One of the supposed pleasures of watching the expansive Marvel cinematic universe is watching its large library of characters converge and work together.

That has already gotten a bit exhaustive in the "Avengers" movies and probably in the forthcoming "Captain America: Civil War," but fans are still excited about seeing a mashup between its traditional heroes and those intergalactic ones that made the world laugh in "Guardians of the Galaxy." Many expected that meeting to take place in "Avengers: Infinity Wars." Now they will have to look elsewhere for the reunion.

According to Jeremy Renner the two teams of heroes will not have any kind of contact in the third film of the "Avengers" franchise.

"Is that going to happen? Do you know more than I know? I think they'll probably do another Guardians movie, and we still have Avengers 3 and 4 to do," the candid actor stated when asked by a fan whether he would be excited to see the two groups team up in the upcoming films. "Look, you're going to be like eighty by the time that comes out...and I'm certainly not going to be Hawkeye. I'm going to be a dead guy."

There are chances that Renner could be misleading the audience, though it is possible that Marvel has come to terms with one major realization -- there are too many superheroes.

The Infinity Wars would obviously be the best place to bring in the Guardians and the Avengers, especially since the former group's first movie centered on that plot device and more recent "Age of Ultron" also entered that narrative realm.

However the Avengers team is too big right now. How big? So big that they have to fight each other to likely trim some fat. In "Civil War" there will be 13 heroes from the team in the film. That does not include Thor. Throw in the four Guardians and suddenly you are looking at balancing over 20 characters when you include villains.

No one can handle that and as well as Marvel has done with its material to this points, the foundation is starting to crack a bit from the weight of balancing all those characters in one movie. Just look at the garbled mess that was "Age of Ultron," a film so big that only a slow-motion shot in the climax was able to make any sense of the CGI madness going on on screen.

So it could simply be the case where Marvel has decided that the Guardians can sit out the Infinity Wars and possibly come together with the Avengers in a later film as Renner suggests.

Or he may simply not have all the information yet (or he could be misleading the audience), and Marvel is going to bite the bullet on bringing all those characters together.