Best Marvel villains, ranked
The best Marvel villains often define the Earth's Mightiest Heroes. For as enjoyable as the best Spider-Man stories and best X-Men characters have been over the years, they wouldn't be anything without a great Marvel supervillain to help ramp up the drama and centre the action.
Here we have ranked the 10 best Marvel villains from over 60 years of comic book history. Pairing the list down to such a small number isn't easy, but we could honestly be here all day talking about our favorites – we had a similar problem when we put together our best Marvel heroes list too.
Despite appearing in earnest in only one major story arc (her namesake Dark Phoenix Saga), the Dark Phoenix/Jean Grey was the central villain in what is, arguably, the most iconic X-Men story ever produced. Partially owing to Jean Grey's prior status as a heroine, and to her destruction of an entire galaxy, the Dark Phoenix remains one of the most shocking and effective villains of Marveldom.
More recently, the Phoenix Force attempted to reunite with the younger, time-tossed Jean Grey - a story which resulted in the return of the older Jean, who banished the Phoenix from her life forever, with the younger Jean eventually returning to her original timeline.
In the aftermath, the Pheonix has since returned to earth and claimed the Avenger Echo as its new host.
Until fairly recently, the long-running but sometimes silly Dr. Octopus might have been considered a B-List villain at best, despite often functioning as Spider-Man's arch-enemy. Doc Ock proved his place as one of Spidey's top foes a few years ago by doing what almost no other villains in Marvel Comics have accomplished - he actually finished off his nemesis.
Doc Ock's final scheme was to transfer his
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