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Marvel has heist movies (AntMan) and spy thrillers (Winter Soldier) and period pieces (First Avenger) and straight up action ensembles (The Avengers). Even flawed movies like Age of Ultron are still heavily character driven and keep the focus on the beliefs and motivations of the main characters. Ragnarok shows they are willing to change directions when they feel it will help a franchise, and willing to overturn the apple cart and make dramatic changes to the world their characters inhabit.
This, this right here is what makes the MCU really work, In this year we have gotten.
"Highschool Musical..but with Spiderman."
"A Man comes to terms with the Biological Father who abandoned him, The Parental Father who kidnapped him from his home, but could not hand him over to be murdered, and deciding that the place that he belongs is with the family who accepted him for who he is, not the one related to him by blood."
"The Final Leg of the journey of a Man from Arrogant Bloodthirsty Warrior, to Wise King."
Edit : I lost my point in all of that, The variance in story is what is making MCU really work, even if it is something you aren't sure you will be into Genre wise, you know that an MCU Movie/Show is a worst going to be passable, I WISH Star Wars would have done this instead of "2 Movies of Blhargleblarge SKYWALKERS!!!!! A movie that is a prequel to Episode 4...and another Movie that will be a prequel to Episode 4"
I think what ultimately makes the Marvel movies work is that they take the time to make you care what happens to the characters first, then make crazy stuff happen to the characters. They don't always succeed for every viewer, but they keep trying. And maybe that becomes a little formulaic, but formulas are not good or bad, they are just tools.
That was always the appeal of Marvel comics in the early 60's and even later - they were real people with real emotions and real life problems that just happened to have super powers.
And those little character moments like in Ultron with them trying to lift Thor's hammer at the party or the farm scene makes us feel these are real people.
cameo alongside Matt Damon's Loki.
I thought Hela was a bit one dimensional. She didn't have much in the way of motivation. She was going to be the ruler of Asgard because... power? Daddy issues? It didn't matter, she wasn't there to have motivations, but rather to be a motivational force.
Like I said: daddy issues. Although it doesn't really make sense as a motivation to become the ruler of Asgard. If she were really embracing her nature while being ticked off about being discarded by her father, she should've forgone the pretense of ruling Asgard in favour of simply destroying it. Best not to think about it. Just accept her as Thor's impetus and move on.
But it wasn't her home. She spent a fair amount of time essentially complaining about (or being confronted with) how not-her-home it was. But she apparently didn't have any concept of how to make it her home beyond her answer for just about everything - destructively lashing out. Because she was a one note villain with just slightly more personality than a sky portal. Which was fine, because she didn't need to have character - she was just there to set Thor on a path and then wait for him at the end of the path. If not for Skurge the incompetent weasel, the reminder-of-the-goal intermissions would've been more tedious. But the writers knew that Hela needed a surrogate personality if those bits of padding weren't going to drag. Hooray writers.
It's all just fury.
That's all one expounded upon note. It's all just fury. Signifying a bit less than nothing on its own.
If all of that constitutes one note, I'm afraid I don't know how to construct a chord.