15 Fantastic Four Villains Who Could Be The Next Big Bad Of The MCU
8. The Mad Thinker & His Awesome Android
Of all of the villains on this list, the Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android certainly seem like the most unlikely of candidates as not only the next MCU big bad, but an MCU villain in general.
However, let's not count these two out before giving them a fair shake.
The Mad Thinker is far down in the rankings for most powerful super villain, but his exceptional intellect does allow him to predict how events will play out with near perfect accuracy. He's got the potential to be a slow-burn villain not unlike Baron Zemo in Captain America: Civil War.
Imagine introducing him early in the saga and having our heroes "succeed" in stopping his plans... perhaps something as simple as defeating the Awesome Android. As the dominoes begin to fall over the course of the next films, we see the Mad Thinker's plan slowly begin to unfold.
What is his master plot? Ushering in the arrival of Galactus, helping Doctor Doom take over the world...any number of sizeable events would work. CA:CV was a fantastic script that showed you don't need a super powered villain to create life-changing chaos.