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shuotaizawa · 2 years
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“i hate the venom movies they were so bad” no u’re just homophobic
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goosewizard · 2 years
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watched venom for the first time and was oh so compelled to make this abomination <333333
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“Cheer up, old pal!”
Eddie Brock (Venom: Let there be carnage)
Bonus:
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“🎶 po-tay-toes, po-tah-toes, 
to-may-toes, to-mah-toes 
let’s call the whole thing off🎶 ”
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changelingspawn · 9 months
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What is the gayest moment in Venom ( like.... in general with the comics and also movies )
OMG that is really complex to answer, but I will try my darndest
My go-to answer is automatically Marvel Presents #5's final panel, where we essentially have a fade-to-black scene of Eddie inviting Venom too.... help him.
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But we also have the iconic deleted scene from Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage, where Venom confesses his love for Eddie
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And we haven't even mentioned the general language that is used in the comics with Eddie referring to Venom as Love, My Darling, and comparing their bond to marriage. They also state that "this is a love story" at the beginning of Venom #150
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Long story short, its hard to pick just one answer because they are gay all. the. fucking. time.
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Black Character Tournament: Right Side!
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adding a post break to make this more rebloggable
Clawdeen Wolf | Monster High vs Tiffany Quilkin | Paper Girls
Miles Morales | Spiderman/Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse vs Kilik Rung | Soul Eater
Djembe | Roleslaying With Roman vs Undine Wells | Sleepless Domain
Benjamin Sisko | Star Trek Deep Space Nine vs Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts | Barbie dolls, tv, and movies
Geordi LaForge | Star Trek: The Next Generation vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Troy Barnes | Community vs Jesper Fahey | Six of Crows
Shuri | Black Panther (Marvel) vs Zoë Alleyne Washburne | Firefly
Hazel Levesque | Heroes of Olympus vs Orange Blossom | Strawberry Shortcake
Louis de Pointe du Lac | Interview with the Vampire 2022 vs Usopp | One Piece
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Barbara Howard | Abbott Elementary vs Xenk Yendar | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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Charles Milton Porter | Bioshock vs Kelsey | NCIS
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Who should be the villain of Spider-Man 4?
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Following the Watts Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker in the MCU has faced a number of his most iconic villains. From the villains of the Raimi-verse to Mysterio and Vulture, it seems like there are few villains left for a reported 6 more movies.
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What's worse, villains like Venom, Kraven, and Carnage are being taken up by Sony Picture Universe of Marvel Characters (or SPUMC) with mediocre to bad films like Madame Web or Morbius.
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While there is potential for new and fresh versions of Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and more to be put into the MCU, and I think they absolutely should, before we go there I think there are a number of solid to great Spider-Man villains who have not made their film debut who can add something new to these films.
I've put together a list of five I think could make solid contenders for Spider-Man 4, a few potential film ideas for each, and some casting ideas, all leading up to my favorite.
5. Swarm
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Starting off with the least likely and my least favorite, Swarm was a Nazi Scientist and Beekeeper turned literal swarm of Bees. Due to his form, he can become intangible, fly, possesses super strength, and is the stuff of nightmares.
Due to his Nazi background, this character would need a complete retooling. Perhaps a scientist looking to cure death, or an Oscorp accident turning a good man into a monster.
If we wanted a more horror based superhero movie, this would be the way to go. This character has the potential to be very scary. Think Candy Man but a scientist hunting Spider-Man, perhaps for a cure or for getting in his way.
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I'd love a Keith David, someone with a booming voice, scary, but can play sympathetic. Imagine the cat from Coraline or the Voodoo Man hunting Spider-Man, or desperately seeking a cure for his condition, killing anyone in his way.
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I think characters like this have been done in the Raimi movies in particular, but could feel fresh in the MCU. Again though, it's a bit controversial being a former Nazi, and the retooling of the character may not be worth it if we're just scratching the surface of good villains.
4. The Prowler
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This one is extremely obvious but worth a mention.
The only character already in the MCU, he has been casted extremely well AND has only grown in popularity. Putting him in as Spideys new big bad would not only ground the movie with a very human villain, but set up the story for Miles Morales.
Prowler can take the place of the physical villain of the film similar to Winter Soldier. His strings can be held by Kingpin, Hammerhead, Norman Osborn, Silvermane, or Tombstone, using him as a weapon against their enemies, including Spider-Man.
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My main argument against this is simple, it isn't the right time. If we are doing Aaron Davis, we need to do Miles. I think that's better for the 5th or even 6th movie, but not yet. Let Peter have more years under his belt as Spidey before he teaches another.
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He'd be a strong pick for a 5th movie, or even maybe a secondary villain in a 4th movie, but not a good main antagonist.
3. The Beetle
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Abe Jenkins or Leila Davis have both donned the name The Beetle, an armored villain usually after money and fame. However, this character has a lot of range.
Sometimes they're a heroic member of the Thunderbolts, sometimes they're a petty villain, a genius, daughter of mob boss Tombstone, and sometimes even in a wildly different armor. There are a lot of ways to go with this villain.
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Due to the flexibility of the character, we really can use them anyway imaginable. He could be a failed Stark employee (again), a genius prodigy like Peter, an antihero who kills, a terminator like threat, or anything in between.
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I think having Spidey face an Iron Man of his own could be a good way to show his more intelligent side, and make Peter deal with the loss of Tony yet again.
Again the range give us quite a few ideas for actors. I'd really like someone who can do desperation and scary but intelligent. Jason Clarke I don't think gets enough love.
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If we went with a younger actress and the daughter of Tombstone, I'm a big fan of Logan Browning. I think she'd make a great antivillain turned hero in the MCU, and be part of Spider-Mans new crew. Maybe help him engineer new (although be it not Tony Stark levels) of tech.
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I think this villain has the potential to be brought up to Vulture or Mysterio status, they're just not my favorite as far as fresh and interesting.
2. The Jackal
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This may be controversial but I'll die on this hill.
Miles Warren is a geneticist who has gone mad due to the loss of Gwen Stacy. He blames Spider-Man and swears revenge, turning himself into the monstrous Jackal.
The Jackal would be an excellent villain to introduce into the MCU and a Spider-Man movie so we can get a version of the worst comic book storylines: The Clone Saga.
Now before you think that is a terrible idea, remember that we just got a great Spider-Man movie based around a version of One More Day. So hear me out.
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Having the Jackal create a Spider-Man for Peter to fight would be inherently interesting. Imagine a chase scene where two Spider-Men (both Tom Holland) are chasing each other swinging around New York. It could be as iconic as Zod and Superman in Man of Steel.
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Adding the Jackal also means adding Ben Reilly into the MCU, a fun new addition which lets us see Hollands range. Who doesn't want to see edgy Tom?
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The Jackal would also be very reminiscent of The Green Goblin while being something fresh and new. He can be scary and creepy, all while being a physical match for both Peter and Ben Reilly. We can get someone Dafoe type to ham it up and give us an iconic weird performance.
My pick would be Bryan Cranston. Forget Lex Luthor, let's let him ham it up and go nuts as a hairy Grinch style villain.
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My only concern would be the backlash for even considering it from comic book fans. But, I think if done well, all will be forgiven.
1. Mr Negative
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Anyone who has played PS4 Spider-Man and read my blogs knew where I was going.
Having Martin Li as the central antagonist would be a perfect balance for Spider-Man. He is superpowered, making him an equivalent to Spidey. He has the potential to be a mentor turned villain, like all great Spider-Man villains.
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Li also is the perfect linchpin to crime villains in the Marvel Universe. He could create a Superpowered gang war against other villains like Kingpin, Silvermane, or Tombstone, putting Spider-Man in the center of something very grounded and dangerous.
Create a mob style movie with Spider-Man unable to fathom how deep crime in NY goes could be the refreshing story the MCU needs. It could add interesting Marvel characters like Daredevil, Black Cat, Punisher, Kingpin, Hammerhead, and more.
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And it would all be centered around a character Spider-Man fans currently love. It's absolutely perfect.
I don't have a cast for this, as it would need to be a very gifted martial artist and seemingly good guy turned evil. But I think Marvel can nail casting.
All in all, Li would be the perfect villain for Spider-Man 4. Someone powerful enough to be a threat, fresh enough to be fun, and grounded enough to tell a very different interesting Spider-Man story.
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Psycho Analysis: The 25 Worst Comic Book Superhero Movie Villains
Hey, remember when I talked about good superhero movie villains? Remember how I said there were a lot less shit ones than I thought? Well, I didn’t say there were no shit ones, so here they are.
Bad comic book superhero movies are, contrary to popular belief, not super common. I only barely managed to scrape together 25, and that’s mostly because they take aspects of mediocre villains up to eleven. But there are people out there who say someone like, I don’t know, Yellowjacket from Ant-Man is a bad villain, and I just have to ask: Why? Sure, he’s generic, he’s not super memorable, but he’s not really offensive and he gets the job done. Or how about Ronan the Accuser! He’s pretty bland, he’s not the best use of a talented actor, but he’s also not unbearably awful to watch and he serves his purpose in the narrative even if he’s not utilized to his fullest extent. Average and mediocre does not equal bad; what I’m looking for are villains who do something truly offensive, who truly disrespect the character they’re playing at best, and who are insulting to the audience at worst.
Here’s some dishonorable mentions, villains who suck a lot of ass but who I left off the list so as not to clog it with filler: Cull Obsidian (Avengers: Infinity War), Tyler Hayward (WandaVision), Incubus (Suicide Squad), and Victor Zsasz (Birds of Prey). Shout out to General Dreykov AKA The Smelly Man (Black Widow), KGBeast (Batman v Superman), and Batroc the Leaper (Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) for being hilariously stupid villains, with Batroc actually almost making it onto the best list as the “So bad it’s good villain.” And finally, a nod to Black Manta (Aquaman) and John Walker AKA USAgent (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), who don’t come out of their respective works looking great due to being an absolute jobber and a character mishandled by the writing respectively, but who I think could easily be fine tuned in sequels to become genuinely great antagonists.
Alright, let’s get this over with. Here are the most miserable excuses for antagonists you could ever hope to see.
25. Cheetah
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Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman’s most iconic nemesis finally made it to the big screen, but in a moment of life imitating one of the movie’s themes, we should have been careful what we wished for. Kristen Wiig was a great choice and she is trying so hard to salvage the wonky writing, but no one can really come back from being turned into a CGI cat girl that would make the cast of Cats 2019 feel better about themselves. At least she can take solace in knowing she’s the least of the film’s problems, hence her low spot on the list.
24. Riot
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Venom
Venom is a camp masterpiece, but he unfortunately doesn’t have a villain who lives up to that prestigious honor. Riot is the epitome of the Big Grey CGI Villain trend that should have died off years ago, existing with only the barest personality solely so the hero can have a fight at the end. And the fight isn’t even that great! The sequel gave a far better goopy symbiote smack down, so it’s not like it’s impossible to make a cool symbiote vs symbiote fight, but I think the distinction is that they gave Carnage unique powers and a personality to make the battle more engaging. Riot is just boring, and when the rest of the movie decidedly isn’t it makes him stand out in the worst way.
23. Parralax
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Green Lantern
Green Lantern may not be the worst superhero movie ever, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at its villain, a generic doomsday villain for the ages. A lot of bad villains are generic doomsday villains, just nonsensical CGI spectacle for the hero to fight in a big final battle, but this case is especially weird for turning a being important to wider GL lore into a Galactus ripoff for Hal to fight in his first adventure. Considering we already have Mark Strong killing it as Sinestro in the film, did we really need some universe-ending fear being as the villain when we could have seen Sinestro’s fall to darkness instead? Much like the other bad things in the movie, though, Parralax isn’t egregiously bad; bad enough to make the list, sure, but putting him any higher would be a gross exaggeration.
22. Whiplash
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Iron Man 2
The early days of the MCU were plagued by some of the most boring villains imaginable, and Whiplash is a shining example of that. Mickey Rourke wanted to add more depth and humanity to the character, but he was shot down by executive meddling, resulting in a character as compelling as wet cardboard. He especially stands out as awful since he’s in the same movie as the hilarious moron Justin Hammer. It makes you wonder why they even felt the need to cram in another villain at all.
21. Yon-Rogg
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Captain Marvel
Much like a lot of the feminist posturing in Captain Marvel, Yon-Rogg falls incredibly flat in his role as an antagonist. He feels like he’s supposed to represent the patriarchal power structures that have held Carol back before, but he’s just so weak and unimpressive that he’s dealt with in a single blast. The dude with a motorcycle who puts Carol through microagressions is a better antagonist in this regard, and even he was clunky and executed sloppiy. And even disregarding any sort of feminist reading, he has bland, generic motivations (grrr he hates Skrulls!) and is not even close to being a match for Carol. If you want to establish Carol as the strongest Avenger, go ahead, but at least give her someone who can actually put up a fight to battle with.
20. Apocalypse
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X-Men: Apocalypse
They got one of the greatest actors of our time (Oscar Isaac) playing one of the coolest and most badass X-Men villains of all time. How could they fuck it up? By letting him do just about jack shit aside from monologue, for starters. Apocalypse does little else but stand around and talk, with his one fight at the end of the movie leading to him getting curbstomped by Jean Grey. It’s a piss poor showing for a villain of this caliber, and a disgraceful waste of Isaac’s talent.
19. Paris Franz
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The Killing Joke
Paris Franz is a weird, stupid stalker for Batgirl made up for this movie, and he is one of the big aspects dragging the first half of the movie down. The only reason he isn’t higher is because there’s something else in that first half that tanks the movie completely, but the fact there’s anything stupider than Franz in the film should really tip you off to the overall quality.
18. Enchantress
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Suicide Squad
A really cool and creepy initial design really doesn’t salvage this character’s status as a generic doomsday villain. I think this one in particular stings because Enchantress does have a cool design, cool powers, and story potential to actually be an interesting villain… but not when going up against a bunch of black ops mercenaries. It’s no wonder neither she nor her alter ego June Moon were mentioned at all in James Gunn’s soft reboot.
17. Bane
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Batman & Robin
I am a quite vocal defender of Joel Schumacher’s final Batman film, but even I can’t muster up anything nice to say about its take on Bane. He is everything that the character isn’t, and everything he would come to be seen by bad adaptations for years until Nolan managed to somewhat salvage his reputation: Dumb muscle. I get this was pretty early into Bane’s life in comics, with his big debut being only a few years behind, but you’d think they could have made him a bit more interesting for his live action debut.
16. Harry Osborn
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
I really don’t know how they ever expected this chump to lead the Sinister Six in their own movie. His relationship with Peter is sudden and underbaked, the makeup on him makes him look more like Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun, and even his killing of Gwen Stacy is only impressive because it has to be. In a movie that already has a villain in the much goofier but more enjoyable Electro, the Harry Goblin just feels dull and uninspired. We’ve already seen Green Goblin twice before, and once as Harry; if they really wanted to have another big villain, why not just let Rhino have more screentime?
15. Stephen Wolf
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Josstice League
In the Snyder Cut, Steppenwolf is a tragic villain, motivated by a desire to appease his master so he can finally return home from exile. It’s not the most complicated thing in the world, but it works wonders considering the mustache-twirling supervillainy of the version from Josstice League. In a vacuum, he’s honestly fun in a cheesy sort of way, especially with how the movie expects you to take a guy who’s C-list among Darkseid’s lackeys at best is the ultimate threat to assemble the Justice League against instead of going with a more impressive threat like Starro or Darkseid himself. But then you look at Joss Whedon in real life, and that implied threat of sexual assault against the Amazons starts to stand out more. And once you see the Snyder Cut and you learn Whedon liked a tweet disparaging Steppenwolf, it becomes clear he picked the worst and stupidest takes for the villain. It’s disrespectful not only to the vision of the man he came on to fill in god, but it’s disrespectful to Ciaran Hinds as well, who put effort into the character just to have it tossed aside out of spite and apathy.
14. Kro
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Eternals
Kro pisses me off. He had an incredibly sympathetic backstory that gives him understandable motivation in killing the Eternals… which is explained once and then never brought up again. He shows up to the final battle, and his skills seemingly imply that he could form an enemy mine situation to stop Ikaris… but he just attacks everyone and then dies. He’s played by the always-awesome Bill Skarsgard… and he gets next to nothing to do. As is typical of Eternals, it’s a bunch of really cool and interesting ideas that are never really built upon in a meaningful way.
13. Sharon Carter
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier really couldn’t stop itself from fucking up everything at the last possible second. The reveal that the greater scope villain of the show, the Power Broker, is actually a disgraced and angry Sharon Carter is just mind-bogglingly stupid. It feels so disrespectful to a character who already got a ton of shit just for being a potential love interest for Cap. It doesn’t gel well with her previous characterization and honestly feels a little spiteful, like something out of a bad fanficI. t all just reeks of the treatment Rose Tico got in the last Star Wars movie. Here’s this female character who gets in the way of all the gay shipping and is perceived as annoying and pointless by fans, so she is essentially written out of future installments. But unlike Rose, when they bring her back, they make her into some evil, manipulative mastermind all because she didn’t get to fuck Steve Rogers? Like I guess that’s not the most unrelatable villain origin story ever, but boy, this just feels like a needlessly mean direction to have this character go. And it really makes less and less sense the more you think about it. Maybe they can salvage this in future installments, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
12. Dweller-in-Darkness
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
I’m not mad they changed the design from a Cthulhu homage to a giant soul-sucking dragon bat; that’s Metal as fuck and it honestly kind of rules. No, I’m mad because Dweller gets to be the final boss in a film that already had a villain. And not just any villain, mind you, but genuinely one of the best comic book movie villains of all time. But instead of an emotionally satisfying martial arts showdown between Shang-Chi and his father, this bastard unceremoniously kills Wenwu to usher in one of the most needless CGI monster battles in the MCU. It doesn’t ruin the film despite how pointless and forced it feels, as the final battle still manages to maintain the film’s core emotional weight, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hold the movie back a bit.
11. Talia al-Ghul
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The Dark Knight Rises
You’ve already got the awesome, meme-tactic Bane in the movie, and he’s establishing himself as Batman’s fiercest foe yet. If you’re genius filmmaker Christopher Nolan, do you:
A. Have Bane continue being the big bad, serving as the ultimate enemy and final obstacle of Batman’s career, or
B. Reveal Bane was a simp for a hidden twist villain so bad it makes Prince Hans look competent as a twist villain in comparison?
If you chose option B, congratulations! You are apparently as smart as a critically-acclaimed filmmaker who seems to like comic books as much as he likes people not dying of Covid to see his mediocre Tenet in theaters.
10. Doomsday
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
This isn’t just any old generic doomsday villain—it’s THE generic doomsday villain. As cool as he looks in the comics, Doomsday is a boring villain who has one single claim to fame, and that’s killing Superman. Once you know he’s in this movie, there’s really no surprises as to what he’s going to do, and this version doesn’t even look cool! He’s the absolute pinnacle of Big Grey CGI Monster villains on top of being an interpretation of the original generic doomsday villain. He pops in at the final act, delivers a lackluster fight with no surprises, and then dies. BVS is already a slog to sit through, and Doomsday only compounds that.
9. Lex Luthor
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
You’d think the guy who was able to play real life ultra-rich tech supervillain Mark Zuckerberg would be able to play the iconic comic book superhero who is literally that, but I guess they sent him the wrong script because he is absolutely nothing like what Luthor should be. I think what’s most frustrating is that there are moments where you can see that he could pull the character off with better direction… and then he sends Elasti-Girl a jar of his piss and all goodwill evaporates. He’s a lot more tolerable in his cameo at the end of ZSJL, but whether they’ll ever follow that up who can say.
8. Ares
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Wonder Woman
The worst villains are the ones who just trip up the whole movie with how bad they are. For most of Wonder Woman, it seems like the point of the story is to show that there’s no Ares, no one true boogeyman behind mankind’s desire for war, and that killing one bad guy won’t change everything. A pretty interesting and bold message t—Oh wait! Here comes Ares, real after all, and he’s the one behind it all! What follows is a big, stupid battle filled with awkward CGI and David Thewlis’s big honking mustache poking out from under the helmet. Very rarely does a movie trip at the finish line this hard, but most movies don’t feature a villain that shoots the message of the film stone cold dead at the last second either.
7. Joker
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Suicide Squad
At this point, it almost feels unfair to say anything about Jared Leto’s attempt at playing Joker. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel, y’know? There is just so much glaringly wrong with this character, be it the design, the writing, or his use in the story that it’s quite frankly not even fun to make fun of it anymore. It’s honestly sad. They thought this shit was a good idea, and there are people who genuinely think an Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad, which would no doubt feature even more Leto, would be a great film. It’s just embarrassing. 
6. Malekith
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Thor: The Dark World
If you asked me a few years ago, I probably would have said Malekith is the very worst comic book villain, but really? He’s pretty par for the course as far as bad villains go. He’s an obscure villain with a talented actor wasted in the role who is given nothing to do and ends up being—you guessed it!--a generic doomsday villain. Still, I think Malekith sucks harder than most for the fact they turned a character who is a chaotic shapeshifting wizard into this just because they didn’t want to do Loki again. Because, you know, there’s no interesting stories you could do with a character like that, definitely couldn’t have Thor enlist his brother’s help to try and outwit someone just like him or anything cool like that, definitely can’t let Christopher Eccleston actually act. I think if nothing else, Malekith is a prime showcase of the lack of imagination some of these filmmakers have when it comes to utilizing villains.
5. Karli Morgenthau
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
As you can see, the villains I think are the worst are the ones who really go out of their way to represent serious problems with superhero cinema. “In Name Only” adaptations, bungled characterization, undermining positive messages with stupidity… imagine if a villain managed to combine all of those things and more into one character. I’m obviously not opposed that they turned the obscure Cap villain Flag-Smasher into a terrorist organization, nor am I mad that the specific Flag-Smasher I’m talking about was gender swapped; these are interesting choices, as was the decision to give the group sympathetic motives to contrast with one of the heroes, John Walker, ultimately becoming violent and unsympathetic. But much like how the finale dropped the ball there, it dropped the ball with Flag-Smasher by turning her into a card-carrying supervillain who was willing to execute civilians if it meant pulling off her plan. It’s such a jarring shift in characterization done at the last minute, and it serves to undermine the whole point. Sam gives a big speech about how she had a point at the end, but it rings so much more hollow when this nuanced character devolved into a phase 1 villain for the finale. It’s frankly insulting, and considering she does have a genuine point and is literally fighting for the well-being of refugees, this has the unfortunate effect of demonizing her viewpoints, something a lot of superhero media is accused of doing but which seems to be blatantly the case here. We almost had another Killmonger on our hands here, but they refused to commit and instead gave us an inconsistent mess of a character. The only reason Karli doesn’t take the number one spot is because the finale does stress that, on some level, Sam pretty much agrees with her point and that the only reason she ever went mad with power is because of the idiotic governments who refuse to help. It reeks of having their cake and eating it too, but at least they literally have Captain America say she wasn’t wrong. If only the writing backed him up a little better, she wouldn’t be so high on this list.
4. Taskmaster
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Black Widow
Taskmaster is a beloved villain from Marvel comics, known for his ability to perfectly mimic the cool non-superpowered moves of his enemies as well as for having a kickass sword and shield and a badass skull mask. He’s popped up in video games such as Insomniac’s Spider-Man and Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where he was welcomed with open arms, so going into this movie people had high expectations. Those expectations were not even close to being met. Maybe I could forgive them for not having this Taskmaster be Tony Masters; there’s some vague hints that leave it open for good old Tony to swing in for potential sequels, and the idea they went with here at least somewhat works with the story. But the filmmakers go with the bold choice to have this Taskmaster be a silent antagonist, like a Terminator ripoff from a movie you’d find at the bottom of the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Taskmaster honestly shows the danger of needing to rely on a recognizable villain for a story even when one isn’t needed. They could have easily just made this an original character, but to put asses in seats they gave them a recognizable name that has nothing to do with the new character. It’s honestly dishonest and scummy, not to mention unfair to a character who could have been far more interesting without the baggage of being saddled with a name that isn’t theirs.
3. Galactus
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This is one of the single most frustrating villains on this list. They had concept art of a full, true to the source Galactus ready to go, but they decided audiences didn’t want to see that. Instead, audiences want to see big sentient fart clouds! Galactus is the epitome of how studios and filmmakers alike rejected the weird, fun side of comics and instead opted to reimagine weirder elements as gritty and realistic alternatives. A big space man in pink and purple who eats planets couldn’t possibly be cool, right? Fuck off. As time passes and we get characters like Ego, Starro, Polka-Dot Man, and Howard the Duck brought into superhero’s cinematic universes, this take on Galactus just seems all the more braindead.
2. Dudepeel
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It’s almost incomprehensible just how bad this was. Like on a conceptual level, the idea here is taking a character known for cracking jokes and never shutting up (he’s literally called “The Merc with the Mouth”) and sewing his mouth shut and removing his personality. It’s the sort of thing that’s only possible from someone with extreme hate for a character. While the fact we now have a genuinely good Deadpool and now that Deadpool literally time traveled to the moment this guy appeared and shot him dead, I think Dudepeel still manages to take a high place on this list due to being emblematic of everything wrong with the “In Name Only” style of adaptation as well as a shining example of the worst aspects of the X-Men movie franchise amalgamated into one piss-poor villain.
1. Crash Test Doomy
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It’s really not possible to craft a version of a character that’s as singularly insulting as this one. There is absolutely nothing nice that can be said about this take on Doom. He’s a Cronenbergian nightmare so utterly divorced from the source material that it’s baffling they thought to slap the name “Doom” on it. But that alone wouldn’t be enough to give him the top spot; Dudepeel is just as much a disrespectful “In Name Only” take on a beloved Marvel character, one so disgraceful that fans refer to him by mocking nicknames rather than his actual name. No, this guy takes the top spot by not only being Doom In Name Only, but for literally only doing anything in the last ten or twenty minutes of the film, and in that short amount of time he is nothing but a generic doomsday villain with literally no motivation. Much as Fant4stic is everything wrong with Fox’s superhero movies cranked to the extreme, this living mannequin is everything a bad comic book movie villain could possibly be distilled into the absolute nadir of character design. When you’re making the chump from the Story duology look classy and dignified in comparison, you know you’re doing something really, really wrong.
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A , D , J , O & Z for the ask game :)
A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
Hmmm... for this one, I'm going to try and say a ship I don't talk about a lot - Liz Allan/Betty Brant! Honestly, for this one I have to give credit to @softgrungeprophet because they're the one who really gave me the brainworm. I have a few ideas for them rolling around in my head that will probably get incorporated into the world of Dust to Dust, maybe a couple spin-off one shots or something. I just think rivals to lovers is fun, you know? Maybe they go to the same coffee shop. Who knows!
I've also been rotating Wanda/Jericho in my brain a lot, too. I don't even know what their status is right now. I'm so far behind on comics it's not even funny. But I remember when they first started getting together they were soooo cute. Can you even believe how good they are?! Please tell me if there's been anything more with them so I don't have to make it up.
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D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
Hmm... honestly, just because of how iconic they are, I wish I was more into Scott Summers/Jean Grey. I wish I was more into Scott/anyone. But up to this point I just haven't been that interested in knowing Scott better or getting really into any of his relationships. I like all the women he's been with (though I don't know Emma real well)! I'm just pretty meh on Cyclops.
J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr.
Oh, gosh, Our Flag Means Death (which I did get kinda into) and Interview With the Vampire (which I have no interest in getting into). Especially the latter. I know IWTV is iconic. I know that. I just don't care about it at all. But I can't escape it. It's fine.
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
I hit shuffle on my playlist for "all songs" and "That's All" by Genesis came up. Hilariously, I don't know if it's on any of my character playlists, but that's my Sonyverse!Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote song, especially after Venom: Let There be Carnage. It's like, idk, it's their breakup song. It amuses me. It's also really fucking catchy.
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
Uh, uh, uh, I don't know!! All I can think about is Harry Osborn and Venom stuff. Oh! I know! I'm really excited but really nervous for what the new Spider-Man game for PS5 is gonna do, because I'm pretty sure it's gonna throw any kind of interesting take on Venom out the window, bUT, Tony Todd as the voice of Venom is going to be amazing even if the writing sucks. I already have 50,000,000 ideas about Harry as Venom. Something something shared/mutual trauma. Two beings who ultimately just want to be held and appreciated. I don't think they'll be good for each other but they could potentially have a lot in common. I'm pretty sure the symbiote won't even be sentient in the Insomniac Spider-Man universe but wow! What if!
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Psycho Analysis: The 50 Greatest Comic Book Superhero Movie Villains
I think it’s pretty obvious I love villains, considering I have this whole series dedicated to talking about them. And anyone who has followed me for long enough should know that I love superhero movies. So, naturally, I love comic book superhero movie villains. They’re fun, they’re over the top, they’re colorful… They’re the best kinds of villains, especially when a great actor gets pulled in to play them. So why not bring Psycho Analysis back in time for the holidays with a big villain list special?
Here’s the thing: For a long time, comic book movie villains were pretty shitty. You had fun, campy ones every now and then, but most of them were really boring or just plain sucked. You had generic doomsday villains all over the place, or villains who were disrespectful of their comic origins (looking at you, Galactus). Or that’s what I thought going into this, anyway. Turns out there are a lot more villains I would say are genuinely great than ones who I’d call shitty. It’s just the shitty ones are so shitty you think they’re the rule rather than the exception. But that’s another list; right now, we’re celebrating the villains we love to hate.
The rules of this list are simple: So long as the villain has appeared in either a standalone comic book superhero movie, a superhero movie series, or is part of a superhero cinematic universe, they are fair game for this list. I bent the rules a tiny bit in a couple of places, but this is the one consistent rule. This means no Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Slade or Shredder, because despite being based on properties that started as comics, they’re based more on the cartoon version of the characters.
Here are the honorable mentions, the villains who didn’t make the cut for one reason or another (but who I think deserve a shout out regardless): Scarlet Witch (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Gorr (Thor: Love & Thunder), Jigsaw (Punisher: War Zone), Hela (Thor: Ragnarok), Carnage (Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Ebony Maw (Avengers: Infinity War), Steppenwolf (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), The Motherfucker (Kick-Ass 2), and Black Mask (Birds of Prey). Special shout outs to Mr. Mind (Shazam!) and Darkseid (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), who would definitely be on this list if they actually had a chance to do more than look cool and foreshadow future movies (ones that will never happen in the latter’s case). And an apology to Cottonmouth of Luke Cage, a show I have sadly not had a chance to watch; if fan reaction to the character is anything to go by, he’d have ended up on this list. Oh, and if I included comic book movies outside superhero ones, I’d probably have thrown Gideon Gordon Graves (Scott Pilgrim) and maybe, possibly Xerxes (300) on the list as well.
Now, on to the list! Oh, and be aware: There are SPOILERS liberally sprinkled throughout the little blurbs I wrote for each villain. 
50. Poison Ivy
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Batman & Robin
Even in a film as campy as Batman & Robin, Poison Ivy is outstandingly campy. Uma Thurman knew exactly what she was doing, making everyone’s favorite sapphic, slutty supervillain the icon she deserves to be, even with some truly stupid haircuts. If only Harley was in the movie.. it boggles the mind.
49. Taserface
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Taserface is one of the funniest minor villains ever. I mean, look at him. This man is absurd, and calls himself “Taserface!” But he’s also scarily effective, pulling off a brutal mutiny and killing most of Yondu’s crew. The man gets no respect up until his death, but he never stops being entertaining.
48. Riddler
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Batman Forever
Jim Carrey in his prime as one of the most over-the-top and cartoonish villains in Batman’s rogues gallery? Yes please! This is one of the single campiest performances in either of Schumacher’s Batman films—and that’s saying a lot. He can grate on the nerves a little bit, but Carrey is just having way too much fun. Really didn’t need to see his bulge, though.
47. Sandman
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Spider-Man 3
Thomas Haden Church gets big points for being the spitting image of Flint Marko, but he also deserves some credit for delivering a genuinely nuanced and emotional performance in the hot mess of a film he’s in. The scene where he is created is still to this day one of the most powerful moments in any comic book movie ever, a fantastic display of visual storytelling and impressive effects work congealing into a shining moment in a film that doesn’t have many.
46. Obadiah Stane
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Iron Man
Stane is a weird one. On the one hand, he’s a precursor to every bad villain in superhero movies to come, as he ends up as a Big Gray CGI Monstrosity with the same powers as the hero. On the other hand, Jeff Bridges is just so delightfully hammy and he is the first of his kind in the modern age, so I think it’s fair to cut him a bit of slack.
45. Red Skull
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Hugo Weaving may have initially had little respect for the role, but there’s no denying he put good work into it. Red Skull is sinister, hammy, and deliciously evil, perfect for the pulpy adventure tale of Cap’s debut. I mean, the man backstabs the Third Reich because he considers himself eviler than them, what more could you ask for?
44. Milo
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Morbius
Look, you knew at least one “so bad it’s good” villain was gonna be here, and I’ve gotta hand it to Milo; he really makes the most of Morbius’s meticulous mediocrity. Matt Smith I’d clearly having the time of his life, giving a dramatic performance better than this movie deserved and a hammy supervillain performance that this movie desperately needed. And let’s not forget the man has the sickest dance moves this dude of Bully Maguire.
43. Bane
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The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises may not be the greatest finale ever, but it did what so many Batman adaptations fail to do: It acknowledged Bane is a cunning mastermind behind the muscles. Throw in an awesome performance from Tom Hardy and a mind-boggling amount of meme-worthy lines and you have yourself a fantastic villain. His truly embarrassing final fate and the fact he was pretty blatantly whitewashed are the only thinga keeping him so low on the list.
42. Violator
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Spawn
Spawn may not be the best superhero movie ever, but if there’s one shining spot in it (besides how cool the titular character is), it’s John Leguizamo’s madcap performance as the demonic Clown. Despite being steeped in grimy gross out comedy, he still manages to be fun to watch, mainly because literally everyone around him finds him as disgusting as the audience does. And even if his demon form is hit with janky PS2 CGI, he still manages to get in some badass lines and moments. Bottom line: Leguizamo did not eat actual maggot pizza to miss out on this list.
41. Bullseye
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Daredevil
Colin Farrell did not miss the mark with his portrayal of Daredevil’s assassin archenemy. It’s such a fun, hammy, laughably evil performance that helps add a bit of fun to the edgy proceedings by being basically a literal cartoon character come to life. Now if he only got that fucking costume…
40. Arthur Harrow
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Moon Knight
Transforming a minor, unimpressive villain from the comics into a credible threat onscreen is par for the course for superhero media, but few end up quite this impressive. Most of the credit has to go to Ethan Hawke, who really gives it his all as the sorcerous cult leader, but I think the imagined version inside Marc’s mind that’s the head doctor of the psychiatric facility is where he really shines, as it plays with our perception a bit.
39. Ultron
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Here is a villain desperately seeking a film worthy of him. James Spader is giving such a fun, engaging performance with only a couple of hiccups, but everything around him is just so quippy and stupid that the film struggles to take him seriously. Still, he deserves a spot here at the very least for his incredibly realistic villain origin: He took one look at the internet and decided humanity needed to be destroyed. And hey, if nothing else What If…? gave him a chance to shine and be the threat he deserves to be!
38. Ulysses Klaue
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Black Panther
Andy Serkis sadly gets offed halfway through Black Panther, but even with his limited screentime he has become a beloved minor antagonist. It helps he managed to have a fantastic cameo in Age of Ultron (one of the sole bright spots in that film), and that for his role as the first act’s villain in Black Panther Serkis approaches the role with such humor and grimy charm that you’ll probably feel bad when this scumbag ends up in a body bag.
37. The Thinker
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The roulette wheel of villains in The Suicide Squad eventually lands on Peter Capaldi’s maniacal mad scientist, and while he doesn’t have any major fights he manages to steal the show with just how slimy and egotistical he is. He’s just a nasty, awful bastard, and being responsible for the final villain going full kaiju rampage is worth making it on this list.
36. Lex Luthor
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It’s so fucking sad that despite being used in almost every Superman film ever made, the onily time his most iconic foe was ever good when he was played by real-life creep Kevin Spacey. But hey, being a villain in real life gives just the right touch of unhinged ego and cockiness Luthor needs.
35. Top Dollar
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The Crow
When I made the list of the 30 best comic book superhero movies, I left off The Crow, mainly because I didn’t think of it as a superhero movie (it’s more like a friend to me if I’m being honest). Kind of a harsh snub there, so as an apology Michael Wincott’s effortlessly cool and needlessly cruel gangster overlord gets to take a place on this list. Not many people can bang their half-sibling and still come away being awesome, but somehow owning the Six-Fingered Sword from The Princess Bride and using it in a duel probably goes a long way towards making Top Dollar one of the most memorable crime bosses you’ll ever see.
34. Dr. Sivana
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When you have a villain as silly as “Doctor who harnesses the powers of the seven deadly sins because of darkness in his heart to get revenge” you need a damn good actor to pull that off. Mark Strong is a damn good actor, and this is a taste of what we could have had if they let him play Sinestro more than once. I for one can’t wait to see him take orders from an evil caterpillar!
33. Sabretooth
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Liev Schreiber makes his first mark on this list as Wolverine’s ultraviolent archenemy, and easily the best part of Origins. He’s fun and menacing, and a lot more memorable than whatever the hell that poser in the original X-Men was. The greatest crime of the franchise (besides piss-poor continuity and bad writing and over reliance on Wolverine) was never bringing back Sabretooth to plague good old Logan one more time.
32. Penguin
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The Batman
In a movie as dark as this, we need a little bit of levity. Enter Penguin, here imagined as a cartoonish mobster that would almost be out of place if this movie didn’t clearly have a bit of West influence in it. Colin Farrell is no stranger to playing hilariously cartoonish supervillains so in his role here he excels, and it’s easy to see why he’s getting his own spin-off series.
31. Sebastian Shaw
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Long before he spent Christmas with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Kevin Bacon terrorized the X-Men in one of their best outings. While he’s not winning any points for comic accuracy, he definitely wins points for being responsible for Magneto’s start of darkness, being the one who killed his mother (and thus a Nazi). He’s a slimy supremacist bastard, and it’s oh so satisfying to watch Magneto make sure there’s zero degrees of separation between his skull and a magnetized coin.
30. Ozymandias
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As is often the case with Snyder’s Watchmen, the movie misses the point a bit here. They turned the charming, charismatic, muscular Chad that was the comic Adrian into a cold, brooding, emotionally distant soyboy. It kinda ruins the surprise that this dude is the evil mastermind. Still, with how slavishly loyal the film is, it still manages to make Veidt one of the finest and most morally complex supervillains to hit the big screen… he’s just not quite as impressive as his comic version (though really, who is?).
29. Zemo
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Captain America: Civil War and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Zemo is the obvious evolution of the supervillain archetype Loki codified, but he is far more refined. His motives are solid and understandable, his methods are heinous enough to root against, and he makes some valid points. Then he proceeds to do what not even Thanos could: He tears the Avengers apart. He’s the rare villain who actually wins, the rarer villain who actually gets to live, and the rarest villain of all who gets to return, steal the show with awkward dance moves and praising Marvin Gaye, and—most crucially—look cool wearing a purple sock on his head.
28. Ocean Master
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Aquaman
Good old Orm doesn’t make the list by being the deepest or most complex character (though he’s not lacking in depth and is pretty understandable in some of his motives), but by being just so delightfully comic booky. He’s hammy, he poses, he wears a silly helmet, and he acts as a great narrative foil for our hero. Bonus points for not only being a villain who is at least a little justified to the point he’s redeemed—by the power of love, no less!—but one who survives the movie to get more development later on.
27. Doctor Doom
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The unreleased Fantastic Four film of the 90s may have been hobbled by a budget consisting of change they found in the couch cushions, but the love and respect for the source material always managed to shine through. Nowhere is that more evident than with Doom; he’s hammy, he’s grandiose, he has a giant castle and throne room, he acts like everyone except him is a total idiot, and he won’t stop calling Reed a douchebag even when he’s about to fall to his ambiguous death. He may not put up much of a fight, but this Doom is head and shoulders above Dooms with a thousand times the budget.
26. Justin Hammer
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Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 is a sloppy film that was a grim omen of problems that would plague the MCU later down the line, but it did one thing right in giving the world the inimitable Justin Hammer. Where Tony Stark is an idealized fantasy billionaire who is actually a good person who wants to help people, Hammer is a more realistic take to serve as a contrast. He’s smug, he’s smarmy, he engages in all manner of illegal activity to undermine his betters, and most crucially he is an incredible idiot. This man is basically the MCU version of Elon Musk, but where Musk’s attempts at trying to be cool are pathetic and cringeworthy, Hammer’s attempts to ape Tony’s style just serve to make him endearing. And do you think Musk could ever have dance moves half as sick as Hammer’s? Get real.
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25. The Grandmaster
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Thor: Ragnarok
It’s Jeff Goldblum as space Caligula. ‘Nuff said.
24. Mr. Freeze
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Batman & Robin
People have ragged on Arnold’s campy Freeze for years due to his non-stop barrage of ice puns, but much like his home movie he’s honestly not as bad as the haters would make you think. Schwarzenegger is adept at both comedy and drama, and is able to deftly balance the tragic melodrama of Freeze’s backstory and his campy cartoonishness, all while wearing one of the coolest costumes ever seen. And you know what? The ice puns aren’t that bad. Chill out.
23. Prowler
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Uncle Aaron is an inspired take on Uncle Ben, a character who has been done to death (literally). The positive dynamic he has with his nephew is familiar, but the fact he has a criminal alter ego who is relentlessly and unknowingly hunting his beloved nephew down for Kingpin is a fresh take on a tired tale. He still dies, and his death is the catalyst for Miles to fully embrace being Spider-Man, while alive he is equal parts menacing force and tragic figure. With apologies to Miss Octavius, he’s definitely the best secondary antagonist in the film.
22. Penguin
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Batman Returns
Danny DeVito’s portrayal of Penguin as a tragic, deformed monster as opposed to a classy gangster has gone on to inform basically every portrayal of the character since, to the point where sticking closer to the character’s roots is seen as weird. It’s not a surprise, though; DeVito manages to make Penguin a menacing, creepy villain as well as a pitiable figure all at once.
21. Vulture
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
Michael Keaton is no stranger to comic book movies, and here he demonstrated he is just as adept at playing badass villains as he is at playing heroes. Taking one of Spider-Man’s corniest villains and giving him a high tech upgrade and sympathetic motivation was a smart move, as was keeping him noble even in the end. Of course, his best scene doesn’t even have him in his bird suit; it has him in his regular clothes, slowly piecing together the truth about Peter while the boy sits in the backseat of his car. Keaton’s acting in the car ride scene is something else entirely.
20. Loki
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
I was personally not a huge fan of Loki’s turn as an out and out doomsday villain in the first Avengers movie, but it’s hard to deny his impact on the medium and how he was the first villain in the MCU to actually have nuance, which was much better showcased in the Thor films. And you’ll never hear a bad word from me about Tom Hiddleston’s performance, which is fantastic no matter what he’s in, up to being the best part of every episode of What If...? he’s in. It’s no wonder Loki got his own spin-off show with all that in mind.
19. White Dragon
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Peacemaker
Peacemaker’s dad is probably the biggest piece of shit on this list, being an openly racist neo-Nazi supervillain and one of the most abusive fathers you’ll ever see. By all accounts he shouldn’t be as cool as he is, but between Robert Patrick’s fantastic performance and James Gunn being a master of writing conflicts between parents and children like this, he becomes an enjoyable hate sink you oh so badly want to see get what’s coming to him. And even better, despite being built up as a genius inventor and badass villain, he makes crucial errors in his suit’s construction that leads to his demise, showing once and for all that for all their posturing, white supremacists are just fucking morons who fold like wet paper at the slightest opposition.
18. General Zod
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Superman II
Terrence Stamp took a villain who wasn’t quite iconic and managed to make him on the level of Luthor when it comes to Superman villains almost anyone could name, to the point where Stamp’s portrayal influenced the comic version going forwards. He has an air of class and menace that makes it pretty easy to want to kneel before him. Zod has become a little overexposed, being the go-to Superman bad guy when they don’t feel like using Luthor, but when the original take was this good it’s seriously hard to fault them too much.
17. Mysterio
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
Mysterio isn’t just brilliant because he’s a fun, meta take on a great goofy comic villain, with him and his team essentially being Marvel movie creators gone bad, fabricating CGI spectacle to gain accolades. And he’s not just brilliant because of that fantastic illusion sequence where he puts Spidey through a dizzying nightmare trip. No, he’s brilliant because not only did he convince the world at large that he’s an incredible hero, he managed to convince some audience members that he’s just a poor, innocent worker who was taken advantage of by his former billionaire boss (which ignores so much, but especially that he’s working with someone who was complicit in dealing arms to terrorists). He’s certainly not a hero, but he’s most definitely a master of illusions.
16. Starro
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The Suicide Squad
Starro serves as the final boss of The Suicide Squad, unleashing kaiju destruction on Corto Maltese. And like all great kaiju, there is an air of tragedy to the big starfish; he never wanted any of this, in its final moments choosing to lament how content it was to simply drift through space before it was kidnapped and forced to undergo perverse experiments at the hands of the American government (and particularly Thinker). Starro doesn’t even want to fight the Squad at first, implying it’s grateful to them for freeing it from torture. The Squad may not put much thought into how tragic Starro’s lot is, but the audience sure will.
15. Agatha Harkness
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WandaVision
In a technical sense, Agatha didn’t do too much wrong besides gaslight Wanda in an attempt to steal her powers. Sure, she kidnaps Wanda’s kids and kills their dog, but none of those things are real; and sure, she hypnotized Ralph Bohner (heh) into thinking he was Quicksilver, but it’s no worse than Wanda’s mass brainwashing of Westview. But she just relishes so much in being a wicked witch, from her torment of Wanda to her insanely catchy villain song, that I’m inclined to take her word for it and say she’s a bad guy. She’s definitely getting some kind of redemption in her own show, but for now Kathryn Hahn camping it up like she just walked off the set of Hocus Pocus can take high marks on this list.
14. Amanda Waller
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DC Cinematic Universe
I don’t think there has ever been such an impressive turnaround for a comic book villain ever. It was never a matter of Viola Davis, who gave her all from day one, but a matter of how abysmal the writing in Suicide Squad was, portraying her as an incompetent idiot who was still allowed to get away with everything in the end. Once Gunn took the reigns of the franchise, though, Waller finally got her due, sending an entire squad to their death as a distraction and basically playing 4D chess for the whole movie. She gets her comeuppance too, so it’s a lot more satisfying watching her win a few schemes when you know she can lose a few too. Being a greater-scope villain for Peacemaker just further cemented her as being the magnificent bitch the character should be; we can only hope she keeps it up in her next major appearance.
13. Kingpin
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Daredevil (The movie and the Netflix series), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
It’s honestly amazing that a villain as seemingly simple as Wilson Fisk has not only been done differently three times in ways that make him cool and engaging, but he’s also maintained a high level of quality in every appearance. Michael Clarke Duncan brought size and intimidation to his version, doing so well despite Daredevil’s weak theatrical cut he got to reprise the role in the underrated Spider-Man: The New Animated Series; Liev Schreiber voiced the memeiest version of the character to date, one who even holds the distinction of killing one Spider-Man and inadvertently creating another; and Vincent D’onofrio is so good he managed to pull the entire Netflix Daredevil show into the MCU canon with his appearance in Hawkeye. Fisk would be the easiest villain in the world to half-ass and make generic, but we’ve been blessed with fantastic actors in the role. Kingpin gets the distinction of being the one of only two villains with multiple entries in one spot.
12. Kilgrave
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Jessica Jones
David Tennant is the third and final former Doctor to make the list, and he’s so good at being a bad I bent the rules ever so slightly to get him in on the list. The canonicity of Jessica Jones to the MCU is a bit unclear right now, but do we really want to live in a world where his fantastically chilling performance is Thanos’d from the timeline? A walking avatar of rape culture and a laundry list of microagressions, Kilgrave is one of the slimiest, most sadistic, most reprehensible characters ever conceived… and yet you can’t help but love to hate him.
11. Catwoman
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Batman Returns
There have been plenty of Catwomans in film, with her being portrayed as a hero, an anti-hero, and even a silly Silver Age villainess. But I think Miss Kyle was done best as an antagonist in the hands of Michelle Pfeiffer, who absolutely nails the dynamic between Selina and Bruce (and their alter egos) as well as portraying the inherent tragedy of this take on the character. Throw in Pfeiffer looking damn fine in that costume and her handling the whip like a pro, and you have what might just be the purr-fect Catwoman.
10. Namor
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Phase 4 of the MCU was largely uneven, with villains who could have been great under better circumstances being held back by sloppy narrative choices. Big names like Gorr and Scarlet Witch were let down by weak stories, so there was a sense of dread I had going into Wakanda Forever that they’d let down one of Marvel’s oldest and most iconic anti-heroes. I had nothing to worry about in the end; Tenoch Huerta brought the character to life with all the charm, charisma, and command of the screen the Sub-Mariner deserves, and boy does he look good. The story treats him with the respect he deserves (no jokes about his ankle wings!) and while he’s certainly no Killmonger, he easily cements himself as a fantastic anti-hero who you can’t wait to see more of. And really, I can’t stress this enough: He is really fucking hot.
9. Riddler
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The Batman
I’m sure I’m in the same boat as a lot of people, where I saw the Zodiac-inspired getup of the new Riddler and thought this was going to be a Nolanesque gritty reimagining of the character. But lo and behold, we got something infinitely better: A Riddler that utilizes all manner of gruesome Saw traps while also maintaining the hilarious campy quality that’s inherent to the character. He sends personalized greeting cards with clues, he hosts evil livestreams for his fans, he sings “Ave Maria” to Batman, and most importantly he has a sick sense of humor. I love Jim Carrey, but he ain’t got shit on Paul Dano when it comes to riddlin’.
8. Joker
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Batman: The Movie, Batman, The Dark Knight, and Joker
Joker is a character who always manages to get a fresh take despite being absolutely done to death, and each interpretation highlights a different aspect that makes the character great. Romero’s Joker is very much the playful, criminal prankster; Nicholson is the swaggering, comically violent gangster; Ledger is the chilling, maniacal anarchist; and Phoenix is the disturbed, broken man who had one really bad day. And the one thing common across all of them is that each of them has made the Joker a consistently compelling and engaging villain. And while he hasn’t done enough yet to get in on this spot of the list entirely, Barry Keoghan deserves a shout out for portraying Joker as he truly is: A giggling, hideous, conniving freak.
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7. Thanos
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Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame
Thanos was a villain nearly a decade in the making, getting teased in The Avengers before making sporadic appearances here and there. His lack of direct action in the franchise had some worried… and then he stole the show in Infinity War, kicked everyone’s ass, and emerged victorious. They managed to take a villain whose main goal in the comics is to fuck a skeleton and somehow make him work, namely by keeping his headstrong self-righteousness intact even if he isn’t trying to bone the grim reaper, with Josh Brolin delivering one of the finest performances of his career. There are other villains that are better than him, but there aren’t any villains who truly feel as grand of epic as he did, and with DC dropping Darkseid from their cinematic universe it’s doubtful there ever will be one again, at least not for a very long time.
6. Doctor Octopus
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Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home
Alfred Molina’s Otto Octavius is an excellent contrast to Dafoe’s Goblin. Where Gobby is hammy, hilarious, and gleefully sadistic, Octavius is grandiose in a more understated way and a lot more tragic, while still managing to be as fun as a mad scientist with robot tentacles should be. You can definitely tell Molina is bringing his stage acting skills to the table here with how he carries himself and delivers his lines, making Octavius stand out among the more traditionally campy villains in Raimi’s other films. He got to return for an encore in No Way Home and gets the awesome fight scene and redemption arc he deserved, fully rounding him out and giving the diabolical doctor a happy ending all while proving that he makes movies better just by being in them.
5. Xu Wenwu
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi would be a nearly perfect movie if not for one thing: It kills off one of the single greatest and most complex villains in the MCU for a CGI dragon battle. They managed to take two of the most infamous “Yellow Peril” characters in pop culture (Fu Manchu and the Mandarin) and gave him depth and complexity, his complicated relationship with his children driving the plot more than anything else. It’s a testament to how good the writing and how good Tony Leung’s performance is that he’s this high, because despite his death the impact on his children doesn’t disappear just because it’s time for CGI monsters. This more than makes up for how lame Guy Pearce Mandarin was, that’s for sure.
4. Ego
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Familial conflict is the cornerstone of many great villains, and Ego has that in spades. At first it seems like Marvel’s living planet has undergone adaptational kindness, with him genuinely coming across as a fun father figure to Peter, but that just makes the big twist hit even harder. Ego becomes even nastier retroactively, as on top of what he did to Peter’s mother and scores of his own children, the holiday special reveals Mantis is his child and he only kept her alive as a slave for her powers. He’s genuinely one of the nastiest, most twisted villains the MCU ever showed us, and he more than lives up to his name with his narcissistic plan to reshape the universe in his image. Kurt Russell absolutely knocked it out of the park with his performance. 
3. Magneto
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X-Men film series
Be it Sir Ian McKellan or Michael Fassbender, you could always count on one thing with Magneto: He’d be one of the most compelling parts of the film. Watch McKellan and Fassbender carry The Last Stand and Apocalypse, respectively, and see how this iconic anti-villain can make even the biggest turds watchable. And when the movie is genuinely good, such as X2, First Class, or Days of Future Past… That’s where the real fun comes in. Magneto is one of the single greatest characters ever created, and thankfully even with the spotty track record of the X-Men films it never felt like he wasn’t given his due.
2. Green Goblin
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Spider-Man and Spider-Man: No Way Home
We can argue all day about whether or not his costume is stupid, but one thing that is utterly inarguable is that Willem Dafoe delivered the gold standard for hammy supervillains. Playing up the Goblin as something of a split personality, Dafoe can instantly switch from the sympathetic Norman to the cackling Gobby with ease, something really demonstrated by his return in No Way Home. Across two cinematic universes, Gobby proved himself to be Spidey’s greatest and most personal foe, and more importantly than that he proved to be an endless fountain of memes thanks to his insanely quotable lines. If you’re making a cackling, campy comic book movie villain, they are gonna have to try really hard to make it out of Gobby’s shadow.
1. Erik Killmonger
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Black Panther
When I began making this list, there was never any question who number one was going to be. Of fucking course it was always gonna be Killmonger, a villain who is so cool, stylish, badass, and complex that he completely redeems the film’s awkward PS3 cutscene of a final battle thanks to his genuinely impactful death scene immediately after. He’s so good that when he shows up for a surprise appearance in Wakanda Forever he absolutely and completely eclipses how great Namor is and reminds us all why he was such a great villain with only a single scene. What’s most impressive, however, is that technically he did win in the end, being directly responsible for T’Challa dying as well as inspiring him during life to open up to the world and try and help black people around the world. Michael B. Jordan proves once and for all that whatever problems his role as Johnny Storm had, it wasn’t on him; the man is one of the best actors of our time.
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