Thread:Artful Dodger/@comment-4651179-20130120012437/@comment-4651179-20130120020505

Actually, War Machine is there because of his appearane in Iron Man 3, if the Iron Patriot in Secret Avengers turns out to be Jim Rhodes (something almost obvious) I would change "War Machine" to "Iron Patriot" (still linking to James Rhodes (Earth-616).

I decided to keep Deadpool for the main reason that he's noticeably popular even without his movie as a totally confirmed project. I would add Ant-Man, maybe some months after Iron Man 3 is released, taking away War Machine and adding Hank Pym because although he has a movie on the works, it's still far away.

But not every character in the list is there because of movies, only Mandarin, War Machine (Iron Man 3), Guardians of the Galaxy and Thanos (Guardians of the Galaxy). My decision to add the Avengers wasn't based on the movies as in my opinion, they should've been there a long time ago, instead of the Fantastic Four.