Being a supervillain is a lot of fun. You get to have a cool lair, henchmen with weird gimmicks, and you duke it out with either super spies or superheroes on a constant basis. Supervillains have come up with some truly ingenious evil plans over the years. Think of how brilliant Auric Goldfinger’s scheme was or how ahead of its time Elliot Carver’s plan was, and that’s just the James Bond movies! Unfortunately, not every supervillain out there has a clever scheme. Yes, most want money or world domination, but sometimes, the paths they take to get there make absolutely no sense. Here are the most absurd supervillain plans in movies.
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6 The Incredibles 2 - Evelyn Deavor’s Evil Plan Is To… Obey The Law
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The Incredibles is one of the best Pixar films ever made. Its highly-anticipated sequel is… not. The first film had a fantastic villain in Syndrome, who had very believable motivations. The sequel gives us Evelyn Deavor, the sister to pro-superhero billionaire, Winston Deavor. Winston wants superheroes legalized again. Evelyn does not, so she concocts an evil scheme to… make sure the laws already on the books are enforced. In order to do this, she adopts the persona of The Screenslaver, a villain who can hypnotize people through TV screens. The problem is that Evelyn doesn’t need to do any of this to get what she wants. Superheroes are already illegal. She’s got what she wants. Besides, creating a supervillain persona directly contradicts her plans. Why would you ever create a fake supervillain if your plan involves showing the world how superheroes are not needed? Evelyn Deavor truly could have done jack squat for the entire movie and still had a good chance of achieving her goals.
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5 Octopussy - There’s No Way To Guarantee Orlov’s and Khan’s Plan Will Work
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Octopussy is Roger Moore’s penultimate Bond film, released in 1983. The film has the “honor” of having the most convoluted plot of any Bond movie. Our main villains are Kamal Khan, an Afghan prince, and General Orlov, a Soviet General. The plot, as best as it can be made sense of, involves jewelry smuggling, which leads Bond to India, which then leads to a plan to blow up a US Air Force base in Germany with a nuclear bomb. For reasons that are never explained, this will somehow lead to US forces being kicked out of continental Europe, thus leaving the path clear for a Soviet takeover. Nothing in the film suggests that the US will be forced to withdraw. Given the Cold War mentality at the time the film came out, the most likely outcome of Orlov’s and Khan’s scheme would be a series of nuclear missiles fired right at Moscow. In addition to this, given what was happening between the Soviets and Afghans in 1983, having an Afghan royal aid a Soviet to take over anything seems… a bit of a stretch.
4 Kingsman: The Golden Circle - Poppy Adams’ Evil Plan Is To… Kill Her Own Customers
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle sees the return of the Kingsman intelligence service. In this 2017 film, Kingsman agent Eggsy must defeat Poppy Adams, the leader of the Golden Circle drug cartel. Poppy has put a poison in her drugs, which causes paralysis and later, death. In exchange for the antidote, she wants immunity from prosecution and for the US to end its “war on drugs.” The second half of the plan is alright, but the first half is not. Poppy is poisoning her own customers, which anybody with an ounce of common sense can tell you is not the best business strategy. Even if she got immunity from prosecution, nobody would ever buy her products again out of fear of being killed. Not a wise move, Poppy.
3 Batman And Robin - Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze Have Contradictory Goals
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1997’s Batman and Robin is an infamous movie known for its numerous entertainingly terrible ice puns and Batman having a “Bat-Credit Card.” It also killed Batman movies for the next eight years. The film sees Batman, Robin, and Batgirl team up to stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from… well… one of them wants to freeze Gotham City. The other one wants to cover it in plants. See the problem? Their plans contradict each other. Yes, there are plants that can survive in cold weather, so the plan might work if and only if those are the plants Ivy is planning to use. Truth be told, if there is any villain Poison Ivy should have teamed up with, it’s Ra’s Al Ghul. The two of them pretty much have the same goal, anyway. Of course, replacing Mr. Freeze with Ra’s Al Ghul would mean losing out on all those ice puns.
2 Spectre - Blofeld’s Plan Only Works If Bond Makes One Specific Career Choice
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Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as 007 sees the return of SPECTRE, the villainous organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Legal issues prevented the franchise from using the organization for decades, but those issues are now resolved. 2015’s Spectre sees the villainous organization attempt to use a mole in MI6 to gain access to all the intelligence belonging to 9 of the world’s best intelligence agencies. So far, so good. The problems come in the second part of the plan: Blofeld wants revenge on Bond because his dad spent more time with him as a kid. The film even implies the whole reason Blofeld became a terrorist in the first place was to get back at Bond. So, to recap, cinema’s most infamous terrorist group was started because of unresolved daddy issues. Really? Really?! To make it worse, this plan can only work if Bond becomes a spy. If he chooses literally any other career, the whole thing falls apart. What’s Blofeld going to do if Bond became, say… an accountant? Mess with every spreadsheet in London? We get that James Bond must evolve and adapt with times, but was it really necessary to borrow plot points from Austin Powers: Goldmember, of all places?
1 Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice - Lex Luthor’s Plan Is The Most Ridiculously Convoluted Plan Ever Concocted
In Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lex Luthor’s evil plan is to… um… it’s to… honestly, the plan is so confusing and convoluted that you could write an entire book as thick as War And Peace about how much it makes no sense or relies on insane amounts of luck. From what we can gather, Luthor’s plan involves getting Batman and Superman to fight each other because… reasons? Luthor’s already planning to create a Kryptonian monster of his own to fight Superman. Why does he need Batman at all? Luthor spends a good chunk of the movie making Batman suspicious of Superman, but Batman is already suspicious of Superman. He also tries to blame Superman for killing a bunch of terrorists in Africa. The problem? Luthor’s own guy shot them. Does anybody really believe Superman would kill someone by shooting them? Another part of Luthor’s plan requires him to learn both Superman’s and Batman’s secret identities. How he learns either is never really explained. The fact that Batman of all people falls for any of Luthor’s frame-up attempts on Superman is also ridiculous. The man is called “The World’s Greatest Detective.” The Dark Knight should have called BS on Luthor pretty much right away.
