The Marvels Recasts Fan-Favorite MCU Character & Twitter Isn’t Holding Back

Fans have taken Marvel’s decision to cast a new cat that looks very different from the original Goose as an opportunity to jokingly reference some of the studio’s past recasting choices. Viewers have specifically compared Goose’s unexpected makeover to when Marvel chose to replace Terrence Howard as James «Rhodey» Rhodes after 2008’s «Iron Man» and similarly brought Mark Ruffalo on to play Bruce Banner in 2012’s «The Avengers» instead of Edward Norton, who famously played the character in 2008’s «The Incredible Hulk.»

On X, formerly Twitter, @LBlau8 joked, «They Cheadle’d Goose!?,» while @thelastravager tweeted, «Goose was asking for too much of a salary bump.» For their part, @KamiAnimess poked fun at Marvel’s decision to simply release a poster of the new Goose without any explanation, tweeting, «Corporate, said ‘They’re the same image.’» @calvonico, meanwhile, sincerely asked, «Couldn’t they have used a cat with the same fur color?» Fans, in other words, seem simultaneously surprised and bewildered over Marvel’s decision to recast Goose in such an obvious fashion.

Notably, Howard and Norton’s disappearances from the MCU have never been acknowledged at any point in the franchise, so it seems safe to assume that Goose’s recasting will similarly go unremarked upon in «The Marvels.» Of course, the film could find a way to use Goose’s Flerken abilities to explain the furry, fan-favorite pet’s new appearance. Either way, fans will just have to wait for «The Marvels» to hit theaters on November 10 to see how the film does or doesn’t acknowledge the character’s transformation.