Ronan

The lead villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been heavily criticised in general – and Ronan is a prime example of why.

Lee Pace was by no means awful in the role – at least as far as the limited things he actually had to do were concerned – but the fact is that the character was massively underdeveloped and bore very little resemblance to his comic book counterpart.

For starters, his origins were totally skipped over, giving him no back-story with any substance and not allowing audiences members to either relate to him or truly hate him. Moreover, his powers were decidedly less versatile than the version in the comics and, in particular, his war-hammer – known as the Universal Weapon in the comics and capable of all kinds of interesting feats – was literally just something he could hit people with (until he possessed the Orb, at least).

His alignment is also far more ambiguous in the comics – he has proven himself capable of heroic acts – whereas he was an outright evil sadist in the MCU. Very disappointing indeed – especially given that he was in an otherwise great movie.

He died at the hands of the titular team, but he may reappear in the future, given the nature of his death (an Infinity Stone blast).