Marvel Working Towards Fixing Their Villain Problem

One of the biggest problems that Marvel has had involving their movies are their villains.  With the exception of Red Skull and Loki, the other ones just don't seem to resonate with the fans, and in turn...fall flat.  One of their problems?  The villains are just evil versions of the main character of the movie.  In Iron Man you've got Obadiah Stane, who has his own "Iron Man" gear, in Captain America you have Red Skull who was also injected with an early version of the super soldier serum, in Thor you've got Loki, also an Asgardian, in Ant-Man you've got Yellowjacket, you can also shrink like Ant-Man, Captain America: The Winter Soldier you have HYDRA vs SHIELD, basically the same organization, just on opposite sides of the ball, you see what I'm saying here?  They need to expand their imaginations a little bit more.  Marvel has all sorts of bad guys they could be choosing from, but they are, in my opinion, playing it safe with this formula.  Guardians of the Galaxy was unique, but their bad guy is dead, so he ain't coming back.  They've been building up Thanos, which is a good thing, and that might be the start of changing up their bad guy game...you know, after Doctor Strange, who will undoubtedly be fighting another sorcerer.


All of this isn't lost on Kevin Feige, Marvel's president.  When this was brought up, he had this to say:


“Clearly we will get to that [non-doppelganger match ups]… You want to have characters that inhabit the same world when introducing a new world, a new mythology for lack of a better term. You want to explore that as much as you can.”


Since he's out there promoting the upcoming Doctor Strange movie, he tried to defend their use of Kaecilius, who is the films antagonist (played by Mads Mikkelsen) even though he and Doctor Strange are so similar in character:


“Kaecilius doesn’t know Strange from a hole in the wall. He predates him. But when you’re teaching an audience about sorcerers and that reality and you’re going to talk about the past anyway and you’re going to get into their history anyway, much better to tie-in your bad guy with that instead of laying all this groundwork of parallel dimensions and sorcery and say, by the way, a meteor hit on the other side of the world, it went under the water, and this evil thing developed. What does that have to do with magic? Nothing… That’s not the way we’ve developed them up to this point. “


He doesn't feel it will always be like this, it just seems that they do this when introducing a character to the MCU.  He concluded with this:


“Needless to say as more characters encounter each other in other films they’re certainly going to be up against things that they don’t know anything about and have no comparable to.”


So that's just me griping a little bit about a formula that, in my opinion, has run it's course, yet they keep using it.  It's frustrating.  You think I'm reading too much into these things?  Do you think I'm wrong?  Let me know what you think in the comments section down below, or over on my Facebook page.  Just look up "Comconoclast."