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10 Comic Book Characters You Probably Didn’t Know Were In Marvel Movies

Over Marvel’s 75 year history, there have been literally thousands of heroes, villains, sidekicks and characters of all sorts running around their funny pages. As such, those in charge of adapting their comics to the big screen are spoilt for choice over what individuals to include.
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Published: Apr 11, 2016 12:54 pm

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1) Fin Fang Foom

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Speaking of billboards alluding to fan-favorite characters, Marvel included one in Iron Man 2. Their billboard, which Iron Man flies past at breakneck speed, featured artwork of Fin Fang Foom, a giant Chinese dragon and a classic member of the Armored Avenger's rogues gallery. As fantastical as the Marvel universe has become, it's doubtful we'll ever see Fin Fang Foom show up in the flesh on screen, leaving this billboard as nothing more than a cool nod to a famous and rather badass comic book character.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has so far brilliantly reinvented a number of comics characters to make sense in a movie. Sadly, one that might just be beyond them, though, is the brilliantly-named Fin Fang Foom – a dragon who is a recurring foe of Tony Stark’s. Still, this hasn’t stopped a nod to the character from featuring in Iron Man.

The original character is the leader of a dragon-like alien race with shapeshifting abilities who infiltrated human society centuries ago. In the movie, he can be briefly seen on a billboard when Iron Man tests his Mark II armour by flying through the city. It is a spectacularly brief and easily-missed cameo, but it is there.

The image was specially drawn for the movie by artist Adi Granov, based on FFF’s look in the Viva Las Vegas comics story. Here’s hoping this is just a tease for an upcoming full-on appearance in the future.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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