Probably have to agree with most people saying Thanos, Magneto and Zod having the best motivations as Villians. This isn't saying anything about there plans and how well executed they were.
I always thought Thanos plan was stupid and doomed to failure. However, saw that as a manner for him to justify his bloodlust or his own delusions of being a god.
Magneto despite having the most poignant motivation for why he does what he does I always felt was doing things conterproductive to his own goals. Especially young Magneto in Days of Future past, where he is literally told they only make sentinals if you try and kill the world leaders, and what does he do? He trys to kill even more powerful people with more attention. Surely he would see that he only further exemplifies the fear of mutants and the need for the sentinals.
Zod probably has the most sound plan to reach his goals and fit his motivations more then any other Villian on the list. He felt as an indivdual that his only choice to preserve his people and his culture was to wipe out humanity so that his people have a chance at a future. Even though his goals were probably the most evil in terms of complete death of a people, his motivations are understood and his plan is straight forward in achieving his goal.
Despite all this I see a few people saying Killmonger is one of the best and I don't understand how you can logically think so? When you break down his motivation and his plan this is where I run into the most issue with the Black Panther film outside of the horrible CGI action. We as an audience are suppossed to believe his complete disdain for white people and desire to then want to opress them comes from a childhood where he was opressed by the system, despite the film only showing us that any tangible reason for his suffering comes from other indivduals of African descent (AKA, Tchaka killing his father). I would have preffered if his motivation was just hating Wakanda for leaving him an orphan, and his desire is to rip down the kingdom which took everything from him. Are we suppossed to believe that not a single white person showed him any kindness in his life that is why he has such strong convictions against them despite not being shown why he feels like so.
Throughout the X-men films we are shown why Magneto hates humanity, mostly due to the fact he experienced the worst of humans by being in concentration camps. (His Motivation is tangible and believable and we see the horror he faced from humans).
Thanos Shows us his homeworld and what his peoples negligence caused, they literally stand in the aftermath of it.
Zod we clearly see that his people are destroyed and his one driving goal now is to try and preserve his people and culture by any means necessary.
With Killmonger the only reason we see for his suffering and motivation is directly caused by an African indivdual. And then we are suppossed to believe without any tangible proof that in a world filled with monsters and Aliens that he is oppressed due to his skin colour. And this opression drives his motivation despite never being shown it any where in this film.
Outside of his motivation, Killmongers plan makes little to no sense to me as he literally conspires with an Evil (white) person to then help him infiltrate Wakanda. At no point in the film does it even explain why he couldn't have killed Klaw at the beggining of the film dragged his body to Wakanda and fought Tchalla when everyone else literally did. He instead helps Klaw steal Vibranium, Hop around the world, attempt to sell that Vibranium, get caught by Tchalla (this is where his plan could have fallen apart), rescue Klaw and then finally kill him and drag him off to Wakanda, where in the film for some reason Tchalla doesn't deny his request for a right to combat by simply telling everyone in the royal court that this individual is a co-conspirator of Wakandas greatest enemy Klaw and was the one that helped him escape after Tchalla had already captured him.
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