MODOK's essential oddness is diluted wen he's just one more CGI weirdo in a world full of them. Their "Quantum Realm," which could just as easily be called "Dreamland," is filled with people and blobs and broccoli dudes and cylinger-heads and different blobs and floating spuzz in the sky and on and on and on. It's simple science.īut for some reason, the powers in charge of the MCU decided to debut this magnificent being in AM&tW:Q, a movie that's already an unrestrained splatter of over-the-top visual craziness.
Put MODOK into any story with spandex super-types and you've just leveled up your visuals by a factor of at least fifteen.
He just looks friggin' cool and there's no getting around, mostly because there's no room because his head is too big. In a world full of super-soldiers and science-heroes and myth-gods, MODOK still stands out with a giant-headed vengeance. The problem is that MODOK is such an enduring figure because he's so insanely weird-looking.
The problem isn't that they changed his origin, though I wish they hadn't. The MCU folks are tasked with adapting decades of comic stories into films, and they've generally done a pretty good job navigating the transition. After being MODOCed, MODOC decided the whole thing was BS and changed his name to Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing (way cooler), which he went on to firmly establish by only killing a ridiculously impressive number of folks. In the comics, he started as George Tarleton, a hapless functionary working for Advanced Idea Mechanics who was forced to undergo a bizarre transformation into a Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing. But I'm disappointed, and not just because the guardians of the MCU decided to adapt him rather more loosely from the comics than they have other heroes and villains. I mean, he looks fine, I guess, as fine as a CGI giant head can look with modern technology. And yet, now that day has arrived, I regret to say I find myself a bit let down. (It's not a secret because he's in one of the trailers, so I take that fact as spoiled.)Īs a longtime devotee of MODOK and all his works, I've been looking forward to the glorious day when he finally shows up full-headed in a live-action movie. It's also no secret, I think, that MODOK makes his first official appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He's easy to spot he's the dude who's a giant floating head firing mental death beams at you. Readers may be aware that I have feelings regarding MODOK, the classic Jack Kirby Captain America villain.
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