Strongest MCU villians Ranked

With the MCU's phase three almost coming to an end I have taken the liberty of compiling a list villians that really held their own during their time as MCU baddies. Hope you enjoy.

ULTRON

Artificial intelligence never leads to anything good. In Age of Ultron, Tony decides to use untested alien technology to create robot protector Ultron. Obviously, that’s a bad idea, as Ultron quickly evolves his programming into killing humans and starting Earth over.

He also takes over the Iron Legion, so he has his own army of robots to fight The Avengers. In the end, it takes good A.I. The Vision to defeat him, but honestly, creating Vision was a hail mary that they weren’t sure would work. The frightening thing about robot villains is they’re never really beaten. There’s always a way out before they’re truly gone forever.

LOKI

RONAN THE ACCUSER

When we are originally introduced to the cosmic universe of the Guardians of the Galaxy, one of the first things we learned was how dangerous Ronan was. He’s furious about the state of the Kree empire and wants revenge on Xandar.

With a Sakaaran army and Nebula at his command, Ronan doesn’t necessarily need the power of the Orb to become more efficient at killing, but once he gets it he becomes almost unstoppable. He defeats Drax without breaking a sweat, then he single handedly takes down the entire Nova Corps air force. Frankly, if it wasn’t for the power of Star-Lord’s dancing he would’ve gotten away with destroying Xandar.

HELA

Hela Odinsdottir was the Asgardian Goddess of Death and the former Executioner of Asgard. Imprisoned in Hel for millennia by her father Odin, Hela was released from her prison following his death and set out to exact vengeance against those responsible while simultaneously engaging in a series of encounters with her younger brother Thor. Gaining power from Asgard, Hela planned to rule Asgard and create an Asgardian Empire. When the people of Asgard refused to bow to her, she set about massacring Odin's armies and enslaving the people, while recruiting the foolish Skurgeas her Executioner in the process. Eventually however, Thor returned with the newly formed Revengers and engaged Hela, resulting in Loki unleashing Surtur, who destroyed all of Asgard by finally causing Ragnarök and also killed Hela as a result.

EGO

A living planet who is an all-powerful celestial being is a shocking choice to be your long lost dad. Of course, things get even trickier when it becomes evident he’s actually evil. Peter Quill found himself in the worst episode of Maury ever in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. At first it was all sunshines and rainbows with happy family reunions, until everyone discovered that he was really just using Peter’s power to take over the galaxy.

It was only when he was reminded of his mother, that he became himself again and joined his friends to save the galaxy again. The Guardians blew up Ego’s planet to destroy him and Peter lost his new abilities, but it’s a comic book movie so they probably aren’t completely gone.

THANOS

                              

Loki is the MCU’s most famous bad guy. He made his debut in Thor and became an instant hit. Yes, a big part of that is because of the popularity of Tom Hiddleston, but it’s also about the well-rounded, full performance he gives. Loki is the younger brother trapped in the shadow of an obnoxious older brother, a feeling most of the population can understand. Once he’s beaten by Thor, it doesn’t take long for us to find out that he has an even bigger plan in the works.

He reappears in The Avengers with plans to take over the world. He steals the Tesseract to open a door and let in the Chitauri. We also learn he’s working for Thanos, which means he has very powerful connections. Loki seemed to redeem himself in Thor: Ragnarok, but he’s a trickster, so we can never really be certain of anything.

THANOS

                               

Yes, we haven’t seen Infinity War yet, but Thanos has been building up to it since The Avengers. Comic book readers all know how powerful and deadly Thanos is. There’s no hero that can go one on one with him. The Avengers alone can’t even handle him. They’ve barely been able to defeat his minions, so it’s obvious that all the heroes of the MCU will need to team up to take him on, and there will still be losses.

Thanos has been secretly collecting all the Infinity Stones. We’ve seen him use Loki, Ronan and possibly The Collector to do his bidding, but after all the failures he announced at the end of Age of Ultron that he was doing it himself. The Infinity War trailer has shown him easily beating up heroes and literally pulling a moon out of orbit, so yeah no one is ready for Thanos.

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