen

After nearly twenty years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now populated with a wide array of heroes and villains from various franchises. As a result, fans have enjoyed exciting team-ups such as the Avengers, the pairing of Deadpool and Wolverine, and multiple versions of Spider-Man working together.

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Unfortunately, despite limitless potential in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios have yet to take advantage of certain pairings and full-on teams from the comics in live-action form. That doesn’t mean that the future has no hope for them, as the franchise continues to advance via movies, television shows, and specials.

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Heroes For Hire

Daredevil’s Return Could Bring Back More Netflix Heroes

• First Appearance: Power Man And Iron Fist #54

When Netflix’s The Defenders featured Luke Cage and Iron Fist on the team, it seemed like the logical next step would be to have the two become Heroes For Hire. Unfortunately, Netflix canceled all their Marvel Cinematic Universe shows, and all hopes of that kind of spin-off appeared to be destroyed.

Fortunately, with Daredevil and the Punisher returning to the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again as a Disney+ original series, the other street-level heroes from the Netflix world can return. Luke Cage and Iron Fist being blue-collar heroes that can be hired akin to an exterminator for criminals is a unique concept for a superhero team that can allow for a fun episodic season with new villains every episode.

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Spider-Man And Daredevil

Peter And Matt Are Great Friends In The Comics

• Daredevil’s First Appearance: Daredevil Vol. 1 #1
• Spider-Man’s First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy #15

After Matt Murdock had an applause-worthy cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, many hoped that it would be the beginning of the friendship between Spider-Man and Daredevil. Unfortunately, Spider-Man has yet to return to the MCU since that film, and Daredevil went on to have a fun reappearance in his golden suit in the She-Hulk: Attorney At Law series.

Daredevil and Spider-Man have a lot in common in the comics, from being quippy with their opponents to being adamant about non-lethal methods. This allows them to be great partners, and fans hope to see Tom Holland and Charlie Cox have a similar dynamic, even if it’s only for one movie or an episode of Daredevil: Born Again.

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Spider-Man And Venom

Sony Fumbled The Chance To Have These Characters Meet

• Spider-Man’s First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy #15
• Venom’s First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #300

Putting Tom Holland and Tom Hardy together as Spider-Man and Venom should have been the endgame for Sony. Instead, Venom spent only seconds in the MCU before being sent back to the Sony universe and having his final chapter without any kind of Spider-Man, even though Hardy was all for his version of Venom meeting the MCU Spider-Man.

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Now that Tom Hardy is done with Venom, it seems like there is no chance to see Spider-Man and Venom fight and/or team up for an adventure. However, the ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home teased that a piece of the Venom symbiote is still in the MCU. So, perhaps Spider-Man will get the symbiote during Secret Wars, thus planting the seeds for a new Eddie Brock to become Venom.

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Young Avengers

The Perfect Team For A Disney+ Series

• First Appearance: Young Avengers Vol. 1 #1

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced several young heroes, including Stinger, the new Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Wiccan, and America Chavez. There is potential for forming the Young Avengers, especially after The Marvels, which features Ms. Marvel meeting the new Hawkeye: Kate Bishop. However, there has been no official announcement regarding a Young Avengers project.

Disney+ would be the ideal place for the Young Avengers, as that’s where nearly all the potential members have had their start. The main team of Avengers can continue to assemble on the big screen while the Young Avengers can tackle their standalone threats in a series or movie while having the potential to eventually crossover in future events such as Secret Wars.

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Masters Of Evil

There Are More Than Enough Villains To Create A Team

• First Appearance: The Avengers #6

As fun as heroes are, people love to see villains together, but, shockingly, the Masters Of Evil has never been attempted in the many years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They are to the Marvel Universe what the Legion Of Doom is to DC, a collection of the Avengers’ greatest foes working together to destroy or conquer the world.

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There have been many instances where the villains that weren’t killed off could have returned as a team. Even now, with Helmut Zemo, Kingpin, Mordo, Scorpion, Justin Hammer, Yon-Rogg, and Ultron all still alive, those faces working together would be quite a threat to the Avengers. Instead, Avengers films seem more interested in singular threats.

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Midnight Suns

The Supernatural Side Of Marvel Continues To Rise

• First Appearance: Ghost Rider Vol. 3 #31

For many years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was more sci-fi based, but that has slowly changed. With Doctor Strange, Moon Knight, Werewolf By Night, Elsa Bloodstone, Black Knight, Man-Thing, Blade, and, potentially, Ghost Rider all existing in the MCU, Marvel Studios has everything they could ever need to develop movie or series about the Midnight Suns.

Not every big event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to be an Avengers movie. Each of the supernatural heroes that have been introduced is also left open for more to come. Considering there are villains in the comics, such as Dracula, Lilith, and Mephisto, it would be the perfect thing to bring the Midnight Suns together for a new kind of adventure with unique visuals.

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Sinister Six

The Supervillain Team Should Be In The New Spider-Man Trilogy

• First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1

Despite Spider-Man: No Way Home featuring many iconic villains, it still wasn’t the Sinister Six since only three of them worked together in the film, with Green Goblin being a rogue and Doc Ock becoming the Spider-Men’s ally. They were only one villain away from becoming the Sinister Six, which seemed like the ultimate missed opportunity.

Sony has been trying their hardest to get the Sinister Six off the ground, whether it was the Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland versions, but it never worked out due to a poor attempt at villain solo movies with no connection to Spider-Man. With Tom Holland beginning a new trilogy with Scorpion and Vulture still out there, many hope that he is the Spider-Man to get such a challenge as the Sinister Six.

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