As we've mentioned before, Evans has branched out into more antagonistic roles over the course of his career, like Lucas Lee in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. But even then, he was still playing a buffoonish variation on the leading man archetype. And in Knives Out (SPOILERS for a movie we can't imagine hasn't already been spoiled for you by this point), Evans' Ransom Drysdale turns out to be the killer, yet he only gets to play one scene of true villainy, having spent the rest of the movie in douchey trust fund kid mode.
Evans really got to flex his bad guy muscle (which you probably couldn't see under all the other muscles) in the little-seen 2012 crime flick The Iceman starring Michael Shannon as real-life hitman Richard Kuklinski. Adding to the misconception that this movie is about sentient snow monsters, Chris Evans plays a character called Mr. Freezy, another contract killer who rides around an ice cream truck, not unlike Freddy Krueger.