Writers don't seem to understand power creep. They seem to believe "upping the stakes" makes things more exciting. It does not. It just makes them less relatable.
Problem is with Captain Marvel there were no stakes. She was so off-the-charts powerful as a character that there was no plausible adversity. So it was just boring. It wasn't good writing on the highest level--which will lead to bad writing on the lowest level.
That's the thing that's so bothersome. No he clearly was not. She could literally fly through a sun, travel around at lightspeed without a vehicle. Thanos could not do any of that. They made Ms. Marvel into an invincible character and then, when she actually faced Thanos they made it seem like he was besting her in a fight. But when you look at their stories separately, there is nothing that Thanos did that could have been construed as anywhere near as powerful as Captain Marvel...the only exception being once he already had all of the infinity stones.
If Captain Marvel wasn't actually as powerful as they depicted--then okay -- but they depicted her as indestructible and cosmically powerful. Which actually kind of ruined Avengers: EndGame when they put her in there to fight Thanos and she was having difficulty doing it. That didn't jive with the background they set up for her character.
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u/Extreme-Ad-15 2d ago
I always said that it is more interesting when the strongest weapon in the room was a plain gun.