# Josh Brolin, we have Marvel movie and we need a villain, you available? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057 "2018-04-24T19:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/1 "2018-04-24T19:40:04Z")
So, in an oddish coincidence there are 2 Marvel superhero movies coming out and Josh Brolin is cast as the bad guy in both. I’m not sure how I feel about this. [Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (April 27)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5) [Cable in Deadpool 2 (May 18)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/?ref_=nv_sr_1) It’s not the same character, and the movies aren’t currently\* in the same MCU, but geez. Maybe we’ve reached saturation with all these Marvel movies. We’re running out of actors! Your thoughts? \*Now that Disney has bought Fox Entertainment, they’re in the same studio. So, it could happen someday. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/2 "2018-04-24T19:43:53Z")
Captain America was already Johnny Storm. Folks seem to have handled it okay. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/3 "2018-04-24T19:47:02Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Captain America was already Johnny Storm. Folks seem to have handled it okay. So was Killmonger. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/4 "2018-04-24T19:47:42Z")
Brolin was also Jonah Hex. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/5 "2018-04-24T19:54:35Z")
So, we are running out of actors. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/6 "2018-04-24T19:56:43Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > So, we are running out of actors. Considering there are only about 6 British actors and two of them are playing Americans in the MCU, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/7 "2018-04-24T20:13:10Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Considering there are only about 6 British actors and two of them are playing Americans in the MCU, probably. Ugh, don’t get me started on the casting community’s fetish for non-American’s playing Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/8 "2018-04-24T20:36:20Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > So, in an oddish coincidence there are 2 Marvel superhero movies coming out and Josh Brolin is cast as the bad guy in both. I’m not sure how I feel about this. > > [Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (April 27)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5) > > [Cable in Deadpool 2 (May 18)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Is it possible he could fight Green Lantern at some point? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/9 "2018-04-24T20:37:46Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Considering there are only about 6 British actors and two of them are playing Americans in the MCU, probably. Yeah, the UK’s actor-shuffling is about an order of magnitude worse than Marvel’s problems. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/10 "2018-04-24T22:43:44Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Brolin was also Jonah Hex. And a young agent K in MIB 3, and Dwight in the second Sin City. Heck, he probably has the record for appearing as a main character in different movie/comic universes. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/11 "2018-04-25T01:01:56Z")
Is Cable a bad guy? I know he is the antagonist but won’t they hug it out by the end? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/12 "2018-04-25T01:05:26Z")
Pump the hate brake Thanos! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/13 "2018-04-25T01:13:12Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > And a young agent K in MIB 3, and Dwight in the second Sin City. Heck, he probably has the record for appearing as a main character in different movie/comic universes. _Infinity War_ will be the sixteenth comic book based movie Chris Evans has appeared in. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/14 "2018-04-25T01:34:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Infinity War_ will be the sixteenth comic book based movie Chris Evans has appeared in. I meant number of different comic book universes, not total number of movies. Brolin has been/will be in MCU, X-Men, Jonah Hex, MIB, and Sin City for 5. Chris Evans has more total movies, but it’s all MCU & Fox’s Fantastic Four. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/15 "2018-04-25T01:45:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I meant number of different comic book universes, not total number of movies. Brolin has been/will be in MCU, X-Men, Jonah Hex, MIB, and Sin City for 5. Chris Evans has more total movies, but it’s all MCU & Fox’s Fantastic Four. You forgot Snowpiercer, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/16 "2018-04-25T01:51:12Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > You forgot Snowpiercer, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. IIRC, _Push_ was also its own comic-book thing about superpowered people doing stuff before they put Chris Evans up on the big screen in the lead role. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/17 "2018-04-25T02:19:35Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I meant number of different comic book universes, not total number of movies. Brolin has been/will be in MCU, X-Men, Jonah Hex, MIB, and Sin City for 5. Chris Evans has more total movies, but it’s all MCU & Fox’s Fantastic Four. > [@Wolf333](#): > > You forgot Snowpiercer, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > IIRC, _Push_ was also its own comic-book thing about superpowered people doing stuff before they put Chris Evans up on the big screen in the lead role. Evans was also in _[TMNT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMNT_(film))_. So sixteen movies based on seven different comic books. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/18 "2018-04-25T02:47:07Z")
Cap isn’t making it past Avengers 4 and rumours have it that Affleck wants out of the Batman role… ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/19 "2018-04-25T10:16:34Z")
Slightly off-topic but I am really impressed by this guy’s career. I think I saw him in one movie in the mid-80s and then did not see him in anything else for almost 20 years and now he is in everything. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/20 "2018-04-25T10:41:12Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I think I saw him in one movie in the mid-80s… [Goonies](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flx-editorial-wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Josh-Brolin-Goonies.jpg)! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057.md?page=2)