The bad guys who could replace Thanos in the MCU

Onslaught is the ultimate fusion of mutant power. This villain was created the day Charles Xavier, panicked, used his powers to erase the spirit of Magneto. At that time, the darker aspects of Magneto's personality were transferred in Xavier's mind, merging with his own dark side and creating a psychic demon of incredible power. By the time Onslaught took a physical form, he had become a being so powerful that it took the combined power of X-Men, Fantastic Four and Avengers to stop him.

Onslaught certainly has the power to confront the many heroes of the MCU. And since the X-Men will finally make their debut in MCU in the coming years, it seems appropriate to frame the next decade of movies around a nasty mutant this time. The films will require some configuration and construction of the world to make Onslaught a reality, but comics already offer a plan. The Onslaught saga lasted several months. Very early, the X-Men heard only silent rumors of a new mutant threat, powerful enough to literally hit Juggernaut across the country. This accumulation resulted in an epic confrontation between Marvel's heroes and this seemingly unstoppable enemy.

We hope to see the MCU make some adjustments to this villain, including giving Onslaught a more defined personality and deeper motivations than those presented in comics. But the potential of a worthy successor to Thanos is certainly there.

Doctor Doom

We have now seen two live-action Doctor Doom incarnations (three if we are considering Roger Corman's novel Fantastic Four), and none of them do justice to the biggest villain of the day. Marvel universe. The only way to compensate for this drought of Doom is to place the character in the foreground of the MCU.

Doom will always be a villain of the Fantastic Four above all. His unique blend of disgust and love for the Richards family will always make him better. However, Doom has a very good track record against other Marvel heroes. It can be said that his exploit as a villain took place in the secret war of 2015. When the Marvel multiverse was cleared, Doom created a kingdom called Battleworld and dominated it as Emperor God. That's the thing about Doom. He may not be as powerful as Thanos, but his boundless ambition and thirst for glory have often made him one of the most powerful beings in the world. Like Thanos, Doom is a powerful villain whose only vulnerability is his deeply damaged psyche.

We would like to see an adaptation of Secret Wars serve as the end point for the next decade of Marvel films. And with Spider-Man: Far From Home, which apparently introduces the concept of the multiverse, we can get closer to the story so that this story becomes a reality on the big screen.

The kree

Many fans have speculated that the MCU will pivot to an adaptation of Secret Invasion after Endgame. This story is based on the revelation that many heroes and political figures on Earth have been secretly replaced by Skrull impostors. This deception aims to usher in a massive invasion of the Earth by the Skrulls, even if the Avengers are themselves paralyzed by the question of whether they can trust their own allies.

While we would like to see the MCU evolve into an adaptation of Secret Invasion or The Kree-Skrull War, no option seems terribly likely given Captain Marvel's events. This film established the Skrulls as the innocent victims of the endless war of conquest and expansion of the Kree Empire. It's possible that not all Skrulls are as friendly as Talos and his family, but the MCU certainly did not describe them as the threat they represent in comics.

This does not mean that the Kree can not serve as major antagonists in Phase 4. The Earth has finally become aware of the existence of an extra-terrestrial life. The fact that an Earthlings team has arrested Thanos and saved the universe inevitably attracts the attention of the good and the bad, not to mention that the more Captain Marvel creates enemies in his intergalactic peacekeeping missions, the more she gets a target in the back. from his home world. We were able to find that the Kree's supreme intelligence decided to make Earth the next target of the Empire's expansion plans, and it will take more than a team of Avengers to rule out the biggest military of the known universe.

Selene

Apocalypse is an obvious candidate for a major MCU villain. He is one of the most powerful mutants on the planet and is known to fight against other heroes. We certainly would not say no to a movie based on the Age of Apocalypse crossover.

That being said, Apocalypse has been treated quite recently (and badly) in X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016. Marvel Studios might consider this villain to be a damaged property at the moment. Even if it is not the case, Marvel's choice of villains up to now in Spider-Man movies suggests that they are more likely to use bad guys who have not not already featured in previous films. So, if it's not Apocalypse, then why not the mutant villain, even older than him? Maybe Selene is the best option for the MCU.

Selene is a mutant millennial vampire who feeds on the psychic life force of others. This has allowed her to survive in the present and makes her an almost unstoppable enemy when she is under tension. She fought the X-Men alone and as a member of the Hellfire Club. Given her connections to the supernatural world, she is a villain with a unique ability to unite the X-Men, Avengers and Doctor Strange in a massive conflict. The MCU could even make its own decision on the crossing Necrosha, where Selene resurrects dead mutants to try to turn into a goddess. This could be a way to bring back dead heroes among the favorite fans in the form of zombies.

The history of Selene also offers interesting possibilities in terms of exploring the prehistoric past of the MCU. She actually has tangential links with Conan the barbarian! If Marvel Studios were to eventually get the rights to the Conan franchise (as Marvel Comics recently did), Selene would be the perfect villain for a film in partnership with Conan / Avengers.

Kang the conqueror

This powerful villain is infamous for turning time into a weapon. He travels freely between past and future and manipulates the course of human history for his own purposes. He ruled in ancient Egypt as a god and he dominates the distant future as an almighty tyrant. And no matter how many times Kang is defeated and apparently killed, his mastery of time means that there is always another version of him ready to hit the Avengers when they least expect him.

The events of Endgame could easily serve as a catalyst for Kang's debut. Maybe Endgame serves him as a story of origin. When a young Kang sees how the Avengers have been able to manipulate time to reach an impossible goal, he is inspired to do the same. Or maybe Kang has always been hidden behind the scenes of the MCU and the actions of the Avengers allow him to feel threatened enough to finally reveal himself. The events at Endgame may leave time broken, leaving Kang an opportunity to make his evil work on an even bigger scale.

Kang makes sense as a nasty global brain given his connections to various Marvel franchises. He has links with Avengers, Fantastic Four, Inhumans and X-Men. And given all the evidence that Marvel is slowly getting ready early in the Young Avengers, Kang would be an ideal enemy for this team. To learn more about how Endgame subtly configures Kang the Conqueror, go here.

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