This brawny baddie is a major step up from other villains in other recent pieces of superhero media.
The Big Picture As part of Hollywood's love for mimicking whatever worked before, Blue Beetle features yet another entry in the recent superhero movie/TV show trend of using tormented villains whose motivations are especially sympathetic and tragic. Such figures are often rooted in having grievances with institutions and powerful figures, making them underdog antagonists rather than all-powerful forces of evil like Darth Vader. Thanks to Michael B.
Recent Superhero Projects Tend to Botch Their Antagonists One underrated aspect of Black Panther’s writing is that the screenplay makes sure to have Nakia express the same views about Wakanda needing to break away from its isolationist status before we learn about Killmonger's motivation and problems with Wakanda's most powerful figures. Through this small but important detail, audiences are shown that questioning authority is not what defines Killmonger as a villain.
These kinds of adversaries are cooked up by writers and studio executives as a way to not only try and capture that Killmonger magic, but also to make their superhero films “relevant” to modern audiences. However, making characters conscious of real-world woes could end up indicting the massive conglomerates responsible for big DC and Marvel movies, so they still need to be seen as ham-fisted villains.
The best elements of Carapax as a sympathetic villain come in his final duel with Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle , in which the previously kill-adverse superhero is so blind with vengeful rage that he wants to murder his foe. It’s a moment of moral complexity, in which the thought of killing Carapax is explicitly depicted as a bad thing, that was absent from other recent superhero projects.
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