Kirsten Dunst as Iron Man (RDJ was brilliant casting because of his own history with fame and addiction and it would be cheeky to give Mary Jane her agency back with a few punches)
Gina Rodriguez as Captain America (Since no one can replace Chris Evans, let’s go ahead a few decades in canon and give America Chavez her time to shine)
Gwendoline Christie as Thor (I feel this needs no explanation)
Jenny Slate as Hawkeye (Because the 2012-2015 Hawkeye run was a masterpiece of English Literature and you could just imagine her saying “Aw, Car, No”)
Tessa Thompson as the Hulk (Originally I was going to make a case for her as Iron Man but then I remembered how amazing she was in Annihilation)
Christina Hendricks as Black Widow (Recast because…well, you know)
Bonus
Stephanie Beatriz as the Winter Soldier
Janelle Monáe as Vision
Awkwafina as Ant-Man
Zoe Saldana as War Machine
Leslie Jones as Falcon
Hailee Steinfeld as Spider-Man
Feel free to add on or change. Thanks @tchallasjedi for the inspiration!
This might be one of my favorite fancastings ever.
“What I liked about it when I read the script was that the relationship seemed to be very clearly based on the premise that they both had limitations that they were struggling and fighting against, just to be able to their jobs. So for him, as “skinny Steve”, he wasn’t taken seriously, wasn’t given the chance, was kind of always humiliated. And with Peggy, the fact that she was a woman in a male dominated environment at that time, was just a fulltime job overcoming the prejudice of that as well as just trying to do her job. So I think it was clear in the script that it wasn’t just the oversexualized, sexy love interest but a relationship that was connected through their inner struggle.” — Hayley Atwell on what caught her attention the first time she read the script for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)