On one hand, Jeff Bridges’ Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger kicked off an unfortunate trend when it comes to MCU villainy. Specifically, the antagonist is just the evil variation of the protagonist.

Bridges teases Obadiah Stane's survival in Iron Man Bridges also hinted that Stane's fate was originally left open-ended in an early version of the Iron Man script. “Well, when I read the script ...

Quicksilver met an untimely end without any sign of revival, while villains like Obadiah Stane would appear once and be defeated for good by the end of the movie. However, as the MCU continued ...

That's not nothing. Obadiah Stane fits so many of the MCU villain tropes we've become familiar with: He's a greedy businessman and a false father figure, and he's vastly less interesting than the ...