Random Dumbest Evil Plans In Superhero Movies (15 items)

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  (#11) The Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson

  In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner create a sentient and malevolent AI with the Mind Stone as part of a research project of sorts. The goal is to create an AI that will benevolently care for humanity. Unfortunately, that's not what comes into being, as Ultron hears Stark say he wants "peace in our time" and determines that the only way to achieve peace is to wipe out all of humanity.

  That does make a certain sort of sense... nobody is going to start a global conflict or hurt anyone if everyone is gone, but that's not the sort of thing the Avengers will let happen. To make his plan work, Ultron takes the city of Sokovia and plans to elevate it out of Earth's atmosphere before slamming it back down onto the planet. He surmises that this will send Earth into a sort of atomic winter, thus leading to the end of all life.

  However, the plan would never worked. Yes, it would take millions of lives and make the planet rather nasty, but the huge chunk of rock would lack what most planet-ending asteroids have aplenty: velocity. Extinction-level meteors (like the one that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs) travel at ridiculous speeds. Ultron should know this given the fact that he is the most advanced AI on the planet. 
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  (#13) Unbreakable

  • Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, M. Night Shyamalan, Eamonn Walker, Michael Kelly, Firdous Bamji, Laura Regan, Jennifer Hale, Charlayne Woodard, John Patrick Amedori, James Handy, Tamara Walker, Rick Kain, Leslie Stefanson, Chance Kelly, Elizabeth Lawrence, Damian Young, Ukee Washington, Robert Randolph Caton, Chrismandu, Jonathan Sachar, David C. Roehm Sr., Sasha Neulinger, Vincent Riviezzo, Wayne Pyle, Bryce Lenon, Joey Perillo, John B. Mueller, Gina Allegro, Gary Beck, Greg Korin, Natalie Hultman, Sean Oliver, Bostin Christopher, Greg Horos, Bob Bowersox, Johanna Day, Erin Lulevitch, Cue Shepherd, Jose L. Rodriguez, Anthony Bosco, Todd Berry, Mark Poulton, Michaelia Carroll, Andrea Havens, J.R. Ashton, Bill Rowe, Julia Yorks, Simms Thomas, Mark Kratzer, Sherman Roberts, Lon Lawson, Susan Wilder, Anthony Lawton, Samantha Savino, Mark Pricskett, Johnny Hiram Jamison, Joey Hazinsky, Marc H. Glick, Sonya Wallace, Lisa Pickell, John Rusk, Christina Mahon, Antonio Costa, John Wrot, Whitney Sugarman, Sally Parrish, Angela Eckert, Dianne Cotten Murphy, Rita Soto, Davis Duffield

  It may be unconventional, but M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable is perhaps one of the most innovative superhero origin stories ever put to film. In the movie, Bruce Willis stars as David Dunn, a security guard who slowly begins to realize that he is not like other people. He's never been sick, he has superhuman strength, he can "see" the past bad acts of strangers through touch, and he has never been seriously hurt despite being involved in near-fatal situations. In a word, he's a superhero. And he finds this out thanks to one Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a strange man who has taken an interest in Dunn.

  It is later revealed that Price isn't just an enigmatic comic art dealer - he's a supervillain. Because he was born with a rare form of osteogenesis imperfecta, a disease that causes extremely brittle bones, he reasons that there must be someone who is his antithesis - an unbreakable person. He orchestrates several major accidents, including plane and train wrecks, in an effort to find his counterpart. When Dunn survives one such incident, he realizes he has found his nemesis.

  While Price is correct and has found his counterpart, his plan is the very definition of self-defeating. When he shakes Dunn's hand at the end of the film, his villainy is revealed, and Price is sent to an asylum where he remains imprisoned for years.
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  (#1) Catwoman

  • Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Missy Peregrym, Frances McDormand, Kim Smith, Frances Conroy, Benjamin Bratt, Alex Borstein, Janet Varney, Lambert Wilson, Byron Mann, Michael Massee, Peter Wingfield, Christopher Heyerdahl, Anne Fletcher, Lori Fung, John Cassini, Larry Sullivan, Holly Eglington, Aaron Douglas, Ona Grauer, Michael Daingerfield, John Mann, Benita Ha, Jill Krop, Ryan Robbins, Peter Williams, Kimani Ray Smith, Shaina Tianne Unger, Mike Mitchell, Michael P. Northey, Brooke Theiss, James Ashcroft, Herbert Duncanson, Landy Cannon, Dagmar Midcap, Michasha Armstrong, Laurence Racine, Brett Chan, Kennith Overbey, Aaron Miko, Diego Diablo Del Mar, Connor Dunn, Patricia Mayen-Salazar, James Lloyd Reynolds, Angie Jaree, Berend McKenzie, Alfred Liu, Ursula Haczkiewicz, Ashlea Earl, Manny Petruzzelli, Chase Nelson-Murray, Harley Reiner, Alisoun Payne

  While Catwoman might be one of the worst comic book movies ever made, it does feature an amazing cast, including Halle Berry as the titular antihero and Sharon Stone as the film's villain, Laurel Hedare. In the movie, Hedare is a cosmetics magnate who discovers that her soon-to-be-released revolutionary anti-aging product has an unusual side effect: If people stop using it, their faces disintegrate, but if they continue, their faces turn to stone. What's a billionaire to do?

  Frankly, she's in a losing situation and faces financial ruin one way or the other, but that doesn't stop Hedare from launching her product (and offing her husband, to boot). Eventually, Catwoman squares off against the villainous capitalist and slashes up her face, causing Laurel to meet her end rather than live with an ugly mug.
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  (#6) Superman

  • Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine, Susannah York, Trevor Howard, Jackie Cooper, Maria Schell, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Marc McClure, Phyllis Thaxter, Jeff East, George Harris II

  In the world of DC Comics, Alexander "Lex" Luthor is considered to be one of the most nefarious evil geniuses on Earth. In movies, he's been a little less supervillain and a bit more super silly.

  Gene Hackman plays the character brilliantly in the original Superman film franchise, but that doesn't mean Luthor has a great plan. He even lays it all out in perfect cinematic villain fashion when he thinks he has the upper hand over Superman.

  He purchases a great swathe of land along the San Andreas Fault in California. At the same time, he commandeers some atomic devices with the intent of detonating them along the faultline. His plan is to create an entirely new coastline in Arizona by sinking California into the sea. The only problem with the plan is that's not how faultlines work. Blowing up that portion of the fault would likely cause some tremors, but it would hardly sink California. Maybe it would create a new lake or something, but in reality, his plan doesn't make sense.

  He also commits another common movie villain error when he places a kryptonite necklace on Superman. Instead of waiting a few minutes to ensure he has vanquished the Man of Steel, he leaves him alone with a less-than-reliable henchwoman. Seeing as her mother is in the blast zone of one of the inbound projectiles, she has a good reason to save Superman, who eventually thwarts Luthor's plan.
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  (#7) Man of Steel

  • Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, Russell Crowe

  When Superman returned to theaters in 2013's Man of Steel, he did so with a familiar enemy: General Zod. Instead of Zod's hatred for Jor-El fueling his rage against Superman, he is driven by his genetic code, which is pre-set to make him a warrior at birth. That's an interesting tweak to the Kryptonian mythology, but when it comes time for Zod's plan to launch, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Zod aims to terraform the Earth into a planet where Kryptonians can thrive. However, the irony there is that Kryptonians can not only survive on Earth, but they are also basically gods.

  Now, he could terraform Mars or some other planet if he is really interested in recreating Krypton, but he chooses Earth, which happens to be protected by Kal-El, a Kryptonian who has been sucking up the rays of the sun for decades. Superman wouldn't stop him from terraforming a planet like Mars, and he may even choose to help him, but Zod insists on transforming Earth in Krypton's image, which means he has to be stopped. 

  At the end of the day, the destruction Zod causes leads to his passing and is completely unnecessary.
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  (#14) Doctor Strange

  • Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton

  When Dr. Stephen Strange is introduced to the MCU, it's made clear that the Ancient One is the leader of a mystical order created to protect the planet from supernatural threats. The main threat is an interdimensional being known as Dormammu, and every follower of the faith is intent on keeping him from entering the earthly plane. However, supervillain Kaecilius decides that a better way to handle things is to betray the Order, open a rift for Dormammu, and become his minion in exchange for immortality.

  Immortality might be nice, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that Kaecilius would completely alter his beliefs to betray everyone and everything in his life. In the end, Dr. Strange uses the power of the Time Stone to trap Dormammu in an infinite loop he can't escape so that he can force him to forever abandon his plan to take over Earth.

  As an added bonus, he damns Kaecilius and all of his followers to Dormammu's wrath, which just goes to show that you can't trust an interdimensional demon to have your best interests at heart.

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