10 Movie Villains So Dumb They Deserved To Fail
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Sauron didn't expect his enemies to try to destroy the ring, but to try to use it. He was limited by his own thoughts and desires, probably due in part to Saruman's ambitions.
Exactly. The idea that his enemies might try to destroy the ring never occurs to him. He was more worried about facing a rival who could wield the ring.
“Defeated by his own hubris”
This, completely this. Additionally Sauron believed Pippin had the ring after the Palantir incident.
@@Jcs1aughter And when Aragorn called Sauron out by showing the reforged sword, Sauron likely thought that Aragorn had taken the ring for himself.
That, and an entire army had just attacked the Black Gate, which he never considered could have been just a distraction.
He probably did have guards posted at the entrance to Mt. Doom, but had to consolidate his forces after they were routed twice at Helm's Deep and and Isengard.
As for why he didn't seal it up... Because it's a freakin' volcano. Sealing it up would have just caused it to erupt out of somewhere else.
LotR: This is addressed in the books. Sauron never considered that anybody would even TRY to destroy the Ring.
To be clear this is not a matter of Sauron going: "What if they try to destroy it? Nah, who would do that?" Nope. The question never even entered his subconscious.
After Gandalf is re-deployed by Eru as the White notice that he suddenly is much less interested in secrecy and is both using a lot of blatant magic and also encouraging the people around him to make some noises. This is to make Sauron think that either Gandalf or Aragorn has the Ring and have decided to claim it.
Sauron doesn't realize that Mount Doom has any strategic importance until the point Frodo puts the Ring on while standing on the edges.
This is depicted as a massive hole in Sauron's understanding of people brought on by his thousands of years being corrupted by his service to Morgoth. The idea of willingly giving up power is so foreign to him as to never even be a flicker. So Gandalf's entire strategy is to make a lot of noise and buy into the theory that Sauron already has:
Some wizard or captain of men has claimed the Ring and seeks to challenge him as the next Dark Lord.
Jafar's staff only works on weak minded people, like the goofy Sultan, Jasmine and Aladdin are strong willed people
I was gonna put tht exact thing. 👍🤟
Thanks for pointing that out, don't remember where I read/heard it but I always thought that was well known!
This! Exactly what I was thinking. In the show he has attempted to use it on Aladdin before and failed
Also, you can't make someone fall in love with you because it always goes wrong
Also hypnosis requires trust!
Sauron and Jaffar?
Sauron knew the power of corruption the ring had, so he wasn’t expecting anyone to destroy it, but to use it and that way locate the ring again. He didn’t count that there was a special being named Frodo, who above else, could resist that corruption. The ring was capable of corrupting Boromir and even Galadriel for a moment, Sauron obviously wasn’t expecting (and no one did) that a Hobbit could, and that also could resist it through all the journey to Mordor (Aragorn briefly resisted it in The Fellowship of the Ring, but he also recognized that he wouldn’t be able to resist it for such a journey, only Frodo could).
And Jaffar… it’s made pretty clear that the spell is only useful with weak minded people (like the Sultan, who was a good person, but not too bright or strong minded). Jasmine and Aladdin were the opposite, and that’s almost one of the most important plot points of the film. If Jaffar wanted to marry Jasmine, he had to make her fall in love with him without tricks, or force her to do it. And he could only defeat Aladdin the old way, by good old fist fighting and/or using other types of magic spells.
Their plans weren’t dumb, one just didn’t count on an exceptional being, and the other one couldn’t use his power against the two protagonists.
And to add to the case for Sauron,
It's not like the way to The Crack of Doom was the Yellow Brick Road. It was a treacherous journey with varying degrees of obstacles along the way.
@@ZionXV And he sent the Nazgul after the Ring, and they almost killed Frodo (and the same by the huge amount of orcs he sent). Sauron, as you said, didn’t make it particularly easy for Frodo and the Fellowship to reach Mordor.
His mistake was thinking the main threat was at the gates when the time came, when in reality Frodo was reaching Mount Doom under his very nose, and the rest were fighting for Frodo but at the same time distracting Sauron.
No one could have foreseen that, let alone a simple Hobbit that comes from the Shire reaching the very entrance to the fires of Mount Down only by himself and Sam, so Sauron’s plan can hardly be called dumb. If anything, he didn’t pay enough attention or thought the battle was already won, when it wasn’t because of just two Hobbits.
It was guarded by a big battalion of orcs and an ancient giant spider.
Well Frodo did resit the ring.... untill the end when he didn't. Sooo yeah he ended up just like guy who also didnt toss it in thousands of years ago. Just a happy little accident it fell in
You are correct on Jafar.
"The password is 12345? That's the stupidest password I've ever heard. It's sounds like something an idiot would put on his luggage."
"12345? That's the same password on my luggage."
-Spaceballs
Mount Doom has an entrance because that's where Sauron forged the ring. And it's not guarded because he doesn't think anyone would try to destroy it, and actually believes Aragorn is carrying it. Those are actual plot points.
In the book for Ready Player One its actually Wade who goes to work for IOI and before being "hired" he pays an exorbitant amount of money for backdoors in the IOI system that gives him admin access. Its much more convoluted than "seeing the password written down" and would have been harder to convey in the movie version.
I would argue that Le Chiffre in Casino Royale was a moderately intelligent Bond villain. Poisoning Bond during the poker game would have 100% worked if Bond didn't have a crazy defibrillator and antidote gadget in his car. Later on, Le Chriffre was keeping Bond alive only long enough to get the passcode from him -- until Mr. White murdered him. And then Mr. White was smart enough to know Bond was never going to give up the code, but if left alive, Vesper would be able to get the code out of him.
You know what also would have worked? Not gambling away the money he was entrusted to by an international criminal organization.... barring that, just have someone shoot bond as soon as he walks out of his hotel room. In my head the characters make it convoluted to protect their egos
In the movie, Le Chiffe only turned to gambling as a hasty money-making scheme after his aircraft company takeover scheme went belly-up and he knew the crazy Army of God people would be out for his blood. And even the takeover scheme wasn't really gambling, at least not in Le Chiffe's mind, since he was rigging the game by hiring a saboteur. The character was actually a lot more stupid in the original novel by Ian Fleming, since there he was diverting money entrusted to him by the KGB -- not an employer it's wise to displease -- and investing it in a string of fancy French whorehouses *specifically* because he was a horny guy and thought it would be fun to own some places where he could scratch his itch whenever he wanted.
Scott Evil tried in the first Austin Powers movie, to say to his father; Dr. Evil; that he had a gun in his room and he could get it and they could kill Austin with it together. Granted that was the point, Scott noted that the ways 'Bond' Villains dealt with James Bond were stupid.
In the case of Rear Window, I think the point is that is eyes are still dazed by the previous flash, they don't instantly return to night vision. Don't assume that because the movie camera can see in the dark that he can.
A subplot that didn't make it to the movie on Jaws, Vaughn was beholden to the mafia and legitimately scared that they would kill him if the summer failed.
I came here for the same reason. The movie came out before I was born, but I did read the book in high school. There are so many differences between the book and the movie it's almost a different story.
Yes, for some reason I actually felt cheated that Richard Dreyfus' Matt Hooper wasn't killed by the shark in the movie.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q The reason for that is actually pretty funny. They were taking some extra footage in Australia of actual sharks and in one set, a shark actually went to town on a shark cage.
Spielberg really wanted to use the footage, but the problem was that the cage was very obviously empty. So they re-wrote Hooper as surviving.
I note they did wrote out Hooper having an affair with Brody's wife.
Luthor’s plan in BvS imo is different than the one mentioned, and with a different motivation. He wasn’t terrified Superman would turn against humanity, Batman was. Luthor was obsessed with absolute power considering how his own father made him feel powerless during his childhood (it’s even mentioned in the film, not implied). Coupled with his narcissism and money, he made his number one goal to destroy the very thing that represents absolute power over him: Superman. In that regard his motivation is pretty on point compared to the comics, Superman is his archenemy because he is the one that has absolute power, and Luthor doesn’t.
He knew he couldn’t defeat Superman by himself, so he used the best humanity had to offer to defeat him: Batman. So he made things easily for Batman to hate Superman (the destruction of Metropolis and his trick to make Superman appear responsible of the Capitol attack was more than enough, and you can see that in Bruce’s face), and also for him to find the Kryptonite: with his money he got it, and let Batman unknowingly steal it from him (there’s even a shot of Luthor smiling when he saw they stole the Kryptonite, after seeing a Batman symbol where the Kryptonite was).
And he also made Superman “hate” Batman, by showing him how Batman was doing things outside the law. He lighted the fuse of that fight (after making both of them ready for it), by making Superman return by pushing Louise off the building and then force him to kill Batman by kidnapping his mother.
In other words, Luthor created the entire Batman vs Superman fight from scratch, but with the goal in mind of Batman defeating and killing Superman (and not the other way around, because Batman didn’t represent absolute power over him) with the Kryptonite he provided, by fueling Batman’s rage and feeling of powerlessness. Doomsday was a plan b, in case Batman couldn’t or didn’t want to kill Superman (and the same goes with the other metahumans, he wanted them under control if he needed to use them someday). Luthor hates Superman so much that he’s willing to let the entire Earth, him included, being destroyed for good as long as Superman, the very symbol of the power he never had and never will, is dead. You can see that disregard for mankind and how far he was willing to go to fulfill his own desire as we know he’s the one calling Darkseid, after realizing Batman wasn’t going to kill Superman and then at the end recognizing he “rung the bells” and called Darkseid, regardless of the god (Superman) already being dead.
Honestly, BvS can have many flaws (and perhaps Eisenberg’s performance made Luthor’s plan look silly to many), but imo Luthor’s plan was indeed clever, at least more clever than the ones on previous Superman films. And his plan is consistent with Luthor’s way of thinking, so at least to me his plan was, honestly, pretty clever scriptwriting. Just my opinion though.
The winner of the tri wizard tournament wasn't down to chance, it was clearly rigged, It's even obvious in the movies.
The Lord Of The Rings - Sauron would never dream that anyone would seek to destroy the ring instead of keep it for themselves & even if they did seek to, he knows that its (his) corrupting influence would stop them; which to be fair, it did. Frodo (and Gollum) chose not to destroy the ring, just like Isildir before them. It's only because of the prescence of Sam that the ring is destroyed.
So as much as I agree with Voldemort being on the list... I have to say two things. No "dark" magic was used to put Harry in the Tournament, and Barty had exactly 2 reasons for being there in disguise... To enter Harry, and to Ensure he won.
Yea, the book clearly explains how Barty set it up so that Harry would win without Barty's influence being detected by manipulating Harry's friends into helping him, only for it to nearly fail because of Harry's pride.
@@flyawaytodie his pride? he was asking anyone for help. The only one he had issue with was ron for good reason. Otherwise his lack of pride was the bigger issue.
@@rmbfral after the third task, when "Moody" takes Harry to his office, he explains how he was worried that Harry would fail the second task, and how Harry nearly ruined the plan because he had too much pride to ask for help from anyone, despite "Moody" giving Neville the Herbology book months before and literally placing the answer to the second task under Harry's nose. Hence why "Moody" called Dobby to the staffroom and discussed Gillyweed with McGonagill in front of him, knowing that Dobby would go and steal some to give to Harry. It's all there in book.
Justin Hammer from Iron Man 2.
He wanted Tony Starks Iron Man technology. What does he do?
He first breaks a dangerous psychopath who had been able to replicate it out of prison, killing a couple people in the process, to built new Iron Suits for him, then he let him talk him into turn the suits into remote controlled drones, that said psychopath had the control over.
I'm sorry, but Sauron? Not only did he expect the ring to overcome whoever had it (which, btw, it DID take Frodo at the very last moment) but the rest of the Fellowship purposely drew all the armies out of Mordor for the final fight.
Lyutsifer Safin? Yes he lost but not before killing his biggest enemy, effectively destroying SPECTRE and being responsible for the deaths of two top agents
And he did it all without blinking his eyes or showing any hint of emotion on his face. Why didn't you get the Oscar, Rami?
Pretty sure the shark IS the villain in Jaws. In the 70's, animals were either heroic like Benji or villainous like Cujo. None of this wishy-washy crap about the shark simply feeding to survive. The mayor was more of a disaster movie cliche "doubting Thomas" who didn't take the threat seriously.
Harry Potter didn't defeat Voldemort as a baby. A spell placed on Harry by his mother protected him from Voldemort. Lily Potter beat Voldemort when he first tried to kill Harry.
No, the shark, like Cujo is the antagonist. There's a difference. There is no malice or evil or even real intent to needing to eating and eating the meat that's in your home. There is no malice or evil to being infected by a disease that alters your behavior. They have actual -fantasy-villainous animals like the dog in Man's Best Friend or the raptors in the Jurassic series. In the 70s they were exposed to a lot of lead so we take their opinions with a grain of salt.
Having lived under the benevolent leadership of Boris "let the bodies pile high" Johnson, the Jaws mayor is if anything the most realistic thing about the film
Also, of the Bond villains 'Skyfall' Silva actually completed his plan (at the cost of his life)
Silva's plan involved making M and MI6 pay for abandoning him when he was captured.
When the dust settled after the movie MI6 HQ was destroyed and M was killed by Silva's hand
I was really hoping for a good list. A few of these are not "stupid" its because they are egotistical narcissist. Which can look like stupidity at times.
Ready Player One: narcissist. He had no reason to believe anyone would be able to get into his office to see his password.
Aladdin: it's basically hypnosis. it doesn't work on everybody.
Lord of the Rings: it was believed impossible to be able to get to the mountain. Also, having a couple extra guards at the mountain entrance wouldn't make a difference if someone did manage to get past the millions of orcs around the mountain. And as others stated, the ring was designed to corrupt the wearer. Sauron had no reason to think that someone would try to destroy it.
Jaws: pure greed. I work in the restaurant industry. When I lived in Florida I worked places that still expected you to come to work even though a hurricane was supposed to hit later that night. This past weekend we got a foot of snow in Massachusetts and many restaurants still opened. I get that not everyone is from the US, but this is the reality.
Harry Potter: Voldemort wasn't supposed to work from the shadows. He only did that temporarily to regain strength. Once it was widely known he had returned there was no reason to work from the shadows. He is also a narcissist. Voldermort was considered the strongest wizard with the only exception being Dumbledore, which is why he had him killed. Harry's existence also made people question his power. Was Harry his equal? Him not letting his minions kill Harry is 2 part: ego, he had to show that he was in fact stronger. But it was also to assure his followers that he was the strongest. That's obvious during the final fight when as soon as Harry shows to still be alive many of his followers flee. And apparently you didn't actually watch the movies. Goblet of Fire was not set up by chance. Barty manipulated the tournament at every turn. And Harry didn't defeat Voldemort as a baby, his mother sacrificed herself to protect him.
a nice little gate with a post box with "mount Doom" on it... but you know tourists will steal the box...
While I agree old Voldi is a moron his plan to get Harry’s blood in the tri wizard tournament wasn’t complete chance cause Barty Crotch Jr was helping harry cheat the whole time.
As for Sauron: 1) I'm not sure he knew that the heroes knew how to destroy the ring. Heavily guarding a certain location that has no strategic value otherwise might have tipped them off if they didn't know already. 2) Aragorn used the palantir to convince him that he had the ring. (This might be a movie-only thing, it's been a while since I read the books.) Sauron basically emptied Mordor to get it from him, which would have included any guards at Mount Doom.
The dark lord Sauron simply didnt account for a certain unassuming creature that lives in a hole. He was counting on the corruptability of the kingdoms of men, dwarves and elves to seek the ring for power alone.
I always thought the Voldemort thing is that it was intrinsically tied to the Prophecy that Harry and Voldemort would directly clash to one or the other's demise. So no amount of handing it off to henchmen would've worked, SOME ridiculous quirk of fate would save Harry regardless from every opponent except Voldemort himself.
Also, on the Goblet of Fire thing - First off, it wasn't luck that Harry won. Crouch was helping him every step of the way, to the point of taking out two of the other champions in the final round. (And probably would have taken out three, except that Harry went to rescue Fleur and took out his agent.)
People also complain about how long that plot in that book was - but if you look at what Voldemort was working with, there's likely no other time he can guarantee that Harry is able to be grabbed without being immediately followed, and it's likely that he was doing more than just that plot. Fudge was fairly well primed to ignore Harry - it wouldn't surprise me if there had been plans put into place before Voldemort's resurrection to help keep him in the background while he recruited.
I finally get to show off my knowledge of nerd facts today :p Brody didn't find/capture the tiger shark, it was one of the many shark hunters that captured it for the initial reward money. Brody and Hooper dissected said tiger shark to prove that it wasn't the true offending shark.
Mayor Vaughan deserved to be seen as the antagonist because of that series of truly horrendous sports jackets he wore, if nothing else. 😂
I saw a similar criticism of Voldemort in a video a few days ago. In that one, they were saying that Voldemort's actions were not logical, so they were unrealistic. The thing is, they were illogical for a normal-minded person. Voldemort is either a Sociopath or a Psychopath. He believes his brilliance and talent make him superior to everyone else. For instance, in the goblet of Fire, He admits that Lilly Potter surprised him by sacrificing herself to save Harry. However, he believed it to be a failure on his part for getting sloppy and not that Lilly outsmarted him because such a notion is impossible for him to square with. Look at many examples of this is real life, serial killers. Many were caught because they thought so much of themselves it seemed impossible it could happen.
As for Nagini's death, it makes complete sense in the book version. Voldemort thinks he kills Harry and believes that there is no more threat to the snake. He is unaware of how the sword of Griffindor is summoned and figures only Harry might know Nagi is his weakness. So he takes Harry's body to show his supperioty to the resistance. He gives Neville access to the sorting hat, and in a split second of confusion, before Voldemort can realize what is happening, Neville summons the blade and kills Nagini before anyone can react. In the movie, to make it more cinematic, Voldemort allows Nagini to go off on her own while he faces Harry so Neville can kill her more dramatically when she is about to kill Ron and Hermione. This was a cool scene, but it mangled the logic from the book and left a plot hole.
As for Voldemort's overly complicated plans, again, he is Socio or psychopath. It is in their nature to be showmen, particularly to demonstrate how superior they are to others. Making his plans unessasarily complex is how Voldemort shows everyone else he is smarter than them. Plus, doing something so likely to fail right under Dumbledore's nose so that he fails to protect Harry would be irresistible.
Honestly, I am tired of people applying their own logic to the actions of fictional VIllians and saying their plans make no sense because they are either socially or psycho-pathetic, which means that kind of logic makes sense to them.
Also, Lex Luthor, in both comics and TV shows, displays such a contempt for Superman besides his fear of him that he often does crazy things to kill him that can easily kill him for his short-sightedness. However, it usually works into being his greatest weakness because it always leads to his defeat. In BVS, however, Luthor never shows that kind of reckless or desperate need to kill Superman at all costs.
For Voldemort not ordering Barty to just bring him Harry's blood: it was important for this ritual that the blood of an enemy was taken by force. Also his plan was to kill Harry afterwards
1A. Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars Rise of Skywalker.
Literally the only thing that could stop his fleet was the Republic/Resistance finding it before they left the planet surface and for god knows what reason he decided to send out a TikTok to the entire Galaxy alerting everybody to his plan with 24 hours notice.
Lets not forget that there were only two devices that could lead anyone to the planet and he knew exactly where at least one of them was lying around for 30 years, but never bothered in all this time to send someone to retrieve it?
Well, the movie was so badly written as a whole that I am not really sure if this should even count.
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The Riders of Rohan aren't Wild Men 😂
Pretty sure that Harry couldn't die while Voldemort still had Horcruxes and the piece of Voldemort's soul inside Harry survived, so the end result of anybody trying to kill Harry via the Killing Curse would've been the caster being killed by their own curse, but I guess the list needed 10 villains, so Voldemort went on it.
In the last act of Iron Man, Pepper has discovered the evidence that Obadaiah has been selling arms to terrorists, and tried to have Tony murdered. SHIELD has been alerted and agents are hot on his trail, so what does he do? He puts on a super suit and goes on a rampage. It makes no sense, and is just a vapid excuse to end the movie with a suit v suit battle.
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Solid point about Voldemort. And let us not forget that Voldemort didn't even need Harry to carry out his plan to reclaim his body. Voldemort used Harry to claim the protective power of Harry's blood, but carry out the plan he only needed (among other ingredients) "Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken" - not Harry's blood specifically.
Wormtail even points out earlier in GoF that Voldemort could easily use the blood of some other wizard but Voldemort insisted upon using Harry.
We watch TV to see the villains defeated. They need to have a character flaw to allow that to happen otherwise you wouldn't have a movie you would have reality with the likes of Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, etc.
I'll give voldemort this, he was smarter than sauron and created more than one horcrux.
I object to a few but specially to the number 1 slot. All? What about Goldfinger? He wanted to kill bond immediately (elaborately i will admit- why lasers) but didn’t because he didn’t knew what bond had revealed or knew. So in order to seem innocent he has bond paraded as a guest. That way even if someone else comes looking for him all he sees is a person (seemingly) having a nice conversation. Excluding this even the fort Knox capper was smart and without bond his involvement would be a stretch to prove (before mass media and with an army uniform prepared a 100% id is impossible).
Skyfall. The breakout, chase through the underground, blowing up a train to try and kill bond all relied on absolute pure luck and no thinking whatsoever. It was just insulting to suspend that much disbelief
This video was the most I've seen of the Aladdin live action film and I was OBSESSED with the animated one as a kid. I think avoiding this abomination has been a great choice.
One Bond Villain wins...
Skyfall. Where the whole plan is to kill M. Nothing more nor less, and what he does leads to her death.
I really enjoy watching Rear Window, especially the fashions that the beautiful Grace Kelly wears.
Jeff falls from the window, escaping from the killer. He rebreaks his legs. The joke at the end was he was supposed to get original casts off the next day
Eric Sacks also ordered for the ninja turtles to be drained to death even though alive they will continue to pump blood/antidote. The criminal mind is a stupid mind.
Actually with all 10 villains the case of their stupidity is explainable as they are so emotionally charged with hate for the heroes their intelligence goes out the window.
In half their cases it's implied their lack of love and compassion leaves them without the ability to comprehend the actions of their enemy, Even in movies where the villains read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
Tom Baker's Doctor said it best to Roger Delgado's Master, "Why should I give up my freedom to control a universe of people when I'm perfectly happy being free to be me... Whoever I am at the moment?" Pointing out the dumbness of every villain that wants to dictate the people.
In the book Gandalf states that to destroy the ring has never crossed Sauron's mind! So why would Sauron guard Mount Doom since no one would ever go there? Sauron fears another powerful person, like Gandalf, Galadriel or Arathorn, would take control of the ring and cast Sauron down and take his place. Does that make Sauron dumb? I dunno! Just a little short sighted perhaps.
A locked gate on the entrance would would simply make good sense, if only from a manpower preservation angle. Orks are dumb, some of them might wander into the Crack of Doom out of curiosity, or a contrary desire to flout any orders to stay out of there, and then they fall in, and Sauron has some holes to fill in his table of organization.
Most of the time the smart villain does something stupid, it was because of their overconfidence.
They felt so unbeatable that they didn't have to worry about it.
Awesome video what culture.
Alladin - The Staff only works on the weak minded. Alladin & Jasmine are headstrong & smart, they would be immune or work out what was happenning to them.
What a culture! They just woke up and decided they are going to offend every single fanbase ever.
Hypnotize the Sultan with his "Snake Staff," huh?
The Voldemort thing... well, it's a YA series, let's not overthink it. Bellatrix could have won this war single handed, if he had let her loose.
However, you have to point out that if Harry & Hermione had that time turner, well how many pad things from even earlier could have been avoided. Dumbledore knew about it, but never considered going back after the events of Goblet of Fire to stop Voldy's resurrection, capture Wormtale and Barty Jr., and keep Cedric alive?
I'm not sure if it was well emphasized in the movies, but in the *books*, the killer of a wizard could also take control of his wand.
Just about *all* villains underestimate the abilities of the hero and allies…
Don't you know the rules? If anyone changed events via time travel, they would have caused time paradoxes that could destroy the universe.
Sauron was convinced that the Hobbit who had the ring was at Minis Turith and the ring had corrupted their new King: Aragon
This is why he sent his full force to the Black Gate when he saw the Army of Men coming (which worked brilliantly for Frodo and Sam to sneak in and destroy the One Ring
In order to understand Mayor Vaughn's motivation for keeping the beaches open you need to read the novel. He was in bed with the Mob over tourism real estate and needed the money to pay them off. The movie showed his desperation but for some reason did not flesh out the reason.
My mom was reading the novel that Jaws is based on. She was sitting outside whiley dad was working im the garden. I remember her saying ," that shark is going eat every one in the book". O read yhe nook a few years later, it's a good read. Movie followed the storyline pretty closely, with only a few minor changes
Many of these are too forced, Jafar can only hypnotize the weak minded, Voldemort was the most powerful wizard in modern times maybe of all times there are few safer places for an horcrux, which are pretty much indestructible, than beside him, Sauron was just deceived by a plot point
Sauron shouldn't be on the list for the reasons you mentioned. At no point did Sauron think that the Fellowship want to destroy the ring and always thought they wanted to use it against him. He does however deserve to be on this list simply by making a ring that if it's destroyed kills you
Thanks for saying all of that out loud! Now I can point to this video when people try to defend all of the idiotic movie villains 😆
I re-watched Jaws during the Pandemic and my friend and I spoke on how the Mayor was acting out how towns and businesses all across the world were acting "OPEN UP!" "we need to keep the economy going." And when that happened or people or ignored it Covid spread all the more making things even worse. The Mayor is just acting out short term human nature.
Doomsday was a move made out of desperation. If only Supes had not said THAT name...
I always felt like Thorwald is a great example of being smart does not mean one is quick witted or thinks fast, just that he is capable of seeing more routes to solve a problem than the first one that comes to mind
Sauron didn't expect his enemies to try to destroy the ring, but to try to use it. he was arrogant.
Also most of the armies where at the front gate because aragorn was there for the final battle Their diversion worked.
The major villain in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is a major moron. He wants to steal some gold but this gold is irradiated. No problem - he has a chemical liquid that can neutralize radiation. Such a substance would be invaluable, and could be sold for trillions of dollars. But he risked everything to try to steal a relatively puny amount of gold.
Any film where the villain already has millions or even billions in the bank and spends it in a plan to make even more. Even if they aren't clever enough to realise that even £1m is plenty of money to live in supreme comfort for ever, just investing in the stock market would be far easier and would guarantee that governments wouldn't be interested in stopping you.
You left out the best example of Voldemorts stupidity, his whole scheme in the chamber of secrets. No one noticed anything wrong with Ginny while he was possessing and manipulating her. All he had to do was sit back and wait until he fully drained her and returned to life. There was nothing else he had to do, he didn't even have to enter the chamber at all, just wait and after a few weeks or months, people in the school would have found Ginny dieing under misteryous circumstances. He then has to just leave the castle through a secret passage, make sure to take the book with him and no one would even know he has returned, meaning he also has all the time in the world to rebuild his forces in secret.
Instead he sends out the basilisk to attack people and writes criptic messages on the wall, attracting a ton of unnecessary attention. It's likely he only got as far as he did because the adults in the Harry Potter books are often just as incompetent to create a reason to get Harry, Ron and Hermione involved. Had Dumbledore called in experts, maybe asked the ministry to provide actual security and who knows what, then maybe someone would have noticed what was going on with Ginny long before the climax.
You wanted to know what the lisence plate numbers meant in BACK TO THE FUTURE 2? Well…here you go The lisence plate number…. Is the formula for the separation of manganese and zinc from the concentrate of alkaline batteries scrap. It’s why the Delorean can run on trash now in BTTF2.
there is that idiot from Transformers 3, dylan gould. He sided with the decepticon and he stood there as an idiot to taunt Sam. Sam was holding a weapon and Sam killed him very easily.
The Clancy Brown Luthor from the DC Animated Universe was generally smart and capable. He even ended up saving the world at the end - in a tuxedo no less.
Funny list - really enjoyed it. I DO hafta point out that James Bond is actually satire. This is also why Bond villains are as cartoonishly over the top as thy are - and, ultimately, fairly dumb. A LOT of people think Bond movies are serious spy movies/books, but they're actually satire. And to my sheer joy, Austin Powers spoofed BOND movies.
Le Chiffre is quite intelligent in Casino Royale. He doesn't kill James because they're playing poker agianst each other in a tournament and he is actually winning until the CIA bails James out so he poisons Bond with something that will make it look like he had a stress induced heart attack. Which would have worked if Bond didn't happen to have a defibrulator in his car. Who has one of those?
When THAT fails he goes with capture and torture and only gets beaten by an outside force. Le Chiffre basically is brilliant in every way except by not being the protagonist. It's Bond's good fortune that beats him not Bond's skill
Oh! Do a list of "Brilliant" heroes who got by on pure dumb luck
I thought the exact same thing about Eric Sack's plan immediately after seeing the movie.
We have to take a few bond villains out of the list: you guys decide
The Sauron one is an easy answer if you’ve read the books he never expected anyone to be able to resist the ring and attempt to destroy it and seeing as tho everybody who had the ring expect for Bilbo ended up being corrupted by the ring he had pretty good reason to believe that
It's clear no one @whatculture read LOTR, nor did have the basic info about it 😔.
General Zod. He could have terraformed the moon into a Krypton outpost. Colonized Earth (ruled from Luna). Rebuilt the Kryptonian population in an environment that made them god like. Genocide was unnecessary
Voldy's tri-wizard plan wasn't the issue. It was the stupidity and ego of making every one of his horcruxes except Harry something that had specific significance to him. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure nothing about the spell indicated it had to be an object that was connected to the creator so you know, rocks or galleons or something and then just frickin toss them into that big body of water that surrounds your country.
Most of these are explained explicitly in the books/scripts. You guys were obviously reaching on this list.
The one that stands out to me is the traitor in the film 300. He's betraying Sparta to the Persians, the Persians have paid him in gold coins with the Persian leader's face on them, and the attack is happening. So what does he do? He bundles up all the gold in a big sack and takes it into the middle of the Spartan government for a debate. This is the equivalent of taking wads of deutsch marks in your pockets into the British parliament in 1941. If he'd hidden it somewhere, the betrayal would probably never have been discovered and the government would've stayed divided.
haha i was hoping the LOTR fans would come through and call em out , didnt disappoint .
In Jafar's case we don't know the exact mechanics of what he is doing so there could be tons of practical reasons why he didn't hypnotize whomever he wanted. It could be something like it only works on weak minds like a Jedi mind trick so people could resist it and cause him problems. It could be some sort of limit like he can only have one person at a time. It could be something simple as he isn't applying a new enchantment but triggering an old one he did on the sultan a while back and its something that needed to be prepared for. It could also be a combination of things. He might not have had hypnosis as a first choice option.
So, it could be that Jafar cannot use the staff to create love? I always thought that was probably the case. It wouldn’t be the first time writers would use that caveat..
Jasmine too strong willed for that and Eric Sacks plan does sound stupid 😂
Jafar and Aladdin... hoo, boy. In the older versions of Aladdin, the vizier did mind-whammy Jasmine. I suppose the whole mind control kink is seen as horrific in modern culture; it might also be said that the bad guy wanting Jasmine to *choose* him drove him to not do so in the movie, a weird sort of obsession also seen in the far older Arabian genre flick _The Thief of Bagdad_ (misspelling unavoidable as that's how the movie title spelled Baghdad).
Personally, I just think of the plot hole as a plot hole.
The Hunt Villains And You're Next Villains Should Be On The List
To be fair, wasn't the Bond series (books and/or movies, I cannot remember which) originally written to be satire?
Souron was waiting for the one that would claim the rings power as would happen it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the ring. Considering he literally made it so that should never be possible, You have the Ring it corrupts you even Bilbo needed a little extra push to willing let it go.
Adolf. Sorry can't him...
Riski sunak, same thing😎
Tell us you didn't actually watch LotR without actually saying you didn't watch it.
Sauron wasn't sending his armies out to stop Frodo. Sauron was sending the NAZGUL out to FIND Frodo and take back the Ring...the rest of the army stuff was Sauron trying to take over Middle Earth and stick it to all those annoying good races that beat him down last time. He expected that if someone found the Ring, they would be ensnared by it and want to use it...which would bring them under his power.
Most of the plan by the Fellowship hinged on Frodo getting to Mount Doom unnoticed....and the reason why there's no one guarding the door to Mount Doom...which Sauron made so he could go inside and forge the ring in the first place...is explicitely stated....Aragorn leads an army to attack the Black Gate and before he does he shows Sauron the reforged sword that cut the ring from Sauron's hand...so Sauron sent his available forces to deal with Aragorn.
Wow, Blofeld took the cake?
Eisenberg is the Worst iteration of Luthor.
Sorento being an idiot is entirely the point. At least in the book. The whole joke is he has on imagination and is a corporate shill. So yeah. Makes sense he’d be on the list.
Can't tell you how sad it makes me that you illustrated Jafar with the awful live-action remake rather than the animated classic.
Bane in that Batman movie with the dumb hole prison, that like... it's only security is it being a hole. Like what? Who is feeding these people? Who is paying for the TV Bruce watches? Like you can't fake a dude being dead just by pumping a quart of blood in a corpse. And like his plan is to get ALL of the cops stuck underground? No city literally sends EVERYONE. I mean there is so much wrong with Bane's plan I don't have the energy. Such a bad movie.
Voldermort wanted to live forever and uses horcruxes as a means to do it.
Dies at like his 71 and spent most of that dead ish anyway…….
Most wizards live well into the 100s. He could have liked done nothing and survived longer.
Voldemort really annoyed me. He never listened to anyone or learned from his mistakes.
Mayor Vaughn is even worse in the novel, with ties to the mob and such, one of the subplots axed from the film adaptation.
Lex Luthor could have been number one. All of his defeats are the direct result his own arrogance and hubris.
"evilest"?
Jesus, guys. Do better.
Lex Luther isn’t dumb, he’s a narcissist. All of his plans fail because he thinks he’s smarter and better than Superman. So when he has Superman dead to rights he gloats and becomes reckless…all because he thinks there’s no way Superman can outsmart him. Especially in stories where he finds out Superman is a farm boy from Smallville.