Marvel are starting to get a tiny bit silly now. Besides getting people all hot and bothered with teasers for teaser trailers for actual trailers, they're now doing pre-announcements. This week Marvel's VP Of Animation Development And Production, Cort Lane, mentioned at the Marvel Animation panel at WonderCon that the studio had a new animated project in the works. That's all. Nothing special they currently have Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk: Agents Of SMASH and Avengers Assemble. Those three form a sort-of shared animated universe, much like Marvel's nineties cartoons, but oh yeah what makes this new project different is that it's gonna be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So it'll be sharing the same fictional space as the Avengers movies, Guardians Of The Galaxy, and that thing about the Incredible Shrinking Paul Rudd. Now that's pretty exciting, whatever it is. Cort refused to officially announce anything including whether this new animated project was another TV series, a movie or something that'll go direct-to-DVD but it's already got speculating tongue a-waggin'. Since Marvel have been playing it cool by slowly rolling out their huge stable of characters in their blockbuster movies, there's plenty left in the toybox that might be better suited to an animated adaptation. Guardians Of The Galaxy would be the obvious choice...if they didn't already have a cartoon in the works for Star-Lord and co. Could they spin-off some of the Avengers characters deemed unworthy of their own movie? Connect up to their live-action TV work? Or do something else completely different? Like...something involving a duck? Here are ten potential stars for Marvel's new animated series.
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