10 Trick Castings That Totally Fooled You

10. Frank Grillo - Captain America: Civil War

In an alternate universe, Frank Grillo would have made an awesome Punisher, but he was snapped up to play Brock Rumlow instead. Grillo’s one of the few actors who could be a convincing threat to Captain America despite his character having no superpowers, and after Rumlow is badly scarred by the events of The Winter Soldier, the stage was set for epic revenge.

He then becomes the villainous Crossbones, who helped assassinate Steve Rogers in the comic. This led to fans believing Cap might die when he faces off against Rumlow, but they needn’t have worried; Crossbones is dead within the first ten minutes.

He gets a great fight scene before trying to kill Cap in a suicide bombing. Thanks to Scarlet Witch’s quick reflexes she contains the explosion and tosses him away, although this doesn’t work well for the people around him when the bomb does go off.

Crossbones was kind of a red herring character here, though his death does play a part in fracturing the Avengers.