20 Recent Movie Villains Who Were Instantly Iconic
7. The Void - Thunderbolts
Thunderbolts is one of the few MCU movies to pull the surprise villain card and actually get away with it. It sure helps that said villain turns out to be the single creepiest in the series' history.
After super-powered individual Bob (Lewis Pullman) is reinvented as the superhero Sentry, he turns on Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and basically goes into business for himself, only to be incapacitated by a killswitch.
But this inadvertently triggers the emergence of Bob's villainous alter-ego The Void - a physical embodiment of his depression and insecurity, who possesses the ability to trap people in visions of their most traumatic memories.
For one, the ever-silhouetted design of The Void is inherently unsettling, and the means through which he dispassionately turns innocent civilians into literal shadows of their former selves is something out of a pure horror movie.
Though The Void is ultimately a fairly fleeting villain in Thunderbolts' third act, he makes one hell of an impression with his brief screen time, in turn proving the MCU can tackle tricky subjects with greater skill than one might reasonably expect.