Marvel superheroes join forces to make terminally ill fan smile

Marvel superheroes are teaming up, not to defeat their archnemesis Thanos, but to brighten the day of a young fan with cancer. 

The actors behind the masks, including the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans and Chris Pratt, answered Donna Rigby’s plea to send words of encouragement to her terminally ill son, Josh Rigby, “while we still have him with us.”

The Australian native, 17, battled leukemia since he was 5 and was diagnosed at age 15 with glioblastoma, the same form of brain cancer that Senator John McCain died from Saturday, according to the family’s GoFundMe page. 

Over the past weeks, celebrities flipped the script on Josh, calling him their hero. Reynolds, who dubbed himself “Uncle Deadpool,” told the teen he is thinking of him (Deadpool is Josh’s favorite superhero).