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Whats most annoying is that Marvel has a great collection of female and minority characters they could push in place of Captain America and Thor. Luke Cage, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther, all of which have been involved with the Avengers and the major stories of the Marvel Universe in the recent past. Plus Cage has his own 10 episode Netflix series coming soon and will be part of the Defenders, while Black Panther and Captain Marvel both have feature films slated for the next 3-4 years. No reason why those 3 couldn't be pushed to the top tier in a varity of ways to fill the void left by Captain America and Thor.

In terms of less established characters, Patriot, Miss America, Blue Marvel, White Tiger, Power Man are all characters who could be given more important roles in flag ship books like Avengers and/or given their own series to increase their standing in the Marvel Universe as a whole. And this concept that new characters can't sell is completely bollocks, as Ms Marvel proves.

All better options then giving us a poor characterized Falcon as Captain America (he picks up a Shield and suddenly is leading the Avengers and taking on Hydra pretty much single handedly?) or a gender swapped Thor while the real Thor is running around with the Avengers still. Both of these options show lack of creativity and reek of stunt writing.