Current Events > One area where the MCU should have taken liberties (Guardians 1 Spoilers)

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I know that Ronan is supposed to be a really tough foe who can singlehandedly battle the Avengers or whatever. But, for the sake of the story, he should have been only slightly stronger than Drax.

Drax fights Ronan and fails to land any offense. Then, Ronan receives a power up in the form of the Infinity Stone. In the rematch, Drax fails to get any offense. Yeah. That's about as effective as showing off a new Superman power up by having bullets bounce of him. If the results are the same as before, how is anybody to even notice the difference?

The first fight should have had Drax as an underdog, sure, but he should have been able to put a hurt on Ronan. Save the "dodge everything" stuff for the Infinity Stone so that the audience can appreciate the upgrade the character is supposed to have undergone.


If you want a villain (or any character) to receive an upgrade, they gotta show some measure of limitation so that the viewer can appreciate the difference. Otherwise, the upgrade is nothing but an informed attribute.

I feel like the power levels throughout the MCU in general are all over the place.

If you want to show an upgrade, there's gotta be a standard of comparison. That's ultimately what I was trying to get at in all of that rambling.

Ronan didn't do anything in the second fight that he couldn't have just as easily done in the first fight. For all intents and purposes, the Stone may as well be a placebo.

Yeah you're right

I think Ronan could've been a bigger violation than he was. He died too soon, you know?
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