The MCU's Other M.O.D.O.K.

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I love how Thor was so shocked by MODOK’s appearance that he dropped the olde English and was just like “that is a big head”

“He hates the inhumans” so cool they got a Kevin Fiege cameo in AOS

Modok was awesome in EMH. Voice actor was on point. His ego was as big as his head and I loved it. The head jokes were hilarious. This MODOK was ok but just felt out of place.

I honestly feel that the video game did the best job of MODOK, he actually was a serious villain here

I always thought that Armin Zola from Winter Soldier would’ve been a pretty cool live action take on MODOK if they committed to that idea. Would’ve been a pretty cool way to transplant MODOK into the MCU while keeping the character threatening and serious.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., despite its low budget, managed to have better pacing, writing, and even fight scenes than a lot of later MCU films. And you can quote me on that. It even has a Ghost Rider that's pretty serious and not treated as some joke.

After seeing what the MCU did with Hydra, I was hoping that in Phase 4 we'd see MODOK and AIM introduced in a similar way as a reoccurring background threat, providing suits and funding for other villains or maybe opening the next Avengers film with an action scene of AIM and MODOK versus the Avengers, defeating him and throwing him in the Raft. The MCU doesn't tend to do much in the way of reoccurring villains or even background everyday lower level threats, we never see a film set on earth open with the hero stopping a supervillain from committing a street level crime, which to me would add a lot of further worldbuilding (easy way to give Spider-Man his rogues gallery), I think MODOK could have acted as that for the more general Avengers characters. He'd maybe only showed up two or three times mostly as cameo roles, with him being played as an annoyance more so than a genuine threat. That could allow for him to initially be more serious, then he essentially becomes a reoccurring joke, paralleling the actual evolution the character went through in comics. With that he'd get his own distinct role within the MCU where he highlights that there are villains the Avengers deal with between films that aren't epic world ending threats. I've yet to see Quantumania so I'll wait and see whatever it is they do with him in that film, so whilst a part of me is disappointed that we're not getting him as the crazy science experiment running an organization of crazy scientists, I'm still curious as to what they do with him. To me MODOK is far from an epic menacing villain, but to me he'd probably crack the top 20 general Marvel villains purely for how memorable of a design he is, and the whole AIM aspect gives him his own corner of the universe.

MODOK in Iron Man: Armored Adventures was really cool and underrated. He had a cool redesign and felt like a genuine threat. Just ignore his appearance in season 2.

Something I think was an interesting understated change to M.O.D.O.K. that EMH did was slightly shift the acronym while still allowing the name to be stated. Instead of being his classic Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, EMH's version was the Mental Organism Designed Only for Conquest; They replaced the K with a C, and it's even implied that M.O.D.O.C. themself altered this terminology and and acronym when he took control of A.I.M.

“It’s some kind of…of… That is a very big head” -the God of Thunder, Thor

Actually, I think that bolsters the argument that the show is canon. If they originally gave permission to Agents of SHIELD to use MODOK but then told them not to use him, that shows the movie-side was still working with the television-side to make sure there were no later continuity problems.

AOS lover here, great way to explain the themes of the show. i never realized how strongly they were connected by that theme

I honestly thought he was going to talk about when Killian became MODOK in the Iron Man 3 mobile game

I also think it’s imoportant to note that the Superior from AoS was supposed to have more development (possibly into a full, comic-accurate MODOK) in season 5, which lines up with when he was ‘cancelled’ by the wider MCU. I always found the Superior storyline felt unfinished in AoS, and that probably explains why.

Call me cynical, but I have a feeling Ant-Man 3 is absolutely not going to use Modok or anything else as a springboard to greatness.

Iron Man Armored Adventures did a decent take of making MODOC (he was changed to be designed only for conquest) threatening. Though funny enough that show gets overlooked because of a lot of liberties it took with the source material.

Never thought I'd say the Avengers game would do anything better than the MCU but here we are (Modok in the game was creepy af)

Hell, it was one of the Captain America writers in 2011 (I think it was Christopher Markus?) who said they’d like to use MODOK in the first Cap sequel… he floated having Peter Dinklage playing him, presumably a more grounded take. On the Superior, I’ve long been convinced that they intended to make Agent Felix Blake, played by Titus Welliver, into the role in Season 4; the fact that Blake reappeared in Season 3 as the apparent leader of the Watchdogs, having lost the use of his legs and an evil counterpart to the one-handed Phil Coulson, only to vanish without a trace (either because Welliver wasn’t available or plans changed, I don’t know). That’s just my theory, but I really can’t unsee it personally.

Ah yes modok the guy who’s head became big because he was sent to the quantum realm totally not some dude who was experimented on by AIM