![]() ![]() Mad villain … Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Given Patrick Stewart’s Professor X is rumoured to be making a return, and we’ve just seen half of Sony’s bad-guy back catalogue turn up in Spider-Man: No Way Home, all bets are off. The God of Mischief may currently be stuck in an alternate timeline, and we’re not sure if he’ll appear in the forthcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Only an actor with charisma to burn could get away with inviting the hideous Chitauri to invade Earth, thereby destroying half of New York, and still emerge as a fan favourite. Tom Hiddleston’s character has raged and whined his way through more than half a dozen Marvel movies thus far, and with his own TV series. It took the destruction of Asgard itself to stop her, otherwise she would probably be ruling over the nine realms to this day.Īnother Asgardian, albeit an adoptive one, we may want to consider is Loki. Despite being a “one and done” villain – so far she has only appeared in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok – the slinky goddess of death tore the leather chaps out of Waititi’s movie with a performance of mascara-fuelled, rock-star splendour. If scenery-chewing is your thing then Cate Blanchett’s Hela surely merits discussion. Photograph: Marvel Studios/Disney/Allstar ![]() Hela bad … Cate Blanchett in Thor: Ragnarok. ![]() Spader’s was also a less showy performance than we’ve seen elsewhere, being limited to that cold, machine-like voice. And yet it’s hard to argue with a bad guy who points out all humanity’s faults and seems to long merely for a world in which wild animals run free in a human-less paradise. He gave Tony Stark his first crisis of conscience and helped usher Scarlet Witch into the arms of the Avengers. How about Ultron? The devious artificial intelligence robot (voiced by James Spader) was certainly the most powerful supervillain yet seen when he achieved self-awareness for the first time in 2015. It’s also probably one of the finest ever mo-cap performances, even if Josh Brolin ultimately got a little lost in the hi-tech architecture. So our giant purple friend scores highly in terms of audience impact, too. The nefarious Titan murdered half the universe’s population with the click of his fingers on the basis of what? Ill-conceived, wrong-headed binary statistics? It doesn’t get much more evil than that, and this alien invader’s machinations were terrible enough that they pretty much fuelled the MCU’s entire Phase Three. There are exceptions, of course, as not all gods choose to react that way - a prime example being Thor himself, who has always cared about people, having saved the Earth on many counts just because he wanted to.If it’s the former then Thanos surely has to be up there with the worst of them. Gorr's hatred for the gods is proven right during the Zeus scene in Omnipotence city, as the Greek thunder god cares more about his image as opposed to protecting endangered children, choosing to be cocooned in complacency instead of jumping into action. Gorr's character is worth empathizing with to a certain extent, until, of course, he decides to use Asgardian children as bait to lure Thor's (Chris Hemsworth) Stormbreaker into the picture. Already on the edge of anguish when he learns that the gods do not care about him, or anyone, the lure of the Necrosword grants him the powers to become the aggressor - Gorr transforms from a powerless, broken being at the mercy of the gods into being one that can take down the mightiest of immortals. Not only is he ridiculed, but also rebuked for his expectation of repairing an eternal reward for his dedication to the gods. Even though "Love and Thunder" does not delve deep into Gorr's past, the opening scene with his daughter functions as reason enough for him to embark on his mission to erase divinity.
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