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Todd Stashwick is the go-to guy when you need a compelling TV villain with a bit of charm, and Marvel Studios has called on the actor to hunt down Paul Bettany's Vision in his upcoming Disney+ series. You might remember Todd from Enter the Popverse with us - but he was anything but a villain there.

The Hollywood Reporter has news that Stashwick is playing "an assassin who is on the trail of android and the technology he possesses."

While not disclosing who he's playing, it does leave room for me to openly speculate who it might be, and me being too literal sometimes I'm going with the almost-forgotten Avengers villain actually named 'the Assassin' who debuted in 1975's Avengers #145 by Tony Isabella, Scott Edelman, and Don Heck. In that case it turned out to be a woman as the Assassin, but the character is largely forgotten except that their debut cover was homaged by Rob Liefeld to debut in Cable decades later in New Mutants #87.

Whomever Stashwick is playing, he'll be joining a cast for the as-yet-untitled Vision show (speculated to be called Vision Quest) to include Paul Bettany (The Vision), James Spader (Ultron), and possibly Elizabeth Olsen reprising her role as Wanda Maximoff. Stashwick will also be reuniting with his Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas, who is running Vision for Marvel Studios.

This will be Stashwick's second gig with Marvel, as earlier this year he was announced as a writer on the upcoming game Marvel 1943 The Rise of Hydra (although in that case, he's playing himself - not an assassin!).