27 best Marvel characters that have never appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
By Mark Lynch
Has Ares been in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie?
This is the real Greek God of War. Not someone with strength pretending to be him. Ares prides himself on knowing what it takes to win. He once lit himself on fire and had himself thrown into the middle of a war (the Ares mini-series). Another time he crashed a jet into a castle in Latveria to cause a distraction for Iron Man (Mighty Avengers). Aggressive to be sure, but you can’t argue results. Ares is the right kind of villain to have in a movie, but he’s a better character to have a redemption story in a movie.
Ares was the god the rest of the Olympians looked down on. He loved to see the blood of his enemies and would dismember them so they’d go to Hades disformed. As much as the other Olympians hated him (including his mother Hera and his father Zeus) when the gods needed him, they called him.
He thought this meant he’d be forgiven. Instead, all of the gods talked bad about him despite saving them. Ares was still looked at as an animal. He took the hint and went to Earth. He became a father and later an Avenger.
Ares is a throwback to 1980s and 1990s action movies. He’s rough, rugged, and uses swords and a battle-ax. Sometimes you need a guy like that. He can be the villain that everyone hates or the one that gets redemption. Especially when you see his softer side around his son. Softer being used in the loosest of terms.
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