Comic book movies may have made their modern resurgence with 2008's Iron Man and the debut of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that wasn't the first appearance of a Marvel character on the big screen. In the first Guardians movie, Yondu is constantly threatening to kill Peter Quill for what seems to be not much more than pride and a payday — greed appears to be his one and only north star. But when he transferred his consciousness into a vast, aging database buried deep underneath an abandoned army base so he could conspire to stretch Hydra's tentacles deep within S.H.I.E.L.D., Dr. Zola was magnificent. Off camera, Strucker is a mad Hydra scientist willing to sacrifice the lives of untold numbers of "volunteers" in the pursuit of making "miracles" with Loki's scepter — including the primordial beginnings of what would become Ultron and his army of robots. This version of the Mandarin is supposed to be a kind of racist pastiche of America's biggest boogeymen — he's conceived as propaganda meant to provoke our most base fears, one of the most deliciously trenchant ideas that has ever worked its way into a Marvel Studios movie. That Peter Quill's father looks like Kurt Russell (and, for one freaky moment, David Hasselhoff) only makes the fact that he is literally the worst dad in the universe sting that much more. The reason I put it on this list is that he is from a movie with much higher expectations. And when he gives Banner's blood to Emil Blonsky, Tim Blake Nelson knows how to barely contain Sterns' excitement at creating the Abomination. ...Such as, an almost total lack of physical action, and being a complete alteration of comic book canon. to be the ultimate super-smart, tyrannical leader. He has a grumpy, wicked sense of humor ("I can't actually throw up in my mouth, but if I could, I would do it! From his pinpoint accent, to nailing the Skull's aristocratic psychopathy - and even throwing down with the hero in a satisfying final battle... Only in hindsight do we see that Red Skull was a distinguished exception amongst MCU villains, not the standard. One of the wildest (and best) ideas in Captain Marvel is that a vast alien empire is governed by a deity-like artificial intelligence who takes on a different appearance depending on who is regarding it. Thanos (Josh Brolin) 4. But probably not! Who is YOUR favorite MCU villain from our list? "), and an apocalyptic plan to save the planet by destroying humanity. By Endgame, witnessing the devastation wrought by Thanos’s snap deepens and softens Nebula, which makes the contrast to her earlier, eviler self in the movie that much more striking. Captain Marvel made her debut in a movie set in the 1990s, though this movie will likely take place in modern day given the inclusion of Iman Vellani, the new Ms. Marvel on Disney+, in the cast. Go through some of the brightest yet meanest of them all. In Vol. Being boring is bad, and not in a good way. This one is tricky. The fact that he's still around has us excited for his role in the MCU's future. Colm Feore at least brings a spark of personality to the leader of the Frost Giants, but now that I've typed the term "Frost Giants," I cannot take him or his intimidating abs seriously. Like, he's standing over the smoldering ashes of his compatriot, and his immediate thought seems to be Yay, mine now! Still: He's made of fire and has zero chill. It's a shame, really, that he was killed off. He conspires with the Mandarin and sells out the president — and, worse, Tony Stark. This tough, no-nonsense sharpshooter doesn't care for Carol Danvers' plucky, can-do charm and happily keeps the truth of Carol's origins a secret from her. In Sam Rockwell's spray-on-tan-stained hands, however, Hammer proved to be an oddball riot, and one of the only unambiguously good things about this bloated, unlikable movie. As the title of the list implies, there are some DETAILS to consider: Not hard to imagine why this gem is at the bottom of our list: it was probably the biggest hit to the MCU's reputation that Marvel has taken to date. already know just how evil the Kree can be, so Yon-Rogg's treachery wasn't that surprising. Was there ever any doubt who would be No. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/idea/lists/top-100-marvel-villains/49380/ It's math. Loki ( Thor, The Avengers). It all adds up to a mishmash of a character who can get it as a hot dad, but never quite feels evil enough to be Carol's equal. 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Bucky Barnes may end up being one of the MCU's biggest heroes, but as we saw in Civil War, that dark, deadly, villain will always be alive somewhere inside him. Not too arch, but rather dedicated to a skewed set principles, he was a well-balanced character who deserved more depth - especially with his backstory. When unmasked as Red Skull, he looks both convincingly frightening and like he stepped straight out of a comic book. There is nothing worse. So he's definitely a bad guy. Taserface, everybody! Dormammu in the Doctor Strange movie is just plain funny looking (like a psychedelic Wizard of Oz), and since the movie mainly plays him for comedic relief, he's not all that fearsome, either. Ross was also the catalyst in creating the Abomination, one of the more boring one-note villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. articles to this category. Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Panther. Unlike so many of the villains on this list, Toomes feels like a real guy, with real gripes about the rigged system that has left him and his crew scrounging for scraps to feed their families. Actor Lee Pace played a version of Ronan that started out well within the boundaries of comic canon - but ultimately, Guardians of the Galaxy used him for a standard 'destroy the world' villain part, and has (for now) removed him from the Marvel Cosmic game board. He saves Cap in the end, sure, but, as Bucky himself expresses in Captain America: Civil War, that does not make up for all the terrible things he did as the Winter Soldier. Mister Negative is a Marvel equivalent... 9 Living Laser. In the forgettably terrible Incredible Hulk, William Hurt plays a fuzzily drawn antagonist to Edward Norton's Bruce Banner. When you are The Big Bad for an entire superhero feature film, the sin of total boredom is unforgivable. He spawned thousands of offspring throughout the cosmos just so he could subsume their essence in his mad quest to replace all life everywhere. Even in The Dark World and Ragnarok, when Loki becomes his brother's extremely reluctant ally, he still somehow manages to find a way to betray Thor — and, it turns out, the entire universe — when he doesn’t just let the Tesseract get destroyed when Asgard goes boom. But that's all he does, and Cap wipes the floor with him. Pierce could have been a deliberately anonymous government bureaucrat gone catastrophically to seed, which would have been effective enough for a movie about the perils of runaway military expansion. Thor: Ragnarok. Savin gets more screen time than his Extremis-y counterpart Brandt, and he likes to chew gum a lot, a telltale sign of cinematic villainy. We've ranked Every Major MCU Movie Villain, from worst to best. ... Loki is a fan favorite for a reason: More wildcard than true... 3. His look in Guardians of the Galaxy certainly makes a strong impression, and thanks to Lee Pace's keen sense of theatricality, Ronan holds our attention far more than those Dark Elves and Frost Giants pestering Asgard. Hurt is never not interesting, but the character is so all over the place that there's not much there for him to play. 2, Doctor Strange, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man. 8 Ghost Vote below and click any of the movie titles at the bottom of the page for more info on that Marvel film. Promoted in replacement of Galactus Heralds. The most villainous moment in Schultz's young career as an MCU villain comes when he nonchalantly picks up his Shocker gloves after Toomes zaps them off of Jackson's body. By Vol. So now we’re left to wonder, will the MCU ever see an enemy that galactically formidable again? Marvel has its own collection of tragic villains like Magneto and The Hood who could easily carry their own gritty Joker-style film. He’s played this time by a more subdued Ross Marquand, and he didn’t do much more than float maliciously in a flowy black cloak. Like the other rogues on this list who eventually heed their better angels, however, I still think Yondu deserves to be here. Still, the cosmic dimensions of Thanos’s genocidal aspirations keep his character at a chilly remove — reinforced by his retirement as a farmer on an unpopulated planet, where the remaining Avengers (or, really, just Thor) quickly relieve him of his head in Endgame. Yet, altogether, the character never quite took flight for me in the way I'd hoped. ...Except he hasn't actually done sh*t yet! Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Robert Gonzales. Guy Pearce gave Killian some rare charisma for an MCU villain, and was casually ruthless in the best way. His name is what strikes fear in all those who hear it! When Netflix revamped ‘Daredevil’ to a web only series, everyone took notice of it. And his decision not to rat out Peter Parker to Mac Gargan in prison suggests there are depths to this character that have yet to be explored. On paper, as a rival defense contractor, Hammer was only meant to be the smooth-talking, morally empty yang to Tony Stark's yin, and the secondary villain who gets Whiplash from point A to point Evil. But in the end, this was another bland and thinly drawn Marvel movie villain, who only makes the list because even though he's technically a henchman, his boss does so little in the film it's hard to count him as the "primary.". The guy just has a problem committing. And her outfit makes her look like the 2018 version of a Star Wars bounty hunter — a high nerd compliment. This Hydra weasel has even less total screen time than Sitwell, but at least he actually does something villainous — i.e. So discovering he's been a Hydra weasel all along feels like a bracing slap in the face (in a good way!) Get hooked on a hearty helping of heroes and villains from the humble House of Ideas! Villain in Guardians of the Galaxy, also appears in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. That may also lead some to understandably question whether he belongs on a list of villains, and to that I can only point out that the guy murdered his girlfriend, staged a one-man coup of an entire country, threw its leader to his seeming death, and riddled his body with so many scars marking every person he's killed that his name became Killmonger. The disgraced former disciple of the Ancient One is a nihilistic zealot driven by a boilerplate disregard for humanity and a fuzzy desire to escape the ravages of time. We gather he used to be a hot shit soldier, but he's leaping at the chance to be injected with super-soldier serum before we barely even know the guy. Loki first appears as a young boy along with his brother Thor as Odin recounts the story of how the Asgardians battled the Jotuns. The Marvel universe contains many of our favorite villains from comic books. And then the one time — the one time! (Or was he?!). Meanwhile, it's almost tragic to admit that The Abomination still holds up as one of the best superhero movie monsters we've seen, and his final battle with Hulk is arguably one of the best in any MCU movie. And Gillan also brings something treacherously desperate to the role — in the first Guardians movie, you get the feeling that if she wasn't always on the razor's edge of violence, she would be even more dangerous. Some people hate that Marvel made the Mandarin into a joke, and I feel sorry for those people, because A) The Mandarin as conceived in the comics is racist, and B) This is an amazing joke. Great hair, though. Esses Cookies nos permitem coletar alguns dados pessoais sobre você, como sua ID exclusiva atribuída ao seu dispositivo, endereço de IP, tipo de dispositivo e navegador, conteúdos visualizados ou outras ações realizadas usando nossos serviços, país e idioma selecionados, entre outros. That's cold. You get the sense that Ross thinks he's a good guy, but secretly wants to be a bad guy. Contact Adam B. Bucky Barnes’ transformation into the Winter Soldier — and subsequent confrontation with his old buddy Steve Rogers — makes him one of the only Marvel bad guys with major skin in the game beyond mere wicked behavior. The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. (More terrible puns!). Thor's younger brother could have been a sniveling brat pining for the throne. Only an actor as talented as Robert Redford could take a standard Marvel movie villain role, and make it look so cool (even rational) to be so evil. Corey Stoll's Darren Cross in Ant-Man would probably be as hated as The Mandarin, except that he actually suited up and fought the hero. Mickey Rourke plays Whiplash with a kooky dreadlocked-ponytail-bun thing, a penchant for showing off his over-the-top tattooed physique, and what seems like only a vague grasp on his lines. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, As Schmidt, he's cruel and conniving. (Now featuring Avengers: Endgame!) Plus, those of us within the small but potent fanbase for ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ronan the Accuser has had such a long and interesting character arc during the course of Marvel Comics history. She's the only member of Yon-Rogg's morally bankrupt Starforce that makes any kind of impression, but she's on screen so briefly that she can't do much more than clear that low bar. Villain in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War. Erik Killmonger ( Black Panther). Sometimes a villain, other times an ally, often somewhere between both. Michael B. Jordan brought such quivering fury and sorrow to the role, and cowriter-director Ryan Coogler invested such depth of feeling and motivation to his actions, that you can easily argue that Black Panther was more about Killmonger than its title character. 2. But, still, what a callback! But he's ultimately just kind of…there, a problem that doesn't improve when he pops up as one of Yon-Rogg's minions in Captain Marvel. This Tinkerer really only cares about his gadgets, indifferent to how they might be used...or misused: When Toomes "unintentionally" zaps his compatriot Jackson, Mason barely bats an eye. Some of … Because he's on screen for less time, though, he evokes less boredom than Malekith, so he's not quite as terrible. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse link. One of the more wishy-washy villains in the MCU, Skurge forsakes his people to become Hela's executioner, which shouldn't be all that surprising given his penchant for pilfering from the nine realms and his obsession with Earth-bound firearms. My only complaint is that Killmonger lasted for only one movie. Plus, that extra thumb is damn creepy. And Toby Jones, bless him, was born to play the scientist lackey of a super villain. But he is, once again, a one-note bad guy, all explosive genocidal rage with zero sense as to what makes him tick — and his cameo in Captain Marvel doesn't shed any additional light on the character. When he was onscreen, his action sequences weren't all that exciting. He’s such an effective henchman — likely why he’s also the only member of the Black Order who does anything in Endgame — and yet he was vanquished in Infinity War by a high schooler who’d seen Aliens. Her stakes in the story are deeply personal. The actor's trademark is his idiosyncratic personality and delivery, and matching that to a ruthless A.I. So, even though Toomes accidentally (allegedly) vaporizes him, the guy pretty much had it coming. His last-minute sacrificial change of heart is certainly noble, but, like, it comes after he just stood there while Hela decimated just about every soldier in Asgard. The main issue for me, though, is that the film keeps choppily cutting around Blanchett's performance, and I think I know why: In the trailers and most of the promotional material for the film, Hela has a hard-edged, working-class accent. Zola's vigor for serving Hydra's aims of world domination, even as those aims terrify him, make for a welcome murky presence in the otherwise morally cut-and-dried first Captain America movie. Until Winter Soldier, we thought Sitwell was one of the good guys, a stalwart S.H.I.E.L.D. Villain in Thor, The Avengers, and Avengers: Endgame, also appears in Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok (as still kind of a villain), and in Avengers: Infinity War (finally redeemed). Great to see him pop up in Endgame, though! Who knows why anyone would second-guess Blanchett's creative instincts, or why editors would cut away from her face, even to hide the dubbed-over lines. Marvel villains are a unique bunch, who have powers capable of total devastation. Jeff Goldblum is such a gas as the despotic ruler of the galactic trash planet Sakaar that it's easy to forget that the guy is a cruel despot who pits slaves — or to use the Grandmaster's preferred term, "prisoners with jobs" — against each other in gladiatorial battles, and thinks nothing of liquefying his enemies with his trusty melt stick. Jean Grey (Earth-10005) Jean Grey (Marvel Animated Universe) Jarko Grimwood. With the great Hugo Weaving in the role, the founding leader of Hydra had a combination of commanding presence, dark intent and baleful panache that so many of Marvel Studios' main villains have oddly lacked. There was so much happening in Endgame’s final battle, but if Proxima did anything of note, I must have missed it. 2, however, Yondu's actions throughout Quill's life are revealed to be much more complicated than the first film suggests. Last updated on April 30, 2019, at 4:27 p.m. This list is not in any order. But he does murder all of those Ravagers in a mutiny, which is pretty bad. Oh well. Unfortunately, Thor: The Dark World traded the more nefarious aspects of the comic book version for what might be the most bland villain in the MCU. Granted, Dormammu is a really cool-looking disembodied head, and he's voiced by Cumberbatch's singular baritone growl. Granted, that is the opposite of boring, but it isn't exactly interesting, either — it's just weird for weirdness' sake. Still, the most unsettling moment Foster has in the whole movie is when he appears in a flashback, and suddenly an uncannily young Laurence Fishburne is staring back at us on the screen. Aldrich Killian (Iron Man 3) Kaecilius (Doctor Strange) Sonny Burch (Ant-Man and the Wasp) #5: Ultron (Avengers: Age of Ultron) In reality, I think Ultron is probably not as bad as some of my honorable mentions. Although he still manages to cause a great deal of (mostly off camera) death and heartbreak in that pursuit, his sudden demise at the hands of Killmonger means we'll never know what other wicked transgressions he could have attempted. Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) 3. Otherwise, he’s your basic cocktail of you-killed-my-family revenge story spiked with a lethal ability to google "Tony Stark dead parents Winter Soldier 1991." Vary at adam.vary@buzzfeed.com. Previously moved from Top 100 Villains to … The 30 most powerful Marvel villains. REWARD YOUR MARVEL FANDOM WITH. He is such a memorable presence, in fact, that it barely matters that Klaue is kind of superfluous to the movie's main story. "Villain" means people who were bad, and stayed bad. Some would argue that Winter Soldier qualifies as a henchman - but at this point, he's also the most impactful and interwoven bad guy in the collective history of The Avengers heroes. But his decision comes from a place of almost existential frustration with the plight of black people who live outside of his homeland and cannot benefit from its prosperity. The master of the Dark Dimension is one of the most powerful and formidable villains in the Marvel Comics. Also, for a universe filled with evildoers, this is one of the few MCU rogues who actually kills one of the lead characters. In the Marvel universe, there are quite a few villainous characters who have fallen for the heroes in their stories. So who is the strongest of them all? Retrieved from " https://marvel-movies.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Villains… 81. And the Winter Soldier is just that in the movie that shares his name. Malekith got a great actor in former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston. Gressil. Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame. What I’m saying is that thank god Marvel had the good sense to follow all that up with a 1990s-style smarmy arms dealer played by the master of comically menacing smarm, Walton Goggins. It’s rare that any movie can convince an audience to simultaneously root for the... 4. You really understand why it takes almost the entire Marvel Studios canon of superheroes to finally reduce Thanos and his army to dust. 50. A more recent villain that didn't debut in comics until 2007. - September 5, 2017 04:12 pm EDT. In Winter Soldier, Brock feels like a fully-realized character and not just another Henchman, due mostly to Grillo’s decision to play him not as a “Henchman,” but as just a man who, in most normal circumstances, would be a decent guy — until his weasel-y allegiance to Hydra is revealed. This post has been updated to include characters from Avengers: Endgame. Which is to say, he's far from the most dynamic member of the MCU's rogues gallery, but Brühl shrewdly underplays the role. Winter Soldier's introduction and 'force of nature' presence in the Captain America sequel terrified and thrilled viewers - and the revelation of him killing Tony Starks parents downright horrified them. He was supposed to have his story begin and close in Thor, but has been so invaluable that he's been brought back for central roles in Thor: The Dark World, and soon, Thor: Ragnarok as well. Now that the one-shot "All Hail the King" has revealed there's a real Mandarin out there in the MCU, he just needs to arrive to erase this traumatic memory. In the comics, Yon-Rogg is one of Carol Danvers' mortal enemies, which is why Marvel Studios kept the name of Jude Law's character a secret to preserve the twist that he — rather than Ben Mendelsohn's delightful alien refugee, Talos — is the movie's main villain.
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