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10 Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters Who Are Completely Pointless

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought us some of the most recognizable, successful and just plain awesome superheroes in the whole of cinema. However, not everyone that the franchise touches turns to gold. It's only natural that, in the MCU's increasingly overpopulated movies, some of the characters end up being totally pointless.
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Published: Sep 24, 2017 07:15 pm

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Let’s be clear, we have a huge amount of respect for Jon Favreau as a filmmaker. His successful direction of 2008’s Iron Man is the reason that the MCU was able to get off the ground at all, so in a sense we have him to thank for everything since then. As an actor, though, his role in the MCU is fairly superfluous.

Favreau’s played Tony Stark’s bodyguard and pal Happy Hogan in all three Iron Man movies and recently reprised the role for Iron Man 4 Spider-Man: Homecoming. After four appearances, we should probably feel a great deal of warmth and love for the character. But, in actual fact, he’s just kind of there.

We have nothing against Happy – like we said, this isn’t a list of the worst MCU characters – but he never really adds that much to the proceedings. Take Homecoming, for example. It felt like Favreau was only involved because Robert Downey Jr. didn’t have the time to be around for the whole shoot.

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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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