5. Avengers: Infinity War Part I (2018) - The Red Skull
Obviously Thanos will be taking centre stage here, finally and at long last and no doubt daughter dearest Nebula will be right by his side. But as an extra secondary antagonist, Id like to see the return to Earth of someone who was thought destroyed decades ago. When the Red Skull grabbed the Tesseract (aka, the Space Stone) in his climactic fight with Captain America in 1945, he was seemingly zapped away, never to be seen again. Of course, the next time the Space Stone opened a portal, Loki was sent through it from Thanos. Theres no reason on or off Earth that the Red Skull couldnt have been alive all this time, serving as the lieutenant to Thanos himself. Hes a Nazi super soldier, after all, and one with a very specific interest in weapons of mass destruction. Can you think of a bigger one than the Infinity Gauntlet? The first part of Avengers: Infinity War will need someone sent to Earth from Thanos to obtain the Mind Stone from the forehead of a certain red android, currently a member of the Avengers roster. If a spacefaring, older and nastier version of the Red Skull were to attack the Avengers at their base, savaging one of their own in Captain Americas new home well, thatd be a dramatic call to action for the team, enough of one to bring members old and new together. Hugo Weaving is showing no signs of wanting to reprise the role, however but its under prosthetics and CGI, so its eminently recastable. Lets see Rufus Sewell play the part hes essaying a Nazi right now in The Man In The High Castle, and I reckon that those hypnotic, intense eyes of his would fit perfectly into a scarlet skullface
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