Best Fantastic Four villains

Best Fantastic Four villains
Best Fantastic Four villains (Image credit: George Marston / Marvel Comics)

The Reckoning are making a bid to become some of the b♐es🥃t Fantastic Four villains of all time.

The Fantastic Four are in the midst of a dire new crisis in the current 'Reckoning War' storyline, which introduces new villains known as, what else, the Reckoning, who have even the 🔴Watchers worried about what's in store.

And though it may be a tall order🔥, a serious threat like that has the potential to join the list of the best Fantastic Four villains of all ti🅠me.

The FF have more than their share of iconic bad guys, from Doctor Doom to Galactus, and more - and that's just 𒈔scratching the surface. But who makes the cut of the best Fantastic Four villains ever? Read on to find out.

10. Kang the Conqueror

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Rama-Tut is the first time travel💜ing guise taken on by Nathaniel Richards, the descendant of Doctor Doom and Reed Ri🐭chards who would later become Kang the Conqueror.

Though Kang himself has had sporadic dealings with the Fantastic Four, Rama-Tut is the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kang variant that has most bedeviled them, since all 🍸the way back in .&🎃nbsp;

The time-traveling pharaoh, who rules over a hidden, advanced dynasty in ancient Egypt, actually beat Kang himself to the page, with the pair only b💃eing connected as two different versions of the same person years later.

In the years since, Kang has bedeviled the FF in a variety of guises - including in the recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fantastic Four #35, in which ෴Kang, Rama-Tut, Immortus, and more of Kang's many 'Variants' teamed up to ꦰtake on the team.

9. Molecule Man

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Owen Reese is one of the Fantastic Four's most powerful enemies. In fact, he is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. His gift of manไipulatin🌳g the fundamental building blocks of creation is only hampered by an inability to affect organic matter - a limit he has often overcome.

Though Reese has often tried to reform, his unstable mental state always sends him back to his life of cri▨me as Molecule Man. Molecule Man played a major role in the original - and was secretly the key to Doom's power in the 2015/16 sequel event.

(Learn more about Secret Wars, and Molecule ♒Man's role in both stories, r💜ight here).

Reese gave his power to ⛄help Reed Richards rebuild th🅰e Marvel multiverse - but perished in a fight with the villainous Griever.

8. Psycho-Man

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Emerging from the Microverse (AKA the Quantum Realm, in MCU terms) to conquer our world, Psycho-Man wields a device that manipulates the emotions of others,🃏 as well as powerful battle armor and size-changing technology. 

In 🧸his first attempt at conqueringꦫ the Marvel Universe, it took the combined efforts of the Fantastic Four, the Black Panther, and the Inhuman royal family to put a stop to his schemes.

Psycho-Man is also often responsible for 𝕴b🤡ringing out Sue Storm's Malice persona. He was most recently fighting the Champions in the aftermath of Secret Empire.

7. Mole Man

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Mole Man♕ is not only the first enemy of the Fantastic Four, but he's al🃏so the first villain of the Marvel Universe proper.

Dwelling deep in the underground kingdom of Subterranea, the enigmatic Mole Man commands lꦛegions of beings he calls Moloids, as well as hordes of terrible mo🦩nsters. 

6. Namor

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Since the Fantastic Four's earliest da🅠ys, Namor has been one of the team's greatest allies - and one of their staunchest enemies.

One of the very first Marvel characters ever created, Namor's history is long and complicated. His association with the Fantasꦐtic Four began when Johnny Storm helped him regain his memories, but he quickly vowed vengeance against the surface world, a conflict that has often set him at odds with the Fantastic Four.

Namor also harb🦄ors a not-so-secret love of Sue Storm, which isn't exactly Reed Richards's favorite quality in a person. 

5. Frightful Four

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Every hero has an opposite number, and the same is true of the Fantastic Four. Led by the evil super-genius known 🔯as the Wizard, the Frightful Four is a collective organized to match the FF's power with criminal equivalents.

While the original line-up consisted of Wizard, longtime Spider-Man foe Sandman, Trapster (a.k.a. Paste-Pot Pete), and a brainwashed Medusa, t♔he roster has grown over time to include Hydro-Man, Electro, Thundra, Titania, Klaw, Aꦺbsorbing Man, and even the entire Wrecking Crew.

4. Super Skrull

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The Skrull empire spans entire galaxies, encompasses countless worlds, and yet, they are obsessed with conquering Earth. And at the head of this empire, bent on seizing what their🐲 religious texts identify as their destined homewo🎃rld is Kl'rt, the Super Skrull.

Created by the Skrull Emperor to challenge the Fantastic Four, Kl'rt is blessed with all of the FF's powers, along with the natural shape-shifting power of the Skrulls, and his own gift of hypnosis. While other Super Skrulls have been created, notably in the Skrulls' attempteꦿd Secret Invasion of Earth, Kl'rt is still the champion of the Skrull empire. 

He's ♋currently servi𒈔ng in the court of the Kree/Skrull Alliance under Emperor Hulkling.

3. Annihilus

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Hailing from the Negative Zone, the hostile dimension that is home to many of the Fantastic Four's enemi🦋es, the most fearsome and vicious denizen of that hateful place is Annihilus.

The insectoid lord of the Annihilation Wave, a sweeping horde of unbridled entropy and destruction,💫 Annihilus's evil is absolute, predicated on hatred of all existence. 

Despite Johnny Storm liberating the Negative Zone from Annihilus's clutches, an attempted democratic election resulted in Annihilus seizing power onc༒e again🅘. 

2. Galactus

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Gal🌠actus. The eater of worlds. The eternal hunger.

It is said that Galactus was created when Jack Kirby decided the Fantastic Four should meet God. And while Galactus is less ෴a God than a force of nature, he is certainly imposing on a cosmic scale.

One of the Fantastic Four's most terrifying and enduring foes, Galactus is also responsible for the c🅰reation of Silver Surfer, Terrax, Nova, and many ofꦫ the Fantastic Four's other prominent allies and enemies. 

On his own, he is a nigh-unstoppable be🌜hemoth bent on devouring the Earth's life essence. But as a drivi🥀ng force of some of the most cosmic, mind-bending stories in Marvel Comics history, Galactus transcends his role as a nominal villain.

1. Doctor Doom

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Dr. Victor Von Doom is the Fantastic Four's greatest enemy, and one of the greatest villains ꦡof the entire Marvel universe.

Possessed of an intellect said to be greater even than that of Reed Richards, Doom is hampered only by his own arrogance. In addition to his scientific prowess and great weaponry, Doom is also one of the most skilled sorcerers in the Marvel universe, and commands the entire nation o🔯f Latveria, a country he rules with an iron fist - literally.

Though Doom has occasionally seen cause to ally with the Fantastic F🌞our, even becoming godfather to Reed and Sue's daughter Valeria, his quest for vengeance against Reed Richards, whose success Doom blames for his own shortcomings, always brings him back to his villainous roots.

In Secret Wars, Doomꩲ seized omnipotent power and recreated all reality in his image - but he was thwarted by Reed Richards once again i🍬n the last adventure of the Fantastic Four.

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