23 Avengers Heroes & Villains Imagined With 80s Stars In Marvel Art Is Awesome MCU Casting

Major Hollywood actors from the 1980s suit up as The Avengers in a new Marvel Cinematic Universe concept trailer. The MCU has built itself to be the most successful superhero franchise in modern history, with Warner Bros.’s DCEU movie timeline and Sony’s Spider-Man Universe attempting to find similar success. At this point, the MCU has made almost $30 billion dollars across all of its movies from 2008 up until now.

However, the MCU timeline could have looked very different had it happened nearly 40 years ago during a time when the superhero genre was very limited. In a perfect What If…? scenario, Stryder HD released a new Avengers concept trailer where they imagined actors from the 1980s who are major stars today as the Marvel icons.

Stryder HD’s Avengers video also consists of actors as some of the biggest villains in the MCU, including Loki and Thanos. Ironically, some of the actors listed below ended up joining the MCU between the 2010s and 2020s as different characters in Marvel Studios movies and TV shows.

How The Avengers Would’ve Been Different If It Was Made In The 80s

The Actors Wouldn’t Be The Only Difference

Had The Avengers happened in the 1980s, it definitely would have been one of the most different superhero movies, and a lot of this is related to the time setting. 40 years ago, the film industry looked very different, especially with how movies were being made. The technology that exists today – particularly all the VFX work that studios have access to – would not even be remotely possible to execute in the 1980s. If anything, there would likely have been more practical effects used for an ’80s Avengers movie.

There would have also been a whole different sense of action for The Avengers, as the 1908s had a particular style back then, where it would have relied more on human heroes vs. villains rather than having gods or aliens the way the MCU has today. Looking at it from a political perspective, there would likely have also been less diversity in an Avengers movie produced during the 1980s, as many modern conversations regarding representation in film and TV had not yet taken place.

It would be interesting to see if any of the listed actors end up joining the MCU throughout The Multiverse Saga, especially as the characters that they were proposed to play in The Avengers‘ concept video. With the entire multiverse available to them, there could easily be a universe where alternate universe iterations interact with the Avengers of Earth-199999. But for now, time will tell who else will join the MCU down the line.

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