Deadpool (2016)

After a truly terrible depiction of the character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Ryan Reynolds played a decent Wade Wilson before Scott Adkins took over for the terrible Frankenstein’s monster-esque version of Weapon XI).

In 2016, Deadpool finally gets his own movie – again as part of Fox’s X-Men franchise – and Ryan Reynolds will again play him – but this time Reynolds gets unleashed on a version of the character that he was born to play.

It will be a wacky movie in which the lead character will break the fourth wall, come out with some hilarious one-liners and star alongside the likes of Colossus, Ajax and Negasonic Teenage Warhead and, while it won’t suit everybody, comic book movie fans around the world are undoubtedly looking forward to it.

The Untitled Spider-Man Reboot Movie (2017)

Finally, Spider-Man is where he belongs – in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In February of 2015, the big news was announced that Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures had come to an agreement that would see the Webbed Wonder joining the likes of Iron Man, Captain America and Hulk on screen.

Tom Holland will portray the new version of the character – following in the footsteps of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield before him – and will make his first appearance in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, before this as-yet-untitled solo outing in 2017.

It’s exciting to think about what Marvel Studios will do with the character and how a live action version of the character will get on in a world full of other heroes – something he has never had the chance to do in his previous titular franchises.