as for Ranking The MCU Villains, I think Id have to do it in 3 different ways....
The Best/My Favorite
The Most Powerful/Threatening
and Performance based by The actor playing The Villain/The character Ark-
So List 1-The Best/My Favorite MCU Villains is-
Thanos
The Winter Soldier(in Cap 2)
Loki
Zemo
Killmonger
Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
Hela
Ronan the Accuser
Vulture
Emil Blonsky/Abomination
Obadiah Stane/Iron-Monger
Darren Cross/Yellowjacket
Crossbones
Whiplash
Kaecilius
Alexander Pierce
Justin Hammer
Surter
Ego the Living Planet
The Grandmaster
Dormammu
Aldrich Killian/
Malekith
Ultron
The Mandarin/Trevor
Batroc(Not awful, but basically forgotten)
List 2-The Most Powerful/Biggest MCU Threat-
Thanos
Hela
Ego the Living Planet
Surter
Ronan the Accuser(with Power Stone In Hammer/Staff)
Dormammu
Malekith
Kaecilius
Loki
Emil Blonsky/Abomination
Aldrich Killian
Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
The Winter Soldier(in Cap 2)
Ultron
Darren Cross/Yellowjacket
Vulture
Obadiah Stane/Iron-Monger
Whiplash
Killmonger
The Grandmaster
Batroc
Crossbones
lol who cares after this, the final 6 are just Humans
Zemo
Alexander Pierce
Justin Hammer
The Mandarin/Trevor
List 3-The Best Performances by an Actor Playing an MCU villain or Best Take on an MCU villain-
Thanos(Brolin Killed it+some of the Greatest CGI I've ever seen)
Loki(Hiddleson's Loki over the course on Many films Is Amazing, He was Born to play the role)
Killmonger-(Michael B Jordan was fantastic, His Villain may have the best Ark and Motives of any Villain In CBM history)
The Winter Soldier(in Cap 2)(for me The Winter Soldier may be the single most underrated Villain In CBM history, his Role in Cap 2 Is Perfect, They 1000% nailed his character and made him the perfect "Terminator like Assassin"...Stan was Great as well)
Zemo(the actor did ok, Ultimately Zemo is a great villain because of the writing, Hes A Plotting Villain, A tactician ...He Actual Won...)
Johann Schmidt/Red Skull(Hugo was fantastic, Red Skull was a Good Villain)
Vulture(MK was great, The Villain was actually somewhat respectable, doing things for his family)
Emil Blonsky/Abomination(The Classic Battling Time/Age story...Blonsky is past his prime Getting Older, cant do what he used to do, Then witnesses something as astonishing as The Hulk, getsa taste of The Super Soldier Serum, Has TO HAVE more...Good villain)
I'm not ranking any more, after this I feel they are pretty much Just Fighting/Threatening Villains, I dont feel any more are great Arks or great Performances
I'm huge MCU fan and love 17 of the 19 MCU films....But I'm also not biased....the biggest Flaw in the MCU films have been Weak villains, and thats actually by design...Fiege is on record saying He wants to focus on The hero....Especially With Solo and Debuting Movies, they want to nail The Hero in These movies....
But IMO The MCU has officially fixed Their Villain Problems delivering Excellent villains in Phase 3....
Zemo was terrific....His Plan was Masterful
Hela was an Unbeatable Threat PLayed Great by Cate
Killmonger was An All Time Great Villain With An Amazing story and motivation
Vulture was a Good Villain that because Of His "Family Motives" was unique
and Then We Get Thanos...The single Greatest Threat ever put on screen in a CBM and IMO the 2nd greatest villain in a CBM....
Marvel Studios has now not only fixed their One Problem but EXCELLED.....
They are not just making Good villains now, But Great Villains...
and Ironically DC which in the Past was Making Great Villains....Is now making some of the worst Villains in CBM history...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Doomsday was a train wreck....
CGI Incubus ...LOL
CGI Ares....
and dear GOD the One of worst Villain in CBM and The Worst CGI in CBM history Steppenwolf(worth noting I originally Typed "The Worst Villain In CBM history" but then remembered Leto's Joker exists, So I changed it to "One Of"
which brings me to...........somehow WB/Snyder....Managed To KILL The 2 Biggest and Most ICONIC Villains in DC comics history ONLY 3 films into Starting a Cinematic Universe....
Jess's Lex and Leto's Jokers were so universally hated and such embarrassing creative failures....You Literally can not go forward with them....at this point WB has to recast....
somehow WB managed to Miscast and and screw these 2 ICONIC villains up so horrifically....The ONLY possible way to go forward with them is to completely recast and start over...
in conclusion....I'm not sure theres ever been Worse Villains in a series of films than what has happened so far in The 5 DCEU films...
They are all the exact same Giant CGI monsters that have no real Motives , Literally just there for the hero's to fight, and Then the villains that arent CGI trainwrecks are either ALL TIME Miscasts or ALL TIME creative failures...
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