The MCU has shied away from Christmas over the last decade. Aside from James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special and the Disney+ series Hawkeye, the festive season has rarely featured on screen in the MCU. The previously mentioned projects are also recent examples. However, according to Guy Pearce, the first Marvel Christmas movie actually happened in Phase 2, we’ve all just forgotten about it. Pearce played Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3, a character who started out as a new ally to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), before revealing himself to be The Mandarin, attempting to create super-powered soldiers with the Extremis virus.
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There are many forgotten characters from the MCU‘s past that fans are desperate to see return to the big (or small) screen. That list includes