Thor: Ragnarok - Every Character Ranked Worst To Best

4. The Grandmaster

Unsurprisingly, if you put Jeff Goldblum in this sort of film and give him a remit to be the strangest character in the whole place, you get a performance of such profound Jeff Goldblumness that's it will make some of his more fervent fans explode in a shower of excitement.

Goldblum's Grandmaster is a rare case of an actor not in any way acting and it still working far better than if he'd built something entirely unfamiliar. He's clearly having the most fun of everyone involved at all times and naturally he's hysterical to the point of being a walking meme factory (but then, that's Goldblum himself).

The performance is such that the Grandmaster is never really a villain per se. Sure, he's a bad guy, but he's so intoxicatingly charming that you suspect you'd forgive him even if he was about to melt you to goo personally. He's just a creature of pleasure, surprisingly complex and wonderfully drawn, and it was an inspired decision to cast Goldblum.