5 Reasons Why Spider-Man 2 is Better Than The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises

4. A Villain With Believable Motives

Neither of the villains in the The Dark Knight Rises, or Loki in The Avengers really had good enough, or solid enough reasons to do what they where doing for most of that film. In fact, if you were to sit all the villains down and talk to them for all of about half an hour, you could have probably made them see the errors in their ways. Basically, all the villains from both these movies really only wanted to create a bit of chaos. Sure, Talia's reasoning was probably a little more complex than Loki's, but for most of the film, most people (well those that didn't see it coming from a mile away) didn't even know that this character was who she was, and Nolan hardly did that much to explain what Talia wanted or why she wanted it, and for those who don't read the comics or hadn't seen Batman Begins since 2005, it was pretty difficult to remember what The League of Shadows really were either. Also, for the amount of crap Spider-Man 3 gets for having 3 villains, The Dark Knight Rises, who had arguably 3 main villains also (if you kind of count Catwoman... but then again Harry Osbourne was hardly a villain either) seems to completely get away with this. I personally think neither Spidey 3 or The Dark Knight Rises successfully pulled this off. Keeping to one interesting and complex villain, like the Joker for example in the far superior The Dark Knight, makes for a much more interesting film. I'm sorry, but Bane bored me... and though I don't approve of gun violence of any kind, Batman totally should have just shot Bane before he had a chance to to break his back. Spider-Man 2 had one villain: Doctor Octavius. This villain was infinitely more complex and believable than either Bane or Loki, and was much more interesting a character too. Doctor Octopus didn't really want to destroy the city or cause chaos like the other two, he simply wanted to complete the project he had spent a great deal of his life trying to complete. He fought with Spider-Man because he blamed Spidey for making his initial demonstration fail, and in part causing his wife to die. Also, he had artificial robot life controlling much of his actions, so the fact that at times the character seemed so evil was totally explainable. Why is Loki so evil in The Avengers? It can't just be because his father never told him he was adopted can it? Because if that's the case, that is kind of lame. Doctor Octavius was also much more sympathetic than the others, and in the end had a change of heart, sacrificing himself to save New York City. All successful characters in films need to be sympathetic to some degree. Loki was arguably somewhat sympathetic I guess, but Bane certainly wasn't. Even The Joker was sympathetic, because he was explained to have a serious mental illness, and for those reasons deserves Batman's pity and even respect.