Actors who nearly played Avengers for Marvel
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Alternate Avengers: Timothée Chalamet was nearly Spider-Man
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Alternate Avengers: Jason Momoa was nearly Drax The Destroyer
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Alternate Avengers: Sam Rockwell was nearly Iron Man
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Alternate Avengers: Ryan Gosling was nearly Doctor Strange
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Alternate Avengers: Eddie Redmayne was nearly Star-Lord
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Alternate Avengers: Saoirse Ronan was nearly Scarlet Witch
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Alternate Avengers: Wesley Snipes was nearly Black Panther
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Alternate Avengers: Josh Hartnett was nearly Loki
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Alternate Avengers: Channing Tatum was nearly Thor
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- 10/14
Alternate Avengers: Emily Blunt was nearly Black Widow
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Alternate Avengers: John Krasinski was nearly Captain America
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Alternate Avengers: Joaquin Phoenix was nearly Hulk
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Alternate Avengers: Joseph Gordon-Levitt was nearly Ant-Man
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Alternate Avengers: David Hasselhoff was nearly Nick Fury
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Robert Downey Jr’s ineffable charm kickstarted the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008 with Iron Man. Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and many more joined along the way and, next week, Avengers: Infinity War will see nearly every Marvel star together on screen for the first time.
Marvel has been praised for getting its casting so consistently spot-on, but for every actor who slotted perfectly into the MCU, there were a handful of other actors who came super-close to landing the super-roles.
With this in mind, we’ve assembled The Alternate Avengers: the actors who almost wound up playing Earth’s mightiest heroes.
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