During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
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It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
As nasty as he is, Raza is nothing since he's just a major part in Stane's villainy and Laufey I'm totally in agreement with Bull and Ravok about.
Even if we just looked at the first Iron Man without any other movie, I'm convinced Stane would likely be the only keeper. As is, neither of them make it at all.
Four MCU film keepers since last Wednesday (6/9 was Dormammu's EP). That's quite the accomplishment. Hell of a unicorn we found.
Well done people, well done.
Edited by futuremoviewriter on Jun 16th 2021 at 12:26:34 PM
Regarding Laufey, I'd like to point out that he started a war against the Nine Realms long before Loki was even born, starting by attacking Earth, destroying entire towns and trying to bring a new Ice Age to Kill All Humans, so it's false to say that "he was just being manipulated by Loki". Also, he didn't have the power of an Infinity Stones at his disposal, so he's clearly inferior in terms of resources to Malekith, as well as the likes of Dormammu or Ego.
Regarding Raza, there's one thing to take in consideration: At the time of his appearance, the MCU was still mostly realistic, so Raza is pretty much just a normal terrorist. It's unfair to compare him to the like of Ultron, Mysterio or even Whiplash (though I think Raza is easily way more heinous than Whiplash), since he doesn't have access to advanced technology or armies of drones at his disposal, the only things he has in his possession are some henchmen and mostly normal weapons (the best he has is a few Jericho missiles, but even that is nothing particularly outlandish compared to the weapons of the future MCU villains). That being said, he made it clear that if he managed to obtain some Iron Man armors, he'll use them to ravage Asia to conquer it, and then probably do the same to the entire world.
Edited by Mimic45 on Jun 16th 2021 at 9:37:21 PM
Still voting
to Zola, for the same reasons I mentioned previously. (also, I know that feel Lighty; nothing personal)
Voting keep for Alexander/Tim; kinda impressive rap sheet for freakin' fry cook. I really have to watch Murder Party.
to Grandmaster. That series seems to lay on the Indian patriotism pretty thick, kinda like 80s/early 90s US actioners.
Leaning
for Raza and Laufey for not meeting the standards (fun fact: in the original Norse Mythology Laufey was actually the name of Loki's mother; his father's name was Farbauti)
Yeah Laufey doesn't do anything unique, especially since Hela did basically the same thing along with a whole bunch of onscreen murder. Raza for his part is just a generic terrorist, nothing special even for his low resources. Also it is fair to compare him to later villains since that's what we do with other franchises (hence why Master Tao from Dragon Ball no longer counts).
to Laufey; plus in the present day he doesn't want to get dragged into a war, knowing how much it cost him.
Just gonna say it, Crossbones? Mid level thug with like a gang of guys when he goes on his own? Worse then Raza
Saying he's been blown out of the water is putting it mildly. He's been lasered from orbit out of the water with about 3 Nukes dropped after to make sure the job was done.
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Tao Pai Pai is out? Eh, fair enough. Still a Knight of Cerebus anyway.
Edited by Paireon on Jun 16th 2021 at 3:44:33 PM
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.
Angus, Alexander, Zola and Grandmaster
Laufey and Raza
I ran this by ACW who said it was worth discussing:
Thoughts?
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I only meant it's unfair to compare Raza to those villains since they have much more than him in terms of resources (armies of drones, hologram technology, gravity machine...) while he's just a mostly normal terrorist. A better comparison would have been with Crossbones post-HYDRA (I'm pretty sure Raza caused more deaths during his attack of Gulmira than Crossbones during his attack of Lagos), or maybe Ulysses Klaue.
But yeah, I guess Raza and Laufey don't count. I still felt they at least deserved a discussion.
Edited by Mimic45 on Jun 16th 2021 at 9:52:00 PM

The movie dosent play it as PV tho, we see a scene of him saying how Thor dosent know the cost of war before looking off to the side saying 'I do', and only changes his tune when thor murders a bunch of his people over an insult.
Raza is, only even remotely notable thanks to being the MC Us Starter Villain, and even then he wasn't even the first Big Bad. He only does what he does thanks to Stanes backing and is little more then a pawn who gets cast aside by Stane. Maybe if it was just the first film but as is he's blown out of the water.
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