Top 20 Smartest Decisions Ever Made By Movie Villains
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2023
- Evil geniuses! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most clever moves that film antagonists have made no matter whether they led to success or defeat. Since we’ll be talking about major villain plans, beware of spoilers ahead. Our countdown includes villains from "Face/Off", "Goldfinger", "The Matrix" and more! What’s your favorite evil scheme from a movie? Let us know in the comments below.
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What’s your favorite evil scheme from a movie? Let us know in the comments below.
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anything involving ghost rider
Do top 10 Batman beyond villains
Your number 1 choice, of course.
Jigsaw playing dead in saw.
How come Simon Gruber is on your list while his brother Hans is not? His scheme to pose as a terrorist and fool the FBI was brilliant. Shame on you!
"Madness is like gravity. All it need is a little push." - Heath Ledger Joker
Palpatine is definition of perfect planning, manipulation, cunning, and knowing when to use your biggest assets.
Except for one big problem: The Death Star. He poured too many assets into one resource, and not only that but failed to learn from his mistake and tried to build a second one. The smart play would be to build a fleet of super star destroyers instead. You still have the capability of carpet bombing a planet into oblivion, like Mandalore, and you can spread out your assets to cover more ground. I mean a fleet of 100 super star destroyers suddenly popping out of hyperspace in orbit and completely blockading the planet would be more devastating than seeing the death star cresting the horizon. At least that way people on the far side of the planet have a chance to evacuate. But if the globe were instantly surrounded by capital ships? Forget about it. Global extinction.
@@adamb89 In the pre Disney stuff, that was why Thrawn had been banished to the Unknown Region. He disagreed about the death star and argued what you said, that a fleet of destroyers would be more effective. But the Emperor wanted his superweapon.
@@prussianpolydactyl836 and then alas he got all super star destroyers in the rise of skywalker and that was somehow worse than death star damn that movie was terrible
@@totterdell There is nothing called "Rise of Skywalker." You must be mistaken.
@@adamb89 lol yes true my mistake there's only one trilogy 👍
Palpatine has the most complete victory of any villain ever. Destroyed the Jedi order, virtually wiping all traces of them from existence, and reigned over the galaxy for decades.
All while haveing contingencys upon contingencys for every possible situation and haveing the ability to react on the fly to keep everything going they way hè wants
And on top of that, he stole the Chosen One from the Jedi. He basically stole that religion’s Messiah and used him to destroy it
Gianni Colamatteo the only thing he didn't have a contingency plan for was his apprentice turning on him (which when you think about it seems a little odd since that is basically status quo for the Sith)
@@3SailorMartin if you watch the clone wars and the bad batch it expands on his schemes, hes allways 3 steps ahead of everyone, plus the reason hè had a contigency for a traitorous apprentice is because e wants to get rid of the "rule of two " And replace it with his "rule of one", ie make it so hè is the one true Sith forever, thats why hes been cloning himself trying to make himself immortal
@@3SailorMartin He actually did when you consider his hidden fortress on Exegol and his cloning plan for if Vader betrayed him, allowing him to start over. If anything, I think his lack of a contingency comes down to Vader betraying him the way he did. We know in TROS that Palpatine’s whole thing was he originally wanted Rey to give in to the dark side and strike him down, as this would allow him to possess Rey. Presumably, had Kylo killed Rey, he likely would have done that to him instead. And that is a key detail: it needed to be a dark side kill, a kill out of anger and selfish desire to make him dead, not a killing done in a light side state of mind where it isn’t done out of some selfish need. That’s what I think he was planning for in ROTJ, thinking he had a win-win-win. If he succeeded in convincing Luke to give into his anger and strike him, he could have possessed him and claimed Luke’s body for his own, giving him a host with the same potential he hoped Anakin would have before Mustafar. If Vader stopped Luke from killing him and Luke killed Vader, then he had a more powerful apprentice he could use and when Luke (inevitably) tried to kill him and take over, he could possess him then. And if Vader stopped Luke from killing him and killed Luke, then at the very least, the biggest threat to his reign would be gone and Palpatine would still have Vader as his enforcer while he sought alternate paths to immortality. He simply didn’t consider Vader betraying him for light side reasons. He never believed Luke would be able to survive AND resist the call of the dark side/stay true to the light. And in then end, when Vader betrayed him, it wasn’t out of a selfish desire to kill his master and take the throne; it was out of the selfless love of a father sacrificing himself to save his son
When I saw Palpatine’s plan finally come to fruition, I was hella impressed with his patience
Palpatine definitely knew how to play the long game.
@@dieseljester3466 amen
Palpatine's genius is almost frightening.
His genius IS frightening
Not really when compared to villains like Joker and of course the ultimate baddie Megatron (the ones voiced by the king Frank Welker, the rest are not as smart and kinda annoying). I mean, palpatine left a giant weakness open and unguarded, that’s not something would slip by Megatron.
Of course Hannibal’s Lector is a genius in his own right, villains have been copying him and his work for years.
Good. Good.
@@Rosewolf29 he really didn’t, if you’re referring to the Death Star. As we know now from Rogue One, the Rebels had to lose A LOT of guys to get the information of where the vulnerability was. And even when they managed to find it, it was a literal one-in-a-million shot. The Rebels would never have found that the exhaust port was the weakness if they hadn’t gotten the plans. Then, the odds of someone actually making that shot was near-impossible. Getting past the turrets, making it down the trench without getting shot, and then actually getting the torpedoes down the shaft and get out; the odds of that were nigh-impossible with Luke only pulling it off because he had the Force.
And that’s not even counting the brilliance of his plan for creating the Empire and taking over the galaxy. He spent decades manipulating the Republic, slowly but surely destroying and corrupting it and the Jedi from within, fomenting a Galactic civil war (the Clone Wars) which he played both sides of and manipulated to give himself Supreme executive power. He had a masterful plan that the Jedi were unable to stop. And then he managed to succeed in seducing the Chosen One. He spent years twisting and manipulating Anakin, turning him into his apprentice. He stole the Messiah from his religion and used him to destroy it. Palpatine a was genius; I can’t think of the Joker or Megatron pulling off any sort of plan that comes even close to the scale and success of Palpatine’s for conquering the galaxy
Too bad he became too sure of himself after he conquered the galaxy. Creating the Death Star only caused more people to rebel against him and it was pretty stupid of him to let the rebels know the location of the shield generator before the second Death Star finished construction. So ironically the Empire's greatest achievement was its doom. Instead of building Death Stars, Palpatine should have used his resources to mass-produce the TIE Defender and maximize production of Star Destroyers.
I was really sceptical when the republic's senators clapped for Palpatine declaring himself an emperor. But seeing recent developments going on in the world, it's more realistic than I thought.
If it comes to villain plans, nothing beats palpatine
Actually, while he did planed the final touches (such as the Creation of the Clones and the formation of the Separatist Movement with the help of Dooku and the Corruption of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader) and was the final executioner of it, The Grand Plan of the Sith was created by Darth Bane millenia before after the defeat of the Sith at the Battle of Russan in the New Sith Wars
@alpha34098
The creation of the clones, Palpatine's rise to power in the Republic, and the Seperatist War was like 95% of the plan.
All Darth Bane did suggest infiltration of the Republic was the best option to bring down the jedi.
@@microsf121 But none of that could have worked if it wasn't for the fact that the Sith had been in the shadows corrupting the Galactic Republic, The Jedi Order and The Entire Galaxy as a whole for centuries before the events of the prequel trilogy
Thanos did it better.
@@helloman3676 he just collected some stones😡
Ozymandias lampshade of comic book villains bragging about their plans is the most meta thing ever - and he manages to avoid that pitfall despite being one himself. Hats off!
0:46 Samuel L. Jackson's best villain role and his quote, "This ain't a movie, bruh."
“The villain is the hero of their own story.”
I don’t know, I’m pretty sure Palpatine knows he’s pure evil.
Death😭😭😭”Something somethings darksideeeeee”
The villain is always the one of finishes second
@@therepublic21exactly palpatine isn’t an idiot he knows what he’s doing is evil and that’s why he loves doing it
I think Zemo himself deserved a place on the list. He's not only the very few superhero villains to win, but he has no superpowers, or even mundane power in the form of money like Iron Man, Batman and Lex Luthor. All he had was information, and he completely and utterly destroyed the Avengers with a book and some leaked tapes.
Agreed 👍
Palpatine’s smartest decision was somehow not dying after being thrown down a reactor chute.
He is truly the sith lord
Actually he DID died in the reactor shaft but he was revived by dark rituals by his cultists in the Unknown Regions
Wrong. The sequels to the original trilogy is not canon. They're spinoffs since they fucked up several things.
@@joewas2225 In Legends he also did his Clone Return thingy. Disney didn't even invent that
@@timinski_i yeah the only thing legend did better was actually explaining about Palpatine's clones. Rise just forced it down our throats.
The smartest thing about the Ring is not just that it kept Sauron alive, but that it could utterly corrupt anyone else who possessed it, thus seeing to it they would never willingly destroy it--the one action that would defeat him.
Palpatine's genius is amazing. Such manipulations,cunning,patience. He's brilliant
Joker's ways were chaotic and violent, but his plans and what these led to have made way for a theory about the Joker being the secret hero of The Dark Knight.
Fax
Does he look like a guy who has plans? 😉
He took down every mob and retired the Batman simultaneously and created Two Face. That's why it's wrong to refer to The Dark Knight as a Batman movie, it is not, it's a Joker movie. The film starts with the implementation of the plan and ends with the Joker's victory.
The way the joke wants to push bat man over the edge, is what makes batman better, makes him stay so good. Its the challenge, its taking the difficult year to push yourself
Saw V: Jigsaw giving them the anwser of how to survive all the traps by working together, & knowing they'd do the exact opposite.
The bad guy in Speed had a smart plan. Like the detective said,”he knows everything about bombs and everything we do to stop them”. He crafted two plans, the elevator & the bus, that were designed to be counter-intuitive to every hostage crisis plan the police might come up with. The villain plans in Swordfish and The Taking of Pelham123 were also pretty smart.
And what the detectives came up with to counter it: Shoot the hostage!
No other film made the impact quite like Speed only due to that plot
In doing so, Thanos believes he's achieved his goal, a universe free of suffering.
Reality is often Disappointing.
When the real reason he did it, was to try and get into lady death's pants.
The ending of The Usual Suspects was one of the cleverest plot twists I've ever seen. It completely outsmarted me.
Me too. Unfortunately, I often figure out plot twists way ahead of their reveal, but The Usual Suspects really got me. I love it. It's one of my favourite movies.
The pronunciation of Isildur is unforgivable. 'Isiladur' ... where the hell did the 'a' come from?
I was thinking the same thing. Telltale sign that the narrator isn't a fan.
No one cares
I've only just realised that the premise of Lord of the Rings is the same as Kingsman: Secret Service.
Make powerful shiny things, give them away for free, develop means of mastering shiny things, create lots of death.
Palpatine is the the GOAT when it comes to villains. One man to do all of that in a galaxy far far away?! Genius. Pure genius.
Not only did Palpatine play the galaxy against each other, but the war itself acted as a smokescreen to cloud the eyes of the Jedi and prevent them from identifying him as the Sith. Then, because the Jedi had become such a central part of the republic, politics and their own wariness of the clone army forced them to take part in the war, scattering them across the galaxy. What they should’ve done as soon as they realized that the Sith were likely pulling the strings, was gather their greatest seers in a central location and work together to pinpoint Palpatine’s identity. I’d bet that only the most horrifically colossal war could stop the Jedi’s best from finding him.
There is of course the caveat to the Joker's stated rules that Batman might save both boats but we might also include the caveat that the Joker earlier rigged two ferry boats leaving the city with explosives.
Avengers Infinity War: Thanos reversing Time after Scarlett Witch blew up the mind stone.
If you read the books, it's highly debatable if making horcruxes - that many, at least - really was such a smart decision by Voldemort...
He did live long after he should have died
@@rookie1178But if he hadn’t been so evil he would still be alive and well as he was far younger than Dumbeldore.
The stupidiest part of Voldy's plan is not using some random rock to create the horcruxes and drop them in the middle of the ocean. Heck, that was the first thing Harry think he did.
@@varric his ego wouldn't allow him to put any part of himself into a mere rock.
@@rookie1178That's why he get defeated.
Palpatine, Zola and Zemo has something in common, corrupting their adversaries from the inside.
Palpatine: "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen!"
My sister and I are watching the first six Star Wars movies right now. We just finished Revenge of the Sith. And my gosh…Even though we’ve seen it multiple times we were both just in awe over how incredibly perfect and clever his plan is. It works so well and just falls perfectly into place
Joker is a villain whose brain is way too far from normal people , not even batman can understand him or his moves
Well he is a force of nature
I caught a Pokemon Batman....
:)
He's not Batman's greatest enemy for nothing.
In the comics, Joker's mind is so complex and insane that not even the most powerful telepaths on DC universe have been able to read and explore his mind.
To be fair, hè himself probbly doesnt understand how his mind works, its like hes makeing perfect schemes but winging it at the same time
Palpatine's somehow returning is the smartest decision by villan.
Amazing content. If your mind can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it. This is great!
The Usual Suspects is an awesome movie as are Seven, Silence of the lambs and of course the entire Die Hard series. Great upload!! 😊
I think baron zemo should be on the list
Now make the same video for TV villains!
The one about Voldemort creating Horcruxes, he had a DIFFERENT idea in mind for the 7th. Apparently he was intent on using the Sword of Gryffindor for that, with Harry's death being the catalyst for its creation. The Sword of Gryffindor was significant to Hogwarts due to its original owner, Godric Gryffindor. Only Voldemort didn't bet on Lily's sacrifice giving Harry Potter the means to survive the Killing Curse or the boy becoming a Horcrux himself.
Absolute GOD-TIER ranking at the #1 spot by WatchMojo here
Loved this list
Because of that switch, I'm sure each boat had their own detonator too. I'm surprised Joker was paid, the job was to kill the Batman, not to kidnap Lau
My favorite line in Face off “ooowee you good looking” lol that’s back when Travolta was that guy
In The Dark Knight Alfred told a story to Bruce about how he was catching a bandit who stole jewelry and that he was giving them away. Stating that there are some men who don’t have a purpose in what they are doing. Clearly he knew that the Joker is a madman and that he is a man that wants to cause and see chaos he created. Joker is truly a mastermind.
This one is from a very underrated movie but it was such a good plot twist:
The terrorists from Arlington Road who bait Jeff Bridges' character to break into the FBI Headquarters in Washington under the illusion that a truck is carrying the bomb when he was the one who carried the bomb in his own car.
Arlington Road was filmed on my street, will always love that movie
Dalton from Inside Man wasn't the villain. His whole thing was to expose a war criminal.
When it comes to Star Wars I'm not sure of Palpatine was smart or if the Jedi were really that dumb. They found the clone army right before Palpatine uses that army for a war and nobody seen any kind of connection with it and on top of that Douku told Obi that the senate was under the control of the sith. Anyone half a brain, let alone the ability of the force, should have been able to put 2 and 2 together.
Crazy. Your thumb nail reflects the last two novels I’ve read. Darth Plagueis, yet again. As well as Gone Girl. Shouts out Amazing Amy.
Moriartys Plan, to fake breaking into the Tower. To start a rumor Around his code that opens Every door. Faking being sn actor just to make Sherlock look crazy. And the Great Endgame where he plotted Everything in a manner that he could only win. (Even if he has to kill himself)
I have just realised that they took a scene from the 2001 movie and almost copied it on my favorite show Reba. The computer had Brock locked inside his car and Brock told it to open the door. The computer said "I can't do that, Dave."
Aizen: this list was part of my plan.
Thanks. That was great!
Yeah, creating Horcruxes - object that are somehow connected to you and placed on location you can find - GENIOUS! :D I wonder why he didn't put some Horcruxes at the bottom of ocean with elder wand or simply taken a stone and put it it middle hundred of thousands others lol Great video though!
"I'm not a comicbook villain" - Comicbook villain
If Thanos hadn't done the Snap in infinity War, a decision that left the Infinity Stones permanently powerless In his universe that he could have accomplished so much more.
The snap didn't turn the stones powerless. Thanos destroyed the stones later on to prevent anyone undoing the snap. Though to my understanding the undoing of the stones in Endgame by Thanos should end that universe as the stones are the anchor points of the universe and unmaking them would destroy those anchor points.
@@Excanda I believe it’s been clarified that he didn’t technically destroy the stones so much as turn them to subatomic dust of some sort. They still “exist” just across the universe and not in a concentrated form that can be wielded by someone
@@johnbrant3355 good point, he said "..reduced to atoms"
@@ero-samairianto625 he did? my bad.
Calling it right here: Order 66 is on the list.
Having "Seven" not be this list's #7 was such a missed opportunity.
John Doe's plan was brilliant and monstrous.
It's beautiful how 2 of the top 3 are DC villains. Shows the manic depth those comics have...
Marvel may have great heroes, but DC have fantastic villains.
I'm glad I just watched Upgrade yesterday, because that would've sucked to get spoiled, since I didn't see that twist coming. I knew something was gonna be a twist, but I didn't think it was that. Great movie by the way.
Scarlett witch, black panther, falcon, Jim Barnes and groom blow out in wakanda for infinity war and the outsiders and the ravagers were dead in avengers: endgame. It is shocking.
Thanks for sending my comments
Attacking Jefferson Reed's Apartment While his superpowers are depleted Meteor Man (1993)
Kevin Spacey is a great actor, Rowling is a great storyteller. Doesn't mean I'm endorsing every opinion they've ever had.
Gotta be able to separate people from their work. Fuck Harvey Weinstein but he produced A LOT of movies I like
@bn3421, true, that's how I roll. Then again, I have never seen the Harry Potter movies, so I hold no lost feelings.
@@bn-tc2tkYou should watch the movies, then
Upgrade is still one of the most surprising movies to come out in a LONG time. I was stunned by the end, and it was glorious!
The entire movie "Law Abiding Citizen" could fit in this description
Awesome and cool! ^^😅
20:35 This is a classic. One of the best movie scenes that I've ever seen
"Izilodoor." 😂
No, Voldemort should've just relaxed and lived his life. He would've lived longer then dumbledore
Watchman’s reveal was the best one for me. It turned the cliche on its head and devastated me
“Isladoor” 🤦♂️ its Isildur
Amy Elliott Dunne is the BEST villain of the last decade. Literary AND on screen.
I agree with you. She's so smart and Gone Girl is one of the best films of the last few decades.
Bro, these are GOD-TIER SKILLS.
Number 1 plan I loved has to be the Watchmen, number 2 Palpatine.. but thats just of the ones I know and have seen in movies.
Ahh your right Seven and Ususal Suspects is up there as well, I had forgotten those.
Glad to see Upgrade get some love.
I've always said Palpatines ultimate plan was the greatest con job in history regardless of whether it be fictional or real life .
3:13
When I first watched Inside Man, I 100% believed I could rob a bank haha it’s such a great plan loved that movie
Love FACE/OFF
No, making a few horcruxes like two or three AND making them everyday objects or a stone and tossing it into the Atlantic would have been a genius move. Not picking important wizarding relics and putting them in sentimental places.
I'm so glad Kingsmen make this list!!!
Isladore??? Don't you mean Isildûr?
"Isiladurrr", perfect!
i love Upgrade. such an underrated movie.
Interesting POV for a list.
About the MCU: Thanos' plan seemed pointless, since the guardians were no match for him: I think he did it just to see Gamora's reaction to his death. Hydra's was a good plot twist, though stupid: why leaving the position of dominance of the world behind the curtains - having all the benefits and none of the accountability - to openly doing it? I think the best MCU's villain plan was Killian's in iron man 3, using terrorism as a distraction for world's medias and authorities while he was becoming the most powerful man on earth, and it would have gone smoothly, if it wasn't for JARVIS that somehow "was able to pinpoint" The Mandarin's location
The population doubles every X years. On Earth specifically, about 48. Thanos's plan bought us 48 years. He really should have no place on this list.
Indeed it was a stupid plan. What he should have done was introduce a genetic abnormality in every race which sterilises a female after 2 successful births, until the population reaches a certain threshold, when it undoes that.
One word:
Damn
Heath Ledger as the Joker…now THAT’s pure genius. Joker is scary as a villain in and of himself, but with Heath as the deadly prince of crime…that’s a whole other level of genius and control. Hannibal Lector could never.
well yeah..... ones the clown prince of chaos and the others a cannibal. They couldn't be any further from one another.
@@frankfontaineofficial still, they both caused mass panic and hysteria, both geniuses.
@@Rosewolf29 ok I kinda get what you mean. They are both extremely Smart Criminals which were deemed unfit around the public. I wouldn't put it past Cannibal to cook humans four Prince Jokers
@@frankfontaineofficial honestly I wouldn't either.
Has anyone else noticed that America is always the good guy and the bad guys are either German, British and so on... I don't know 1 movie where America is the bad people
You forgot the Russians and Koreans.
They are the most often foreign "bad guys".
Palpating is the greatest villain. Well done guys. You get it! It’s very rare when the villain wins.
the star wars thing i do agree was smart, but that's not the smartest decision he made- the smartest decision the emperor made was tricking the "chosen one destined to defeat them" into joining their side. Aside from those brief 30 second scenes of some villain saying "hey we should join forces before our final fight" like most villains do, he built him up perfectly to be torn down and join the Sith, with other villains its just a last minute thing they never try to do over a period of time instead~
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Michael Myers in Halloween Insurrection from a flashback scene from the Halloween H20 ending switching his mask to put on a paramedics face who Laury Strode eventually killed by mistake sending her to the nut house.
Number 14. That kinda reminds me of what happened to John Corben in the Superman Animated Series episode “The Way of All Flesh.”
Fracture should have been on this list too Crawford swapping service pistols with his wife's detective lover was a master stroke
Hans gruber shooting glass was cool too
I triggered it 35 minutes ago!
Will always be my favorite.
Palpatine is the best example of the Chessmaster trope aside from Petyr Baelush in Game of Thrones.
Just watched 4 watch mojo videos in a row. You guys really like the plot twist from Seven
7:21 “Upgrade” is a underrated movie
Speaking of Watchmen I'm still disappointed we haven't got it animated Doomclock movie movie yet.
11:00
He gave himself a special case of partial immortality.
So good the best villian is a smart villian 🖤
I will forever love Christopher Nolan for the dark knight!!! I wasn't even a Batman fan.... WOW!!!