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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  (#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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  (#3) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  • Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Gal Gadot

  When the DC Extended Universe launched with Man of Steel, fans knew it wouldn't be long before Lex Luthor showed up to cause some trouble for the Last Son of Krypton. He finally appears in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice as the puppeteer of a ridiculously circuitous plot designed to turn Batman against Superman. His plan is difficult to follow, mostly because it doesn't make a ton of sense.

  For starters, there is no apparent reason for him to get the two heavyweight superheroes to fight one another. There's no established history between the characters, nor does there appear to be any real motive behind Luthor's actions.

  While he is setting up the heroes, he has a backup plan to genetically engineer a monster using Kryptonian technology - just in case. But if he can do such a thing, why doesn't he simply start by creating Doomsday?

  There really are no explanations for Luthor's actions in the film, but he does manage to get Batman and Superman to fight each other. He somehow misses the whole "Martha" connection, which ultimately blows his plan to pieces. But then again, who could have seen that coming?
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  (#10) The Avengers

  • Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson

  Marvel Studios launched with Iron Man in 2008, and four years later, the studio created a new cinematic universe, which came together with The Avengers. The film was met with record ticket sales and critical acclaim, but in the years that followed, the subsequent franchise revealed the plot of The Avengers to be somewhat suspect.

  Loki is given a powerful scepter by Thanos so he can open a portal to an awaiting Chitauri army, which leads to the Battle of New York. It's not a horrible plan until you finish watching the rest of the Phase III films where it's revealed that Thanos's only desire is to acquire the six Infinity Stones so he can wipe out half of all life in the universe. So why does he put the Mind Stone inside the scepter and give it to Loki?

  When Thanos shows up in Avengers: Infinity War, it is clear that he has to set out and get the six stones for himself, but he clearly had one in his possession all along. It just doesn't make sense that he would give one away, even if it means acquiring other stones on the planet Earth. The scepter seems to be a shortcut to get the fleet to the planet, but according the Guardians of the Galaxy films, traveling through space via hypergate/warp zones isn't difficult, so there really is no need to go to all the trouble.
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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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  (#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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