Continuing the trend of the MCU’s villain problem, Doctor Who alumni Christopher Eccleston stuck on the prosthetics to play Malekith the Accursed in 2013’s Thor: The Dark World.
Thor: The Dark World, by most accounts, is the dark sheep of the MCU back catalogue.
As for Thor: Ragnarok‘s main villain, at least Waititi is sticking with a more comic book-accurate representation of Hela, Goddess of Death.
As for the second design, notice that Malekith has a much more technologically advanced look, and even bears an uncanny resemblance to other MCU villain Nebula.