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Many of Marvel’s villains have been blatant baddies: Ultron (James Spader) wanted to extinguish humanity because he saw no redemptive qualities in man; Hela (Cate Blanchett) was the goddess of death, so killing people was kind of her raison d’être; and Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) was a literal Nazi.
Of course, Marvel’s best villains have always been a little more complicated. In Black Panther, Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) made a compelling argument that Wakanda had a responsibility to protect oppressed people across the globe, even if his solution to that problem was far too radical. The movie’s hero, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), even adopts Killmonger’s philosophy by the end of the movie.
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Loki (Tom Hiddleston) was driven to hegemony in The Avengers when he was spurned by his father and forced to live under his brother’s gargantuan shadow. Loki notably finds his inner hero only after he reconciles with his brother in Thor: Ragnarok.
And while Thanos (Josh Brolin) ought to have doubled the resources in the universe rather than cutting its population in half, he was trying to save the universe from an environmental crisis. “Thanos was right” has become a popular meme both on real-life Twitter and inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where keen-eyed viewers can occasionally spot the phrase graffitied on the stall door in a men’s bathroom or emblazoned on a coffee mug.
Still, we cheer at the end of Avengers: Endgame when Captain America (Chris Evans) stands up, bloodied and beaten, to fight Thanos, because our hero fights to protect lives, and our villain fights to destroy them. But in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, the line is blurring between hero and villain. Marvel’s protagonists and antagonists are getting more complicated: In fact, it’s often hard to tell them apart.
Is Yelena from Black Widow and Hawkeye a protagonist or an antagonist? Are the villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home redeemable? Which of the Eternals was…
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