MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

9. Wolverine & Magneto Almost Had Cameos

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The First Avenger went through plenty of iterations before shooting finally started in 2010, with a 2008 script originally including cameo appearances by X-Men alums Wolverine and Magneto.

Given the movie's World War II setting, Logan would appear as a soldier and Erik Lensherr as a prisoner, but as is so often the case, rights issues got in the way.

As Captain America was ramping up to start principal photography, Fox was also prepping X-Men: First Class, and presumably in an attempt to "protect" the brand - this was early MCU after all - they refused to loan the characters out.

It's easy to sneer at Fox for making a bone-headed decision in retrospect - especially as Disney now owns Fox anyway - but given how risky a Captain America movie sounded on paper in 2010, you can't blame them too much here.

It would've been awesome, though.

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