The 5 Most Unlikeable Marvel Villains In The MCU According To Many Fans

Out of all the Marvel villains on this list, Ego (Kurt Russell) may be the most comic book-y. He’s also not what one would call «grounded,» as he’s a god-like Celestial who seeks to turn numerous planets into his own image. In the process, he impregnated women from all kinds of worlds, but upon discovering most of his children did not inherit the Celestial gene, he killed them. He’s egomaniacal in every sense of the word (hence the name), and he doesn’t pretend as though he has any noble pursuit, as Redditor u/sanguiniuswept points out, «Ego was going to turn the universe into Ego through the plants he’d seeded on thousands of planets. I feel like this is almost worse than Thanos, because Thanos just wanted to kill half of all life, he wasn’t trying to make all life Thanos.»

Thanos is an appropriate comparison here. He killed his daughter, Gamora, and Ego killed many of his children. But u/gruelly4 notices a crucial difference, «I don’t think the filicidal Ego gets enough hate here. I mean, enough dead kids to fill a cave with their bones. Children’s bones aren’t that big, you need a lot of them to do that. They’re very small!» 

From all of these comments, it’s clear audiences can at least understand where a villain comes from if they have somewhat understandable motivations. There’s an old saying of how villains should think they’re the heroes of their stories. But in some cases, the bad guys are evil for evil’s sake. That’s all right, too, as long as they’re written well, but it’s likely not going to earn them any favors at the next big villain meeting.