1. Red Skull Captain America: The First Avenger
A good film is made great by the quality of its villain, and so it proved in Captain America. Make no mistake, Captain America was a
really good film, with lots of action, inventive set-pieces and efforts toward real character development, yet for me there was always something a little lacking. I know some wont agree, but while I like Captain America, I think hes pretty dull hes just too damn good and nice to be very interesting. So when you have a bland hero you need a good villain, and when that villains being played by Hugo Weaving, you know youre in for a wild ride. Weaving can camp it up like no other before him, and yet still remain terrifying its an awesome gift to have, and it suited him well as he turned Red Skull into something akin to a pantomime villain. I thoroughly enjoyed him all the way through and he was only missing a cat to complete his transformation into lip-smacking uproarious villainy. Importantly, while he was a good dramatic presence he wasnt a liability in fight scenes, and we were treated to a cool set-piece of him and Captain America knocking seven bells out of each other in an exploding facility and on a falling bomber. You knew that when this man eventually met his demise, he would go out in suitably OTT fashion after all, this is Hugo Weaving, so youd expect nothing less. Yet what actually happened to him was just a bit... weird. Instead of being beaten or exploded to death, he simply grabbed hold of the Tesseract and simply disappeared, seemingly undone by his own thirst for power. Metaphorically, I guess it was kind of a good way for him to go out but it seemed like such an anti-climax compared to the scenery-chewing that had gone on before. My only explanation is that he isnt dead and they might use him again in future Marvel films. If they dont, they robbed an awesome pantomime character of a suitably ridiculous death, and thats just plain sad.