The directors once said they wanted to create a villain that could measure up to Darth Vader in terms of memorability

The directors once said they wanted to create a villain that could measure up to Darth Vader in terms of memorability.

Did they succeed?

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Darth Vader is the most memorable villain in movie history. I'm not sure anyone else will ever measure up, let alone fascist Grimace.

No I don't think so but they've come closer than most with the same goal

Infinity War Thanos for sure. not Endgame Thanos though.

Thanos had no rational motive for his actions

this honestly, Infinity War's Thanos really left an impression, can't say the same about Endgame though for obvious reasons it just didn't feel the same with the same villain but missing 9 years of actual experience

What this user said. Endgame Thanos wasn't interesting in the slightest. He pretty much regressed to being a generic doomsday villain. Just one of many letdowns of the movie.

Not really. It's not that he was a bad villain, but he doesn't get enough screen time to really create the same impression of having his fingers on the pulse of what's going on. He comes across as a last minute brawler.

in infinity war yes
in endgame only partly
i liked seeing the more ruthless, pre-stone thanos, lines up nicely with what they said about 'when he gets 2 stones he becomes more like a holy warrior, only killing when there's a threat to his agenda' so seeing more of that version before is nice.
at the same time, they worked to really push him as a psychopath. he never calls gamora little one in 2014, he now doesn't respect the avengers (despite respecting stark in 2018 for fighting to save the universe in his own way, which despite being contrary to thanos' goals, thanos admires since he views the universal scales as cruelly unbalanced and wants to set the population right) instead calling them unruly wretches (bearing in mind this is before he knows they kill him so you can't yet at this stage argue he's bloodlusted from knowing he was killed) and he's just less poetic. again you can argue that's because he's not now set on his mission to collect all 6 stones quickly but even then. even him just making a comment to thor about this being the axe that consolidated his hold over the balance of the universe (since it killed thanos post stone destruction) or again commenting on his begrudging respect to the 2019 avengers. even little things like when ebony may stranges nebula, it would have been interesting to see him threaten maw for his violence towards nebula. for me that kind of stuff makes thanos memorable since, similarly to when he maimed nebula to 'perfect' her, he'd be defending his 'daughter' despite having done such horrific things to her. i feel like endgame thanos completely lacked that strange moral compass that infinity war thanos could at least use to 'justify' his actions.

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