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Originally Posted by Yamer
I'm not sure how general audiences would receive MODOK as a major threat looking like he does. Patton Oswalt voiced him in a terrible claymation series that seemed to show off how serious the folks involved with the MCU take the character.
I thought it was a wasted opportunity at first, but I don't think the character would have worked as anything other than a punchline.
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I actually love the claymation take on MODOK as it addresses some of the ridiculousness of both comics through and inherently Ridiculous character but the portrayal is constrained from just being comic relief and captures the pain that is in Modok. Essentially he wants to be accepted by society.
In recent cartoon portrayals he has been more toward the comic relief side so the idea isn’t unprecedented however they just went to far by doubling down on the character from the claymation show without any restraint on the intelligence of Modok.
His don’t be a dick ending actually kinda of fits with original Modoks desire to belong after his disfigurement.
Modok missed in Ant-man but the outline is there for a good portrayal if they went for him being serious but absurd as opposed to just being played for a joke.