Marvel announced plans to produce standalone TV series of about 6-8 episodes featuring well-known characters from the MCU for Disney's streaming service. If you're picturing Danny Rand just frantically responding to a "new phone, who dis" text, you're not far off; these new series are completely different from Netflix's already established Marvel Universe, with MCU paterfamilias Kevin Feige taking a hands-on role and each series reportedly getting budgets to rival a big-screen studio project. Reports already indicate plans for a Scarlet Witch series starring Elizabeth Olsen and a Loki show with Tom Hiddleston reprising his trickster god role. These ideas are both well and good, I want to know the origins of Wanda Maximoff's mysterious disappearing accent as much as the next person. But this news has got our Infinity Stones a-blazin', and the possibilities are endless.

Here are 5 MCU characters who deserve their own standalone series.

Peggy Carter

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Yes, I know Agent Peggy Carter already got her own standalone series, just as much as I know that ABC did the show dirty with two seasons and a mere 18 episodes. With Agent Carter lost to the cosmos, actual human treasure Hayley Atwell is being wasted in the MCU, only showing up in Benjamin Button make-up to die in front of Captain America or show up in his dreams any time Steve Rogers is conflicted about making out with Peggy's great-niece (It's weird, Steve!). Give a full-on Agent Carter series some major period-setting funding and fill the badass spy series hole left by The Americans with superheroes and Hydra lasers.

Valkyrie

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We first meet Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok years after her formative time spent in the all-female Norse battle-squad known as the Valkyries. But the glimpses we do see in flashback are intriguing enough to carry a show through several seasons. Hell, bring back Cate Blanchett as, well, Hela, the series' Big Bad, and give Game of Thrones' fantasy warfare a run for its money on winged horseback. (And don't be afraid of bisexuality, ya billion-dollar cowards.)

Korg

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Speaking of Thor: Ragnarok! What in the name of Midgard happened to Korg? The last we saw of the Kronan warrior he was aboard the Grandmaster's party ship en route to Earth, which was blasted to all hell by Thanos at the outset of Avengers: Infinity War. Where is Korg? A series following the continued adventures of Taikia Waititi's soft-voiced rockman—plus his Sakaaran pal Miek, who is very much alive—is the planet-hopping buddy adventure missing from the MCU. Heck, give Waititi the director's chair. Bring in Jemaine Clement as a Frost Giant. Get weird with it.

Shuri

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Blindly throw a dart at the cast list of Black Panther and you'll hit someone worthy of a standalone series—M'Baku (Winston Duke) giving tours of his various fur closets could carry at least three seasons—but Letitia Wright's Shuri was by far the breakout character of 2018. I'm picturing a Marvel-ized mashup of Doctor Who's love of gadgets and gizmos, and a version of The Big Bang Theory's brainy wit that isn't terrible.

The Hulk

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Bruce Banner, an OG Avenger, has never quite got his due on the big screen. Eric Bana's perfectly fine 2003 interpretation was marred by Ang Lee's strange vision, The Incredible Hulk was so forgettable it's only technically part of the MCU, and Mark Ruffalo's superior portrayal has been relegated to a supporting player in other hero's movies. Banner is a character that lends itself to long-form episodic storytelling because his battle is as much inward as it is outward. A Hulk TV series could be the MCU's Mr. Robot, except replace late-career Christian Slater with massive green rage-monster who only gets stronger the angrier he gets. (So like, early-career Christian Slater.)

But seriously, of all the core six players from the original Avengers, The Hulk is both the most intriguing on a storytelling level and the least explored. Plus, even if Ruffalo isn't available, just set the series in the past and cast To All the Boys I Loved Before star Noah Centineo and not a single person would notice.

Honorable Mention: Lockjaw

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How would Marvel produce an entire series following the massive, mutant bulldog named Lockjaw, the sole bright spot of ABC's million-dollar garbage fire Inhumans? Hard to say. But I do know for an objective scientific fact that A) Lockjaw's inner thoughts should be voiced by John Goodman and B) Lockjaw on Disney's streaming service would win at least a dozen Emmys. Quote me.