fans have called these baddies
underdeveloped but we think a good chunk
of them still stand out welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten Marvel
Cinematic Universe villains officially
pardoned from life think you know the
Marvel Cinematic Universe click here to
take the new MCU trivia quiz on
watchmojo.com it’s pretty hard but get
it right you could win a free download
of our ebook watch mojos 50 most
influential comics of the 80s to play
click on the link in the description for
this list we’re taking a look back at
some of the best enemies ever to come
out of the MCU based on how memorable
their performance was how relatable they
are and how well their schemes played
out we’ll only be covering the movie
villains so television and Netflix
bodies like kingpin and kilgrave are not
eligible no matter how memorable they
may have been also if you aren’t caught
up there will be spoilers let’s do this
again sometime number 10
Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger Iron Man
[Music]
Obadiah Stane was the second-in-command
at Stark Industries and a good friend to
both Howard and Tony Stark
desperate to wrestle control of the
company for himself Stane tried
everything he could think of to get rid
of Tony
but that only amplified Tony’s plans to
have Stark Industries stop producing
weapons in a desperate move
he finally builds and Don’s the Iron
Monger armor for one last brawl with
Iron Man and losses while the
motivations of the MCS first villain
aren’t exactly inspired we have to give
it up to the megalomaniac that
inadvertently started this whole
franchise plus you can always count on
Jeff Bridges to give a memorable
number nine Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Captain America the First Avenger
[Music]
one of those do you Johann Schmidt was a
valuable asset to the Nazi Party however
his lust for power prompted him to test
a tainted Super Soldier serum on himself
which completely disfigured his head
earning him the unfortunate name Red
Skull eventually Schmidt found the
legendary tesseract harnessed its power
to create unstoppable tools to conquer
the world and broke away from the Nazis
to lead the modern incarnation of Hydra
Red Skull might be lacking in the
complexity department but Hugo Weaving
scenery-chewing performance and as pulp
inspired look helped make him stand out
you can’t get much more evil than a
literal super Nazi number eight
Ultron Avengers age of Ultron I only
deal with the man in charge using Loki’s
scepter Tony Stark tried to create an
artificial intelligence that could help
maintain peace across the earth but what
he ended up making was a genocidal mess
as quickly as he was born Ultron gained
sentience and the ability to evolve
build and destroy unlike his comic
counterpart this Ultron isn’t driven
purely on twisted logic but rather
egomaniacal beliefs while the Avengers
were able to stop him the casualties and
destruction from his rampage would haunt
our heroes for another year and
practically tear them apart so his
legacy lives on that coupled with the
fact that he gets plenty of great lines
makes him one effective villain I was
meant to be beautiful to the sky see
mercy instead they look up and harm
because of you number seven
Colonel Helmut Zemo Captain America
Civil War now that you’re standing here
I just realized there’s a bit of grain
in the in the comics helmet was a purple
mask wielding German who followed in his
father’s footsteps as the Baron Zemo in
civil war
he’s a Slovakian colonel who lost
everything during the Ultron attacks and
developed a bitter hatred towards the
Avengers driven by revenge
Zemo worked from the shadows to frame
Bucky and dig up information from the
past to achieve his ultimate goal
breaking the hero team apart from the
inside that’s
bad forever well drastically different
than his original counterpart CMO still
maintains the Baron’s scheming intellect
successfully orchestrating the final
brawl between cap and Iron Man while he
was eventually arrested his devilish
plot and understandable motivations make
him a standout so how does it feel spend
number six Adrian Toomes slash vulture
spider-man homecoming the world’s
changing it’s time we changed to tooms
was the owner of a salvage company that
picked up after the Avengers is messes
until it was replaced by Tony Stark’s
own damage control organization
unemployed and desperate he and his crew
salvaged alien tech to sell his weapons
on the black market putting him on the
super criminal path vulture is one of
the more relatable villains because he’s
not some Powermat super villain but
rather a businessman trying to support
his family in a world that’s evolving
too fast
how kill you dead that’s what I’ll do to
protect my family people understand
during their final struggle
Spidey saves his life so vulture repays
him by keeping his identity a secret
from those who could benefit from it
you’ve got to appreciate a villain with
a code if I knew who it was
he’d already been dead number 5
hella Odin’s daughter thor ragnarok so
he’s gone in addition to being the
goddess of death in Odin’s eldest
daughter hella is a first major female
MCU villain she served her father’s side
as as guards executioner but was
banished due to her enthusiastic
bloodlust Odin wanted to keep hella a
secret but she returned upon his death
and wasted no time taking over she
obliterated Thor’s hammer declared
herself queen of Asgard and prepared for
global conquest enslaving or
slaughtering anyone who got in her way I
thought you’d be happy to see me
the only way to end her unstoppable
tyranny was by making the ultimate
sacrifice Asgard itself played
excellently by Cate Blanchett hella is a
villain who commands the screen with her
presence
I’m the goddess of death
what were you the god of again number
four
sergeant James Buchanan Bucky Barnes /
Winter Soldier Captain America the
Winter Soldier Bucky was Captain
America’s loyal friend since childhood
on one fateful World War two mission
however he plummeted from a train to his
apparent death
turns out he survived only to be
brainwashed and made into one of hydras
deadliest agents the Winter Soldier
when he’s brought out of stasis to
assassinate Nick Fury we eventually
learned that he’s been used as a covert
hitman for decades thankfully cap
eventually helps Bucky remember his old
life prompting him to leave and try to
regain even more of his memories a
complex figure who blurs the lines
between good and evil and forces a wedge
between heroes Winter Soldier added a
whole new dynamic to the MCU
people are gonna die I can’t let that
happen
number 3 Erik Stevens and Janaka slash
kill monger Black Panther kill monger
was the son of a traitorous wakandan
prince who was killed by the previous
Black Panther to Chaka since that day
kill monger has been driven by one goal
seizing the wakandan throne as the new
black panther and completing his
father’s dream of arming their oppressed
brothers with wakandan weaponry though
his approach is extreme consider his
position he lost his father at a young
age and was left behind hurt and alone
that stings worse than any of his
self-inflicted scars in the end kill
monger dies peacefully and his story
inspires the wakandans to connect with
the outside world evil acts aside he’s
the sort of villain whose perspective
you can understand what happens now
determines what happens
to the rest of the world number 2 Thanos
be where the mad Titan across his
various limited appearances Thanos has
made his ultimate goal clear find all
six Infinity stones harness their power
ultimately court death herself at first
he tries to rely on help from partners
like Loki and Ronan in retrieving the
stones but when they ultimately fail
that’ss accepts that if you want
while the Warlord’s role was limited
before infinity war his slow-building
story arc has already made a my conic
within the franchise plus he gets bonus
points for inadvertently helping to
create two of the franchise’s greatest
superhero teams
[Music]
half of humanity will still exist before
we unveil our number one pick here are a
few marvelous honorable mentions will
grow and spread covering all that exists
until everything is number one low kilo
Faison Marvel Cinematic Universe you
can’t kill an entire race taking the
number one spot is unarguably the most
developed villain in the MCU Loki is
Thor’s adopted brother and the god of
mischief an appropriate title since he’s
a master manipulator he could fool
almost anyone either with his charming
personality and wordplay or with a
little magical assistance and he’ll even
use any of these abilities to seize the
throne launched a full-scale invasion
and even cheat death despite all that
Loki’s motives aren’t pure evil what he
really wants is to prove his Worth and
escape his adoptive brothers shadow who
knows with time he could make for an
even better antihero both move brother
even for me do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
watch mojo and subscribe for new videos every day
underdeveloped but we think a good chunk
of them still stand out welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten Marvel
Cinematic Universe villains officially
pardoned from life think you know the
Marvel Cinematic Universe click here to
take the new MCU trivia quiz on
watchmojo.com it’s pretty hard but get
it right you could win a free download
of our ebook watch mojos 50 most
influential comics of the 80s to play
click on the link in the description for
this list we’re taking a look back at
some of the best enemies ever to come
out of the MCU based on how memorable
their performance was how relatable they
are and how well their schemes played
out we’ll only be covering the movie
villains so television and Netflix
bodies like kingpin and kilgrave are not
eligible no matter how memorable they
may have been also if you aren’t caught
up there will be spoilers let’s do this
again sometime number 10
Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger Iron Man
[Music]
Obadiah Stane was the second-in-command
at Stark Industries and a good friend to
both Howard and Tony Stark
desperate to wrestle control of the
company for himself Stane tried
everything he could think of to get rid
of Tony
but that only amplified Tony’s plans to
have Stark Industries stop producing
weapons in a desperate move
he finally builds and Don’s the Iron
Monger armor for one last brawl with
Iron Man and losses while the
motivations of the MCS first villain
aren’t exactly inspired we have to give
it up to the megalomaniac that
inadvertently started this whole
franchise plus you can always count on
Jeff Bridges to give a memorable
number nine Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Captain America the First Avenger
[Music]
one of those do you Johann Schmidt was a
valuable asset to the Nazi Party however
his lust for power prompted him to test
a tainted Super Soldier serum on himself
which completely disfigured his head
earning him the unfortunate name Red
Skull eventually Schmidt found the
legendary tesseract harnessed its power
to create unstoppable tools to conquer
the world and broke away from the Nazis
to lead the modern incarnation of Hydra
Red Skull might be lacking in the
complexity department but Hugo Weaving
scenery-chewing performance and as pulp
inspired look helped make him stand out
you can’t get much more evil than a
literal super Nazi number eight
Ultron Avengers age of Ultron I only
deal with the man in charge using Loki’s
scepter Tony Stark tried to create an
artificial intelligence that could help
maintain peace across the earth but what
he ended up making was a genocidal mess
as quickly as he was born Ultron gained
sentience and the ability to evolve
build and destroy unlike his comic
counterpart this Ultron isn’t driven
purely on twisted logic but rather
egomaniacal beliefs while the Avengers
were able to stop him the casualties and
destruction from his rampage would haunt
our heroes for another year and
practically tear them apart so his
legacy lives on that coupled with the
fact that he gets plenty of great lines
makes him one effective villain I was
meant to be beautiful to the sky see
mercy instead they look up and harm
because of you number seven
Colonel Helmut Zemo Captain America
Civil War now that you’re standing here
I just realized there’s a bit of grain
in the in the comics helmet was a purple
mask wielding German who followed in his
father’s footsteps as the Baron Zemo in
civil war
he’s a Slovakian colonel who lost
everything during the Ultron attacks and
developed a bitter hatred towards the
Avengers driven by revenge
Zemo worked from the shadows to frame
Bucky and dig up information from the
past to achieve his ultimate goal
breaking the hero team apart from the
inside that’s
bad forever well drastically different
than his original counterpart CMO still
maintains the Baron’s scheming intellect
successfully orchestrating the final
brawl between cap and Iron Man while he
was eventually arrested his devilish
plot and understandable motivations make
him a standout so how does it feel spend
number six Adrian Toomes slash vulture
spider-man homecoming the world’s
changing it’s time we changed to tooms
was the owner of a salvage company that
picked up after the Avengers is messes
until it was replaced by Tony Stark’s
own damage control organization
unemployed and desperate he and his crew
salvaged alien tech to sell his weapons
on the black market putting him on the
super criminal path vulture is one of
the more relatable villains because he’s
not some Powermat super villain but
rather a businessman trying to support
his family in a world that’s evolving
too fast
how kill you dead that’s what I’ll do to
protect my family people understand
during their final struggle
Spidey saves his life so vulture repays
him by keeping his identity a secret
from those who could benefit from it
you’ve got to appreciate a villain with
a code if I knew who it was
he’d already been dead number 5
hella Odin’s daughter thor ragnarok so
he’s gone in addition to being the
goddess of death in Odin’s eldest
daughter hella is a first major female
MCU villain she served her father’s side
as as guards executioner but was
banished due to her enthusiastic
bloodlust Odin wanted to keep hella a
secret but she returned upon his death
and wasted no time taking over she
obliterated Thor’s hammer declared
herself queen of Asgard and prepared for
global conquest enslaving or
slaughtering anyone who got in her way I
thought you’d be happy to see me
the only way to end her unstoppable
tyranny was by making the ultimate
sacrifice Asgard itself played
excellently by Cate Blanchett hella is a
villain who commands the screen with her
presence
I’m the goddess of death
what were you the god of again number
four
sergeant James Buchanan Bucky Barnes /
Winter Soldier Captain America the
Winter Soldier Bucky was Captain
America’s loyal friend since childhood
on one fateful World War two mission
however he plummeted from a train to his
apparent death
turns out he survived only to be
brainwashed and made into one of hydras
deadliest agents the Winter Soldier
when he’s brought out of stasis to
assassinate Nick Fury we eventually
learned that he’s been used as a covert
hitman for decades thankfully cap
eventually helps Bucky remember his old
life prompting him to leave and try to
regain even more of his memories a
complex figure who blurs the lines
between good and evil and forces a wedge
between heroes Winter Soldier added a
whole new dynamic to the MCU
people are gonna die I can’t let that
happen
number 3 Erik Stevens and Janaka slash
kill monger Black Panther kill monger
was the son of a traitorous wakandan
prince who was killed by the previous
Black Panther to Chaka since that day
kill monger has been driven by one goal
seizing the wakandan throne as the new
black panther and completing his
father’s dream of arming their oppressed
brothers with wakandan weaponry though
his approach is extreme consider his
position he lost his father at a young
age and was left behind hurt and alone
that stings worse than any of his
self-inflicted scars in the end kill
monger dies peacefully and his story
inspires the wakandans to connect with
the outside world evil acts aside he’s
the sort of villain whose perspective
you can understand what happens now
determines what happens
to the rest of the world number 2 Thanos
be where the mad Titan across his
various limited appearances Thanos has
made his ultimate goal clear find all
six Infinity stones harness their power
ultimately court death herself at first
he tries to rely on help from partners
like Loki and Ronan in retrieving the
stones but when they ultimately fail
that’ss accepts that if you want
while the Warlord’s role was limited
before infinity war his slow-building
story arc has already made a my conic
within the franchise plus he gets bonus
points for inadvertently helping to
create two of the franchise’s greatest
superhero teams
[Music]
half of humanity will still exist before
we unveil our number one pick here are a
few marvelous honorable mentions will
grow and spread covering all that exists
until everything is number one low kilo
Faison Marvel Cinematic Universe you
can’t kill an entire race taking the
number one spot is unarguably the most
developed villain in the MCU Loki is
Thor’s adopted brother and the god of
mischief an appropriate title since he’s
a master manipulator he could fool
almost anyone either with his charming
personality and wordplay or with a
little magical assistance and he’ll even
use any of these abilities to seize the
throne launched a full-scale invasion
and even cheat death despite all that
Loki’s motives aren’t pure evil what he
really wants is to prove his Worth and
escape his adoptive brothers shadow who
knows with time he could make for an
even better antihero both move brother
even for me do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
watch mojo and subscribe for new videos every day
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