With Marvel Studios planning to pretty much blow up the MCU in Avengers: Infinity War and the still-untitled Avengers 4, it seems more and more likely that we’ll be looking at a very different configuration of that universe three years from now, with lots of room for fresh characters and storylines. Nova could very well be one of them. Time will tell if Gunn and the Marvel braintrust agree. Rider was created in 1966 by Marv Wolfman and Len Wein, appearing in his own series and various other Marvel titles right up through the present. An Earth high school student who is given the powers and outfit of a Nova Corps centurion after the Xandarian military force is all but wiped out, he’s a well-known figure in the comics and his presence would make sense in a future film — Guardians Vol. 3 or otherwise — set in the cosmic corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly if there’s an all-out war with the Skrulls on the horizon.
