> WASTED VILLAINY

Apocalypse, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse In the comics, he’s one of the mutant team’s great antagonists, and there was excitement about Oscar Isaacs playing him, but he turned out to be a big bore and what was his plot about anyway?

Blofeld, Spectre Christoph Waltz is a great actor, but the addition of a silly back story of Blofeld as Bond’s foster brother who was secretly behind everything in the past three films was ridiculous and unearned.

Enchantress, Suicide Squad This film wastes a ton of villains. The movie’s script was a mess, reportedly being written during the production, but even the director has said, in hindsight, he would have changed the actual villain to the Joker.

Immortan Joe, Mad Max This is, by consensus, the best action movie in recent memory, yet while Joe had an awesome mask and super gross bacne, he was totally overshadowed by his henchmen, the War Boys. To use his own line: “Mediocre.”

Kaecilius, Dr. Strange Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, who was awesome in Hannibal and decent as La Chiffre in Casino Royale (the torture scene!) but his mystical end-of-the-worlder in Dr. Strange was little more than weird eye makeup and t’ai chi poses.

Krall, Star Trek: Beyond Part of the problem here is obscuring Idris Elba’s face with masks and makeup — that’s been an issue for villains going back to Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin in Spider-Man — but what exactly does he want revenge for?

Malekith, Thor: The Dark World Who? Right. Played by Christopher Eccleston, this is another superhero movie bad guy who suffers from a nonsensical plot.