Click here for my thoughts about Avengers: Endgame as a movie and a general breakdown about the movie itself. Click here about my discussion of the core characters that appeared in the majority of the movie's screentime. This particular one will be covering the less-prominent characters in the large, large cast.
CAPTAIN MARVEL
So let's tackle the proverbial elephant in the room, Captain Marvel. Easily the most hot topic in the internet as far as fictional superheroes go, Captain Marvel's situation is one that's pretty complex. A combination of her actress's reputation, her decent-but-not-spectacular movie and a whole ton of statements and opinions being thrown around, and it's hard to really look at Captain Marvel as she is introduced to us in her solo movie as well as her admittedly not-too-significant role in Endgame and not see this as a marketing ploy.
Still, for the most part, Endgame actually averts one of my biggest fears about how they handle Captain Marvel as a character. They manage to keep around her status as being one of the biggest powerhouses in the MCU, while at the same time also not having her swoop in and fix everything. I did like the little excuses that she's basically playing space police so she doesn't have time to hang out on Earth with the rest of the Avengers, so her screentime is mostly reduced to her saving Tony and Nebula in the beginning, and then just sort of going in a very matter-of-fact way that she's going to hunt down Thanos and kill him. Which, honestly, is pretty hilarious and I'm a huge fan of that sequence. Carol as a no-nonsense "yep let's do this" is honestly a good extrapolation from her personality in her solo movie, and in 2018 she essentially fills the same role Ant-Man ended up taking over in the 2023 portions -- the "new blood", as Tony puts it, that isn't quite as jaded or war-weary as the rest of the Avengers yet.
She ends up skipping out on the entire movie, though, and while it's slightly unfortunate, it's bizarre that we don't even get a handwave of "Carol's fighting a space war" or something, because if she's around for either the Time Heist or choosing an Avenger to Snap the gauntlet, we'd probably have the movie end a lot faster. Her eventual arrival in taking out Thanos's mothership was pretty neat, and she sort of helps Spider-Man and has that huge "lady Avengers assemble" moment... but ultimately, she goes up against Thanos and while she manages to pry the Titan's fingers open and no-sell a headbutt, Thanos whacks her with the power stone and ends up taking her out for the rest of the battle. And, honestly, we could go all day discussing whether she should've had a better showing, or if her scenes could've been integrated a bit better.Personally? Extra screentime will always be better, but I really am sad that beyond a slightly-pissed glare, Carol really has no reaction to the fact that her good friend Nick Fury has been snapped away. Neither does she really try and find the Rambeaus, or make any sort of meaningful interaction with any of the Avengers. The closest I can think of is probably the smirk she gives Spider-Man, being kind of a cool aunt? I dunno. Honestly, I really wished they had tied Captain Marvel to something in this movie, give her like a hook or something, y'know? Something to make her feel less detached compared to everything that's going on. It could've been much worse, I admit, but I did think that she did get a pretty raw deal as far as screentime goes. At least she got to throw down with the Big Bad, which is more than what Hulk could say. She's all right. Nowhere as spectacular as her fans make her out to be, but nowhere as grating as her haters make her out to be either.
GAMORA
Why is Gamora? I'm putting Gamora up right after Captain Marvel because this was originally meant to be combined with the Nebula segment in my main characters review before I moved it out. See, the real Gamora, the one we followed through Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2, actually just straight-up died and will never return thanks to Infinity War. But this movie introduces a second Gamora, an alternate timeline (???) Gamora plucked from 2014, and it's... it's interesting, I guess? We take the about-to-defect-and-just-needs-a-good-excuse Gamora from the time of 2014, but instead of the catalyst being her befriending the rest of the Guardians (but mostly Peter), Gamora ends up betraying Thanos because her sister convinced her to.
And on that end, it makes sense, I suppose. Gamora's not a character that got the most screentime in this movie. For the most part, she just hangs around the 2014-era villains, commenting on Thanos and covering for Nebula's failures, right until 2023-Nebula convinces her to come with her. She and 2023-Nebula confronts 2014-Nebula, and later on confronts Star-Lord and kicks him in the balls, but otherwise just sort of hung in the background and disappears afterwards. And... and honestly, after how much Infinity War highlighted Gamora as the one thing Thanos loves enough to sacrifice, as well as showing off flashbacks to child Gamora and Thanos, the fact that she ended up ironically enough being a satellite character to Nebula (oh how the tables have turned!) ended up really not doing the most dangerous woman in the universe any favours. Zoe Saldana does a fantastic job in the short screentime she got, but it's clear that the priority of the Endgame writers as far as Gamora is concerned is to basically shove in a new, spare Gamora without any of the history of the previous, now-dead Gamora, into the world, and honestly, I've got some time to think about it and more than anything in this movie it feels like a weird cop-out. We'll see what Guardians Vol. 3 will have to say about this, and if it's going to lead into something interesting, or if it's just going to be confusing.SPIDER-MAN
Spider-Man, is, of course, the subject of one of the most heartbreaking deaths in Infinity War. And while he's essentially reduced to Tony Stark's sidekick and morality pet, the young superhero being Tony's motivation, and the eventual hug and reunion with his mentor is pretty damn poignant. "This is nice" indeed, particularly since in Spider-Man: Homecoming Tony make it a point to keep some distance from Peter, refusing a hug in one of the often-repeated scenes in the trailer.
Spider-Man himself ends up getting a fair amount of screentime in the final fight... perhaps the most? He gets the gauntlet from Black Panther and ends up getting into fun team-ups with Rescue and Valkyrie before he ends up showcasing just what "insta-kill mode" is all about, an amazing payoff for a joke from another movie. That's hilarious. He ends up sort of being saved by Captain Marvel and the huge lineup of all of Marvel's lady superheroes, which... okay? I don't think Peter really did much in the fight afterwards other than the finale, of course, where he rushes to Tony's side and the poor kid is fully in tears and in panic -- this probably isn't the first time he saw an father-like figure die, huh? Peter at least gets a couple of significant screentime, which is more than I can say compared to a lot of the other dusted characters... which is going to be a common complaint moving forwards.He gets to reunite with Ned at the end of the movie, and is the first hero we'll get a proper check-in with after Endgame, and the Homecoming trailers we see is going to have Nick Fury seemingly groom him to be the new Iron Man of sorts, which is pretty dang awesome.
BLACK PANTHER, OKOYE & SHURI
Black Panther's cast... don't really get a whole ton to do, like many of the dusted suprheroes, but I'm honestly not sure why they didn't incorporate Okoye into the story a bit better, considering the fact that they gave Rocket and Nebula a fair amount of screentime as part of the surviving Avengers. Okoye just shows up in the holo-meeting post-timeskip, but otherwise she might as well as be dusted. She doesn't join the Time Heist, and I don't think she went into space post-Snap either. I dunno. I realize that she might not be the most major character out of all of the survivors, but they really could have utilized her more. I know the movie's probably a bit too busy, but maybe have Okoye hang out, like, guarding the Avengers base with Wong and Valkyrie or something? I dunno. She does get to seemingly one-shot Corvus Glaive in the final battle, which is awesome.
Black Panther and Shuri are also just sort of there, like most of the characters that appear as reinforcements. The audience cheer for them when they arrive, and Black Panther at least got a relatively neat action scene as he joins Ronin and Spider-Man in a game of Infinity Gauntlet hot potato. Best of all is a neat callback to T'Challa's fight with Hawkeye in Civil War, where T'Challa tells Hawkeye that he doesn't care to hear his name... but here he addresses Clint by name. I love that little nod.Shuri... she shows up? Honestly, it's a bit of a shame that Infinity War didn't even show her being dusted, and it's only if you're eagle-eyed enough to look at the computer screens that you realize she's gone at all. At least the camera focuses on Shuri for a couple of scenes, which is more than I can say for poor, poor M'Baku, a character I really do like but I had to look and squint real hard to confirm that, yes, M'Baku does appear in the movie.
DR. STRANGE [and Wong]
Dr. Strange also only shows up after the Snap, and it's kind of a bit of a disservice to his character. By the time of the final battle, a non-gauntleted Thanos is perhaps more brutal and savage than his Infinity War counterpart, but between Thor, Scarlet Witch, Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel, there certainly are a fair amount of titans there that can probably take on Thanos pretty well. Dr. Strange gets to show off a lot of neat tricks like pulling aliens into the ground and the whole portal army delivery sequence, but ultimately, unlike in Infinity War where he got a long, badass magic action scene, Dr. Strange ends up having most of his screentime stopping the battlefield from being flooded by turning all the water into a waterspout. The most screentime we got out of him is him raising a finger while making eye contact with Tony, telling him that, yes, this is the one chance in however many million that they have to defeat Thanos. It is pretty consistent with his monologue in the previous movie how he'll be glad to sacrifice Tony if it meant saving the world, but at least the way the scene played out, it's less Strange throwing Tony under the bus, and more Strange confirming that Tony's plan of taking the sacrifice will lead to a victory? Eh.Wong apparently survives the Snap, but sort of doesn't show up for the entire movie until the final battle where he gets a couple of fun lines when he helps Dr. Strange open portals. I really like Wong, and while I don't quite expect him to, like, join the Time Heist... it'd be nice, y'know, to take out maybe that one taco joke and have the Avengers hand-wave the absence of some characters from the Time Heist? "Captain Marvel's busy fighting space enemies, Valkyrie's running a coutry, Wong's fighting demons, we're all that's left" or something?
THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
The Guardians really kind of got a raw deal, huh? I know this is the Avengers movie, but other than Nebula and Rocket, the Guardians really didn't do anything. Groot, Mantis and Drax essentially just got a couple of close ups and just ended up basically being crowd-fillers. And I get that while Mantis might not be up to the caliber of some of the heroes present, they really deserved a bit better. Drax in particular, who has a grudge on Thanos-via-Ronan or something, didn't he?
Star-Lord, with his personal stake with getting Gamora back, got like, a wee bit more than the others. His 2014 self sort of got a cameo singing like a moron, which is hilarious. His present-day version got his balls kicked by the alternate-universe Gamora... and he just sort of disappeared into the background only to appear after the funeral to trade barbs with Thor over the "Asgardians of the Galaxy". And... I dunno. I sound like a broken track record in saying "I really wished they did more", and I think we could've probably used an extra line or two about Star-Lord angsting that the Gamora that has returned to the present wasn't exactly his Gamora. I dunno. The Guardians are honestly just sort of kind of there, huh?SCARLET WITCH [and the lack of Vision]
Scarlet Witch is easily my favourite minor Marvel movie character. She's often ridiculed for her pretty poor debut movie, but throughout Civil War and Infinity War, she has quickly risen up and ended up being a pretty dang interesting character. The world is just not kind to poor Wanda, is it? And for someone who started off as a villain (and has the potential to revert back into one), Wanda keeps sticking with the good guys throughout it all. She's lost her brother, caused the destruction of the embassy in Civil War by accident, became the catalyst that caused her friends to fight each other, imprisoned in a straitjacket by Stark, forced to be on the run... found happiness, only to be forced to kill her lover and then to have said hard decision be for naught...
Because holy shit, Vision doesn't return! It's something that I sort of expected, but to have his death really be quietly brushed under the rug, and not even mentioned until Wanda goes on her one-woman rampage, and later on mourns Vision with Clint near that lake... poor Vision. I realize he's not that major of a character in the grand scheme of things, but come on.I really cheered when Scarlet Witch ended up hunting down Thanos in the battlefield, eyes blazing, hands glowing, and the perfectly venomous delivery of "you took EVERYTHING from me", and the promise that Thanos will know who she is. This is a woman who's lost everything, and the fact that she's easily the one person on the battlefield who's come the closest to one-shotting Thanos is pretty damn awesome. She rips apart Thanos's armour and blade like nothing, and I was really cheering for her. Sadly since she's not one of the main Avengers, she gets taken out by the orbital bombardment... although more than anyone else, I think she's the one who made Thanos actually panic. Captain Marvel, Captain America, Iron Man and Thor might hurt Thanos, but Wanda Maximoff is the one that scared Thanos. That's not a bad accomplishment.
Now give Wanda her own damn movie, Marvel.
FALCON & BUCKY
Ah, it's Captain America's sidekicks. They are also just kind of there. Falcon ends up with the pretty badass role of being the first character to show up as part of the reinforcements, but after the long shot showing them alive, Falcon and Winter Soldier are just sort of... there in the background? We get to see a shot of Falcon stabbing some giant alien gorilla with his wings, neat-o, but otherwise the two are just there.
It's not until the final scene with the time-traveling Captain America that the two of them really end up getting some kind of real meaty screentime. Bucky's brief conversation with Steve, mirroring their old conversation in the Captain America: The First Avenger movie ("don't do anything stupid") is pretty damn telling that Bucky knows all about Steve's plan to stay in the past, particularly how forlorn he looks when Bruce and Sam panics after Steve doesn't return. That's a neat little character beat -- perhaps moreso than anyone else in the world, Bucky recognizes the desire, the need to return to a time where you'd be accepted and be happy with someone who loves you.And Sam gets to have a neat conversation with old Steve Rogers, who ends up giving him a new shield and makes him the new Captain America. Which is neat, but I really kinda wished Cap and Falcon had more... more screentime together, y'know? Falcon's been around Cap throughout a couple of movies, sure, but I don't think that we've seen enough out of him to really suddenly make him the successor. Honestly, I kinda wished we had swapped War Machine and Falcon's deaths in Infinity War, and have this movie be about Falcon proving that he is a worthy successor? I dunno.
VALKYRIE [and Korg, and Miek]
As a character whose survival surprised a fair amount of people (I was definitely worried that Valkyrie was among those slain by Thanos in Infinity War's prologue), Valkyrie ended up... kind of sitting a good chunk of the movie out. She shows up early on in New Asgard to greet Hulk and Rocket Raccoon, before the focus of the scene ends up going to Thor. And... and I'm not sure why they didn't call her (or Okoye!) in for the Time Heist or something. With Captain Marvel, there's the excuse of her being in space, of course, but Valkyrie and Okoye? I dunno. Valkyrie does get a pretty badass entry into the final battle, riding a goddamn pegasus into battle and easily being one of the most striking ones among the reinforcements -- she one-shot-killed a Leviathan, and got this whole sequence assisting Spider-Man, which are both pretty damn cool! Valkyrie ends up inheriting the title of King of Asgard (or, well, Queen) from Thor... and I guess we're supposed to nod because Valkyrie's been leading New Asgard as a society in the past five years? It'd be nice to get more... more anything out of the movie to inform us of why this is a good idea, honestly.
Korg and Miek are there, with Korg being as hilarious as ever and playing Fortnite and shit. I love Korg. They also show up to fight at the end, which is also awesome. Can I just say just how happy I am that these Z-list fodder from the comics end up being fun, recurring characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
WASP [and Hank Pym]
Some heroes don't really get as much screentime as the others, and poor poor Wasp probably got the shortest end of the stick. Snapped away in the mid-credits scene with both of her parents, Wasp ends up showing up among the reinforcements in the final battle, gets a couple of short action moments mostly in the background, hung out with Scott as they fail to restart the van, showed up in the Ladies Assemble segment, and then just sort of hung around with the rest of the cast. She's just there, y'know? Poor Wasp. She deserved better.
Hank Pym gets a brief cameo in the 70's alongside his doofy old-school Ant-Man outfit. If we wanted it to be real fanservicey, we would've brought Scott Lang to the 70's and have him maybe interact with Hank Pym in his prime as the original Ant-Man or something. Or have Hank Pym finally suit up alongside Janet as the original Ant-Man and the Wasp in the finale... I know they're retired, but come on. I do like the fact that Hank shows up in Tony Stark's funeral, showing that the animosity that Hank feels against Tony Stark is water under the bridge. That's a neat little detail.
RESCUE
Pepper Potts has been mostly absent from the spotlight since Iron Man 3, with most of her screentime outside of the Iron Man movies either being written off as "she's busy offscreen" or reduced to a couple of short scenes. This movie doesn't quite elevate her to leading lady status or whatever, but considering how other love interest characters like Jane Foster, Betty Ross and whoever Dr. Strange's girlfriend is called have all basically been all but phased out, the fact that Pepper's actress stuck aroud for so long is actually quite surprising and pleasant.
And she ends up really getting a huge amount of characterization in her limited screentime, bringing her admittedly not-quite-developed storyline from the Iron Man trilogy to a close. This was a woman who was once unsure about what's going on and even threatened to leave Tony because of his obsession and his willingness to put himself in danger at the cost of his own life. It's an understandable sentiment, and one that she seems to have sort of outgrown eventually... but the scene in the Stark house where Pepper gently tells Tony that she knows and loves Tony enough that she knows Tony won't be able to stop himself, or really rest (nice choice of words there), if he's foud a way to fix things. That's a huge, huge character development, and despite Pepper's absence as a major character throughout a lot of movies, I do love the fact that she and Tony ended up having a happy life being parents for a couple of years.
And, of course, she ends up suiting in a proper Rescue suit, something that genuinely caught me off-guard. I'm not sure why I was so surprised, considering widdle Morgan was running with a blue Iron Man helmet earlier in the movie... but, shit, she's completely badass in the Rescue armour, and this isn't a five-second wear-the-armour-for-a-while like she did in Iron Man 3 either. She just straight up suits up and is a back-to-back badass with Tony. And I did say this back in my Tony discussion, but how she acted as Tony dies, putting a calm hand on Peter Parker's shoulder, and putting a brave front and telling Tony to rest because "they'll be fine"... before breaking down and crying when Tony has passed... and apparently, this whole scene was improvised by the actors present, which is amazing. Great stuff.
LADY FRIGGA
Man oh man, I really didn't care all that much for Thor: The Dark World until after I watched this movie. And Dark World is still very much an underwhelming sequel that focuses on all the wrong parts and plotlines, but I really, relly forgot what an amazing character queen Frigga is, and just how phenomenal her actress Rene Russo is. Frigga has always been shown to be compassionate in Dark World to both Loki and Jane, being the good, understanding, and witty mother figure to contrast with Odin's more... bull-headedness. They certainly aren't perfect parents, as Thor and Loki find out, but Frigga is a dang good mother. We just really didn't see a whole ton of her interactions with Thor... until now!
And honestly, Frigga quickly calling out that Thor is "not [her] Thor", with the shrug of "I was raised by witches", is just such a gloriously fun little way to justify a lack of freaking out and explanation, and how Frigga calmly listens to Thor's story while at the same time offering a not-unkind speech about how everyone fails, and sometimes that's how you know who you really are... that's amazingly delivered, and honestly I am just really, really a huge fan of the Thor/Frigga scene. I also do love that unlike the other time travel problems, Frigga expressly tells Thor that she doesn't want to hear about her future, or her impending death, because there are some things that just has to happen. That's one time-travel timeline that's left perfectly intact, at least!
THE ANCIENT ONE
Did you expect to see the Ancient One in this movie in any sort of huge role? I sure as hell don't! She essentially ends up fulfilling a similar role to Howard Stark or Frigga or any of the 'visit these characters in the past' characters, but I am actually quite curious at the decision to have the Ancient One talk to Bruce Banner. The conversation was certainly well-acted, and both actors are amazing, but it kinda hit home that Dr. Strange really didn't have much of an interaction with the rest of the MCU except for Iron Man and maybe Thor briefly, huh? Because as cool as it is to see Bruce and Ancient One talk to each other, it really doesn't quite have the impact as any of the other scenes of our characters interacting with a past, long-gone person.It's neat, though, and I do like the little bit of confirmation that the Ancient One is just casually helping to defend New York in 2012 with her magic spells.
LOKI
We'll discuss this weird, seeming plot hole of time changing in our geekery/pedantry segment, but Ido like that this is a neat, if way too obvious, way for them to work in the pilot for the Loki miniseries they're having sometime down the pipeline. It's just a shame that, like Thanos and Gamora in this movie, if this is the way we're plucking Loki back, this means that we're getting a Loki that's without all of the heavy character development in Dark World, Ragnarok and Infinity War, which is honestly kind of a cop-out. Unless if we're getting an "Old Loki" v.s. "Redeemed Loki" Agent of Asgard style conflict. That'd be dope.
HOWARD STARK, EDWIN JARVIS & PEGGY CARTER
I feel like these guys should get a bit to talk about in their own section. And... and I don't think there's much I can say about Howard Stark that I haven't said in the Tony Stark section, but it's a pretty damn powerful role. I really did love that Howard is truly and blissfully unaware about the weird shit that's going on -- although, then again, he really doesn't have much of a reason to be suspicious. I really do like that we see this little transitory period between Dominic Cooper's initial portrayal of Howard Stark as this quirky, playful investor millionaire in Captain America The First Avenger and Agent Carter, to eventually being the more world-weary and distand person we briefly see in Tony Stark's flashbacks in the various Iron Man movies. He's starting to be tired and to lose himself in the job of saving the world, and he tries his best to be there for his family, and the fact that this father that Tony always saw as being perfect but distant ends up being both flawed and really dreading Tony's birth -- not because he doesn't want Tony, but because he thinks he won't ever be a good enough parent... the scenes just really speak volumes and I am such, such a huge fan of the whole sequence between Howard Stark and Howard "Potts".
Peggy Carter sadly doesn't get to do much and is reduced to a satellite love interest for Steve Rogers... and I'm not even sure if she got a line. But as I have mentioned before, her scene with Steve separated by the window blinds is effective as all hell, and she definitely got a happy ending with Steve. Maybe. We're not sure if it's an alternate timeline or a retconned timeline. Either/or. We'll discuss it in the future. Regardless, Hayley Atwell is a cool actor.
Best of all, though, is the cameo of Edwin fuckin' Jarvis, and I believe I made a sound that's halfway between a squee and a delighted shot when we see him. See, I have always held out hope that the Marvel TV shows would get a reference in the actual MCU movies, because after the first two years of Agents of SHIELD, we really didn't get any inter-connection between any of the TV projects and the movies. I didn't expect -- but would really love -- to see the reborn Phil Coulson or Ghost Rider or Daredevil or Jessica Jones or Black Bolt or Punisher or Quake or someone from the TV show show up in the climax, a sly wink to the audience... but for the character to make the transition be Jarvis? That's hella unexpected, but at the same time, it's probably a cameo that the causal movie-only crowd would get. "Ah, that's who Jarvis was named for!" instead of "wait, why is Coulson alive?"
THE BLACK ORDER
Quick talk about the Black Order, because they show up in this movie. Always liked the Black Order as a bunch of alien minibosses. They do even less in this movie, with Ebony Maw getting the brunt of the screentime acting as 2014-era Thanos's majordomo and exchanging a fair amount of lines with Thanos. Ebony also got the most cinematic fights, using his telekinesis to toss around Black Panther and whatnot, and was the last to fall in the battlefield. Good on little Squidward!
The rest of the Black Order did show up, but really didn't do much. Cull Obsidian got attacked by a bunch of heroes before getting stomped to death unceremoniously by Ant-Man in Giant-Man form. I don't even remember seeing Proxima Midnight after the initial bad-guys-assemble scene right until the Snap, whereas I distinctly remember seeing Corvus Glaive basically one-shotted by Okoye. Which is hilarious, admittedly, but that scene is a small detail in the female-Avengers-charging-forwards scene so it's easy to miss.
I did enjoy the fact that in addition to the Outriders from Infinity War, Thanos's forces also had Sakaarans from Guardians of the Galaxy and the Chitauri from Avengers. That's neat.
NICK FURY, HAPPY HOGAN, ETC.
Y'know, for someone who started off the whole Avengers Initiative, for the person who recruited Iron Man, Captain America and Captain Marvel, Nick Fury... really did jack shit, huh? All he did is show up at the end in the funeral scene, and I honestly wonder if there's just a straight-up scheduling conflict with Samuel L. Jackson or something. He didn't get to show up with the others when they arrive for the battle, when you'd think that Nick Fury, Maria Hill and the rest of SHIELD (with or without TV show acknowledgement) would show up in the Helicarrier just like they did in Age of Ultron. Honestly, I still think the fact that Nick Fury didn't even get to say any last parting words to Tony Stark ends up being perhaps the only thing I would consider a huge waste in Tony's otherwise pretty great death sequence.
Happy Hogan apparently gets a poster, even though he gets like, one, two minutes of screentime, tops, and all of those are in the funeral scene? His scene with little Morgan Stark (who's adorable) is very sad yet heartwarming at the same time. Cheeseburgers! I suppose I kind of have to talk about Morgan Stark, too? She's adorable.The rest of the minor character that shows up are... they're all right. Red Skull is still the Guardian of the Soul Stone in 2014, and we really do not get any context or personality from him and he just disappears after his first exposition to Hawkeye and Black Widow. Alexander Pierce, Crossbones and Jasper Sitwell all end up showing up as cameos in the 2012-era New York as minor antagonists, basically behaving as they did in their previous appearances. Kudos for Robert Redford, by the way, for taking time out of retirement to film this cameo.
Who else is important? Cassie Lang, I suppose, who has been re-casted with an older actress thanks to the time-skip. She got a decent scene, even if I still find it hard to believe that the little kid from the Ant-Man movies suddenly grew like a decade and a half in five years. M'Baku gets even less screentime and I had to really squint to spot him. A pity, he was my fave in Black Panther. Kraglin the Marauder also shows up in the background when the Avengers assembled, but we really don't zoom in on him. Apparently he's wearing a version of Yondu's arrow-mohawk thing, which is neat! Eagle-eyed viewers apparently also caught Howard the Duck in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it easter egg, which is awesome. Maria Hill, General Thunderbolt Ross, Aunt May Parker and that kid from Iron Man 3, Harley, only show up in the funeral scene. Queen Ramonda shows up in the celebration scenes. Ned Leeds shows up greeting Peter at school. Jane Foster appears in The Dark World scenes via unused footage, which is a clever way to get the character back without recasting Natalie Portman.And... and I really do wish a lot of these characters got to do more. Particularly Nick Fury, M'Baku and Kraglin, with the latter two really could've used a couple of extra close-ups considering the fact that they clearly got the actors around. But eh, the movie was, as I mentioned, pretty damn stuffed as it is, and I don't blame them for not, say, shooting a Kraglin scene or whatever when a lot of other 'main characters of their own movies' characters like Doctor Strange, Black Panther or Star-Lord are already barely in the movie.
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