re: Marvel Series Villains vs Movie Villains

I think the show's villains have been pretty excellent.

Kilgrave is psychotic and was portrayed brilliantly. And he was fully fleshed out, which is one of the great things about the length of the shows versus the movies. You actually saw why he had such issues.

Punisher is an anti-hero bordering on villainy and is one of the morally ambiguous characters that is made for in depth exploration.

Fisk we saw change from Fisk to Kingpin over the course of a season and become a full blown criminal mastermind.

Cottonmouth I've only seen one episode of in Luke Cage, but so far he's perhaps the most one dimensional. He is nakedly grasping for power through violence. Still, he's fairly intriguing.


Ultron was poo and could have been so great if done well. The set up of his character in the film was brilliant, being the conception of Stark and Banner, and a showcase of how ego and our technological progress can lead to very real moral questions.

Thanos is simply too vague to really be much of an issue yet or for me to assign much judgment to him.

The Thor villains besides Loki have sucked.

Red Skull is intriguing of only because he founded Hydra which has continued to permeate the MCU. Otherwise he's fairly bland.

Winter Soldier is a great villain turned hero.

The Iron Man villains are forgettable. The first one served his purpose well, though,and it made sense. The other two were just terrible.

Basically the MCU villains are butt.