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===TV Series===
* You know you're looking at prime [[Magnificent Bastard]] material when a villain is revealed with a bombastic musical number. And Agatha Harkness/{{spoiler|Agnes}} from ''[[WandaVision]]'' delivers in ''spades''. {{spoiler|She effortlessly infiltrates Wanda's sitcomized corruption of Westview and successfully tricks her into thinking that she's a friendly neighbor and not an outsider, which others have failed spectacularly to do so. And in hopes of stealing her Chaos magic, she helps drive a wedge between her and Vision while emotionally assaulting her with flashbacks of her traumatic past and the repressed guilt of mentally torturing people into acting out her fantasies. And she does all this while remaining as perky, witty, and hilarious as ever}}.
* He starts off as an overly emotional manchild, but make no mistake: Wilson Fisk truly asserts himself as the Kingpin of Crime the way he did in the comics. As a rule, his enemies not named Matt Murdock don't tend to survive for very long, and when he isn't brutally murdering them himself, he's throwing them into the way of the Punisher, or having them rubbed off by his arsenal of friends in high places which include FBI agents such as Bullseye/Dex. And even life in prison doesn't slow him down, as he's able to manipulate his way into being put on "house arrest", where he's free to build his criminal empire back up to its former glory. While his beloved wife Vanessa brings out his more tender side, underestimate Fisk at your own peril.
* Madame Gao is just as clever as Fisk, who she has collaborated with in the past. Not only has she done an excellent job at establishing The Hand's presence in NYC, but she's a skillful and charismatic manipulator who has tons of loyal followers at her beck and call, and even manages to pit Danny "Iron Fist" Rand and his pals against each other when they get the upper hand on her.
* Ditto for Shades from ''[[Luke Cage]]'', who makes his killing as a calm, cool, collected, and ultra-competent henchmen for crime lords such as Cottonmouth and Black Mariah, even helping the latter toss Luke Cage himself in prison after framing him for the murder of Cottonmouth. But he's no mindless stooge: despite his love for Mariah, he has lines he won't cross and when she drives a wedge between the two by orchestrating a mass murder of innocent civilians, he stabs her in the back and helps bring her down.
* Hive from ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D]]'' is not just a powerful Inhuman, but one of the most dangerous and intelligent villains in the show. When he isn't orchestrating the destruction of humanity with his Inhuman cultist followers, he's running circles around S.H.I.E.L.D and turning them against each other through his clever manipulations, such as {{spoiler|convincing Daisy into becoming his personal spy}}.
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