The Marvel Cinematic Universe has featured countless villains across dozens of movies and TV shows. But when you step back, you can see that there are only 2 kinds of Marvel villains. There's the villain who wants to bring glory to himself, and the villain who is looking out for others. Every Marvel villain fits into one of these two chacrters types. Frpm Thanos, Gorr the God Butcher, Loki, Killmonger, Red Skull and Ultron--They can all be divided based on their individual sense of justice.
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Thor: Love and Thunder added a lot of things to the MCU-new characters, new locations, new lore-and added another iconic MCU Big Bad played by an Oscar-winning actor to the already impressive list of MCU Big Bads played by Oscar-winners and nominees.
In this case, the actor is Christian Bale, and the character is, of course, Gorr the God Butcher. Bale brought his trademark intensity and method acting to the role, creating one of the most visually-striking, creepiest supervillains we’ve seen to date.
Gorr the God Butcher stands out from other Marvel villains in a lot of ways, but specifically, he’s almost an exact mirror image of the biggest of the Big Bads-James Quincy Thanos, or Thanos just for short.
That doesn’t mean when Thanos looks in a mirror he sees Gorr the God Butcher. When Thanos looks in the mirror, he sees Grimace. But the methods and motivations of the two villains are so distinctly polar opposite that you’d think it was intentional. And maybe it is. Could this weird yin-yang relationship between two seemingly random characters in the MCU actually have been planned in advance? And if so, to what end? How can the legacies of these two opposite characters create some epic conflicts in Phases 4, 5, and beyond?
Well to answer that, let’s first look at exactly how Thanos and Gorr complement each other.
Let's just look at how Gorr and Thanos are exact opposites. First, since Marvel is all about endgames, let’s look at the goals each villain ultimately wished to achieve.
Thanos famously wanted to balance the universe by indiscriminately eliminating half of all life, thus ensuring enough resources for everyone. By separating who lives and who dies by random, Thanos tried to justify mass genocide by claiming it was indiscriminate and fair.
But by randomizing who died, it meant trillions and trillions of total innocents were killed-innocents like Mantis, Betty Brant, Hawkeye’s kids, and even Groot. Not to mention half of all dogs, and everyone knows there’s no such thing as a bad dog.
On the other hand, Gorr’s plan was to balance the universe by very specifically killing the gods of the universe, numbering in only the thousands or even hundreds. In his mind, the gods are selfish, cruel, and hypocritical-far from innocent. And it was a calculated strike, doing the most good with the least damage, righting the universe with a scalpel, as opposed to a machete like Thanos’s plan.
I mean, the guy tried to throw a whole moon at one guy-Thanos is definitely a “go big or go home” type.
Funny enough, one of the only things Thanos and Gorr have in common is what initially set them on their opposite courses-starvation. Gorr’s hatred for the gods began after he was forced to watch his young daughter starve to death, while the gods he prayed to intervene selfishly feasted on delicacies not too far away.
Meanwhile Thanos proposed killing half the population of his home planet Titan, before everyone starved to death. His own people thought that was crazy and banished him, and the planet ended up falling just like he predicted. Once he saw that he was right (hashtag Thanos Was Right) he made it his mission to “save” the universe.
But that’s where the similarities between Thanos and Gorr end. Even their reactions were different-Gorr blamed the gods for failing to answer his prayers. Thanos didn’t blame his people for ignoring him, he just doubled down on his beliefs. Gorr disavowed his beliefs-not just no longer relying on the gods but actively seeking them out and butchering them.
So that’s where Gorr and Thanos were coming from, and what their endgames were-but they’re also exact mirrors in the ways they went about achieving these goals-and the methods and motivations for each are deeply tied into their own personalities.
Also, shoutout to the Take for inspiring part of this video with their hot take on Disney villains: • The Two Types of Disne...
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