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Can the MCU do justice to Thanos?

As massively successful as the MCU has become, there has always been one rough edge in it's franchise wheel—weak, underdeveloped villains who are mostly used as mere plot device characters in service of the main storyline. Other than Zemo in Civil War, almost all of the MCU's villains have received a particularly lackluster treatment (Ronan, Malaekith, Yellowjacket) and in some cases, were even reduced to just a punching bag for the heroes' (Ultron and Loki in The Avengers comes to mind).  And this really begs the question: how will the MCU portray Thanos in the upcoming Infinity War? Will he truly get the 'ultimate badass' treatment that he deserves from his long comics history or will he just turn out to be another addition in the MCU's long pantheon of de-powered and under-utilized villains? Now of course we won't know the final answer to this question until the movie actually comes out or at least a full length trailer gets rele