The X-Men have some of the most powerful villains in Marvel Comics. The team features a diverse range of villains in their comics, from alien species to evil mutants to ancient beings whose sole desire is to become a dictator. The X-Men were created by Professor Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant telepath whose goal was to assemble a team of mutants who could help the world achieve peace with mutants and eradicate bigotry and hate. However, he has never succeeded at this goal, and humans remain as racist and display the same blind hate they have had for years. Part of the reason is that some of the X-Men’s strongest villains prove there is always something to fear.
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Here is a look at the X-Men villains who are powerful enough to threaten the entire Marvel Universe, ranked.
6) Brood
The Brood is an alien race that travels through space in search of hosts to infest with their offspring. They look like a mix between the Alien Xenomorphs and the Gremlins, and they are as deadly as either. They are an insectoid species that has terrorized planets across the universe for eons, widely considered in Marvel Comics to be the first galactic predators after arriving from another universe. They have established nests on tens of thousands of worlds and attacked Earth for the first time in Ancient Egypt in 2620 BC. They became enemies of the X-Men when they teamed with Deathbird to try to dispose of Lilandra as ruler of the Shi’ar Empire. When they infect people, they can start to conquer an entire society and are a true threat to the universe.
5) Nimrod
Nimrod comes from one of the X-Men’s darkest storylines, the Days of Future Past timeline. He is one of the most advanced sentient Sentinels ever created and remains powerful, with the sole purpose of hunting down mutants. He then made his way to Earth-616 when he killed Kate Pryde and almost killed Rachel Summers, who escaped to this Earth. Nimrod followed her when he traveled to Earth-61029, killed Storm, and forced Force to build him a time machine, which set him on a mission to eliminate all the mutants on the planet. Nimrod is extremely dangerous. The Days of Future Past timeline revealed the Sentinels killing the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and others, and taking over the world. Nimrod, himself, is a Class Omega villain, more powerful than regular Sentinels.
4) Shadow King
Shadow King is a multiversal villain, meaning he is not restricted to a single Earth and is capable of operating on a scale larger than a single universe, affecting all realities across different timelines and dimensions. This makes him extremely dangerous to everyone, not just the X-Men. Shadow King was allegedly spawned by the first nightmare, with the sole goal of destroying all of existence. Amahl Farouk was a mutant whom the Shadow King bonded with in the present-day Marvel Comics. His only weakness is that he needs a host body to exist in the material world, but when he is there, he is a telepath of the highest order, and he is one of the only true Omega telepaths in existence.
3) Apocalypse
Age of Apocalypse proves that Apocalypse is one of the most powerful X-Men villains ever to live. In that timeline, he conquered the planet thanks to Professor X dying before forming his X-Men, and he brought the entire world to its knees under his might. On Earth-616, Apocalypse was born thousands of years ago in Egypt and is one of the immortal mutants known as the Externals. He also received powers from the Celestials to ensure that evolution takes its natural course over time, giving him godlike powers. He has adapted over the centuries to survive and is said to have the Death Seed implanted in him.
2) Onslaught
There is no other proof needed to show that Onslaught can threaten the entire universe than the fact that he destroyed Earth-616 by killing the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Hulk, before wiping out existence. While Franklin Richards saved the world and the heroes who supposedly died, he almost wasn’t enough to stop Onslaught, and he went into hiding because even he feared the X-Nen enemy. Onslaught was created when Professor X shut down Magneto’s brain, releasing a being that was a combination of the hero and villain, which evolved into a threatening entity that destroyed everything in its path.
1) Dark Phoenix
One of the first shocking deaths in Marvel Comics history came when Jean Grey sacrificed her life to save the X-Men after she was put on trial by the Shi’ar Empire for killing billions of people as the Dark Phoenix. The Phoenix Force is one of the oldest cosmic entities in existence, predating both darkness and the universe. It is similar to Galactus in that it is a force of nature. While Galactus consumes worlds to ensure other worlds can thrive, the phoenix destroys creation and then ignites the flame that creates new worlds. Seeing how Jean Grey killed over a billion beings by devouring a star and killing five billion inhabitants on one of its planets, Dark Phoenix is a threat to any world it encounters.
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