10 New MCU Characters To Look Out For In 2018 - Ranked By Anticipation

7. Pip The Troll (Rumoured For Infinity War)

Word has it that Game of Thrones favourite Peter Dinklage has been cast in Avengers: Infinity War, and all signs point to him playing Pip The Troll.

Pip is a Laxidazian alien who becomes mutated after getting sloshed on a mutagenic hallucinogenic ale, which sounds like something Tyrion Lannister might do, but that's nothing to do with why Dinklage has almost certainly been handed this role.

Earlier this year, photos of the actor rocking a new red hairstyle not unlike Pip's circulated on social media. Add the fact that the cosmic troll has a role in the Infinity Gauntlet comic arc that Infinity War is based on, and the evidence is stacking up.

Exactly how the movies might use Pip is unknown, but given that he's a known associate of Adam Warlock - who will join the MCU in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - his presence could be about foreshadowing and sowing seeds for future sequels.