Burn Gorman – MODOK

Though MODOK likely won’t appear in Captain America: Civil War, as many had previously theorized before the film’s subtitle was officially announced, there’s a strong possibility that the brilliant supervillain, a technician forcibly mutated into a living computer with psionic powers, will grace the silver screen sooner or later, especially given that the Tesseract and AIM (the nefarious corporation responsible for his creation) are already part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And when considering which actor could equally embody MODOK’s mad ambition and extraordinary intellect, the buck really stops with Torchwood star Burn Gorman. Known for playing brainy scientist types (most recently in Pacific Rim), Gorman has the dramatic grit necessary to play a truly memorable MODOK, and the diversity of the roles on his filmography (he’s played a brother of the Night’s Watch on Game of Thrones, a Revolutionary War general on TURN and a dastardly businessman in The Dark Knight Rises) indicates that he’d be more than up for the challenge.