Agents Of SHIELD: 10 Best Villains

6. Raina

Agents of SHIELD Calvin Zabo
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Over the course of the series' first season, the ambitious but selfish Raina repeatedly popped up time and again as a thorn in the team's side, ultimately loyal only to herself despite working under the Centipede Project for the mysterious Clairvoyant.

After John Garrett's downfall, Raina quickly stepped away from being sucked into HYDRA by meeting back up with Cal Zabo, only to get caught up in the conflict between SHIELD and Daniel Whitehall early in the second season. In the Kree city, Raina used the Diviner to enact the Terrigenesis process that fully transformed her into an Inhuman, finally achieving the dream of being special that she had chased her whole life by earning the power to see the future, even though the gift came with some very prickly physical side effects.

Despite the constant antagonism the team and fans had gotten used to about her, Raina's last act was a noble one, standing up against Jiaying after foretelling the woman's ultimate, world-changing goal, in the process finally shedding her sense of self-preservation and self-serving nature even as it resulted in her death.

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