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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Aug 18, 2021 20:17:17 GMT
Overall, Black Widow does a much better job with its characters. Yelena and Red Guardian were highlights. As was the family subplot. Nick Fury is only awesome because of Samuel L. There’s almost no character development for him in Captain Marvel. Both protagonists come off as boring though. Black Widow is outshined in her own movie because they don’t really give her much of an arc. Meanwhile Carol Dancers falls flat because her amnesia storyline severely limits character development. And ultimately both are used to service extremely blatant female empowerment themes that ironically reduce them to one dimensional avatars for a paper thin social message. Plot-wise Captain Marvel wins easily. The Skrulls and Kree provide a much more compelling backdrop then the Red Room. And the villains in Black Widow are easily among the worst in the MCU. So… I guess I’d call it a tie?  To be fair, Red Guardian had zero character development as well. He added a lot of personality to the movie but he was pretty much there just for the laughs. I actually think that outside of their leads, CM managed their characters slightly better. Nick Fury, Yon-Rogg and Talos were overall a stronger supporting cast than Yelena, Red Guardian and Iron Maiden. I suppose that’s true. But at least they explored his role as a fill in father figure and his backstory as a discarded national symbol added some depth. Who is Nick Fury in Captain Marvel other than an uninteresting cliche of an agent who happens to be played by a very likable charismatic actor? It’s almost remarkable how boring they managed to make him. I kept waiting for something to happen that revealed how he evolved into the Nick Fury we know, but nope. Even the eye patch was turned into a throw away joke.
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