Dave Bautista Still Frustrated At Marvel's Treatment Of Drax

I wonder if he would have reprised his role in the animation for the same pay of an adequate well casted VA.

I asked before if Drax was a big or deep character in the comics. They'll all responded me with "it's a secondary character" and less appreciative descriptions.

He’s one of three characters I wouldn’t want back for the third one, mainly because GOTG needs half it’s team members replaced just to freshen it up a bit. Perfect jumping off point for a cosmic character like Adam Warlock, Blue Marvel or Nova. Don’t need a bunch of set-up shows as a ways to introduce new characters.

His character was comic relief. That's it. For 10 years. If he didn't understand this the whole time, he was perfectly cast.

Well Drax was okay in the comics, but never a 3 dimensional power house like say Dr Strange, Constatine, MAgneto, or even STarlord. The comics rebooted him too many times to care, and that was fine as Drax was a perfect anti-hero filler for the team.

Now in GotGalaxy Drax is/was some comic relief, and really that is fine. But if we look closer to his main motives .... Ronan was the one who killed his family at the order of Thanos. Ronan is dead, which takes Drax to Thanos, who is now also dead. Really the only path for Drax to take in GotG 3 is .... resolution. When telling a story you cannot do a U-turn or red herring with a side character without damaging the overall plot and or effect the rest of the team.

Would Drax make a good one off main character..... I just do not see it, no matter how well Bautista plays him. Maybe do an alternate origin story later on is about all that they could now that the character is set.

I actually tend to agree with him. He's gone from Drax the destroyer to Drax the class clown. Thor's heading that way as well. I get you need some comedic relief in these movies, but turning a single character into a joke is not the way to do it.

The actors who have historically played Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Steve Rogers, Carol Danvers, Ultron, Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanoff, Shuri, and Pepper Potts are now instead being portrayed by different actors

of course that was going happen and disney saved a shit ton money doing it.

seems to me dave is moaning and whining trying to get a drax movie

Drax could easily just be a cgi side character like king shark from suicide squad. He's unnecessary. So is Dave.

The reason real reason Bautista is retiring from the Drax role is he doesn't want to "do what it takes (chemically)" at age 52. Which i don't blame him.

I think it's safe to say they didn't get MCU actors for the animated series because it would greatly increase the cost. Getting full-time voice actors is probably a lot cheaper.