Strongest Evil Teams In Marvel Comics, Ranked

Summary

• A.I.M. consists of genius scientists seeking power, causing trouble for the Avengers with advanced technology.
• Sinister Six poses a continuous threat to Spider-Man with powerful and cunning members.
• Intelligencia is led by masterminds like M.O.D.O.K. and Dr. Doom, making them a formidable threat to the Avengers.

Marvel Comics is full of amazing villains, from more reasonable villains like Dr Doom and Magneto to pure evil beings like Apocalypse and Thanos. When these villains come together and work as a team, it truly puts our favorite heroes to the test.

Whether it’s evil geniuses looking to hire some muscle, a group of villains with a hatred for a particular villain, or a team of highly trained and cunning individuals, Marvel Comics has some of the best evil teams in all fiction. This ranking looks at the strongest evil teams in Marvel Comics.

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A.I.M

A Group Of The Greatest Scientists On Earth, With One Evil Goal

• First Appearance – Strange Tales #146 (1966)
• Created By – Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
• Notable Members – M.O.D.O.K, Sunspot, Baron Strucker, Super-Adaptoid

Advanced Idea Mechanics, or A.I.M., is a group of genius-level scientists with a thirst for power and control. Originally part of Hyrda, Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker created them to acquire and develop powerful weapons and equipment to help Hyrda take control of the world.

In the 21st century, appearing as an ordinary organization, A.I.M became a key player in providing the United States military with weapons and technology that would earn them great influence and power in the U.S. government. Using their advanced technology, they are constantly causing issues for the Avengers and other Marvel heroes.

9

Sinister Six

Spider-Man’s Biggest Haters, Besides J. Jonah Jameson

• First Appearance – The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (1964)
• Created By – Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
• Notable Members – Doc Ock, Electro, Green Goblin, Sandman, Venom

The Sinister Six is an ever-changing group of powerful Spider-Man villains that form the common goal of defeating the wall-crawling hero. Over the years, there have been many different powerful members, like Electro, evil-genius like Doc Ock, and pure-evil members like Green Goblin.

The Sinister Six are always giving Spider-Man trouble and, with the correct members, can be an Avengers-level threat. Key members like Doc Ock, Electro, Rhino, Hobgoblin, Iron Spider (Aaron Davis), Green Goblin, Venom, Grim Reaper and Sandman are some of the most powerful and cunning villains in Marvel.

8

Intelligencia

The Most Intelligent Super-Villains In The World

• First Appearance – Fall of the Hulks: Alpha #1 (2009)
• Created By – Jeff Parker, Paul Pelletier
• Notable Members – M.O.D.O.K, Dr Doom, Leader, Mad Thinker

Intelligencia is perhaps the most intelligent team in this ranking, with genius-level members like M.O.D.O.K., the Leader, and Doctor Doom. The team originally came together to simply share information about various Marvel heroes to help them achieve their own goals, but later they joined together as one cohesive team with goals for world domination.

After the original Intelligencia disbanded, the New Intelligencia was formed with even more intelligent and powerful members like M.O.D.O.K Superior, Mad Thinker, and Mister Sinister. Both the original and new Intelligencia have done some impressive feats over the years, like defeating the Hulk and giving the Avengers a tough time.

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Masters of Evil

One Of The Longest Running Evil Teams In Marvel

• First Appearance – The Avengers #6 (1964)
• Created By – Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
• Notable Members – Ultron, Abomination, Absorbing Man, Baron Zemo

The Masters of Evil are a team of Supervillains that often go up against the Avengers, Thunderbolts, and even the Guardians of the Galaxy. After former Hydra scientist, Baron Zemo learned of the return of Captain America, he was outraged and set out to form a team that could take him and the other Avengers down.

After the original team was defeated, there have been multiple new iterations of the Masters of Evil with powerful members like Ultron, Abomination, Absorbing Man, Enchantress, Executioner, Morg, and Wonder Man. With these powerful villains and evil geniuses like Doc Ock, Klaw and Thunderball, the Masters of Evil are a force to be reckoned with.

6

Dark Avengers

The Evil Avengers Counterparts

• First Appearance – Dark Avengers #1 (2009)
• Created By – Brian Michael Bendis
• Notable Members – Sentry, Venom, Bullseye, Ares, Skarr, Norman Osborn

After the Skrull invasion of Earth, Norman Osborn became the leader of the United States. With his newfound power, he disbanded S.H.I.E.L.D. and replaced it with H.A.M.M.E.R., an organization of which he was the director. As the director of H.A.M.M.E.R., Norman began to recruit his new team of Avengers.

He recruited villains and made them appear like heroes, with the likes of Bullseye as Hawkeye, Venom as Spider-Man, and Moonstone as Ms Marvel. He also recruited Ares and Sentry, with Sentry being one of the most powerful beings in Marvel. With his newly formed team and other members joining shortly after, Norman created one of the most powerful evil teams in Marvel history.

5

HYRDA

The Oldest Evil Team In The Marvel Universe

• First Appearance – Strange Tales #135 (1965)
• Created By – Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
• Notable Members – Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Baron Zemo, Flag-Smasher, Captain Hyrda

Despite popular belief, Hyrda is perhaps the oldest evil team in Marvel, starting millennia before the most recent reincarnation out of Nazi Germany. Before the age of man, a group of evil aliens arrived on Earth with the sole purpose of bringing about evil. They planted a seed that would go on to corrupt the human mind, birthing the first iteration of Hyrda.

Dating back to 2620 BC, Hyrda has been causing issues and attempting world domination for thousands of years. The most recent version of Hyrda was supposedly defeated during WW2 but managed to survive and gain power throughout the world. Now they are an Avengers-level threat, and extremely powerful.

4

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

The Most Understandable Evil Team In Marvel

• First Appearance – X-Men #4 (1964)
• Created By – Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
• Notable Members – Magneto, Scarlett Witch, Juggernaut, Mystique

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants was created by the Master of Magnetism, the Omega-level mutant, Magneto. After years of aggression, hatred, and abuse by humans, Magneto decided it was time for the Mutant kind to stand up for themselves and become the world’s true rulers.

Over the years, there have been many extremely powerful members, like Magneto, Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver, Juggernaut, Exodus, Shadow King, Omega Red, and even Professor X. With such powerful members, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants could easily be a world-ending threat if it wasn’t for the X-Men keeping a watchful eye.

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Horsemen of Apocalypse

The Children Of Apocalypse

• First Appearance – X-Factor (1986)
• Created By – Louise Simonson, Walt Simonson
• Notable Members – Sentry, Magneto, Wolverine, Hulk, Grim Reaper

Horsemen of Apocalypse were originally the sons and daughters of En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse) and Genesis. These children went by the names of Pestilene, War, Famine, and Death and were all Omega-Level mutants, acting out the will of their father. Although the original Horsemen were drafted, Apocalypse would go on to recruit even more powerful members.

Apocalypse would create several instances of his Horsemen over the years, recruiting powerful members like Sentry, Mr Sinister, Hulk, Wolverine, Deathbird, Polaris, and more. These members are powerful enough as it is, but as Horsemen of Apocalypse, their powers get amplified making this team one of the most formidable evil teams in Marvel history.

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The Black Order

The Children Of Thanos

• First Appearance – New Avengers Volume 3 #8 (2013)
• Created By – Jonathan Hickman, Jerome Opena
• Notable Members – Thanos, Hela, Black Dwarf, Ebony Maw, The Challenger

The Black Order is a group of highly skilled alien warriors forcibly recruited by the Mad Titan, Thanos. Thanos would take these warriors and bend them to his will, training them into some of the most skilled fighters in Marvel and arming them with some of the most durable armor and dangerous weapons in the universe.

The Black Order has some of the most powerful villains in all of Marvel, with members like Thanos himself, Black Dwarf, Corvus Glaive, The Challenger, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Supergiant, Black Swan, and even the Asgardian Goddess of Death, Hela.

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The Cabal

The Illuminati, But Somehow Worse

• First Appearance – Secret Invasion #8 (2009)
• Created By – Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu
• Notable Members – Thanos, Dr Doom, Namor, Loki, Maximus the Mad, Maker

When the Illuminati couldn’t follow through with their plans to destroy an alternate universe to save their own, Namor secretly formed his team known as the Cabal, and set out to destroy any possible incursions. The original team consisted of Namor, Norman Osborn, the White Queen, Loki, Dr Doom, The Hood, and Taskmaster.

Namor later went on to recruit other members like Thanos, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Terrax, Black Swan, Maximus, and The Maker (An evil version of Reed Richards). Together, this newly improved team goes on to destroy countless other universes across the Multiverse in a bid to save their own. Although they might not have the most raw power in this ranking, their ability and intelligence allowing them to destroy entire universes in the blink of an eye makes them the strongest evil team in all of Marvel.