MCU: Every Infinity Saga Villain RANKED

This year MCU fans bid farewell to a very special era in a franchise spanning across twenty-three films and well over a decade.

Across those twenty plus films we've seen a spectrum of characters with varied allegiances and nobility, but while we rank the heroes on their strength and honor, the bar is set very differently for the villains. Well over half the bad guys across the MCU so far have been fun to watch, but comparing them to one another can be a little tricky.

Thanos, Killmonger and The Mandarin will be recognized for their standout performances by the actors who played them. But some villains have had clumsy motivations, others have practically been non-existent on screen, and some have just been copy-pasted twists on the titular heroes.

And as Marvel Studios winds up to deliver another ten years and three more phases, they have to take all aspects of previous incantations and see what to improve upon. With sufficient writing and some focused directing, even the weakest or most same-y villains can be interesting to watch, and that's exactly what Marvel have accomplished with certain figures.

So, varying between the good, the bad and just the straight up "meh", here's every major MCU villain ranked from worst to best.

Thor: The Dark World has been pretty much regarded as the worst film in the MCU (to date) and it's no fault to the cast.

Coming off the heels of the first Avengers collaboration, Thor's second solo outing sees the hero do battle with ancient and nefarious "Dark Elves" as he and Jane (and to a lesser extent Loki) try to uncover the mysteries of a dangerous MacGuffin called The Aether (later revealed to be the Reality Stone).

The whole film is a sloppy mess, and one of the poor victims of this garbage fire is Christopher Eccleston's character Malekith The Accursed - a Dark Elf fresh off the generic villain assembly line whose motives, reasoning and personality are about as fleshed out as a tree stump.

Poor Christopher Eccleston though; he certainly didn't know what kind of character he was playing. For an actor as talented as he is, his abilities are very underused in this film leading him to be one of the least memorable characters in the entire franchise.