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Originally Posted by webz

Character-wise, marvel villains have mostly been boring. I think the only genuinely exciting MCU villain performance was Loki. The rest seemed bland and phoned in. Case in point, as I typed this, I was trying to think of the names of many of the MCU villains. Without concentrating, I was only able to come up with Loki, Thanos, and Ultron.

Yeah these movies generally favor a blander villain so the heroes can get the spotlight but there are some memorable takes in addition to the three you've mentioned, just off the top of my head I'd add Vulture and Mysterio. There's definitely a recurring issue though where talented performers aren't given enough material as the villain to stand out or alternatively if they do stand out then they're unfortunately short on screen-time. My go-to example is Andy Serkis as Klaue, he seems like he was having a blast playing that character which gives him a fun energy and he tends to steal the scenes he's in but then he's only in like three or four scenes across two movies. This problem obviously isn't exclusive to Marvel movies (MCU, Fox, or Sony) but I think that with their lengthy catalog of movies and tendency to kill villains off after one movie it's especially more detectable.