10 More Movie Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won

Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl) is one of the MCU's most fascinating antagonists to date, given that he hasn't got any supernatural abilities and isn't a particularly physically imposing individual - he's simply an aggrieved man with one hell of a plan, and all the smarts to pull it off.

Though Zemo is captured and prevented from committing suicide by Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) at the end of the Captain America: Civil War, he did everything he set out to accomplish. That is, cause a gigantic schism between The Avengers by pitting Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) against Captain America (Chris Evans).

Zemo did something that even far more powerful villains - at least on paper - couldn't do; he damn-near broke The Avengers, in turn leaving them wildly unprepared for Thanos' (Josh Brolin) arrival in Avengers: Infinity War while successfully avenging his family's deaths in Sokovia.

And even if you picked up on all this, it gets better. In the Disney+ MCU series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Zemo won again, successfully wiping out the last of the super-soldiers just as he planned to do, no matter that he's imprisoned in The Raft for his troubles.