Super Villain Bracket

Who is the coolest super villain around?

We had that question and created this bracket as a result. Villains for all superheroes are included, though you will notice in the bracket below that they are mostly Marvel or batman villains. Some of these villains you may have even rooted for. There are a few that have a good side when the greater good is at stake like Magneto, Venom, and Loki. All of these guys are awesome heroes in their own rights. Please enjoy the super villain bracket.

The blank bracket

This bracket is divided into sinister villains in the top left, evil geniuses in the bottom left, villains with cool powers in the top right and characters with brute force in the bottom right. Some of them as always could fit multiple descriptions. I did my best to include most of the great batman villains and all the villains from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but didn't get them all. I also included the typical heavy hitters like Shredder for the Ninja Turtles.There are a few that I left off that I wanted to include hence the crossing out. Arnim Zola is one of those villains and pyro and blob are on the other side of the bracket.

This bracket is written in red pen. It was the only pen around at the time I made these, which was right before a long trip. Don't worry, many brackets in the future are typed out. I wanted to finish out the handwritten ones first before we got to the new typed ones. Anyway, here are our filled out brackets....

Eli's bracket

Eli started out with Jenna's nice handwriting during our long car ride, but you will notice that the writing switches throughout the bracket. Our youngest actually fell asleep during the brackets being filled out and I finished his bracket with him when we arrived and he woke up.

As always though, Eli went with the names that sounded cooler for the most part. He picked yellow jacket to win the whole bracket. Eli thought saying yellow jacket was cool and he really likes yellow jacket's shrinking power. The boys both enjoy the ant-man movie. Yellow Jacket is a cool bad guy from that movie. Losing to yellow jacket in the finals was Red Skull, another awesome character. Rounding out his top 4 were Joker and Sabretooth. That is a solid final 4 that a lot of people would have. Yellow Jacket, Red Skull, Joker, and Sabretooth is an intimidating group of villains.

Noland Jr.'s bracket

Noland's bracket actually surprised me a pretty good amount. I thought for sure that Jr. would have Venom winning his bracket. Venom did make the final 4 though, but Lizard was the pick over Venom. Which makes sense in the grand scheme of things. Noland Jr. does not like villains, but likes the ones that are sometimes good. That is a characteristic that is true for Lizard and Venom. Killer Croc is even a good guy in suicide squad and is known to sometimes fight for the greater good.

So we have that narrative and we know that Jr. doesn't like super evil bad guys....What about one of the most evil bad guys in the Shadow King? Shadow King made it all the way to the finals and he is super bad and creepy. Shadow King never shows a good side. What gives? Well Shadow King was in an episode of X-Men in an African village. Noland loves African animals. Since he liked that episode he overlooked how evil Shadow King was. He picked the Shadow King and surprised us, but justified it because he loved that episode. Oh 5 year olds!!!

Jenna's bracket

Most people would have a bracket looking a lot like this. Two 1 seeds for Jenna and two 2 seeds. Loki, Kingpin, Thanos, and Magneto in the Final 4 with Loki winning it. How popular Loki was in the MCU, he probably should have been a 1 seed. However, Magneto, Joker, Thanos, and Doctor Doom are arguably bigger names. Still, Loki is just so dang entertaining. The master of deception is the master of Jenna's bracket and perhaps another bracket because there is still one more to come. He's sometimes good, but usually about as evil as it gets. Loki is the reason the Avengers had to come together in the first place, but he has fought alongside some Avengers in the last few movies. Such a great character with a lot of depth.

Her other final 4 picks were based on what she has seen. She absolutely loved the kingpin in the Daredevil series. He was our favorite villain from all of the Marvel Netflix series to date. We like him way better than the Hand. Thanos is a character with a lot of layers to him and she quite enjoyed seeing his flawed point of view in the Avengers. He is a really well developed bad guy. Finally, Magneto is perhaps the most iconic bad guy of all. Magneto was the main villain in the X-Men universe and the best known Marvel villain before the MCU started.

My bracket

I had a few choices that were different than others. I had Ronan going further than everyone which was a bit of a surprise to me. If Ronan wasn't up against my champ Loki, he could have made a deep run. The guy wrecked everything in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which was absolutely terrific by the way. I also had Juggernaut and Rhino going further than other people and Scorpion as well for that matter. I really like those characters from the cartoons of my childhood. Those characters were always my favorites. They were so big and powerful and it often took multiple heroes to stop them. Scorpion always went after J Jonah too and JJ was super annoying, let's be honest.

My toughest choices were Juggenaut over Thanos, Rhino, and then Magneto. I could have easily argued any of those in the top spot for that bracket. Dr. Doom v. Red Skull was another tough decision. Those are probably my 2nd and 3rd favorite villains respectively, but I have always enjoyed Red Skull. That character (the red skull) was always my favorite villain. My favorite villain until recently. Tom Hiddleston has done such a fantastic job with Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that it was actually impossible to pick against him. This guy is the most deserving champ and certainly the best villain. There is everything to like about the character. He has just been brilliantly done. Loki is the champ in 2/4 brackets. Let's see our top 5 overall though.

Top 5 across the brackets
T-5. Yellow Jacket/ Lizard/ Ultron (made 0 final 4s) 9 spots
4. Magneto 10 spots
3. Joker 11 spots (only made 1 final 4)
2. Red Skull 14 spots
1. Loki 15 spots

Loki is the winner of the super villain bracket!

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-Noland