History BigBad / MarvelCinematicUniverse

** ''LMD'': Dr. Holden Radcliffe, a former pawn in Hive's scheme who S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited, is a MadScientist who wants the knowledge of the Darkhold for the good of humanity, planning to create the Framework, a [[LotusEaterMachine virtual simulation of the world without people's greatest regrets]]. However, his methods of obtaining the book include kidnapping others and replacing them with [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Life Model Decoys]]. The Watchdogs' leader, Anton Ivanov, is a BigBadWannabe working with Radcliffe, giving him resources for his plans in exchange for his help in killing Inhumans before getting DemotedToDragon by Aida.

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Loki is TheHeavy leading the Chitauri invasion of Earth on behalf of [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]], delivering him the Tesseract in exchange for the planet out of belief that [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill freedom is a lie]], and mind controlling Hawkeye in order to achieve this, driving Nick Fury to fully assemble the Avengers. Meanwhile, The Other serves as his handler and commander of the [[Characters/MCUThanossForces Chitauri]] army Loki summons for the [[FinalBattle Battle Of New York]].

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Loki is TheHeavy leading the Chitauri invasion of Earth on behalf of [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]], delivering him the Tesseract in exchange for the planet out of belief that [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill freedom is a lie]], and mind controlling Hawkeye in order to achieve this, driving Nick Fury to fully assemble the Avengers. Meanwhile, The Other serves as his handler and commander of the [[Characters/MCUThanos’sForces Chitauri]] army Loki summons for the [[FinalBattle Battle Of New York]].

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Loki is TheHeavy leading the Chitauri invasion of Earth on behalf of [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]], delivering him the Tesseract in exchange for the planet out of belief that [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill freedom is a lie]], and mind controlling Hawkeye in order to achieve this, driving Nick Fury to fully assemble the Avengers.

** Episode 5: [[spoiler:Melina Vostokoff]], the current leader of the [[Characters/MCURedRoom Red Room]], sends the Hydra Stomper, Steve Rogers, to assassinate Secretary of Defense Bucky Barnes. However, the assassination turns out to be a ploy to [[spoiler:lead Captain Carter away from the other Avengers so that she can capture her]].

** Episode 2: A young [[Characters/MCUPeterQuill Peter Quill]] returns to Earth wanting to go back home, but his [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Celestial powers cause mass destruction, including the destruction of other planets and the other Realms]], leading the Avengers to team up against him. In the end, [[Characters/MCUEgo Ego]], after discovering Peter is on Earth, plans to continue the Expansion on Earth, while Peter is eventually talked down by Hank Pym, helping him and the heroes fight against Ego.

** Episode 1: [[spoiler:Nova Prime plans to sell out Xandar to Ronan the Accuser, allowing him to invade the planet in exchange for maintaining a position of power afterwards. To do so, she kills Yondu to manipulate Nebula into maintaining the codes to shut down the shield above Xandar]].

The second MythArc of the MCU focuses both on a younger generation of heroes arising within the MCU as chaos erupting beyond it, bringing in a wide menagerie of vile villains from across the multiverse. Chief among these new enemies being the most ruthless and most feared warlord of them all: [[Characters/MCUKang Kang the Conqueror]].

The second MythArc of the MCU focuses both on a younger generation of heroes arising within the MCU and chaos erupting beyond it, bringing in a wide menagerie of vile villains from across the multiverse. Chief among these being the ruthless time-travelling conqueror, [[Characters/MCUKang Kang]].

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Alexander Pierce is the head of the HYDRA conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. and uses the titular [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]], a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] Bucky Barnes, as his [[TheDragon personal assassin]], even attempting to have Nick Fury killed as part of his plan. Arnim Zola is the GreaterScopeVillain who initiated HYDRA's plan, Pierce being his successor after he [[BrainUploading digitized himself]], and designing an algorithm which targets everyone least likely to support HYDRA, carried out by the Helicarriers used for Project Insight. On a franchise level, HYDRA as a whole turns out to be the true killers of the Starks, with Senator Stern, the one who initially pushed for acquiring Iron Man's armor, being revealed to be one of their moles.
* ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'': [[Characters/MCURonan Ronan the Accuser]], a Kree fanatic who wants to destroy his race's longtime enemies, the Xandarians, by acquiring the Orb, having also killed Drax's family in the past. Gamora's sister Nebula becomes TheDragon after the former betrays them. While they're technically [[TheHeavy in service]] to [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]], the Titan barely shows up and the two ultimately [[TheStarscream turn on him]] once Ronan gets the Power Stone from the Orb. A group of Ravagers lead by Yondu Udonta, who abducted Star-Lord from Earth when he was a child, also pursue him for the Orb and places the bounty on him that ropes Rocket and Groot into getting involved, only to later form an EnemyMine with the Guardians of the Galaxy to stop Ronan.
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': The titular [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]], an insane A.I. used as part of Iron Man's directive for world peace, who initially wants to act as a savior to humanity before gradually devolving into an OmnicidalManiac. [[Characters/MCUWandaMaximoff Wanda]] and Pietro Maximoff become his CoDragons after manipulating Stark into creating him, but pull {{Heel Face Turn}}s after finding out the extent of his plans.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[Characters/MCUEgo Ego the Living Planet]], Peter's Celestial father who wants to use his son to consume all life and become a Living Universe, having been the one who sent Yondu to retrieve him (until Yondu decided to raise Peter himself after learning that Ego killed his other children). He was also the one who raised Mantis, the Guardians' newest member. Ayesha and the Sovereign are secondary threats as a [[CantArgueWithElves haughty alien race]] that Rocket provokes after the Guardians retrieve Nebula from her, hiring Yondu's Ravagers faction to hunt them down after Stakar Ogord banishes them for what Yondu did. Taserface also tries to make a name for himself by pulling a mutiny on Yondu, who manages to at least catch Rocket and Groot, [[BigBadWannabe though it doesn't go well for him]]. Of these, Ego's threat is so strong that Nebula and what remained of Yondu's faction (Yondu himself and Kraglin Obfonteri) ally with the Guardians to defeat Ego.

* ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': [[Characters/MCUErikStevens Erik "Killmonger" Stevens]], T'Challa's cousin, seeks revenge on the Black Panther after T'Chaka murdered his father. He also wants to take over Wakanda and conquer the rest of the world the way white colonizers conquered Africa in the past. [[Characters/MCUUlyssesKlaue Ulysses Klaue]], a mercenary and long-time enemy of Wakanda who collaborated with N'Jobu in his treason as well as being the one who earlier provided Ultron with the Vibranium for his body, is the main antagonist for the first half of the movie before Killmonger kills him in order to gain entrance into the country.

* ''Series/WandaVision'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/MCUAgathaHarkness Agatha Harkness]] poses as Wanda's neighbor "Agnes", manipulating her into keeping up the Hex as she schemes to steal her Chaos Magic. Wanda herself is an {{Anti|Villain}}-{{Villain Protagonist}}, having created the Hex in a grief-fueled accident and enslaved the populace of Westview to act out roles in her perfect sitcom life. Meanwhile, [[GeneralRipper Director Tyler Hayward]] of S.W.O.R.D. is a BigBadWannabe trying to have the original Vision illegally rebuilt as a weapon under his control, intending to frame Wanda for his reactivation.]]

* ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' (Season 1): [[spoiler:"He Who Remains" is a [[AlternateSelf variant]] of [[Characters/MCUKang Kang the Conqueror]] and the founder of the Time Variance Authority, responsible for pruning alternate timelines to prevent the emergence of his malevolent counterparts]]. Judge Ravonna Renslayer tries to keep up TheMasquerade after the Time-Keepers are exposed as fake figureheads, but is gradually sidelined in Loki and Sylvie's hunt for the true founder. [[Characters/MCUSylvieLaufeydottir Sylvie]] herself is a DiscOneFinalBoss whom Loki is initially recruited to stop from causing Nexus Events, [[spoiler:and kills He Who Remains in the finale [[RevengeBeforeReason despite the dangers posed by releasing his variants]].]]

** Episode 2: The Collector has taken over as the universe's intergalactic criminal kingpin after [[spoiler:Thanos' HeelFaceTurn,]] with the Black Order as his minions, being the opposition Star-Lord faces when Nebula hires the Ravagers to steal the Embers of Genesis from the Collector.

** Episode 5: A ZombieApocalypse accidently released from the Quantum Realm when Hank Pym tried to rescue Janet van Dyne, infecting hero and villain alike ([[spoiler:with even Thanos and the Black Order infected]]). Wanda is the most dangerous of the infected Avengers, [[spoiler: with Vision luring in victims with the promise of a cure to keep her fed and docile.]]

** Episode 8: [[spoiler: Ultron, who succeeded in defeating the Avengers and claiming Vision’s body as his own. His plans become bigger however when he learns of the existence of the multiverse.]]

* ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'': [[Characters/MCUKang Kang the Conqueror]] who, after being exiled to the Quantum Realm by his variants, seeks the help of Scott Lang to shrink down and retrieve the Multiversal Power Core, previosly enlarged by Janet to deny him escape, to his ship, which will allow him to traverse the multiverse and escape the subatomic world so he can get revenge on his variants by destroying their timelines. Kang is aided by M.O.D.O.K., [[spoiler:a heavily augmented [[NotQuiteDead Darren Cross]]]] who responds to Cassie Lang's signal and strands her family in the Quantum Realm, but later [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn turns against Kang]]]].

* ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'': Gravik is the leader of a RenegadeSplinterFaction of Skrulls who have grown tired waiting for another planet to live on. He stages a covert invasion on Earth [[spoiler:that involves manipulating the global powers on the planet into attacking each other with nuclear weapons, hoping the resulting war will destroy humanity with radiation that Skrulls are immune to.]] He also seeks to obtain the Harvest, [[spoiler:a collection of DNA samples taken from the [[Film/AvengersEndgame Battle of Earth]], so that he can use it to [[AllYourPowersCombined give himself superpowers]].]]

* ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'': Dar-Benn, the new leader of the Kree, uses the other half of the Quantum Bands wielded by Ms. Marvel to tear apart several jump points, one of which causes Captain Marvel, Photon, and Ms. Marvel to switch places, in order to restore her homeworld of Hala after it descended into a civil war following [[spoiler:Captain Marvel killing the Supreme Intelligence offscreen]].

* ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season 2: [[spoiler:He Who Remains is revealed to be the mastermind of the Temporal Loom crisis, having created it to serve as a failsafe in the case of his death.]] Acting as the [[TheHeavy Heavies]] are [[spoiler: Ravonna Renslayer, who seeks to become [[DragonAscendant the new ruler of the [=TVA=]]], and General Dox, who bombs multiple branched timelines in an attempt to kill Sylvie.]]

%%* ''Film/TheMarvels'': Dar-Benn, the new leader of the Kree, uses the other half of the Quantum Bands wielded by Ms. Marvel to tear apart several jump points, one of which causes Captain Marvel, Photon, and Ms. Marvel to switch places, in order to restore her homeworld of Hala after it descended into a civil war following [[spoiler:Captain Marvel killing the Supreme Intelligence offscreen]].

%%* ''Film/TheMarvels'': Dar-Benn, the new leader of the Kree following a civil war on Hala resulting from [[spoiler:Captain Marvel killing the Supreme Intelligence offscreen]], uses the other half of the Quantum Bands wielded by Ms. Marvel to tear apart the jump point causing Captain Marvel, Photon, and Ms. Marvel to switch places.

** ''Agents of HYDRA'': Aida, Radcliffe's LMD assistant, kills him and takes over the Framework simulation. Under her watch it is turned into [[VillainWorld an oppressive police state run by HYDRA]], with an avatar of herself at the top as [[ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} Madame Hydra]] and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Fitz]], known as [[MadScientist the Doctor]], as her {{Dragon}}, with the Doctor temporarily taking charge when Quake breaks her avatar's back. She also wants to [[BecomeARealBoy Become A Real Girl]] using the Darkhold, but once she does so and starts experiencing emotions she [[NotGoodWithRejection doesn't]] handle [[WomanScorned them]] all [[{{Yandere}} that well]] after Fitz rejects her love and becomes murderous, forming a BigBadDuumvirate with Anton and setting out to recreate her totalitarian empire in the real world using the Darkhold.

* ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'': The Red Room Program, headed by [[ControlFreak General Dreykov]], abducts young girls to be chemically [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] into master assassins and spies known as Black Widows, with Natasha having been one of them prior to her escape. [[spoiler:Dreykov's daughter Antonia is his similarly brainwashed {{Dragon}}, [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]], turned into such after a failed attempt by Black Widow to assassinate him. When Dreykov is killed during the climax, [[DragonTheirFeet Antonia]] keeps going for a final fight until Natasha frees her from her programming.]]

* ''Film/IronMan3'': Aldrich Killian is the mastermind behind [[Characters/MCUAim A.I.M.]] and the Extremis SuperSoldiers, setting up actor Trevor Slattery as the anti-American terrorist known as "The Mandarin" so he can manipulate the War on Terror and sell his technology to the U.S. government. He also wants revenge on Tony [[EvilIsPetty for humiliating him years prior]], kidnapping and injecting Pepper Potts with Extremis while his forces steal the War Machine armor (rebranded as Iron Patriot) in a bid to kill President Matthew Ellis as the final step in his plan.

->''"[[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]]. He's a plague, [[Characters/MCUTonyStark Tony]]. He invades planets, he takes what he wants, he wipes out half the population. He sent Loki! The attack on New York—that's '''him'''!"''

->''"Thanos. He’s a plague, Tony. He invades planets, he takes what he wants, he wipes out half the population. He sent Loki! The attack on New York—that’s '''him'''!"''
-->-- '''Bruce Banner''', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

* ''VideoGame/IronMan3TheOfficialGame'': [[Characters/{{AIM}} M.O.D.O.K.]], [[spoiler: aka Aldrich Killian]]. [[spoiler: Before his death, Killian [[BrainUploading uploaded his consciousness]] into a new body, and sought revenge against Tony]]. Taking charge of AIM, M.O.D.O.K. stole the Extremis formula, and later uploaded himself into the mainframe of Stark Industries with the express purpose of framing Stark for numerous terrorist attacks.

* ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'': Gravik is the leader of a RenegadeSplinterFaction of Skrulls who have grown tired waiting for another planet to live on. He stages a covert invasion on Earth [[spoiler:that involves manipulating the global powers on the planet into attacking each other with nuclear weapons, hoping the resulting war will destroy humanity with radiation that Skrulls are immune to.]] He also seeks to obtain the Harvest, [[spoiler:a collection of DNA samples taken from the [[Film/AvengersEndgame Battle of Earth]], so that he can use them to [[AllYourPowersCombined give himself superpowers]].]]

* ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'': Gravik is the leader of a RenegadeSplinterFaction of Skrulls who have grown tired waiting for another planet to live on. He stages a covert invasion on Earth [[spoiler:that involves manipulating the global powers on the planet into attacking each other with nuclear weapons, hoping the resulting war will destroy humanity with radiation that Skrulls are immune to.]]

* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Karli Morgenthau and the Flag-Smashers, Super-Soldier [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighters]] for those displaced after the Blip by the Global Repatriation Council, escalate into acts of terrorism to send their message. Sam and Bucky form an EnemyMine with Baron Helmut Zemo to stop her, while also dealing with the unstable and [[AntiHero anti-heroic]] government-sponsored successor to Captain America, [[Characters/MCUJohnWalker John Walker]]. The Power Broker ([[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Sharon Carter]]]]) is the GreaterScopeVillain who commissioned the creation of the Super-Soldier serum Karli stole.

* ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'': Gravik is the Leader of a Renegade Splinter Faction of Skrulls who have grown tired waiting for another planet to live on. He stages a covert invasion on Earth [[spoiler:that involves manipulating the global powers on the planet into attacking each other with nuclear weapons, hoping the resulting war will destroy humanity with radiation that Skrulls are immune to.]]