The 22 Best Marvel Movie Villains of All Time

The MCU has delivered some genuinely compelling antagonists. From Thanos's apocalyptic vision to Loki's delightful treachery, which Marvel villain stands as the greatest?

1. 1
   Thanos

   The Mad Titan who wiped out half the universe with a snap in Avengers: Infinity War.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Gorr the God Butcher

   The grief-stricken deity-slayer wielding the Necrosword in Thor: Love and Thunder.
   659pts
3. 3
   Ronan the Accuser

   The Kree war criminal wielding the Power Stone against Xandar in Guardians of the Galaxy.
   527pts
4. 4
   Green Goblin

   Norman Osborn's monstrous alter ego, terrorizing three generations of Spider-Men in No Way Home.
   467pts
5. 5
   Erik Killmonger

   The Wakandan warrior-exile with a radical ideology who challenged T'Challa in Black Panther.
   395pts
6. 6
   Red Skull

   The first HYDRA leader and Steve Rogers' original nemesis in Captain America: The First Avenger.
   395pts
7. 7
   Ultron

   The rogue AI created by Tony Stark who turns on humanity in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
   395pts
8. 8
   Loki

   The God of Mischief and Thor's adopted brother, the MCU's most beloved recurring antagonist.
   307pts
9. 9
   Adrian Toomes / The Vulture

   The blue-collar weapons dealer turned winged thief confronting Spider-Man in Homecoming.
   307pts
10. 10
    Hela

    The Asgardian goddess of death and Thor's long-lost sister in Thor: Ragnarok.
    198pts
11. 11
    Zemo

    The Sokovian mastermind who fractures the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War.
    1pts
12. 12
    Ego the Living Planet

    Star-Lord's immortal Celestial father with a plan to expand himself across the universe in GotG Vol. 2.
    1pts
13. 13
    Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

    The traumatized Avenger who becomes a terrifying multiversal threat in Doctor Strange 2.
    1pts
14. 14
    Mysterio

    The illusionist former Stark employee who manipulates Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
    1pts
15. 15
    Doctor Octopus

    Otto Octavius, the brilliant scientist fused to four mechanical tentacles in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, who returned in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
16. 16
    Magneto

    The Holocaust survivor and master of magnetism who leads the Brotherhood of Mutants against humanity in Fox's X-Men films.
17. 17
    Obadiah Stane

    Tony Stark's scheming business partner who built the Iron Monger suit to seize Stark Industries in the original 2008 Iron Man.
18. 18
    Xu Wenwu

    The thousand-year-old leader of the Ten Rings and Shang-Chi's grieving father, played by Tony Leung, in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
19. 19
    Namor

    The Talokan king who wages war on Wakanda to protect his hidden underwater nation in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
20. 20
    High Evolutionary

    The cruel geneticist who experimented on Rocket and countless creatures in pursuit of a perfect society in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
21. 21
    Kang the Conqueror

    The exiled multiversal conqueror trapped in the Quantum Realm who battles Ant-Man and his family in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
22. 22
    Alexander Pierce

    The S.H.I.E.L.D. secretary unmasked as a HYDRA leader plotting Project Insight in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, played by Robert Redford.

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