Who: Ultron

What: Wiping out an entire Eastern European country and creating an army of himself

When: August - November 1999

Where: The Avengers

Why it's a great moment: Lots of villains talk a big game. They say they're going to wipe out this or eradicate that and so on. But they never get their plans offthe ground. Ultron, the crazy robot Hank Pym created back in 1968 and who hates all organic life, just let his actions do the talking. And his actions were to 1) kill the entire population of a country and 2) make hundreds of versions of himself out of adamantium. Then he did some speechifying.

Yeah, the Avengers beat him and all (they have a terrible habit of doing that), but not before Ultron got in some serious evil. And for that, we salute him.

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