It used to be a major cliché to suggest that the MCU had a villain problem: right up to Thanos’ real first appearance – aside from perhaps Tom Hiddleston’s Loki – almost every MCU villain was cynically bundled into the “disappointing” grade bracket. Inevitably, that assessment lacked nuance, as tends to be the case these days, and ignored some excellent stand-outs (Obadiah Stane, Ultron, and Red Skull, chiefly), but history is written by the win…