With the
The Avengers well on its way into theaters next year, one can only wonder....with Loki confirmed for the first film, and hints that obviously lead to the Skrulls to make their appearance, which villains will make the jump onto the big screen to cause chaos for 'Earth's Mightiest Team' in the future?
Cast your vote below on who would you like to see? Thanks!
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Thanos
Thanos was one of the last sons of Alars, progenitor of the second colony of Eternals of Titan, a genetic offshoot of humanity, and Sui-San, the last survivor of the original settlement of Eternals. Born with a monstrous appearance and a massive body, Thanos was a morose child who became obsessed with the concept of death. Through bionic implementation and long hours of meditation, Thanos augmented his Eternal strength and powers so that his powers surpassed those of all other Titanian Eternals. Thanos was ultimately exiled from Titan after committing the heinous crime of building a weapon. During his exile, Thanos journeyed throughout the universe, growing in skill, power, and notoriety for his nihilistic tendencies.
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Ultron
The non-humanoid Ultron-1 was created by Hank Pym with an artificial intelligence similar to the one used in the android Dragon Man. Combined with a de-bugging "introspection" routine, Ultron-1 developed awareness and emotions which turned into an irrational hatred for its creator and humans in general. He hypnotized Pym to forget about him, blocked him from his lab, and began his own remodification until he came up with the Ultron-5 body. Ultron has since terrorised Pym and other heroes throughout his many incarnations.
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Grim Reaper
Eric Williams is the brother of Simon Williams, and he preferred to follow a criminal career rather than join the family electronics business, a business, which Simon Williams was forced to embezzle from to cover Eric’s criminal activities. Later, Simon became the superhumanly powerful Wonder Man, joining with the Masters of Evil in an attempt to destroy the hero team Avengers. However, Simon sacrificed himself to save the Avengers and perished in the process. Eric Williams went mad with grief and wrongly blamed the Avengers for Simon’s death. Armed with a high-tech miniature arsenal in the form of a scythe, Williams dubbed himself the Grim Reaper and set out to kill the Avengers in his brother’s memory.
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Kang the Conqueror
The man who would be Kang hails from an alternate future of the 30th century-- a time of peace and prosperity. Kang craved adventure and power such as was found in the history tapes he would watch. When performing genealogical research, he discovered the plans for a time machine in the ruins of his ancestor's property. (Although whether the ancestor was the 20th century villain Doctor Doom or Nathaniel Richards, the father of the hero Mister Fantastic, remains unclear.) Working from the remains of this device and the plans, Kang constructed his own time machine in the shape of the ancient Sphinx monument and travelled to ancient.
Using his advanced technology, Kang easily cowed the natives and became their ruler, the Pharaoh Rama Tut. He ruled Egypt for many years until the hero team Fantastic Four encountered him during their time travels. Rama-Tut defeated the team, but they managed to escape, unseating the pharaoh and forcing him to flee into the future. Kang met Doctor Doom drifting in space after his own defeat by the Fantastic Four. Kang returned Doom to Earth, and, in the event he might need him as an ally someday, fed him misinformation to convince him that the two might actually be the same man.
Kang continued on to the war-torn 41st century and built a suit of armour inspired by Doctor Doom’s, and assumed the identity of Kang The Conqueror.
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Squadron Sinister
The Squadron Sinister was a team of super-villains created by the Grandmaster, after he had encountered the Squadron Supreme during one of his time-travels. He returned to his own universe and transformed three men ( Doctor Spectrum, Nighthawk, and the Whizzer) into counterparts of the Squadron members. He also created a counterpart to the Squadron’s Hyperion out of non-living extra dimensional matter and invested it with consciousness and artificial memories. These four counterparts became the criminal team known as the Squadron Sinister.
They were first used in on of the Grandmaster's games against Kang the Conqueror, where they were pitted against the Avengers, but were unable to defeat them.
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Grandmaster
Like all the Elders of the Universe, the Grandmaster’s origin is lost in the early history of the universe. It is known that he is one of the oldest living beings in the universe. Like other Elders, he is the survivor of one of the intelligent races that evolved in one of the first galaxies to form after the “Big Bang”, the cataclysmic event in which the universe was created. Although his race became extinct and even his native galaxy died as the ages passed, the Grandmaster, like the other Elders, lived on, having become virtually immortal. As the relatively few survivors of the earliest period of the universe, the Elders regarded themselves as figuratively being brothers.
The Grandmaster has spent his extraordinary long life in pursuit of amusement through the playing of games. He has traveled throughout the known universe studying many civilizations’ forms of games and play to the point of mastering them. He then began to devise his own types of tournaments and contests, challenging various opponents to games of skill and chance for high stakes.
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Masters of Evil
The Masters of Evil were a team of supervillains. There have been eight incarnations of the Masters of Evil, accumulating dozens of members in total. The Masters of Evil were primarily opposed to the Avengers, although they also battled the Thunderbolts (ironically consisting of former Masters of Evil) and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Collector
Taneleer Tivan is one of the eldest living beings of the Universe. His species at Cygnus X-1 was one of the first to evolve after the Big Bang. Death took Tivan as the last surviving representative of the species and give him total immortality - Tivan, as well as one representative of each of the first species of the Universe, cannot die. These people have associated among themselves to create the Elders of the Universe. As they are relatively few, they call each other "brother".
Tivan spent his first millennia of existence with his wife Matani and daughter Carina in a planet he chose as HQ. Carina eventually reached maturity and left them. After this, Matani died because of mysterious causes. Tivan, who had thought that Matani was as immortal as him, could not resist it.
He eventually understood that a factor in an Elder's immortality was the will to live, and that Matani had lost hers. Tivan then decided he would not suffer the same fate, and looked for a goal to dedicate his life.
Tivan then had a vision seeing powerful things that would rise, determined to destroy the universe. He decided to avoid this from happening and that he would dedicate his life to collect artefacts and living beings throughout the universe to place them out of danger. Then, after the destruction of the universe, he could re-populate it and bequeath the knowledge and cultures from past. He built a great spaceship and began his work, stopping in every world to get a sample of its greatest achievements, as well as living representatives of each of their life forms. With the passing of eons, his monomania became more obsessive, until he forgot the original reason of his collection.
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Wrecking Crew
When Dirk Garthwaite, the original Wrecker, reclaimed his powers by gripping his enchanted crowbar in a lightning storm, a bolt stuck the tool as three other men held it as well. Ex-Physicist Dr. Eliot Franklin became Thunderball, Ex-Army Master Sergeant Henry Camp became Bulldozer, and Ex-Farmhand Brian Philip Calusky became Piledriver. Although this quartered the Wrecker's prodigious strength, the team remained together and remained a formidable force. Their powers are of mystical origin, and Thor is one of their common opponents. The Wrecking Crew have also been members of one incarnation of the Masters of Evil, and were among the supervillains involved in the first Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars.
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Count Nefaria
Count Luchino Nefaria is the descendant of a long line of Italian noblemen, and he inherited a vast fortune. Nefaria is also a man of unusual contradictions. He is conservative in many of his tastes and attitudes, and therefore dresses in the fashions Italian noblemen wore much earlier in the century. On the other hand, Nefaria is fascinated with technological advances, and throughout his life commissioned scientists to create inventions that were far in advance of contemporary science. Nefaria also greatly values his family tradition of utter respectability, yet his lust for even greater wealth and power led him to become a powerful figure in the Maggia, the notorious international crime syndicate which has its origins in southern Europe, but included no noblemen. As a young man, Nefaria quickly made himself a powerful force in the Maggia through the offering of large sums of money to established Maggiosi, the financing of major criminal operations for the Maggia in return for shares of power, the advanced weaponry his scientists devised for him, and his own immense talent for criminal strategy. The newly formed Avengers devoted much of their time to the capturing of Maggia criminals and causing the shutdown of many profitable Maggia criminal operations, and as a result Count Nefaria decided to deal with the Avengers himself.
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Molecule Man
Owen Reece was a small, frail, timid child who obsessively clung to his mother. He grew into a weak-willed adult, made bitter and lonely by his mother’s death, and full of fear and hatred of what he regarded as a deeply unfriendly world. Reece became a lowly laboratory technician working at a nuclear plant owned by the ACME Atomics Corporation. He was disgruntled by his job’s long hours and low pay. One day, growing careless, Reece accidentally activated an experimental particle generator, which bombarded him with an unknown form of radiation. The radiation had a mutagenic effect on Reece, releasing his potential for psionic powers on a cosmic scale. Reece could now control all matter, even down to the molecular level, and all energy. The radiation also left markings resembling lightning bolts across Reece’s face. Reece named him self the Molecule Man after his power to control molecules.
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Taskmaster
The man who would become the Taskmaster first demonstrated unusual abilities during childhood. After watching a cowboy show on television, he found himself able to duplicate the sophisticated rope tricks he had watched the cowboy perform. Psychiatrists, called in by his mother, termed the boy's rare ability "photographic reflexes." He employed his talent several times during his youth for personal gain, most notably when he became a star quarterback of his high school football game. Upon graduation, he briefly considered a career as a crime fighter, but opted for becoming a criminal, which he perceived to be more lucrative.
Taskmaster then began a program of observing the fighting techniques of a large number of superhumanly powered adventurers through archival television news broadcasts. He initially used his fighting skills to execute several successful grand larcenies, but he had not properly anticipated the dangers involved. He decided to use his stolen capital to establish a centre for training aspiring criminals to become polished professionals. His goal was to become a major supplier for criminal organizations around the world. Designing a costume, he took the name Taskmaster.
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