Some Random Guy
Striker
They really can afford to lose the big hitters.I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing most of them again. My lad has a theory that they'll come back in a mix'n'match kind of fashion. The breaking up of traditional teams as such, but a forging of fresh alliances. They need to keep it moving along, but can't afford to really lose their big hitters.
There were 6 Avengers originally, Ironman, Cap, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye.
As an example if they kill all of those off we have a potential roster of:
Doctor Strange, Antman, Wasp, War Machine, Falcon, Spiderman, Scarlet Witch, and Black Panther, Bucky Barnes, and I assume Captain Marvel
That's 10 characters (although war machine and falcon seem expendible), theres a lot of bloat character wise.
They really can afford to lose the big hitters, Black Panther, Spiderman, and Doctor Strange are the new big hitters, they will have their trilogies and crossovers.
We'll be getting Guardians 3, maybe after that we'll see some them feature on Earth based crossovers.
There are a lot of films planned, up to 2028 iirc, I can't see a 63 year-old RDJ flying around as Ironman then. Factor in his deal costs a bomb, and as far as im aware he isn't up for Ironman 4, we could easily see Stark getting killed off.
There will be new characters coming, we don't who yet. Disney will own loads, we also (could?) have them buying Fox meaning they have the likes of the X-Men, Dead Pool, the Fantastic 4 to play with.