Marvel casts second villain for The Avengers: Age of Ultron!

Marvel has just cast their second villain in the Avengers sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Actor Thomas Kretschmann, currently playing Abraham van Helsing on NBC’s Dracula, has been cast as the villainous character Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Not many Marvel fans out there may be familiar with Strucker so lets take a quick look at who this character is.
 

From the Marvel Database:

"Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, a former Nazi officer, was one of the leaders of Hydra and an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the interests of the United States of America and of the free world in general. He was physically augmented to be nearly ageless and was seemingly killed in the past to return to plague the world with schemes of world domination and genocide time and time again."

This is an interesting character choice for the film and I am excited to see where it will lead. Will this pull Hydra into the story as the organization who creates Ultron (or steals it from Tony Stark for their own means) or will this character be some small sub plot for the film? It excites me that although we know how Ultron is created in the comics that because of the story and missing characters, we still do not know how he will be created in the film.

Do you like the addition of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker to the Age of Ultron story? Think he'll make an impact on the Marvel cinematic universe? Let me know in the comments.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron is set to hit theaters on May 1st, 2015.

Source: Variety