15 Greatest Marvel Comic Book Villains Of All Time

These are the best bad guys Marvel has to offer, but which of them is truly the most evil?

By Josh Wilding /

As fun as it is to follow the adventures of comic book superheroes, they would be nothing without their villains. However, inevitably, only a select handful of them have become as iconic as the good guys they frequently try to kill, and that's a testament to how great they are. When looking at Marvel's selection of bad guys, there are quite literally thousands of names to pick from, but only a small percentage of those stand out as being the most impressive, evil, and sadistic.

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Of course, it's easy enough to select and rank the villains who square off with specific heroes or teams, but what happens when you throw all of those together and attempt to pick the best? Plucking villains from every corner of the Marvel Universe and singling out the best of a very evil bunch is no easy feat, but that's exactly what you'll find here!

Some of these baddies have attempted to conquer the Earth, while others have made things much more personal by taking aim at the loved ones of the heroes they despise, but the one thing they all obviously have in common is that they're truly the greatest bad guys ever put inside the pages of your favourite Marvel comic books...

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