10 Characters That Single-Handedly Ruined Recent Movies
4. MODOK - Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
Sometimes, a character is so awful that they single-handedly destroy their film's credibility, even if they're just a supporting player. Just ask MODOK.
When MODOK (Corey Stoll) first appears, the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's credibility vanishes just like that. It's hard to imagine many were able to continue taking the film seriously after this uncanny-valley eyesore first makes his entrance, and it's harder still to figure out the hell this even ended up in the finished film.
Seriously, this movie cost $200 million. Couldn't they afford some quarter-decent CGI?
It doesn't stop there though. It would've made so much more sense for MODOK to be the lead villain given that the character has a past connection with Ant-Man and is his nemesis in the comics but given that the film forced future MCU big bad Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) into a story that didn't really suit him, MODOK is instead relegated to a supporting villain in a very jarring way.
Worse still, the character is a fantastically dire, painfully unfunny joke of a side-villain who eventually, in what is probably the worst redemptive arc in superhero movie history, sacrifices himself while yelling "I am not a d**k!"
Essentially, MODOK represents everything that is killing the MCU right now: laughable CGI, underwhelming villains, poor writing, disrespecting the source material and turning things that could've been weighty into complete jokes. He might just be the worst MCU villain ever.