Welcome back, nerd squad.
Or maybe you never left.
My name is Amanda McKnight and I will be your host for this top 10 list where we countdown
the top 10 super villians we need in the MCU.
We neeed them.
Or more accurately we just really really want them.
Let me know if there are any super villains that I missed on this list or that you would
just like to see hit the big screen from Marvel, DC or from any other comics or graphic novels
that you love.
I mean there are even tons of villains from mangas who deserve some love too, amiright?
And if you are feeling super villainous today, support your fellow diabolical deviants from
this list by giving in a thumbs up.
10 Norman Osborn
We have yet to see this big bad enter the MCU but there are some unanswered questions
that would set him up nicely.
Namely that we don’t yet know the details of Spider-Man’s origin story and we know
the Stark tower has been sold but just who is the buyer?
Considering our Avengers have also just messed things up pretty badly, letting 50% of the
entire multiverse down in the aftermath of Infinity War, the time is ripe for the ever
opportunistic Norman Osborn to show up.
While some people might first think of Green Goblin when they hear Osborn’s name, Norman
has recently become an even bigger villain in the comics.
While he still wrestles with a split personality disorder brought on by his Green Goblin persona,
lately he is more well-known for becoming the villainous version of Nick Fury as head
of the organization HAMMER and creator of the Dark Avengers.
9 Magus
The evil side of Adam Warlock.
Magus has a kind of weird convoluted back story, the kind of back story you would expect
from a cosmic character.
I tried writing even just the outline of his origins and stories but it was a lot.
Seriously, cosmic characters, why so complex?
Anyways the simplest version I can give you, that won’t mean me ranting for ten minutes
is that Magus is basically Adam Warlock’s evil twin from a parallel universe.
How evil is he?
Well before there was the Infinity Wars event in the newer comics, there was the Infinity
WARRRR event of the 90s.
This event had even Thanos aiding in stopping the bizarro version of Warlock, Magus from
putting his evil plot into motion.
Magus had created evil versions of Earth’s mightiest heroes to take down the good guys
and help him get his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet.
You know it’s bad when Thanos is helping out.
8 Onslaught
Imagine if Professor X and Magneto combined.
Just kidding.
You don’t have to imagine.
It already happened.
And that is who Onslaught is.
After Magento causes mass death, Professor X loses it, Magneto in a comma.
During this moment, Magento’s grief and anger transfer to Charles and buried in subconscious
is the alter-ego Onslaught.
Eventually, Onslaught takes over and however scary you think he would be, he ends up being
more deadly than even that.
His goal is to wipe out the humans and it takes the combined strength and wits of the
Fantastic Four, the Avengers and the X-Men to take him down.
And there are massive casualties as a result, including the Invisible Woman, Mister Fantastic
and the Hulk.
And that’s just the first time he is defeated.
Yeah, Onslaught comes back!
But don’t worry all the heroes he defeated in round one, also come back.
They weren’t really dead, just hiding in a pocket dimension.
Yay, comics!
7 Inheritors
I mean, you can’t just give me Into the Spider-Verse and expect I am not going to
want these energy vampires to make an appearance.
I know this is a controversial one to put on the list as some people are really not
fans of their storyline but I don’t care.
I like the Inheritors.
They are strong and scary adversaries.
And let’s be honest, you had me at vampire.
I’ve been a huge vampire nerd since I was 11 and started reading Anne Rice.
The Inheritors are creatures that live off the life energy of totems.
Namely in the comics, they are huge adversaries of the spider totems.
That’s all spider people who are all considered as being connected in the Great Web.
Once spider totems start disappearing from their universes, Spider-Man and all the alternates
are forced to create a spiderman to stop them.
I also just love these villains because they helped to create a storyline that allows us
to see all these alternates in action together.
And there are a lot of weird and cool spider totems out there to see.
Nevermind King Pin let’s make things really dire in the Spider Verse by bringing Morlun,
Verna and the crew in!
6 Mole-Man
Why Mole-Man you ask?
Because he pops up everywhere in the comics.
And he is such a relatable villain.
One thing I love about the MCU is that they build up their villain to feel very real.
These aren’t just characters who want to do bad things just cause.
They have motives and believable ones at that.
Ultron and Thanos are both great supervillains for this reason.
And although Mole-Man is definitely not as super of a villain, people might find him
relatable.
Mole-Man is an outcast who after undergoing a ton of rejection is washed up Monster Island
where he takes refuge with Mole people and becomes their ruler.
Not that I think you should turn to violence because rejection but I do think this would
be an interesting theme to explore right now.
Especially with social media aggravating mental issues like social anxiety and various dysmorphias.
Mole Man first appears is the first ever issue of Fantastic Four, where he is just the perfect
amount of corny iconic villain.
Would be cool to see a villain so originally corny made relevant again.
5 Namor
Assuming you are a fan of Marvel comics, I’m sure you agree that Namor has to make the
cut as a villain we need.
He has a complex past and is sort of like Marvel’s kind of evil version of DC’s
Aquaman.
In the comics, he rules the underwater realm of Atlantis.
In terms of politics Atlantis and Wakanda are often written as being at war, making
Namor a villain to both Black Panther T’Challa and later Black Panther Shuri.
Yeah, Shuri later gets to be Black Panther and ruler of Wakanda in the comics.
Cool, right?
Namor has also been depicted as both an ally and enemy of the Fantastic Four.
He even had a crush on Susan Storm for a while.
And he has teamed up with Doctor Doom before to try and defeat the team of heroes.
He was also one of the beings the Phoenix Force possessed in the events of Avengers
vs X-Men.
Namor has a history with so many characters in the Marvel multiverse that it would be
cool to see him join them on the big screen.
4 Sinister Six
Haven’t we been teased enough times about getting a Sinister Six film?
Let’s not even talk about when Andrew Garfield was Spider-Man and we got that hidden Shazam
app teaser where it looked the team was amassing as well as Sinister Six blueprints at the
end of Amazing Spider-Man 2.
If you are a Spider-Man fan than you know how iconic the Sinister Six are to the lore,
originally consisting of Doc Oc, Vulture, Kraven, Sandman, Mysterio and Electro.
Separately the villainous members are often defeated by Spider-Man but united they are
much stronger.
With Spiderman: Far From Home promising a handful more of Spidey villains plus Mysterio
and with the Fox and Disney merger resolved, the odds are very good that we will be seeing
this team take to the screen sooner rather than later.
3 Doctor Doom
One of the original villains of the Fantastic Four, like Namor, Doctor Doom has had an interesting
and complex history.
He has also seen a huge arc in the comics.
While always possessing genius intellect, he goes from being a man of science and magic
to a God when he later becomes God Emperor Doom an omnipotent being who creates his own
world and reality.
As his story progresses he also often is only a villain in the comics to a point, even sacrificing
himself for the greater good.
If we are going to end up having the Fantastic Four in the MCU, we will also need Doctor
Von Doom, a man who has been the ultimate enemy and occasional friend to Reed Richards’
Mister Fantastic.
2 Galactus
Formally known as the Devourer of Worlds, Galactus has not done as much devouring in
recent comics.
Or well… he has only devoured worlds for the greater good?
Yeah, maybe that is a better way of putting it.
Galactus actually couldn’t originally help being villainous.
It was simply his hunger that made him that way.
And the only way to remotely satiate his hunger was by devouring entire planets.
Eventually, he waned himself down to just devouring the life energy of those inhabiting
the planets but this still wasn’t a great time as it wasn’t as filling for Galactus
so just made him want to eat more often, hence even more deadly than before.
Starving Galactus was originally defeated by the combined efforts of the Shi’ar Empire
and many of earth’s superheroes, including the Silver Surfer.
After he returned to the comics, he became more a good guy and less of a threat.
Still how cool would it be to watch Galactus literally try to consume Earth?
1 The Builders
An alien race that created life as we know it.
But then returns to destroy it and everything in their path.
Similar but apparently different than the Celestials.
Though they stake a similar claim, that it was their actions that created life in the
universe.
Which also apparently gives them the right to destroy any life that they classify as
a failure.
This is exactly what happens with earth and these powerful aliens wielding tons of deadly
robots called, Alephs.
On their way to earth, the Builder’s decimate entire planets which prompts the members of
the Galactic Council, comprised of races who have been at war with one another in the past,
to team up to take down a common enemy.
With the cosmic direction the MCU is taking, it might be an interesting time to introduce
the Infinity storyline involving the Builders.
Seriously though, squad, who wouldn’t want to see Norman become the new big bad in the
MCU or a new galactic threat introduced in the form of the builders?
And a bigger question if Norman Osborn does get introduced in the MCU, who would we all
want to see get cast?
Think of the possibilities.
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