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[MCU] Do people in the MCU recognize "Supervillians" as a concept in the same way that they recognize Superheroes?

People in the MCU explicitly refer to Iron Man, Captain America and so forth as superheroes, which makes sense. They have PR teams, they lean into the cameras, they do high-profile acts of heroism on a fairly regular basis.

But many of the MCU takes on Marvel supervillians fail to ever attain a high public profile. Some, like Baron Von Strucker, mirror real-world terrorist leaders in that you'd have to be paying very close attention to Geopolitics to know who they are. Some of them, like the Kree, Yellowjacket, or Dorrammu, are stopped without the public ever becoming aware there was a problem in the first place. Several, like Loki, Malekith, Ultron, and Thanos, are less *personally* visible to the general public than the armies they deploy. Some, like Batroc and Leland Osley, simply lack the flair necessary to qualify as supervillians. Some are closer to being forces of nature, like Ego's jelly monster or Abomination. And almost universally, the villains get killed or jailed for good before they become a recurring problem. There were maybe 30 people who got a good look at Iron Monger on that dark highway before he got Kaboomed. It's unlikely the moniker"Iron Monger" was ever used in-universe.

So this leads to the question- is "Supervillian" a term that people in-universe could use with a straight face? Would they stick to more conventional terms like "terrorist?" Or is there just a stunted public awareness of the fact that malicious counterparts to the heroes exist at all?
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Not all of them, but for the major ones like Thanos, yes.

Think of Pacific Rim, or even Logan. Heroes and villains/monsters? Someone is gonna make a toy of it, or a comic, or a cartoon.... Even if they're literally based off real things that have killed a lot of people.