9 MCU Characters Who Deserved More Screen Time
6. The Leader
The Leader technically hasn't been in any MCU movies, so it might seem like a bit of a stretch here. However, while he hasn't been introduced in the MCU, he has actually been seen in the MCU, via Tim Blake Nelson's Samuel Sterns in The Incredible Hulk.
So The Leader isn't here as a character still waiting to break out of the comics, but as a character who had his big break snatched away from him.
Nelson is a huge comic book fan himself and has stated multiple times that he signed on for a three picture deal, but unfortunately he hasn't been called upon since. Bringing Red Skull back for Infinity War felt like a blast from the past, but the Leader, as a yet to be established character from a movie the MCU have ushered into the shadows, feels like a bridge too far.
Comics Sterns is a manual labourer who's exposed to gamma radiation, while in the film he's a scientist working with Banner. This more personal shift might have made for a more meaningful connection in the MCU, but now we'll never know.
The Leader, we hardly knew ye.