Who is avengers villain

So, without further ado, here's the complete ranking of the villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. We're basically told through exposition that he's got an old gripe with Odin's father, and then he's just vaguely evil without any real defined plan throughout the rest of the film which is not one of Marvel's best.

It's a shame, because the Malekith character is one of the most renowned among fans in the old Thor comics written by Walt Simonson , but it simply did not translate to this version of the character on the big screen. Raza is no one's henchman—for now; we'll see more of the 10 Rings in the upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings— but he's just not that great.

He's relevant because he's our first actual villain in the MCU, but mainly he's just a runway to get Jeff Bridges' far supreior Obadiah Stane into the air. Oh, you're still here? Sorry, I fell asleep even thinking for a moment about Laufey, the Frost Giant king who Loki betrays in the original Thor. Honestly, that sentence is really it. There's not much else happening here.

Just a big snooze, sorry. Eternals is more about establishing a whole new band of characters—a family, in many ways—than pitting them against a specific or strong villain. So Kro, the strongest of their moral foes the Deviants, kind of fits into that role by default. And he does a fine job! There's just not a whole lot of character here, so we can't really rank much higher.

He's violent, and a monster, and, uh, that's about it. There are some other characters from Eternals that we could possibly include on this list, but outside of Kro many seem to ride in that morally ambiguous gray area, so he'll be our lone Eternals representative for now.

Black Widow has it's moments that work really, really well. Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova: excellent. David Harbour as Red Guardian: excellent. The stunt work, and fight scenes, and the fact that the movie is actually out, after so many Covid delays: excellent. While it's no fault of Ray Winstone himself great actor , Dreyk0v, the leader of The Red Room we've heard so much about, is a major snooze of a villain. He's just There's not much more to him.

And he's made Taskmaster , one of the more interesting Marvel Comics vil lains, into kind of a secondary weapon without a soul or purpose we won't even be ranking Taskmaster on this list, for reasons which make sense if you've seen the movie. The movie wanted to focus more on Natasha Scarlett Johansson and her "family," which is perfectly fine. It just meant we got this kind of Oh well! Kind of similar to Malekith, the Kree soldier Yon-Rogg winds up feeling kind of like a waste of a great actor.

We've seen what Law can do for decades before, and know that he can crush it, so why was his character so dry here? Maybe the character returns for The Marvels, which would perhaps have a bit of potential to use a great actor to his full potential. Ghost is more of an antagonist than a villain in a traditional sense, but still is the source of the main conflict in Ant-Man and the Wasp.

She's got a really cool character design, but it's not quite as cool in the movie's execution. Still: it's great to have a villain in a movie who actually has strong motivation for what they're doing, as Ghost's tragic backstory details. Mickey Rourke's performance as the vengeful Ivan Vanko in Iron Man 2 is bad by just about every metric, but he doesn't fall dead last in the cellar here because at least it seems like he's having fun.

He's got a bird on his shoulder, he's got a toothpick in his mouth, he's doing a ridiculous accent—there's fun to be had here. Watch Iron Man 2 with a couple beverages and have a blast laughing at some of the choices Mr. Rourke made. It's definitely not good, but it's not boring either. Goggins is just a blast to watch on screen every time out Justified and Righteous Gemstones fans will certainly agree , and to see him in the MCU as a legitimate bad guy is just fun.

Also, Sonny claims to work for some big wigs throughout the movie—that sounds like a hint that may pay off a bit down the line. Elizabeth Debicki is a super fun actress—check out Steve McQueen's underrated thriller Widows if you haven't seen it—and it's fun to see her here as Ayesha, the high priestess of the cult-like and golden Sovereign. She's got great energy on screen, and you can tell that she is percent bought into the character by the sort of fish-out-of-water moment that comes when she meets Yondu and the Ravagers.

We may see more of her still: the movie's stinger finds her birthing Adam Warlock, a potential future MCU mainstay. The moral of Iron Man 3, basically, is not to be a dismissive asshole like pre-shrapnel Tony Stark constantly was. The result of that nature, which constantly bites Tony in the ass throughout the entire MCU, is the maniacally power-hungry Aldrich Killian, who went from gawky guy with an idea that Tony ignored at a New Year's party to a man literally creating explosive super-soldiers walking around with far too much exposed ankle.

Pearce is smooth, and plays Killian as an interesting foil to Robert Downey Jr. Despite being played by the great Mads Mikkelsen , Kaecilius is kind of the poster boy for what is referred to when you hear about an 'MCU villain problem. It almost feels more like a coming-of-age plot device, someone to defeat for our hero to get over the hump, than a fully-realized character.

Now, given that Kaecilius is played by Mads Mikkelsen he does still have some fun moments— one back and forth with Cumberbatch's Strange is an all-timer—but just not the most standout of MCU villains or Mikkelsen characters, for that matter. It works within the context of the film—we have a lot of magic stuff to wrap our heads around, so it's best to not have the most complex villain, but for a list ranking villains, well, that's how the cookie crumbles.

Similar to Kaecilius, Ronan is almost sort of bland and basic by design. In the first Guardians of the Galaxy, we have a lot of really strange and bizarre characters to meet, from the sort of dumb Peter Quill, to the stubborn and rebellious Gamora, to Drax and all his eccentricities, and, of course, the talking tree and raccoon mercenary.

So it's a lot for us just with the heroes, so it makes sense that the villain is just sort of a basic cosmic evil guy. That said, the man does have guts: given all we've seen Thanos able to do in the future, Ronan defying him is a pretty bold move.

Not bold enough to not be defeated by a bunch of goofballs, though. Klaue—played by franchise master Andy Serkis, who's had key roles in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and, here, the MCU—is fun because of his recurring nature, even though he's never more than a secondary villain.

He's a character, that's for sure; an arms dealer who is a sworn enemy of the Wakandans who maybe was once a bit too chummy with Tony Stark. Klaue is a good intro to our real villain in Black Panther, and also brings some cartoonish, chaotic fun to that movie during his time in it.

As far as villains go he's pretty terrifying, largely in that he's a man controlling the minds and bodies of a cadre of young women across the world.

He's disgusting, and Winstone delivers a pretty solid performance. But in the canon of MCU villains, despite the fact that his emotional connection to Natasha, Yelena, and Melina is pretty effective, Dreykov is largely forgettable. When you cast an Oscar-winning performer like Cate Blanchett , who also happens to be one of the greatest actresses working today, you don't necessarily expect her to show up ready to play. But that's exactly what she did with Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.

There's not really any major effort made to offer a deep context to Hela's actions, and there's no major twist at the end—she's just a jilted wannabe Queen of Asgard, and she's gonna look great trying to take over the throne.

This would be disappointing in most other Marvel movies, but Thor: Ragnarok is here to play. Taika Waititi 's approach to the film is to make it as fun as possible, and while Hela's origin twist at the beginning of the movie adds a bit emotional shading to the whole ordeal, mostly she's just here to chew the scenery and have a blast doing it. And that's perfectly fine. So while Hela may not be the most memorable of villains when it comes to plans or machinations, she serves the film she's in perfectly, making this a successful turn.

The tricky thing about Mysterio is you have to spend half the movie pretending he's a good guy, even when you know he's not. Jake Gyllenhaal does a convincing job that's why he's Jake Gyllenhaal , and indeed the entire idea behind casting Gyllenhaal in this role was to be able to elicit two different kinds of performances from the talented actor.

And he does well! But it doesn't change the fact that you spend the first half of the movie just waiting for the other shoe to drop, which knocks Mysterio down a couple pegs in relation to other MCU baddies who get the entire screentime to develop.

But when that other shoe does drop, Mysterio's an interesting guy. The notion of "fake news" and selling the world an alternate reality certainly rings true to , and the final Mysterio twist is certainly one of the most significant impacts a villain has ever had on an MCU hero. You just end up a tiny bit unfulfilled, wishing you had more time with the real Mysterio.

While the visual design of the character is a bit underwhelming, his motivations and Shakespearean-like dialogue are delectable, and Spader makes a meal of it. Ego the Living Planet certainly has one of the better story arcs of any Marvel villain, especially given how it plays out narratively. Elizabeth Debicki 's Ayesha turns out to be something of a red herring in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The real villain of Guardians 2 is Kurt Russell 's Ego, who we've spent the majority of the runtime believing is Star-Lord's benevolent and long-lost father.

James Gunn 's decision to tie the emotional drive of the movie with the villain's story is an inspired one, as the backbone of the film is Star-Lord finally getting to have a relationship with his father, only to learn that his dad is a deadbeat.

During the conflict, the Shi'ar created a massive device called a Nega-Bomb, designed to destroy the entire Kree civilization. After Captain America convinced the Shi'ar not to detonate the bomb, it was stolen by the Skrulls who detonated it anyway, devastating the Kree empire. It was later revealed that the entire war, including the construction and detonation of the Nega-Bomb, were all manipulations of the Kree Supreme Intelligence, a being composed of the psyches of many great Kree, to kick-start Kree evolution.

Though the enduringly dastardly collective hasn't always been led by a Zemo, the connection between the villainous dynasty and the Masters of Evil is inextricable. Founded by the elder Zemo, the former Nazi scientist Heinrich, as a force to oppose the newly founded Avengers, and, by extension, Zemo's old nemesis Captain America, the Masters quickly grew from a handful of second-string henchmen into one of the most feared and formidable groups to ever oppose the Mighty Avengers. Aside from the Zemos, the Masters have been lead by such villains as Ultron, Dr.

Octopus, Justine Hammer, and Egghead, and included almost every menace ever to oppose the Avengers, along with numerous rogues more associated with other Marvel heroes. At one time boasting a roster consisting of almost 20 villains including the entire Wrecking Crew, the Absorbing Man, Mr.

Hyde, and too many others to name the Masters of Evil have almost always been a formidable force. It was this veritable army of supervillains, lead by founder Heinrich Zemo's heir, Helmut, that saw the Masters of Evil's greatest moment of triumph over the Avengers. In the legendary story ' Under Siege ,' the Masters lead an attack on Avengers Mansion that left the building in ruins, the Avengers scattered and broken, and their ever-faithful servant Jarvis on death's door.

Though the Masters have not had much activity since Helmut Zemo tricked the world into thinking they were heroes founding the Thunderbolts in the process , Zemo's recent return to villainy would imply that it may only be a matter of time before the Masters of Evil are once again in play. No Avengers villain has a stranger dichotomy in his relationship to Earth's Mightiest Heroes than Loki, the Asgardian prince of lies who appears found new life and new facets to be explored after his cinematic appearances in The Avengers and the three Thor movies, and most recently in Disney Plus' Loki.

While he has menaced the team to the point of near constancy, he is also directly responsible for the team's founding. In a scheme designed to pit the Hulk against his brother Thor, he inadvertently alerted several other powerful superhumans to his scheme, and the rest, as they say, is history. The original 'threat no single hero could withstand,' few villains in all of Marveldom can match Loki's power, and none his cunning, trickery, and manipulation, though many of them actually received their powers from Loki himself.

Like most of the Avengers' greatest enemies, he shares a familial connection to the team, in the form of his brother Thor, the mightiest of the Mighty Avengers. In recent times, Loki's unending schemes lead to the fall of Asgard at the hands of his seeming ally, Norman Osborn, as well as the death of Avenger and Olympian war god Ares in the limited series Siege.

Though his villainy eventually also led to his own downfall, Loki was reborn in the pages of Journey Into Mystery and continues to pop up to this day. Though he has been known by many names or, in modern Marvel terms, Variants the man once called Nathaniel Richards is best known, and most feared, as Kang, the Conqueror.

A time-traveling warlord from an alternate Earth, Kang is one of the Avengers' oldest foes, having menaced them in his various guises almost since the team's inception. At times appearing as the Scarlet Centurion, Rama-Tut, Victor Timely, Iron Lad, and Immortus, Kang's goal has almost always been the same; to find, defeat, and yes, conquer the greatest warriors and civilizations throughout time and space. Kang's finest hour came at the end of Kurt Busiek's legendary Avengers run in the story Avengers: The Kang Dynasty when he actually succeeded in conquering the Earth.

His horrific visage strikes terror into the hearts of even the bravest of men. The utterance of his name alone is enough to send many heroes cowering in awe. He is Ultron, the savage, primal evil that lays at the heart of man's fear of technology.

He is a force of unimaginable destruction, and there is absolutely no way to stop him. The greatest tragedy of the android known as Ultron is that he is emblematic of the Avengers' greatest failures. Created by Hank Pym, a founding Avenger and brilliant scientist better known as Giant-Man and Ant-Man and Yellowjacket , Ultron was meant to be a crowning achievement of robotic science, the world's first true artificial intelligence.

Pym's experiment worked all too well; his creation immediately rebelled, erasing the memory of his very existence from his creator's mind, and setting out on a path to conquer all mankind.