Avengers 5: Will Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy make 'Avengers: The Kang Dynasty' with 60 MCU superheroes?

The Avengers include Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Vision, War Machine, Falcon, Spider-Man, Nebula, Rocket, Captain Marvel, Okoye, Ant-Man. (Image via X/Marvel)

The fifth Avengers film, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, could feature as many as 60 superheroes and superheroines. This would be a significant increase over the first Avengers film in 2012 that brought together the superpowers of Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye to fight Loki and the 'Other'. The first Avengers film had also brought together the star power of Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Tom Hiddlestone as Loki, to make the feature Marvel's first billion-dollar grosser.

Director Shawn Levy, whose Deadpool & Wolverine is set to release on July 26 in the US, is reportedly in early talks with Marvel Studios to make Avengers 5.

Avengers box office

Indeed, the Avengers films have proven to be quite bankable even within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All four Avengers films are in the Top 5 of highest-grossing superhero films. Here's a quick look at what the Avengers films made at the global box office:

The Avengers (2012) - USD 1.51 billion

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - USD 1.4 billion

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - USD 2.04 billion

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - USD 2.79 billion

To be sure, despite recent failed series, MCU has largely been considered a bankable franchise since 2008, when Robert Downey Jr first donned Iron Man's titanium-gold suit with the Arc Reactor core.

Avengers heroes

The last Avengers film released more than four years ago. The maximum number of superheroes that a single Avengers films has featured so far is 17 (Avengers: Endgame):

1. The Avengers

Tony Stark / Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr

Steve Rogers / Captain America: Chris Evans

Bruce Banner / Hulk: Mark Ruffalo

Thor: Chris Hemsworth

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson

Clint Barton / Hawkeye: Jeremy Renner

2. Avengers: The Age of Ultron

Tony Stark / Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr

Steve Rogers / Captain America: Chris Evans

Bruce Banner / Hulk: Mark Ruffalo

Thor: Chris Hemsworth

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson

James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine: Don Cheadle

Pietro Maximoff: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Wanda Maximoff: Elizabeth Olsen

Vision: Paul Bettany

Sam Wilson / Falcon: Anthony Mackie

3. Avengers: Infinity War

The Guardians of the Galaxy and T'Challa and the Wakandan forces reinforce the Avengers in the third film in the franchise. The Avengers called to action here are:

Tony Stark / Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr.

Thor: Chris Hemsworth

Bruce Banner / Hulk: Mark Ruffalo

Steve Rogers / Captain America: Chris Evans

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson

Dr. Stephen Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch

James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine: Don Cheadle

Peter Parker / Spider-Man: Tom Holland

T'Challa / Black Panther: Chadwick Boseman

Vision: Paul Bettany

Wanda Maximoff: Elizabeth Olsen

Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan

4. Avengers: Endgame

Tony Stark / Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr.

Steve Rogers / Captain America: Chris Evans

Bruce Banner / Hulk: Mark Ruffalo

Thor: Chris Hemsworth

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson

Clint Barton / Hawkeye: Jeremy Renner

James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine: Don Cheadle

Scott Lang / Ant-Man: Paul Rudd

Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel: Brie Larson

Nebula: Karen Gillan

Rocket: Bradley Cooper

Dr. Stephen Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch

T'Challa / Black Panther: Chadwick Boseman

Peter Parker / Spider-Man: Tom Holland

Wanda Maximoff: Elizabeth Olsen

Sam Wilson / Falcon: Anthony Mackie

Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan

If Avengers 5 ends up featuring 60 superheroes, it will be more than thrice the number seen in any Avengers film so far. Having said that, the Marvel universe has thousands of big and small heroes. And sometimes more is indeed more.