10 Most Useless MCU Villains So Far

10. Baron Von Strucker

After the Avengers defeated Loki in the Battle of New York, the two Infinity Stones the God of Mischief carried were taken from him. The Tesseract was sent to Asgard with Thor, while the Scepter stayed in the custody of S.H.I.E.L.D. This, though no one knew it at the time, meant that it was the property of H.Y.D.R.A.

Put in charge of the weapon, and overseeing the experiments conducted on the likes of the Maximoff twins was Baron von Strucker. Though you could say he was successful in this, in that he tapped into Wanda’s powers and gave Pietro super speed, he didn’t even come close to understanding the extent of the power he had on his hands.

Despite being one of the heads of H.Y.D.R.A., when Strucker was tracked down by the Avengers he did nothing but surrender. Though facing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes isn’t something anyone would want to do, what happened to his loyalty? What happened to "cut off one head and two more shall take its place"?

The villain joined the list of secondary characters fleetingly used before being disposed of unceremoniously when Ultron dashed his head against a wall. He left the MCU without really making any impact. Particularly as it was revealed retrospectively that Wanda’s powers were within her all along, he didn’t really do anything.