Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26687285-20150905125650/@comment-26687285-20150906102900

Rodangizzardcrusher3 wrote: To be honest, with what they gave us, MCU's better off without this version of Malekith. I can't believe I'm saying this about my third favorite doctor! Well yeah, i guess, but that's exactly my point though. Why did they such a sh*tty job utilizing this guy!?, especially when the source material is so rich and viable!?. Clearly Marvel either had no faith or no interest in developing this character further. They probably thought: meh, mainstream audiences won't recognize this dude so, why bother. Just make him a standard alien/magic/monster character, and they won't care. They're just here to see Loki's charm, Thor's abs and some interdimensional action scenes anyway.

That, or they didn't have enough time to really improve the script, and they just stuck to what's most guaranteed to make the film a success. Namely, Loki, Thor, Natalie Portman (probably) and action. I mean, say what you will about the Mandarin, but at least they did something with him.

So yeah, in the end i just don't think they didn't care. And therefore didn't really try. Which is a damn shame.