10 Biggest Casting Mistakes In MCU History

You're probably starting to see a trend here, in that most of Marvel's grave casting mistakes descended in their earlier movies.

They've definitely got better and had to learn from their mistakes as the studio has grown but this next foul-up came at the very beginning and forced them to think on their feet from the get go.

Coming into the first Iron Man, Terrence Howard had found himself in the public eye - Crash and Get Rich or Die Tryin' had put him on the map - so he was right to assume that he would have been asked back thanks to his decent performance as War Machine.

With Howard set to earn a substantial raise in the form of an $8 million payday (up from his $4.5 million fee for Iron Man) Marvel suddenly opted to exercise their right to decide not to bring Howard back, despite him signing a multi-picture deal.

Howard alluded to Downey Jr's supposed greed in taking his salary and role in the next film when he spoke of how he "took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out" and even mentioned how his on-screen best bud refused to call him back for three months.

It again made Marvel look like a dishonest company and left them with the aesthetic plot hole of changing actor midway through a series.

If you don't think you're going to be able to afford your actors, don't cast them to begin with.