The MCU Villain Problem - Full Series

The Big Grey Villian Universe.

When Loki became popular as a villain, they didn't look at why to replicate success, they just shifted him to "good" side so they could capitalize on this success. That's all you need to know about MCU's take on villains

The hulk is the definition of wasted potential never seen such a strong, empathetic, morally grey hero done so dirty over and over again. They actually teased how dark he could go in the first avengers and that gave me hope after the solo movie but who would’ve thought we’d end up here. Norton actually understood the character and was a massive fan that’s prolly why he was such an ass on set same thing happened to Henry cavill but his fan base is massive and didn’t let Hollywood drop him after the Witcher.

"Way too many parts that are messy and unappealing to look at" sums up the current art design for the MCU costumes perfectly

Really like how you give credit to villains like Winter Soldier and Vulture. Some of these guys do a great job at being dangerous in their movies.

You know you have a serious villain problem when your best villain in Phase 4 is one that already appeared in a Spiderman movie from 2002 that wasnt even part of the MCU

It's been 5 and a half years since Infinity War and people still quote the Thanos Snap in pop culture. That's how effective he was!

Love when writers just throw in "also he wants to kill children and randomly murders his gf" as a reason for why villains are bad and their message is wrong

I will never forgive the MCU for what they did to Taskmaster, that situation is the ultimate example of the phrase "Look how they massacred my boy". 😭😭😭

It's genuinely kind of shocking how they're still having the same villain problems that they've been having for 15 years now. How have they not solved this issue yet.

I love that point you made at the end “Too often these newbies lack the power or experience they should need in order to win, yet they just do it anyway” 1:32:21

13:49 This applies to SO MANY marvel movies, the way they bait you with the trailers and then mess up with the villains is one of the biggest problems of MCU writting.

The way that Mysterio fights Peter is how Loki should have used his powers.

Man, its never lost on me that we could have basically had a whole emotionally charged Gladiator movie with the Hulk, and it was wasted.

Anyone who knows and loves Spiderman knows Shocker. Hes a good villain that was done dirty in the MCU

This can really be summed up in seven sentences. 1: Jokes should be used sparingly. 2: Never let the villain be mocked without severe consequences. 3: Even a sympathetic villain should be overtly wrong in most cases. 4: Powerful villains should utilize their power in creative, intelligent and dangerous ways. 5: Powerful villains should always try to raise the stakes as high as they can get them, and put nonstop pressure on the heroes. 6: Maybe let the bad guy get some victories and take a few victory laps once in awhile. 7: The villains need to be distinctive in their looks, feel, motivations and abilities.

the only thing I would add on your theory of a great villain is that not only must they be able to make the heroes journey as difficult as possible but to also perform feats in the movie show OR comic that are extraordinary giving the audience reason to wonder, well how is our hero suppose to stop this guy???

I always found it funny that Kurse was accidentally implied to be tougher than Thanos based on how he shrugs off Mjolnir

I honestly think the villains would have been less wasted if they weren’t defeated at the end of every single movie. It would have been so cool to see more villains team up with other villains to take down the main heroes, especially when the heroes get their own side trilogies. Introducing a new villain in every single film only to kill them off in the end each time isn’t very entertaining. This is why I really enjoyed Infinity War. The ending didn’t fall flat; the villain actually won; and the heroes actually tasted failure for once.

This synopsis was better written than 95% of the MCU