A lot of them are, more or less, dark reflections of their heroic adversaries with no real character of their own: Iron Monger (played by Jeff Bridges) in Iron Man, Abomination (Tim Roth) in The Incredible Hulk and Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll) in Ant - Man. (cbr.com)
Over the years, the crown would come to sit alongside dark reflections on his own mortality — «most young kings get their heads cut off», he daubed on one of his canvases. (christies.com)
Without this shock value, the film is still an infernal machine — designed, like LaBute's In the Company of Men, to goad us into dark reflection — but its meanings tend to contract rather than expand. (chicagoreader.com)