8. Baron Zemo
By all accounts, Zemo long requested to make the leap from the comics to the big screen by fans is going to be the ultimate villain of Civil War, likely pulling the strings that force the conflict to bubble over until everyone has to put aside their differences to beat him. As one of the film's few new characters, Zemo gets to start from scratch in terms of his adaptation, described by those involved as less like his comics counterpart and more like someone who would naturally rise from the events of the MCU to date. Ideally, Zemo will make it out the other end of the film alive, even if he's set back, to help give the MCU another recurring villain. With Red Skull seemingly out of the picture for the foreseeable future and Baron von Strucker having been thoroughly wasted in Age of Ultron, it'd be more than great to see one of Cap's longtime enemies make the leap from page to screen and actually stick around.
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