Iron Man Armoured Adventures

Top 10 Best Marvel Villains

To celebrate Marvels 70 years of excellence we are taking a look back at the Top 10 Villains of the Marvel universe.

10. Mandarin

Mandarin first appears in Iron Man back in 1964 and has under gone many transformations. In his latest reincarnation in Iron Man Armored Adventures he is full-armored, with a helmet hiding his face and identity, and is looking for his rings, which are here referred as the “Makluhan Rings”. His armor appears magical in nature, as he’s able to make it appear and disappear around him at will. It also alters his voice, making it deeper and unrecognizable. The Mandarin was also the primary villain in the 1994 Iron Man animated series, voiced by Ed Gilbert and later by Robert Ito. In the series, the Mandarin is an archeologist named Arnold Brock who, while fleeing from desert bandits, falls into an ancient catacomb containing an alien starship (which belongs to this series’ incarnation of Fin Fang Foom whom Mandarin forged an uneasy alliance with).

9. Doctor Doom

Doom’s most dangerous weapon is his intellect. A true genius, he is considered to be one of the most intelligent human beings in the Marvel Universe, second only to his arch-nemesis Reed Richards. He has extensive knowledge of all sciences, and is an expert in robotics, genetic engineering, weapons technology, bio-chemistry, and other fields. Doom is depicted constructing numerous devices in order to defeat his foes or gain more power, including a time machine, a device to imbue people with superpowers, and numerous robots. Doctor Doom has appeared in 10 different Marvel cartoons including Spiderman, Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk.

8. Doctor Octopus

Octavius is a genius in the field of atomic physics, and he holds a Ph. D. in nuclear science. A brilliant engineer and inventor, he is also a superb strategist and a charismatic leader. Due to exposure to atomic radiation, Doctor Octopus has the mental ability to control his four artificial tentacle arms (even when they are not connected to him, he can also control them over vast distances), electrically powered, telescoping prehensile titanium-steel tentacle appendages are attached to a stainless-steel harness encompassing his lower torso. These arms are capable of lifting several tons, provided that at least one arm is used to support his body. In Ultimate Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus is no longer fat, but younger and very muscular. While the original Doctor Octopus wore sunglasses due to myopia, the Ultimate Octavius wears them to disguise horrible wounds inflicted on his eyes during the accident that created him, that leave him very sensitive to light. His arms are also different: he modifies them so that their ends are made up of nanobots, and thus can have various lethal accessories, transforming the three-pronged ‘claws’ into flamethrowers, tasers, and machine guns. Ultimate Six revealed he had a psychic link with his arms and could control them remotely

7. Magneto

A powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control electromagnetic forces, Magneto has been the X-Men’s most prominent enemy ever since his first appearance. In his early appearances, his motives were bent on megalomania, but writers have since fleshed out his character and origin, revealing him to be a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose actions are driven by the purpose of protecting the mutant race from suffering a similar fate. His role in comics have varied from supervillain to anti-hero to even hero. Magneto appears in Wolverine and the X-Men voiced by Tom Kane in a rendition of Ian McKellen’s portrayal of Magneto in the X-Men films. He is shown to rule the island of Genosha, where it appears most mutants are moving to, in light of recent anti-mutant feelings. Despite the government’s treatment of mutants, they seem content to allow Magneto to promote Genosha in the United States with assorted poster and commercials.

6. Green Goblin

The chemical solution devised by Norman Osborn from a formula originally conceived by Professor Mendel Stromm, turned Norman Osborn into the Green Goblin. In the process, he gained superhuman agility, strength, speed, stamina, and dexterity. Additionally, Osborn has gained a “healing factor” allowing him to quickly heal from lethal bodily. Aside from his physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman’s already above average intellect, making him a bona fide genius capable of making progress in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, and applied chemistry. The Green Goblin has appeared in almost all reincarnations of the Spiderman series as well as crossing over in to Iron Man and other Marvel animations.

5. Venom

The Venom symbiote gives each of its hosts a slightly different appearance in their Venom forms, though each is relatively similar. Initially when Venom first formed with Eddie Brock the creature was portrayed as black, considerably taller and much more muscular than Spider-Man. Over the years however, the general design of Venom has altered, even with the same host. Its eyes resembled those of the Spider-Man suit but larger and more “evil” in appearance. Its trademark was a wide grin which displayed all of his teeth- in the first appearances of Venom, the teeth were large, but human. Venom’s appearance was subsequently changed to sport a mouth filled with fangs after his first escape from prison. Venom appears in several of the Spider-Man cartoon series. In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, voiced by Hank Azaria, joins with the symbiote and attempts to torment Spider-Man. Venom eventually helps Spider-Man and Iron Man defeat Dormammu and Carnage, but ends up being sucked into a portal with them as he saves his therapist from Carnage.

4. Kingpin

The Kingpin has no superhuman powers. However, he is incredibly strong and durable, possessing remarkable strength concealed by his somewhat corpulent appearance. He has been shown to be strong enough to hurl people across a room, crush a man’s skull with his bare hands, leave imprints in concrete walls after punching them, and even crush one of Spider-Man’s web shooters without making any great effort. Contrary to all appearances, most of his body mass is actually muscle that has been built to extraordinary size, much like a sumo wrestler and he is almost as strong as it is physically possible for an ordinary human to be. Kingpin appears in the Spider-Man: The New Animated Series episode “Royal Scam”. Here, the Kingpin manipulated Spider-Man into thinking he worked for the FBI and assigned the superhero to steal a chip from the mob. Spider-Man soon realized he was scammed and with the help of Harry Osborn and the real FBI, Spider-Man had the Kingpin behind bars after a confrontation in one of the Kingpin’s helicopters.

3. Apocalypse

Apocalypse possesses several superhuman powers rather than a singular mutant ability, unlike other mutants. His powers appear to change according to the story’s need and/or the creative team’s desires; Apocalypse was initially portrayed as a shape-shifter with the ability to teleport himself and others over unknown distances, but his powers have been greatly expanded since then, and he has displayed immense strength, near invulnerability, rapid regeneration, energy absorption and projection. He has also been shown to resist telepathic attacks, and use limited telepathic and telekinetic capabilities.

2. Juggernaut

Over the course of the comics, the Juggernaut has evolved from a simplistic, destructive villain to a complex and at times even heroic character. When Juggernaut first appears, he is revealed as the half-brother of Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men. Marko is portrayed, in his initial appearance, as having been an angry, greedy bully as a child. Juggernaut first appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men episode “Battle Lines.” He is sent by Magneto to break Tildie Soames out of an MRD facility since he can break the box that she is held in. Juggernaut places a device on her, but a monster manifested from her nightmares sent him flying.

1. Galactus

As a living force of nature, Galactus’ true form cannot be perceived by most beings, and so each species perceives Galactus in a form they can comprehend, usually in a form similar to that of their own species. However, he has consciously appeared as a humanoid star at certain occasions. Galactus also requires his armor to help regulate internal energies. Galactus appears in the “Silver Surfer” animated series where he makes a deal with Norrin Radd turning him in to the Silver Surfer in exchange to help him in his quest for plants to consume.