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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Does this seem about right?
Stane: Greed, Envy
Abomination: Envy, Pride, Wrath
Vanko: Wrath
Loki: Envy, Pride, Wrath
Red Skull: Pride, Lust
Killian: Wrath, Lust, Pride
Malekith: Wrath, Pride
Pierce: Pride
Ronan: Wrath
Ultron: Wrath, Envy, Sloth
Cross: Greed, Wrath, Lust, Envy
Zemo: Wrath, Sloth
Kaecillius: Sloth
Ego: Pride, Lust
Toomes: Envy, Greed
Hela: Pride, Wrath, Lust
Killmonger: Wrath, Envy, Sloth
Lots of wrath and envy. No real gluttony villain as far as I can tell...
edited 15th Mar '18 10:28:48 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Come to think of it, I think he was operating on like 60-something percent at the end of Iron Man, right? And he surged to 400 percent when Thor zapped him with lightning...
So did Tony only get strong enough to fight Thor because Thor jacked him up with electro-steroids by accident?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Abomination: Envy, Pride, Wrath
Vanko: Wrath
Loki: Envy, Pride, Wrath
Red Skull: Pride, Lust
Killian: Wrath, Lust, Pride
Malekith: Wrath, Pride
Pierce: Pride
Ronan: Wrath
Ultron: Wrath, Envy, Sloth
Cross: Greed, Wrath, Lust, Envy
Zemo: Wrath, Sloth
Kaecillius: Sloth
Ego: Pride, Lust
Toomes: Envy, Greed
Hela: Pride, Wrath, Lust
Killmonger: Wrath, Envy, Sloth
Lust and sloth are more than just sexual desire and physical laziness.
Sexual desire is the most common depiction of Lust, but it really refers to any hedonistic pursuit of pleasure, especially immaterial things like sex, highs, bloodlust, and most pertinently, power. Any villain who craves power simply for sake of being powerful (Hela, Red Skull) falls under Lust. Ego's got it twofold; the satisfaction he craves in being an omnipresent being, and of course his sexual dalliances (even if that was more or less a utility to facilitate the former than a goal in itself).
Sloth also encompasses nihilistic despair, moral apathy, and indifference. Zemo and Killmonger want to watch the world burn because they've given up hope and want to quash everyone else's, and Kaecillius is eager to turn the world over to Dormammammammammammammammammu because he's miserable and sees it as beyond saving otherwise. Few villains actually embody the "lazy bum" aspect of Sloth unless they're the type to sit around on their throne making everyone else do all the work.
edited 15th Mar '18 11:13:39 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!He's got loads of minion corpses behind him, though.
I was actually surprised when he apparently switched to using non-lethal rounds against HYDRA in Age Of Ultron.
Come to think of it, post Ultron neither he nor Cap (nor Thor, who also did quite a bit of it in his first two films) kill all that much, beyond robots. It's both implied and stated very blatantly at times that they do so, no doubt, and their enemies murder loads and loads of people onscreen so it's not quite a censorship thing, but maybe there was some kind of a push to make them all more conventionally heroic. Even Guardians conspicuously still includes the obligatory Space Opera "heroes mow down enemy starfighters" scene, but has all of the starfighters be drones...
edited 16th Mar '18 12:05:28 AM by KnownUnknown
Actually, do the big three of The Avengers even kill?
In the three Cap films, Red Skull is killed (maybe) by the Tesseract, Pierce is killed by Fury, and Zemo lives. In the three Thor films, Loki lives, Malekith...maybe counts (I guess Thor is responsible for his ship dropping on him?), and Hela is felled by Surtr.
Meanwhile, Scott Lang is responsible for Darren Cross's outright gross death, the Guardians of the Galaxy kill Ronan and Ego (fitting, they're billed as being more antiheroic), Spider-Man doesn't kill Vulture and just turns him in, Vision kills Ultron, and T'challa is sort of complicit in Killmonger's death but ultimately it's Killmonger who chooses to die on his own terms.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?See also: Seven Deadly Sins
Greed: desire for stuff because stuff. Lust: desire for stuff because pleasure. Gluttony: desire for stuff to use it up.
(technically, there's sometime an 8th sin: Despair, which I would qualify some practitioners of Sloth under)
As a counterpoint:
Tony: Pride, Greed, Lust, but also Kindness, Temperance, Dilligence
Bruce: Wrath, Envy, but also Humility, Chastity, Charity
Thor: Pride, Gluttony, Wrath, but also Patience, Temperance
Steve: Envy (pre-steroid), Pride (a little bit), Steve's The Paragon, he doesn't exhibit the Sins very often or very much. He does exhibit Temperance, Kindness, Charity, Diligence, and Patience.
Peter Quil: Lust, Sloth, but also Charity, Kindness
Stephen: Pride (pre-accident), but also Temperance
Scott: Sloth? Also Kindness, Patience
Peter Parker: Pride, Envy, but also Humility, Diligence
Matt: Wrath, Lust, but also Charity, Diligence
Luke: Sloth, Pride, but also Charity, Patience
Jessica: Sloth, Lust, but also Temperance
Danny: Greed, Envy, Wrath, but also Charity, Chastity, Diligence
Haven't seen Black Panther, so I wouldn't know what to do with him, aside from Wrath in Civil War. Anyone want to add supporting characters?
edited 16th Mar '18 12:26:44 AM by PushoverMediaCritic
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There's a lot of overlap, and how they vary will... vary from interpretation to interpretation. They're all sins of desire.
Greed is the pursuit (and hoarding) of material wealth such as money or other non-essentials of value. Lust is like greed, but for incorporeal desires like sex, power, visceral satisfaction, thrills, or intoxication/highs. Gluttony is a bit of a tricky one, since excess consumption could fall under the purview of lust. Some interpret it as "greed but for things you actually do need, just not in excess" like food and drink, others interpret it as "greed but for anything that is consumed (literally or metaphorically), and therefore wasted in overindulgence", also like food and drink.
Though
's got a pretty succinct explanation. Not sure I'd qualify Tony Stark under Temperance, though, given that ridiculous party he throws in Iron Man 2. And Steve has some battle-lust, if AOU and Civil War are anything to go by.
edited 16th Mar '18 12:34:55 AM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Cap notably only has a bodycount of 2 by the end of The Winter Soldier (blasting two mooks with a grenade) if you don’t count his order to shoot down the Helicarriers. This isn’t so in Civil War, where he deals several personally lethal blows, like Goomba Stomping a man’s head into a car, or exposing another enemy to poison gas. Falcon also has had his wing pack upgraded with missiles. Maybe being independent from SHIELD means he doesn’t try for taking prisoners anymore.
edited 16th Mar '18 12:34:18 AM by Tuckerscreator

Yeah but would that impact the strength that much?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?