MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

2. Howard The Duck Almost Cameoed

There weren't actually all that many things cut from the movie, by the Russos' own admission, but they did cut a cameo that they'd planned at one stage.

In an interview with Fandom, the Russo Brothers revealed that Howard the Duck, who had previously appeared in both of the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies, was in an early draft of the script before he was scrapped:

“Howard the Duck was in one draft of the script. Howard the Duck actually had a really good scene… we were going to cameo with Ken Jeong, with Howard the Duck. That was a much-beloved scene by us but it just didn’t end up fitting at all.”

According to the directors, the Duckworldian was going to be in a scene with Star-Lord who was gathering information:

“Yeah, it was Quill trying to track down some information from Howard the Duck on some outlier planet and interrupting him during a poker game."

Apparently, Cosmo the Dog was also considered for the movie at one point too.