30 Greatest Marvel Movie Villains;

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by andrew edward.

Marvel Studios have proven with the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you don't always need a great villain to make a successful movie: Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy all featured wildly underwhelming central villains you won't much remember.

That said, anything Marvel Studios makes tends to turn to box office gold, so they're basically the genre outlier here. As a rule, great superhero movies are often defined by their bad guys, and if nothing else, it certainly helps to have the hero facing off against someone of at least equal power and intellect.

As such, you won't find the likes of Viper, Ronan the Accuser, the Hand, Juggernaut, Emma Frost, Dracula, Dr. Doom or Galactus on this list, but rather those villains who elevated both the movie they're in and the superheroes they faced.

None of them were perfect and some were in fact deserving of a much better movie, but each certainly left a defining impact all the same. Here are the 30 best Marvel movie villains...