MCU: What Every Major Hero ALMOST Looked Like

4. Falcon

Falcon Concept
Marvel Studios

Having a man in a flight suit based on a bird was always going to be a slightly tough sell, but the final Hawkeye design suits the comic origin as well as the MCU's rebrand of the suit as a combat unit.

But at one stage, the combat leaning was much more pronounced, with Falcon looking a lot more like Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming but with smaller wings.

The next generation of concept ended up somewhere between that and the final design...

Falcon Concept 2
Marvel Studios
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