The difference between MCU and DC villains.

The difference between MCU and DC villains. Oct 24, 2017 11:30:49 GMT

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Post by formersamhmd on Oct 24, 2017 11:30:49 GMT

Oct 24, 2017 9:27:11 GMT Tristan's Journal said:

That being said, if we expand these parameters in your sense, Magneto would indeed be one of the greatest CBM-villains and the only one that is not totally eclipsed by the iconic DC rogue gallery like Joker, Lex Luther, Penguin, Catwoman et al. Note that I am talking about and limiting this to the Fox-Men holocaust-surviving Magneto, not the silly comic book version.

Fox Magneto is pretty one-note, and using the Holocaust for a character's origin is always lazy writing anyways. An overall lazy character.

That aside, from a writing theory angle, the MCU heroes are all very formulaic, beginning with their character ars, namely the all popular "Jerk goes through crisis, learns skills and becomes nice guy superhero" arc.

It's better than what DC gives us, even if you were right about your generalizations.

We have seen this with Logan in the excellent X1 movie.

Eh, he didn't change much in X1.

And the same arc was reused for Iron Man (several times), Dr Strange, Antman, Thor etc (Cap has no arc except becoming BEEFCAKE).

I don't recall Ant-Man being a billionaire weapons maker or a jerk in need of redemption, and Dr Strange gave us a guy who didn't WANT to be a superhero at all which was refreshing because he LIKED being a jerk Doctor. But generalize away...

like with Magneto in MCU you will often find the popular old-friend-becomes-nemesis trope (IM, Thor etc).

That predates Magneto by a long while.

I would hardly call this "feshing out" the heroes

Compared to DC and FOX it definitely is.