I think part of it is with Thor spending the bulk of Thor: Ragnarok stuck on Sakaar, Hela ends up isolated on Asgard with not much to do but wait for him to show up to stop her. Yet, altogether, the character never quite took flight for me in the way I'd hoped. And certainly, Hela is one of the MCU's most lethal and effective villains, single-handedly wiping out the entire Asgardian army, disintegrating Mjolnir, squishing out Thor's eye, and brutally killing the Warriors Three before they'd barely earned SAG minimum. Listen, Cate Blanchett + giant black headdress + sinister smoky eye makeup = everything I want in life. Although he still manages to cause a great deal of (mostly off camera) death and heartbreak in that pursuit, his sudden demise at the hands of Killmonger means we'll never know what other wicked transgressions he could have attempted. The guy's villainy, nonetheless, is pretty much only about getting his hand on that sweet, sweet vibranium. Serkis is an absolute treat in the role, and his fancy arm cannon has an enjoyable, Inspector Gadget (but evil) kick. He makes a much bigger impact in Black Panther, drawing T'Challa and his cohorts from Wakanda to South Korea on the promise of intercepting, you guessed it, more stolen vibranium. He is such a memorable presence, in fact, that it barely matters that Klaue is kind of superfluous to the movie's main story. In just a few minutes of screentime in Age of Ultron, Andy Serkis makes an indelible impression as an ethically challenged arms dealer smuggling stolen vibranium out of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Make up your damn mind, man! (Still, points to Marvel Studios for figuring out a savvy way to reuse a character from the one MCU movie pretty much everyone wishes didn't exist.)Īvengers: Age of Ultron and Black Panther You get the sense that Ross thinks he's a good guy, but secretly wants to be a bad guy. In Civil War, Ross has been inexplicably promoted to Secretary of State, and his sense of morality has grown even murkier: The logic of taking the Avengers to task certainly makes sense given all the collateral damage they've inflicted on the world, but by the end, Ross is holed up on a submerged super-max prison, wearing a sleek Bond villain jacket and coming off as vaguely sinister as he holds Cap's rebel Avengers prisoner. Hurt is never not interesting, but the character is so all over the place that there's not much there for him to play. At times, General Ross wants to capture Banner because he’s a threat, at other times because Banner’s hot for his daughter, and at others still because Banner represents the future of super soldiers. In the forgettably terrible Incredible Hulk, William Hurt plays a fuzzily drawn antagonist to Edward Norton's Bruce Banner. Also a brief appearance in Avengers: Endgame He is generally considered to be one of Cap's greatest enemies, perhaps second only to the Red Skull.Villain in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War. For much of his history, he leads a team of supervillains called the Masters of Evil (as awesome as it sounds), and has on occasion been affiliated with Hydra. Zemo is an excellent fighter and often uses a sword, and he also wears a royal-looking purple costume and mask at all times to hide his disfigured face. He hates Captain America because he blames him for his father's death, and he's fought Cap a number of times. Well, in the comics version, Baron Helmut Zemo is the German son of a Nazi supervillain who was also called Baron Zemo. So how do the two versions of Zemo compare? Baron Strucker is a badass with metal claw in the comics in Avengers: Age of Ultron he's a sniveling wimp - you get the idea. Yellowjacket is an unflattering alter-ego of Hank Pym in the comics in Ant-Man he's a rival businessman. The Mandarin is a sorcerer and Iron Man's greatest villain in the comics in Iron Man 3 he's an actor pretending to be a terrorist. Civil War continues Marvel's history of reimagining their villains from the comics and transforming them into something completely different for the movies. Let me say this right up top: This is not the Zemo of the comics. But just who who is Zemo in Captain America: Civil War? Yet Civil War does have a villain, and he's a familiar one to fans of Marvel Comics. And with good guys fighting other good guys, it's hard to see initially where a villain might fit in. Thanks to a major disagreement, Iron Man and Captain America lead opposing teams of superheroes against each other in a massive battle royale. In Captain America: Civil War, most of the focus has been on the conflict between the heroes.
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