Marvel's Phase 3 villains were right all along, which may seem an odd thing to say, but is no less true. Throughout each phase of the MCU, Marvel's villains have evolved: Phase 1 was all about establishing the heroes so the villains were often two-dimensional doppelgänger villains. With the exception of Loki, they were less fully-realized characters on their own but more villainous tropes meant to be cinematic shorthand to establish the stakes and quickly familiarize the audience with the heroes' flaws.
After the one major criticism of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies being the cookie-cutter villains, Phase 2 saw them evolve. Rather than being corrupted mirrors of the heroes they squared off against, the Phase 2 crop of villains became the embodiment of the heroes' mistakes, consequences personified. Phase 1 set up the world as something for the heroes to save, problems to be solved and then Phase 2 revolved around the concept that the Avengers are deeply flawed, and often their help only resulted in negative backswings they couldn't predict.
Phase 3, however, went big with its villains, changing the audiences' relationship with them in a way that was unexpected. The Phase 3 villains were charming. They were persuasive. What's more, they weren't entirely wrong. No longer did they represent the heroes' flaws, like Phase 1, or their mistakes, like Phase 2; the Phase 3 villains represented widespread systemic and global problems. Every single one raged against some fundamentally broken system they recognized needed to change. Adrian Toomes/Vulture represented the plight of the working class. Killmonger represented racial injustice and 400 years of the repercussions of slavery. Thanos was an environmentalist and for anti-scarcity. On the surface, it's genuinely hard to disagree with any of those stances, but the problem is invariably the way in which the villains go about trying to address these issues. Wholesale genocide and the murder of innocents as methods to achieve one's ends is never noble no matter the goal.
Still, sticking with the framework that the villains symbolize certain allegorical ideas and ideals, then it's the spirit of their actions that matters most. Their actions are still horrific, but the idea of it - that working within established norms and niceties isn't what creates systemic change, that anger is often the only thing that gets people to pay attention, isn't wrong. In fact, it's proven absolutely correct time and again in the real world. As Mr. Nancy once said in American Gods, "Angry gets sh*t done." Audiences are forced to admit uncomfortably, that villains aren't entirely wrong and that they may actually have made some good points. Villain Loki is what happens when you get charisma for years but a selfish motivation; the Phase 3 villains are what happen when you get charisma blended with a compelling argument. Deep-down, audiences agree with where the villains' motivations are coming from, if not their execution. Acknowledged or not, each Phase 3 villain exists to rage against a long-ignored problem that must be addressed in our own reality.
It's what the best villains do. They seduce an audience into sympathizing with their beliefs, and that's when they become truly terrifying. With Gorr the God Butcher in the MCU's Phase 4 also having a sympathetic story and representing the failure of those in power to do right by their people, it appears Marvel plans for allegorical villains won't stop with Phase 3. It will be interesting to see how the universe's bad guys evolve yet again. They are, ultimately, considered villains for a reason, but they also call out audiences for failing to address problems in the real world. And that can't be anything but right.
- Black Widow (2021)Release date: May 07, 2021
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)Release date: Jul 09, 2021
- Eternals (2021)Release date: Nov 05, 2021
- Spider-Man: Homecoming 3 (2021)Release date: Dec 17, 2021
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Release date: Feb 11, 2022
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)Release date: Mar 25, 2022
- Black Panther 2 (2022)Release date: May 06, 2022
- Captain Marvel 2 (2022)Release date: Jul 08, 2022
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