The 10 Richest MCU Villains

The 10 Richest MCU Villains

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When it comes to ranking the richest big-screen Marvel big bads, power and resources are as much an indicator of wealth as bank accounts.

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The 10 Richest MCU Villains

In determining the wealthiest villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s important to keep in mind that absent any on-screen bank statements, the biggest determining factors of such wealth are logic and supposition.

Emerging from frozen stasis in Eternals and driven by pure savagery, for example, Kro was certainly not “wealthy” in the conventional sense of the word. In addition, the pantheon of rich MCU bad guys may change before the end of the year, given that rumors abound of a forthcoming appearance by Wilson Fisk, better known as the Kingpin, during the six-episode run of Hawkeye, and the addition of Norman Osborn’s Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home may make Sam Raimi’s trilogy part of MCU canon. (As the head of Oscorp, Osborn undoubtedly qualifies as wealthy.)

But for many of the MCU’s big bads, it’s fair to say that the accumulation of additional riches pales as a motivation for their misdeeds next to their yearning for raw power. Power grabs, however, require the means to do so … and the size of those means can tell viewers a great deal about how much wealth they have at their disposal.

10 Darren Cross/Yellowjacket (Ant-Man)

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Cross has the brains — he graduated from M.I.T. as valedictorian when he was only 20, as James Rondell revealed in the “Wired Insider” episode of the digital series WHIH Newsfront — and once he succeeded Hank Pym as the CEO of Pym Technologies, the company became “highly profitable.”

It’s fair to say that such profits likely drove him to covet even more and gave him the motive to sell the Pym Particles formula to HYDRA. Of course, his bank account might be a little in the red after the demolition of Cross Technologies by Ant-Man, who also defeated Cross in miniature combat.

9 Obadiah Stane/Justin Hammer/Aldrich Killian (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Respectively)

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Tony Stark faced off against rival CEOs in the boardroom and their henchmen (except for Stane, who suited up himself) in the skies. Like Cross, these three men didn’t rise to the top of (respectively) Stark Industries, Hammer Industries, and Advanced Idea Mechanics without a little derring-do … and some pockets padded by a little chicanery along the way.

Selling Stark tech to the Ten Rings, for example, undoubtedly added to Stane’s bank account. Hammer had the means to recruit Whiplash as a mercenary. Killian had the financial wherewithal to buy into the highest levels of dirty politics and arranged to have President Ellis kidnapped in Iron Man 3. Side-by-side, Killian’s stacks probably rise higher than Stane’s or Hammer’s, but all three, like Cross, learn the hard way that crime doesn’t pay.

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8 Red Skull (Captain America: The First Avenger)

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Johann Schmidt, the Nazi officer who became the Red Skull, didn’t rise to his particular station in the Reich without accumulating cash along the way and a rich man’s eye for the finer things in life: After tracking the Tesseract (which he called “the jewel of Odin’s treasure room”) to Norway, he immediately knew the difference between a fake and the real thing.

As an ally and confidante of Hitler, Schmidt was rewarded handsomely for his service … both monetarily, it’s safe to assume, and with a position as the leader of HYDRA. In a Jacob Marley-esque twist, however, money and power couldn’t save him from ghostly exile on Vormir.

7 Tony Stark (Captain America: Civil War)

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Iron Man may have justified his actions as an enforcer of the Sokovia Accords as righteous — in the same manner that the most famous of the MCU’s villains, Thanos, rationalized his quest to eradicate half of all life via the Snap — but he was nevertheless the foil in Captain America: Civil War. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe Fandom Wiki puts Tony’s net worth at almost $13 billion, one thing’s for sure: He’s got a lot of money, and he enjoys every opportunity to remind his peers of it.

In fact, without Tony’s wealth, the “Civil War” would have been much more lopsided, given that Vision, War Machine, and Spider-Man all owe their powers, costumes, or (in Vision’s case) very existence to the Stark bank account.

6 Ayesha (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2)

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As the Golden High Priestess of the Sovereign, this particular villain clearly has some cash to throw around. She hired the Guardians of the Galaxy to protect the Anulax Batteries. She hired Yondu and the Ravagers to kill the Guardians. She created Adam Warlock.

Such determination to avoid conflict with a creature as lowly as an Abilisk, and the willingness to throw everything into vengeance against the Guardians because of Rocket’s theft, speaks of a high-born sensibility that’s as much a product of refinement as it is perfect genetics. The lady is obviously in the upper-tier of wealthy MCU villains.

5 Grandmaster (Thor: Ragnarok)

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Not much is known about the being born En Dwi Gast (also known as The Grandmaster and brother to The Collector) except that he enjoys pitting lesser lifeforms against one another in his Contest of Champions. It’s certainly not clear how he came to lord over Sakaar, but as the planet’s ruler, he undoubtedly had plenty of riches at his disposal.

He’s unable to buy himself out of an attempted overthrow, however, and in the end, he credits his despotic rule for the motivation his revolting subjects needed to rise up. As it turns out, he’s got charm in abundance as well.

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4 The Collector (Guardians Of The Galaxy)

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Taneleer Tivan should sit alongside his brother, Grandmaster, as one of the wealthiest villains in the MCU … although The Collector may have the advantage. After all, a being who boasts “the largest collection of interstellar fauna, relics, and species in the galaxy” has to have the means to acquire them … a fact made obvious when he offers 4 billion Units to the Guardians for the Orb, or Power Stone.

No wonder, then, that director James Gunn described the character as an “outer-space Liberace,” an accurate comparison given the real-life singer’s flamboyance, decadence, and personal wealth.

3 Thanos (Avengers: Infinity War)

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The Mad Titan obviously has enough coin to buy some big toys: For example, his vehicle, Sanctuary II, dwarfs the Statesman, itself massive enough to carry an estimated 5,000 Asgardians. In addition, the size of the Q-Ship that appeared on the Manhattan skyline at the beginning of Infinity War is another indication that Thanos had the means to commission something big enough to fit inside Sanctuary II.

For his mission to collect the Infinity Stones and wipe out half of the universe, Thanos undoubtedly had plenty of capital at his disposal, accumulated through time-honored methods of murder and pillaging used by invading despots throughout history. As Bruce Banner puts it, “He invades planets, he takes what he wants, he wipes out half a population.

2 He Who Remains (Loki)

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While he wasn’t saddled with the mantle of Kang during the summer run of Loki, the man born Nathaniel Richards has, in his own words, “lived a million lifetimes,” and he’s accumulated quite a lot to show for it: The Time Variance Authority, for one, and the Citadel at the End of Time, a stronghold filled with so many trinkets and baubles, all of them a drop in the bucket compared to what he will continue to accumulate.

He is … or was … the master of the Sacred Timeline. Even his death at Sylvie’s hands won’t prevent He Who Remains — or the variants that will inevitably arise in his absence — from continuing to amass untold amounts of riches that stagger the imagination.

1 Ego (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2)

A being that’s literally a living planet technically has dominion over every resource on that planet. At the very least, his very long life allowed him to accumulate a vast collection of wealth over the years, enough to generously compensate Yondu and the Ravagers for delivering his children to him.

But it may be that Ego does not need units whatsoever, given that his omniscience also allows him to manipulate matter at a molecular level, meaning that he can manifest what others have to pay for. Technically, such resources are limited only by imagination and energy, which may make Ego the richest villain of all.

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