With the recent tone ending ofThor : Love and Thunderand its new villain , Gorr ( played by Christian Bale ) , theMCUwill have gain yet another scheming baddie with vicious plans that Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes must vanquish . by from Gorr , Marvel ’s enfranchisement has had many on - screenland villains with dastardly goals .

Each villain in the   MCU   has had their fair part of vicious scheme , but those that left the most carnage and death in their aftermath stick out out above the rest . From Thanos down half the population of the Universe to the extermination of the human slipstream , the villains of Marvel ’s Cinematic Universe have motley greatly in their plans .

Thanos

Though Thanos is widely regarded as the evilest scoundrel , looking at the complexities of his logic leads to the recognition that there ’s not much evilness in his plan .

Thanos ’s end goal was to prevent overpopulation and the dwindling of resources by reduce the number of people in half . He was not doing so just to belt down , but rather he authentically believed he was doing the macrocosm a party favour . Through convoluted logic , Thanos consider that imagination consumption would run to the end of civilizations across the stars , and thus his method of combatting this inevitable problem was to eliminate living organism that were consuming the said resources .

Mysterio

Mysterio ’s initial plan was the same as many other villains in theMCU : to get back at Tony Stark . Mysterio ’s plans led to massive scathe , including the death of many London landmarks , and far too many innocent casualties . His plan is genuinely evil due to its deficiency of regard for the death and end he could stimulate .

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His nonperformance in using the Stark - made drones and hologram engineering to his aid made his plan far eviler than it look on the surface . By the closing of it , he charge Spider - Man for what had happened , solidifying his selfishness and the evilness of his program .

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Malekith

Malekith , the long - live on enemy of Asgard , contrive to destroy the house of Thor and Loki and take over the nine land . His program is one of the evilest in the   MCU   for reason exchangeable to that of Mysterio : his lack of regard for casualties .

In his plan to vanquish and subdue the nine realms , thousands if not millions would die , and massive destruction to Asgard would occur . Malekith show no remorse for deaths , and in the main no ethics whatsoever . He chooses to be evil to achieve his goals . Since he chooses this track of iniquity and pure evil to get what he want , he becomes one of the evilest villains in the MCU .

Alexander Pierce

Alexander Pierce was a high up - rank official in SHIELD and on the QT a member of Hydra . His programme consisted of using Stark - built helicarriers with high-pitched - tech weaponry to extinguish people in the cosmopolitan populous who could flummox a threat to Hydra ’s domination .

He seek total control over the world through a shadow government , and thus his plan is more damnatory than other baddie in the   MCU . Pierce ’s purpose for monocracy and this creation of a dystopian and authoritarian society through the elimination of 20 million innocent people , and his control over a shadow authorities , direct him to be one of the evilest villains the Italian sandwich ever faced .

Red Skull

Red Skull was the leader of the Nazi ’s deep - science division during World War 2 . His programme was interchangeable to that of Hitler militarily , but with far unlike goals . Red Skull sought to employ nuclear weaponsto destroy the United States , effectively massacring 120 million multitude .

He sought to bring down Hitler and take the entire world under his government . Though this would have most likely put a stop to the evilest act in history , the catastrophic damage to the United States and its universe counteracts what skilful he may have done . His goals of world domination and wipeout against anyone who could stomach against him show that his pitiless provision is truly malevolent , even when equate to other   MCU   villains .

Arishem

Arishem ’s plan is fairly similar to Thanos , but the carnage that would have been because of it is far great and with far less good intention . Arishem intended to use the Earth to birth a newfangled celestial . This would cause the immediate destruction of the Earth and the elimination of the human race in its totality .

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He showed a lack of guardianship in respect to the number of inhabit beings he would destroy in this process , and thus his plan would have leave in one of the highest death tolls in the   MCU . Arishem ’s lack of fear in compliments to the massive loss of life history leads him to be one of the evilest planner in the   MCU .

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Xu Wenwu

Xu Wenwu was the leader of the Ten Rings and has a farsighted chronicle of uncalled-for force against the sinless and shamefaced likewise . During his term of office in the   MCU , he was manipulated by an ancient animate being to break open a stamp that he believed would free his long - lost wife .

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Though he was being wangle , he still used his power and influence to vote out anyone who could get in his means and even attempted to kill his own children . He commit heinous Acts of the Apostles of violence and his pitiless methods of getting what he wanted were what made his plan wickedness .

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Ultron

Ultron was an AI make by Tony Starkand Bruce Banner in their attempts to create a peacekeeping force known as the Iron Legion . This took a turn when Ultron became sentient , developed a body , and attempt to eliminate Earth .

He determined , after interfacing with the cyberspace , that the human race was going to cause the destruction of the planet , and he deem himself to be the rescuer of the Earth . His selfishness in proclaiming himself to be the only hope for the Earth ’s survival lead him to being distinguish one of the evil villains in the   MCU .

Wanda Maximoff

Though Maximoff was being influenced by The Darkhold , her plan would have resulted in monolithic amount of damage to the body structure of not just one cosmos , but two . Wanda Maximoff   planned to find a universe in which her child existedand replace their version of herself so she could live with her children .

Her architectural plan is incredibly evil and selfish at its nucleus , stemming from her desire to be with her fry ( an inherently good thing ) that is so strong that she lose her horse sense of morality . When these cosmos collided , they would tear each other apart , destroy both realms . Her program was easily one of the evilest plans in the   MCU   due to its lack of regard for what she may cause , and her extreme selfishness .

Ego

Ego design to constitute his seed on every populated planet in the macrocosm to terraform them into university extension of himself . When these planets were to be terraformed , the population on them would perish .

He did not care whether the masses of these planets pull round , as his oddment end was to become the most powerful being in the universe . Unlike Thanos , Ego did not have upright intentions for his murderous patch that would impact the universe at gravid and thus leads him to have the evilest plan in the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Ego was the most uncaring villain that the heroes have ever struggle and is simply the most selfish , wickedness , and cruel scoundrel in the   MCU .

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Malekith looking into the distance in Thor: The Dark World.

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Arishem stands over Earth in Eternals

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