Will Thanos (MCU) ever be topped as the GOAT comic book movie villain?

[HipHopStan]

If Done correctly, Galactus could top him. Same with Dr Doom. But if I remember correctly didnt MCU say they aren't doing another ultimate final boss type villain?

DC has a slew of iconic villains but they dont know how to make live action movies and im not sure they ever will.

Superman, Superman 2, Batman 89, Batman Returns, The Dark Knight Trilogy, V for Vendetta, Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Shazam all seem to disagree.

 

[HipHopStan]

Also: They better not make me wait *ANOTHER* 11 years for Doom. Please, God, no.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

This response makes zero sense. Did u even watch the same movie as the rest of us?

Or are you such a MCU homer you have to make stuff up lol

Batman wasn’t pushed to his limits or didn’t want to kill him...do u not remember the bike/street scene wit Joker screaming HIT ME

Batman almost went thru wit it.

It’s one thing if you like Thanos more that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to they opinion. But you just talking lies son

Oh Yea “hit me”

Yea.... I saw the same movie.... then I saw the next movie where Bane practically did everything to him the Joker did and MORE. He both mentally and physically broke him.

Look.... a lot of times when people are criticizing villains and specifically the Marvel villains.

One of the things commonly pointed out is “how nerfed they are compared to the hero (though when the hero weaker they flip that complaint to the hero nerfed and should be more powerful.... no one is ever happy).

But Joker who can’t physically stand up to BM gets a pass?

But nevermind any flipflopping or goalposts moving when it comes to the MCU villains.

Taking them out the equation.... Bane was just better. Even up to his despise. It wasn’t Batman who beat him it was a female character..... with DC pushing that agenda forcing that female Mary Sue feminisms shyt Back then

Catwoman did to Bane what for years niccas been complaining about and fearful that CM was gonna do to Thanos and ultimately what baby girl Stark did to the Whiewalker King

 

[Primetime]

Not about the nerd community, just the fact that your initial point was "nobody knew he was top 5 until.." was due to the fact that he just simply was not top 5 until the movie. Also, the nerd/comic bookies are the reason the movies are even here, guy.

You secondary point is sound tho, about anyone can be written to be great tho. Vulture wasn't really that ill either until the Homecoming movie.

Did you see who i quoted tho? My initial point was in response to buddy who said any villain can be GOAT-tier with cinematic magic. Which is facts.

Killmonger is top 5 right now. He's GOAT-tier. That's facts.

Nobody knew he was top 5 until the movie... now they know. That's facts. Would it be easier to digest if i said "no one knew he had goat-tier potential" or whatever? idk bc that's all just semantics to me tbh. No one knew he was the top 5 villain they wanted until he became the top 5 villain they always wanted. Did the Magneto villain arc arguably better than Magneto ever did it in movies

 

[Emoryal]

I liked Thanos a lot but the whole “destroy all living things in the universe” angle has been done to death and you know the good guys will win (eventually). I know Thanos did technically succeed but still. The best villains to me change how the heroes think/act rather than just inspire them to defeat the bad guy.

none of this makes sense

 

[Emoryal]

I guess I’m just burnt out on the large scale fate of the universe scenarios. I’ve liked the smaller scale movies.

pls name these large scale movies

 

[Gus Money]

none of this makes sense

Killmonger made Black Panther re-think his whole stance on not sharing wakanda’s technology with the outside world. He changed how black panther viewed his entire role. That’s different from a movie where the good guys just have to kill the bad guys. If you disagree that’s cool.

pls name these large scale movies

Most superhero movies involve some grand plot of world domination or destruction. All of the avengers, Thor 2, man of steel, etc. Nothing wrong with that, I’m just saying I prefer smaller stakes or different twists on the whole world domination thing.

 

[Emoryal]

That’s true, I can’t argue this. I guess I’m just burnt out on the large scale fate of the universe scenarios. I’ve liked the smaller scale movies.

I felt like Killmonger wanted to start a revolution rather than take over the world. He was trying to provide weapons to oppressed people so they could rise up but I don’t remember him talking about ruling the world or anything though I may be wrong.

Killmonger made Black Panther re-think his whole stance on not sharing wakanda’s technology with the outside world. He changed how black panther viewed his entire role. That’s different from a movie where the good guys just have to kill the bad guys. If you disagree that’s cool.

Most superhero movies involve some grand plot of world domination or destruction. All of the avengers, Thor 2, man of steel, etc. Nothing wrong with that, I’m just saying I prefer smaller stakes or different twists on the whole world domination thing.

Okoye was in his ear all movie and he clearly wanted to be different from his dad. Multiple factors were acting in tchalla the whole movie and he just became king. To cobtribute that solely to killmonger is stupid and worse it was a character arc not some internal conflict caused by some foil. And none of those movies had "fate of the universe" scales and even if it was you listed a mere 3.

 

[Concerned Citizen]

Norman Osbourn
Magneto
Doom

Quoted for truth

The thing is that the movies are going to need to shift from epic plots to epic storytelling to make these villains work. None except Doom maybe should be threatening reality on the same scope as Thanos but you can’t tell me that a Norman Osbourne/ Dark Avengers plotline through multiple movies wouldn’t be

 

[AllHolosEve]

The difference here is even though Thanos was a great character he had a bunch of hype going into the movie too. He didn't just show up & fukk up shyt.

Joker & Killmonger just came through & did their thing, no extra hype.

If Zemo had more scenes he'd be up here too for me. Did what he planned, outsmarted the Avengers & won. All without a fight scene.

I think a proper Magneto can take the spot too.

 

[HiiiPower]

doom and a comic accurate magneto (as far as powers go. magneto is insanely nerfed in the movies). Kang would be solid plus im sure he'd be played by a brutha as well.

Iv seen people say this but I never read any x men comics, how much more powerful is he?

Also, I don’t understand how they’d incorporate x men/mutants into the mcu at this point, is that actually planned?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Lol at OP tryna sneak Thanos by Joker in the thread title

It's hilarious. Thanos is probably my favorite comic book villain dating back many years now but Heath Joker is still clearly the GOAT

 

[kingdarius]

Iv seen people say this but I never read any x men comics, how much more powerful is he?

Also, I don’t understand how they’d incorporate x men/mutants into the mcu at this point, is that actually planned?

well in the movies magneto can basically just control metal. In the comics he's a master of magnetism/electromagnetism manipulation. He can create electromagnetic shields and make energy beams. He created a wormhole once to save scarlet witch and quicksilver. He's one of the only people who's power is so potent that rogue couldnt handle it. He can reverse earth's polarity. He can pull metal from space to where he is on earth. He tore apocalypse apart in the age of apocalypse comic as well.

He can scramble peoples brains with his powers to kill them. Him and graviton are absolute problems because of their control of gravity and magnetism. Both of whom have washed avenger squads before. As far as the other question idk how they'll incorporate them but they'll find a way. No reason to buy fox if they werent.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Him and graviton are absolute problems because of their control of gravity and magnetism.

When I think of the AoS version of Graviton, .....

 

[The Wolf Among You]

“destroy all living things in the universe” angle

Good thing that wasn’t Thanos’ angle.