Marvel Is Misusing Captain Americas Best Villains
Marvel Is Misusing Captain America’s Best Villains
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Marvel is introducing a number of Captain America’s best villains from the comics, but the MCU isn’t using them properly and wastes their potential.
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Marvel Studios is misusing the best villains from Captain America’s rogues’ gallery by giving them to other heroes in the MCU. Almost a decade after the Sentinel of Liberty’s MCU debut in Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios has introduced quite a few of the hero’s villains, including Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Crossbones, Batroc the Leaper, and Doctor Faustus from Agent Carter.
Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) battled an assortment of classic villains over the course of three solo movies, and helped Earth’s Mightiest Heroes deal with much bigger threats in the four Avengers movies. Captain America’s story came to an end in Avengers: Endgame, which saw Steve go back in time to be with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and hand off the shield to Falcon (Anthony Mackie). Chris Evans has officially exited the MCU, which means Marvel has to move on without him. Characters from the Captain America trilogy will return without Steve in the first Disney+ MCU show, Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
In Cap’s three solo movies, the Star-Spangled Avenger battled Red Skull, Batroc the Leaper, Crossbones, HYDRA, Winter Soldier, and even Iron Man. Unfortunately though, the MCU has overlooked and misused other Captain America villains, and in some cases, are utilizing them a bit too late, and with Chris Evans done as Captain America, audiences won’t have a chance to see these characters and their relationships with Captain America properly adapted to the big screen.
Red Skull
Red Skull is unquestionably Captain America’s greatest adversary in Marvel Comics, and Hugo Weaving perfectly brings the character and all his flaws to life in Captain America: The First Avenger. Admittedly, Weaving’s portrayal of the villain leaves little to complain about, but the movie never develops the Captain America-Red Skull relationship to its full potential. In the comics, the Red Skull is the Joker to Captain America’s Batman. The hatred and deep level of respect that Red Skull has for Captain America stands out and is part of what makes their rivalry so interesting.
Captain America and Red Skull don’t know each other long enough to develop this sort of relationship. For this to happen, the Skull would have needed to return in a sequel. Though he doesn’t come back for another Captain America movie, Red Skull does appear in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as the guardian of the Soul Stone, played by Ross Marquand. The fact that he doesn’t get anything more than an off-screen meeting with Captain America is a major missed opportunity.
Madame Hydra
In the comics, the female leader of HYDRA is one of the most evil villains in the Marvel Universe. The nihilistic Madame Hydra enjoys murder for the sake of murder, and had a strange obsession with death. As someone who has led both Hydra and the Serpent Society, Madame Hydra has been at odds with Captain America on numerous occasions and has distinguished herself as one of his greatest enemies, rivaled only by Red Skull and Baron Zemo.
The MCU gained its own version in Madame Hydra in Agents of SHIELD season 4 when the android AIDA (Mallory Jansen) put the SHIELD team in a virtual reality called the Framework. In the Framework, AIDA was Madame Hydra, who dressed and looked like her comic book counterpart. She even shared some of the comic book Madame Hydra’s murderous tendencies. Perhaps the biggest problem with Madame Hydra was that she was only a product of a virtual reality on Agents of SHIELD, when she easily could have fit into a big screen Captain America story, like Captain America: Winter Soldier. Her nihilistic views would have clashed nicely with Captain America’s ideals in the MCU.
U.S. Agent
Although John Walker aka U.S. Agent may not necessarily be a villain in Marvel Comics, he was a major antagonist in one of Captain America’s biggest stories. In the 1980s, Steve stepped down as Captain America and was replaced by John Walker, who proved to be a much more aggressive and less idealistic Captain America. In the beginning, U.S. Agent tried to emulate Steve but his psyche failed to hold up to all the trails he had to endure. When U.S. Agent started killing people, Steve believed that his successor was destroying what it meant to be Captain America.
At the end of the storyline, the two Captain America collided in a dramatic final showdown that concluded with Steve Rogers emerging victorious. It’s one of the most memorable Steve Rogers stories ever published, but it won’t be Steve who fights the MCU’s U.S. Agent in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, even though the series is clearly adapting some version of U.S. Agent’s comic story. Instead, this storyline will likely be given to Falcon. This is understandably a disappointment for Steve Rogers fans, as this could have been the perfect story for Captain America 4. U.S. Agent was introduced to the MCU just a few years too late.
Baron Zemo
The original Baron Zemo in Marvel Comics is known for causing the “deaths” of Captain America and Bucky during World War II. After discovering that Cap had survived, Zemo was killed. Years later, his son assumed the mantle of “Baron Zemo” and nearly brought the Avengers to their knees just to get back at Steve in “Under Siege”.
Captain America: The First Avenger completely ignored the elder Zemo and changed the circumstances that led to Cap and Bucky’s “deaths”. This hurt his son’s chances of getting a comic book accurate role in the MCU, but regardless, Captain America: Civil War still found a way to make use of him. He of course didn’t share his comic book counterpart’s reasons for hating Captain America, but hatred at least did have something to do with his story. In Civil War, Zemo wanted to tear apart the Avengers because he blamed them for the deaths of his family members. Since he operated from the shadows, Zemo never got to fight Captain America and was more interested in making the Avengers fight each other.
Captain America: Civil War’s Baron Zemo was greatly misused, but Falcon and the Winter Soldier is looking to correct that by giving Zemo his “Baron” title and his iconic purple mask. Baron Zemo is finally becoming the villain from the comics, but as is the case with U.S. Agent, it’s happening too late. Marvel waited too long to use Zemo correctly. Baron Zemo’s undying hatred for Steve Rogers is his most defining characteristic in Marvel Comics, but it won’t be that important in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, considering that Steve won’t be around to stop him.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/marvel-captain-america-villains-zemo-us-agent-red-skull/
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