Post by bluerisk on May 10, 2018 9:57:40 GMT
That's a good point. They can't just copy Thanos. I think their best bet would be to make him a little more purely evil and menacing. Thanos was, of course, menacing and evil 90% of the time, but he had a soft side. In other words, Darkseid should only show off his dark side (eh?).
Then it's just up to good writers and a good story to make him feel a lot less two dimensional. Villains like this have worked before (Joker, Bane, Hans Gruber, Sauron, Chigurh), but it's not easy to pull off.
The one thing I liked about Steppenwolf was how militant and straight-forward he was in combat. He was just hopping around and crushing Amazonians with his axe and fists, no questions asked. I hope that's how Darkseid is, but with more depth in motive and plan (obviously).
Then it's just up to good writers and a good story to make him feel a lot less two dimensional. Villains like this have worked before (Joker, Bane, Hans Gruber, Sauron, Chigurh), but it's not easy to pull off.
The one thing I liked about Steppenwolf was how militant and straight-forward he was in combat. He was just hopping around and crushing Amazonians with his axe and fists, no questions asked. I hope that's how Darkseid is, but with more depth in motive and plan (obviously).
Only evil for the sake of evil...I hate that! Why not giving them a legit agenda, an ideology, teaching, belief system one can at least logical follow (or even partly agree to - in history there is nothing like black and white). They tried it with Thonas but failed imho.
Heath Ledger's Joker was going in that direction...or a villain who goes after the rich who have implemented a system that turned our democracies into a global plutocracy in which lobbyist dictate our politicians the laws and loopholes within on the behalf of their employees: the rich, Wall Street, cooperate America, the City of London, the Kremlin etc. pp.; the entire world has rich people who live on the tears, sweat and blood of the deprived masses - killing even our planet by giving a shit about the environment. And I don't speak of this global warming hoax (climate has always changed and this change is within the changes of the last 2000 years and the last century saw an extraordinary sun activity that is slowing down to normal)
I mean de-forestation, the over fishing of the sea, the pollution with acid, oil, chemicals, pesticides, plastic and other kind of junk, the extermination of entire insect population with pesticides in the agriculture, the overuse of natural water resources (=> California, Aral sea).
Mining and the damaged to the environment, the using up of limited resources. Most if not all could be prevent with more care, we have in general the technology (purification system, prohibition to conduct agriculture in certain areas or to use only a certain extent of ground water, recycling etc. pp.) but it would hurt the profit of the rich.
V for Vengeance was an anti-hero, no villain...for the system he was a terrorist.
A villain who has a good point and a strong mandate for his action...maybe more an anti-hero...the did this to some extent in the Avengers civil war. But Cap. useless was dodging the corrupt system, not attacking it. Is the Congress really serving the interest of the people anymore, or has it become the enemy of the people, and the champion of Wall Street?
But Hollywood is part of the system: Panem et circenses.