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The issue with marvel is that more often than not they see their villians as just kinda there, a prop while the movie feel more like shelling their hero for the inevitable sequel they know the chararter will have.
This is somethign I said in star wars thread that Marvel act and is judge more like tv series that just sort of happen to be with movies, their villians are bland because they dont matter really.
Edited by unknowing on Aug 9th 2019 at 4:07:17 AM
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Prior to their participation in this thread, this person has only made a thread complaining about MCU Ronan (the exact same thing they were posting here, in fact) which was shut down by the mods immediately. Seems like they were just here to wonk and be negative.
Edited by Nightwire on Aug 9th 2019 at 1:35:51 AM
If they're violating forum policy, report them. I haven't seen anything this person has said that's a violation of policy, but I'm not a mod and am thus not as familiar with policy as mods are.
You know what I do know is a violation of policy? Shifting conversation away from the topic in favor of debating the personal merits of a forum member. So we should probably put a pin in that.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:45:40 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub."I just really did not have a good first impression of her on her first movie."
Kina the same, maybe because we arent really see carol in that movie much but "vers" who is just look kinda grump most of the movie, and I think marvel dosent know how to make grumpy chararters
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I liked Carol in the first movie, though I do agree that she got a lot better in Endgame (indeed, I think she was almost under-utilized in that movie). In the first movie, I didn't quite get what her shtick or gimmick was, personality wise. In Endgame I started to get the Smug Super idea they were going for, which I quite enjoyed.
Leviticus 19:34My favorite bit about Carol in her film is that she likes to prank people. Despite her initial devotion to being a good obedient Kree soldier, when she has the chance to mess with a friend, she’ll take it. Like prodding Yon-Rogg, making Fury confess to weird stuff, or “totally didn’t cheat” in her race against Maria. It seems to be a show of affection from her, that she’s knows they won’t reprimand her too hard because they’re friends.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:09:33 AM
She snarks and smirks and as said prods her way through the movie
I don’t see that as being a grump
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Exactly.
Ronan's a shallow villain but he serves his role as an overwhelming antagonistic force that requires five disparate anti-heroes to come together and give a shit for once. He doesn't need to be much more developed than "single-minded radical terrorist who will stop at nothing to destroy the people he's been indoctrinated to hate since his birth". We have plenty of those in real life.
It's a similar principle to why the villains in origin movies tend to be pretty shallow doppelgangers of the hero with the same powerset. You have to devote a lot of the film to introducing the hero, showing the origin of their superpowers, and giving them some kind of character arc where they grow into a hero. There's not much room in the runtime for a villain who has their own character arc or separate power source.
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