In superhero TV shows, keeping the exciting reveal or new main plot direction for the last moments in a TV show can be terrorizing when fans have already been invested in another villain arc. Disney+ seems to be continuing this trend with its latest legal-comedy drama She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
One may think, what’s the problem with teasing some of the best for the last? Well, it’s the fact that the MCU straight-up just introduce a new villain with greater powers while there’s already another one that has been plotting all the bad things in the TV series. This trend has been haunting MCU Disney+ TV series for quite some time now.
MCU’s Villain Problems Live On In She-Hulk
Marvel’s Disney+ TV series has introduced numerous villains, some well-written and some not, to the MCU in the past few years. But has it been able to fruitfully develop these villains into better characters?
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law‘s Titania is one of the newest addition to a long list of Marvel baddies, but she is also just another placeholder villain in the MCU. This is because the TV show introduced a faceless villain who seems to be a big deal at the end of episode six of the TV show.
The villain was revealed back in episode three as a “top of the food chain” type of boss to whom the mercenaries hunting Jennifer Walters in the same episode would report to. But there are still only three episodes remaining, leaving minimal time for Marvel to introduce as well as fit the new villain into the series.
This isn’t the first time Marvel has done this- Agatha Harkness was revealed to be WandaVision‘s ultimate antagonist only in episode seven, Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin in Hawkeye, and the crocodile goddess Ammit in Moon Knight are just a few examples of villains who got into the game way too late.
Will Marvel be continuing this trend of introducing a big player in the TV show after like 5+ episodes? because if they do it’ll be a hard task managing the leftover episodes to develop that villain into a much more terrifying one.
She-Hulk’s Villain Problem Is Way Worse Than Ms. Marvel’s
Ms. Marvel‘s introduction as well as the end of the Clandestines was quite an emotional rollercoaster ride.
However, the majority of the criticism for the show was directed toward the short tenure of Najma’s outcasts in the TV show, which fans felt needed more screen time to develop into much more meaningful villains.
The problem faced by Ms. Marvel has been the talking piece of a lot of debate and discussion in the Marvel community, but She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has proven that Marvel has messed things up with the development of their villains yet again.
The recent sneak peek of the faceless big bad villain at the end of episode six in Jessica Gao‘s TV series was quite chilling. But it kind of falls flat considering that we already have a sassy but mischievous villain in Titania, and the bigger question is- how in the world will Marvel work on both these villains in a span of three episodes?
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The big reveal of the new anticipated villain in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law might come later on in the TV show, probably in the season finale, but Marvel could’ve at least finished off one villain without introducing a whole new big player in the TV show.
Ms. Marvel‘s Clandestines may have been sent off too fast, but at least the TV show got to focus on that specific group of villains instead of trying to balance it out with two different antagonists.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is currently available for streaming on Disney+.
Source: The Direct
