There’s no denying that MCU has a major villain problem that doesn’t seem to go away. This habit of their contrasting villains felt good at first, but now it’s getting problematic. And we think that the upcoming Disney+ series, She-Hulk is going to be the next prey of this problem. Keep up with the post to find out more about this Marvel villain problem and how She-Hulk’s team can avoid this. 
Disney+’s She-Hulk is the highly-awaited origin story of the next member of the Hulk family, Jennifer Walters. The miniseries will follow Walters, an attorney at law, who gets mixed up in a mobster business and ends up in a hospital, needing a blood transfusion. And guess who helps her, none other than her cousin- Bruce Banner! Banner’s gamma-irradiated blood ends up infecting Walters too and she becomes the Jade Giantess. The later part of the series will see her accepting herself as She-Hulk and Bruce training her.
Now, when it comes to the villain of the series, that’s where the problem starts. Confirmed from our reports, She-Hulk will face her arch-nemesis from the comics, Titania. And from what we suspect, their story will be more or less directly from She-Hulk’s arc in the 1984 Secret Wars event. This was where Titania first received her powers from Doctor Doom whom she served during the event. Then, she went on to pose as the true rival of Jennifer Walters, which might not land well among MCU critics.
THE MCU VILLAIN PROBLEMS THAT DOESNT SEEM TO END!
Ever since the first Marvel movie, the franchise has been repeating one mistake. And that is to make their villain the exact opposite of their protagonist. What we mean by this statement is that MCU writers have a habit of making their antagonists embark on the same path as their protagonists. But this path diverges as the story continues, where the hero chooses the good path while the villains choose the bad one. This trend has made many protagonists land well among the audience. But anything in excess ends up annoying.
MCU started this trend when Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, faced Obadiah Stane, aka Iron Monger. Both of them worked well until Stark got up and quit the weapons industry. The same can be said about Hulk and the Abomination. Moving forward, Marvel repeated this mistake in the origin stories of Captain America, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and even Black Panther. Even WandaVision followed the same track with Agatha Harkness. Some of them worked well, and some worked extremely well, like in the case of Erik Killmonger of Black Panther. While some of them were just so cliché, like Ant-Man’s Darren Cross. Fans ended up forgetting him.
Now as Marvel prepares its fans for another superhero to enter their roster, they are picking up this trend again for her origin story. We can agree that this works in these origin-type movies because it explains the main character’s choices better. But why use this every time?! She-Hulk is going to repeat this trend by introducing Titania who, before receiving a super serum, was just a simple, regular person like Jen Walters. Titania’s powers changed her and Walters’ changed her. But Walters got Bruce Banner to train her and teach her to focus her powers on something good. While Titania got nobody to teach her or mentor her, thus her journey to being a villain.
HOW CAN SHE-HULK END UP SOLVING THIS PROBLEM?
Titania is the exact opposite of Jen Walters, there’s no changing that. But changes in some of the details of Titania’s character can end up working well for the stories. And these changes may not even be huge or from outside of the Marvel lore. Because we think our suggestion can solve the MCU’s repetitive villain problem for this project. So, in the comics, Titania has been a part of many team-ups. So why not in the MCU? Marvel could introduce her as the accomplice of another villain who Jen pissed as a lawyer. Now that person sent Titania to exact revenge on She-Hulk. There could even be a pretense that this person who sent Titania was a politically powerful person who was the one to give her the supersoldier serum.
Now, this could work another way too. Marvel has demonstrated through the Falcon and the Winter Soldier that during the blip, the whole world was in a crisis. And after that, conditions worsened socially, politically, and especially economically. So Titania could end up being one of those politically affected people, who becomes a mercenary for hire. And the same mobster who tried to hurt Jen once before. So he may be the one who hired Titania to finish the job. This could be better than the simple narrative where Titania is the big bad. The contrasting villain problem can no longer be an issue by changing the primary villain.
So, what do you think? Do you get annoyed by this repetitive Marvel villain problem? Do let us know in the comments section below.
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