Is the MCU killing off to many cool villians?

well?

I think Red Skull is dead for real... or Undead. Not coming back, unless they make a bunch of Captain America shows set from 1945 to the modern era.

I suspect they aren't keeping them around because they want to give the hero the satisfaction of genuinely defeating the villain at the end of their movies, instead of having them keep coming back the way a popular comic-book villain does. Comics string along forever, but a movie needs a satisfying ending that feels like a particular story coming to a close*, and defeating a villain for real fills that need. And since Marvel Films has about 100 years worth of Marvel Comics villains to choose from, so yes, they feel free to use up a villain in the course of one movie.

The only exceptions to this are Loki and Magneto, who are as much antihero as they are villain.


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* While leaving room for a sequel, of course.

Not at all. Film is a very different medium than a comic, where you have to tell a new story every month. Comic writers have to recycle the same villains over and over. Meanwhile, filmmakers will have maybe 2 to 5 films in which to tell their stories. As great as, say, the Red Skull is, there are so many other villains from which to choose that there's no way to justify making another film in which he's the main antagonist.

Also, unlike in the comics, actors age. Whereas a comic can tell 120 stories in a decade, a film franchise can tell at most 5 in that span, and 3 is the norm. This is why film franchises regularly reboot, which is what I wonder if Marvel will eventually do. I can certainly see the MCU rebooting with a new Iron Man film in 2033 or so, at which point all dead villains are again fair game, similar to how James Bond rebooted and we met a new Blofeld.

What are you asking? How do you kill 'to' something? What does 'villian' mean, that doesn't appear to be an actual word.

I suspect you might be trying to write something like 'Is the MCU killing off TOO many cool VILLAINS?'.

However, I don't think MCU is an intelligent entity that has the agency to do anything of sorts. Also, 'killing' a character isn't reality, because it's just a character, so it was never even alive. What you probably mean is, 'are the people that make this kind of movies creating 'too many' (how do you measure this, by the way?) stories where these type of characters die?'

In any case, I can't understand how anyone, let alone so many people make this weird 'American Typo' of typing 'too' as 'to' (at least you didn't use 'two', let alone '2'), and then write 'VILLAIN' as 'VILLIAN' for some reason - not that I can understand people actually playing the class called 'Rogue' in some games, still typing their own class name as 'Rouge', holy cow! How do you even make that mistake in the first place?

What bothers me even more is that every time I check, no one seems to be mentioning this or correcting this type of brain malfunction at all, so these mistakes keep conquering internet discussion board real estate like cockroaches would a kitchen floor. If someone doesn't call the Exterminator soon, it's going to be too late for the english language.

Please correct these errors and 'American Typos' while there's still time..

Villains are easily replaced by new villains.

The MCU is really missing Captain America (Evans), Iron Man (Downey), and Black Widow (Johansson).

The only good MCU movie since they left was Spiderman: No Way Home. Everything else has flopped, or should have flopped.