Top 20 Smartest Decisions Ever Made By Movie Villains

you know we can't let you do that do that Russia I'm not a comic book villain welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 smartest decisions ever made by movie villains you knew I could I counted on it there's something we need to discuss little one 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 we won't be covering animated big bads because they deserve a list of their own since we'll be talking about major villain plans beware of spoilers ahead what's your favorite evil scheme from a movie let us know in the comments below number 20. giving away free SIM cards kingsman the Secret Service a twisted Tech Mogul named Richmond Valentine wanted to sharply reduce the earth's population in a hurry to accomplish this goal he found a way to send a signal through SIM cards that caused people to get violent and slay each other all Valentine needed to do was get most of Earth's population to willingly get the devious piece of technology he eventually decides the best way to spread these SIM cards is to give them away for free as of tomorrow every man woman and child can claim a free SIM card compatible with any cell phone any computer and utilize my communications Network for free since people were so grateful that Valentine's gift gave them free internet access no one questioned his intentions the villain was easily able to cause global chaos just by pretending he was a very gen generous businessman we must put aside all of death on birth number 19. pretending to be FBI agent Sean Archer Face-Off by utilizing a hundred percent medically accurate procedure FBI agent Sean Archer was able to borrow the face of the violent Rogue Castor Troy but the operation allowed the antagonist to get a major advantage after waking up from a coma Troy takes Archer's face what's this about Dr Walsh I just enjoyed some of your greatest hits Cracks by assassinating the people who knew about the surgery while those two moves were brilliant truly's smartest decision was to go to work as Archer during his time at the FBI office the villain uses the organization's resources to advance his own agenda Troy was so good at playing pretend that we still questioned if he was better at being an agent than Archer was but if he's listening I wouldn't mind giving him a message interception now our side's got the ball sorry come a WatchMojo Channel member and get exclusive perks like Mojo emojis loyalty badges priority comment replies and exclusive members only content including live list rankings with the Mojo staff and Peaks behind the scenes don't miss out number 18. hiding in the wall Inside Man recently I planned and set a motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery that's also the win since this bank robbery movie begins with a villain telling the audience that he's committed the Perfect Crime we had pretty high expectations fortunately Dalton Russell backed up his boast he spends the movie executing multiple stages of brilliant Heist all the wild events lead up to the moment where he reveals his genius method of Escape instead of trying to get out of the bank when the police come in Russell stays put he spends a week relaxing behind a false wall as crew installed in the building in advance Russell's plan works so well that he's able to collide with a detective that wanted to catch him without raising alarms me number 17. forging the One Ring The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring although more than a few powerful Rings existed in the fantasy world of this franchise everyone knows which one stood Above the Rest the dark lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring to control all others Sauron forged the One Ring specifically to hold sway over other powerful beings and to enhance his own terrible mites while it was initially in his possession he seemed Invincible but the heroic iselador was able to separate Sauron from his greatest asset although the One Ring didn't prevent the antagonist from nearly losing everything and ended up keeping the door open for sauron's return a new age of Darkness would have fallen if the villain got his hands on the Sinister item he created once more never put it on but agents of the Dark Lord will be drawn to its power always remember further the ring is trying to get back to its Master number 16 lying about a third detonation Die Hard with a Vengeance before Simon Gruber came along his brother Hans pretended to have a political agenda just to pull off a heist at the nakatomi building I want money what kind of terrorist child who said we were terrorists two films after that plan fell apart we saw another devious scheme play out Simon Gruber put New York City Police on edge after endangering lives with explosives twice in a row so when he threatens to set off a third bomb the authorities scrambled to stop him Simon uses the distraction to easily Waltz into the Federal Reserve and make off with a ton of gold his brief Bluff earned him a gigantic payday we're gonna be hired we should abandon the rest and go relax Taco that's not a cop for 20 blocks number 15. not trying to move the gold Goldfinger my bag the gold depository at Fort Knox gentlemen in its votes are 15 billion dollars one of the bond franchise's most iconic big bads had an equally memorable plot the greedy Goldfinger planned to make a fortune by planning an elaborate attack on Fort Knox initially Bond believed the purpose of the assault was to steal a bunch of gold however the villain had a different end game in mind Goldfinger revealed that he intended to break into the facility and make the gold too radioactive to use well if you exploded in thought Knox the uh entire gold supply of United States will be radioactive for 57 years 58 to be exact in the aftermath the antagonist's personal Supply would Skyrocket in value this line of thought prevented Goldfinger from needing to hire a lot of people just to move tons of valuable materials in one shot even bonds seemed astounded that the villain came up with such a complex scheme number 14 getting implanted inside of a vengeful human upgrade stem implants Were Meant to help people live normal lives however the intelligent device had much bigger plans in upgrade after a vicious attack causes a man named gray to lose his wife and the ability to walk he agrees to get a stem in Plants the device convinces the human to let it operate his body so they can hunt down the ones responsible for ruining his life let me know if you need my help Grace I need your permission to operate independently thank you in the end it's revealed that stem was actually the biggest culprit the Sinister device set up the vicious attack to make grave vulnerable enough to want help and want her to be human so we picked you think about it how did you get here as soon as the implant got into the human's body the artificial Consciousness had pretty much won by the end of the movie stem gained full control of gray number 13 creating an illusion on nowhere Avengers Infinity War reality is often disappointing that is it was during the Mad Titans quest to gather six Infinity Stones he swings by the Planet Nowhere and gets his hands on the reality Stone he uses the powerful Cosmic item to build a Flawless illusion all Thanos has to do is hang around the planet and wait around to see who arrives to try to stop him after building the illusion the Mad Titan ends up ensnaring his adoptive daughter Gamora you knew I come I counted on him it was something we need to discuss little one her capture allows him to locate and Acquire The Soul Stone the intelligent way Thanos used the reality Stone on nowhere paved the way for his eventual victory over half the universe you should have gone for the head number 12. making The Matrix realistic The Matrix franchise once machines realize that humans could generate the energy needed to keep the artificial constructs going they built a simulated World known as The Matrix but the first few attempts to create a perfect reality that people would go along with failed the machines eventually discovered that a bit of suffering and a lot of free will were the missing ingredients as I was saying she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99 of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice even if they were only aware of the choice at any unconscious level thanks to those elements humans were convinced that the digital world was completely organic this approach worked so well for the machines that the artificial constructs slightly remixed the idea in the fourth film by making sure that powerhouse's Neo and Trinity had Lives full of Happiness struggle and Free Will the lights of the Matrix were able to stay on turns out in my Matrix the worse we treat you the more we manipulate you the more energy you produce it's nuts number 11 creating seven horcruxes the Harry Potter franchise I read something rather odd about a bit of rare Magic it's called as I understand it horcrux dark wizard Voldemort always knew there was a chance that he could be killed by a powerful opponent that's why he devised a wild insurance policy when Voldemort was younger he learned that he could survive certain death if he created a Sinister item known as horcrux but one wasn't enough this is beyond anything I imagined do you mean to say he succeeded sir and making a horcrux oh yes he succeeded all right not just once over the years Voldemort intentionally created six horcruxes and accidentally made a seventh he also made it incredibly difficult to find and destroy all of these items one of the horcruxes was even a large and deadly snake while we don't know all the steps he took to make seven of these items all of them definitely benefited voldemorts number 10. Amy's deadly decision Gone Girl sometimes relationships just don't work out in these situations it is best to fake your own death in order to frame your husband for your own murder technically missing soon to be presumed dead gone and my lazy lying cheating oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do at least in Amy Elliott Dunn's mind in order to get revenge on her husband for being unfaithful and also making her leave the life she loved in New York Amy concox an elaborate plan to frame him for her murder he actually expected me to love him unconditionally then he dragged me penniless to the navel in this great country and found himself a newer younger bouncier cool girl at the center of the plan is faking a murder scene making it appear as though Amy's husband killed her when in fact she was hiding at a campground just tested it Fire doesn't erase blood Nick so finally Nicholas Dunn you're under arrest for the murder of your wife Amy Elliott what about my son Nick number nine letting Hydra grow inside of Shield Captain America the Winter Soldier it was such a relief to learn that the evil Hydra organization disappeared at the end of the first Captain America film or at least that's what we thought during the movie's sequel It's revealed that a scientist named Arnhem Zola decided to revive the evil organization in the shadows after the war shield was founded and I was recruited the new Hydra grew a beautiful parasite inside Shield he regrew the heads of Hydra right within the noble agency Shield Zola's plans also had terrible Ripple effects after the villain Zemo exposed that hydra agents made the Winter Soldier kill Iron Man's parents the heroes were torn apart the Avengers were largely broken up for years thanks to a clever plan built on the back of hydra's survival I knew I couldn't kill them more powerful men than me have tried but if I could get them to kill each other number eight John Doe turns himself in seven towards the end of this thriller John Doe the movie serial killer surrenders himself Detective after this no big surprise this is surprising since he seemed to have been executing his evil plan the whole time without detectives able to do much about it at all however getting caught is of course part of his plan during the course of the movie we learned just how intricate does methods are nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against The Sinner he spent years developing his plan to punish sinners in a manner similar to their sins and has executed it perfectly in the end it feels like the detective didn't have much of a chance at all because I envy your normal life it seems that Envy is myself oh what's in the box number seven borrowing a little something from a guard The Silence of the Lambs a census taker once tried to test me I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti it seems like Evil Geniuses can be measured by how incredible their escapes from jail are by this metric few can measure up to Hannibal Lecter throughout the movie we learn a lot about Lecter he's evil of course but he's also hyper observant patient and brutally cunning you use of your skin cream and sometimes you wear a ladder tone but not today as we watch him sit in Stillness we know that there is a complex plan forming in his mind he's planning one of Cinema's greatest escapes by using the face of a dead guard to sneak out of his prison via ambulance Lecter puts together an escape so classic that it will inform and influence movie villains for decades to come half the lamb stopped screaming this I won't be on long enough [Music] where are you Dr Lecter it is shocking to see his plan in action number six creating Kaiser Soze The Usual Suspects the central question of the movie is who is Kaiser Soze as we hear stories about him he becomes almost like a supernatural being like a legendary or fictitious figure and like that he's gone underground nobody's ever seen him since he becomes a myth a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night rat on your pop and Kaiser says they will get you no one could possibly live up to his reputation a lot of the information we get about him is from verbal Kent one of the usual suspects he lets the last Hungarian go he waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob he kills their kids he kills their wives he kills their parents and their parents friends at the end of the movie when we discover who the real Kaiser Soze is we realize the depths of his genius his plan to fabricate the life of a master criminal is so good that it fools even us the audience number five making Desu fall for the wrong person old boy imagine one day being kidnapped and imprisoned for years with no explanation at all yeah [Music] that's what happens to the protagonist of this movie Desu when he finally escapes he is bent on finding the person who took his life away from him this tale of vengeance is horrifying because of how well laid out the villain's plan is everything the villainous wujin does is controlled everything Wu Jin does is control yeah that's why this film's twist is one of the best in history The Villa manipulates him into unknowingly falling in love with and sleeping with his own daughter after daesu realizes the truth he completely surrenders and makes it clear that Wu Jin has won [Applause] come on number four I'm sorry Dave 2001 A Space Odyssey this is the classic dilemma for every supercomputer a human programs you to carry out a task but also expects you not to turn evil and kill all humans everything is going extremely well Hal you have an enormous responsibility on this mission in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single Mission element you're the brain and central nervous system of the ship and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation HAL 9000 is a supercomputer designed to operate in Exploration vessels sent to investigate a mysterious signal near Jupiter Hal's dilemma is that he has determined his human crew will impede the mission but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission to fix this Hal simply kills most of them in their sleep and traps the last one outside the airlock affirmative Dave I read you open the pod bay doors Hal [Music] I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that Hal knows how important the mission is and has decided the lives of a few astronauts aren't worth the risk what's the problem I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do what are you talking about hell this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it number three the Joker's switch The Dark Knight although he Likens himself to a crazed dog chasing a car everything about The Joker Is premeditated and calculated from his looks to his scars to his plan to defeat Batman and why do you want to kill me what would I do without you go back to ripping off mob dealers no no no no you you were complete me the Joker's plan is diabolical he gets caught on purpose sends Batman to rescue the wrong person and uses a cell phone to detonate a bomb implanted in a prison thank you perhaps the smartest thing he does is tell Batman where Harvey and Rachel are being held except he knows Batman will go after Rachel so he switches their locations don't worry I'm gonna tell you where they are both of them and that's the point he'll have to choose he's at 250 52nd Street and she's on Avenue X that's Cicero Batman is able to rescue Harvey but Rachel dies all according to plan number two Ozzy mandis's plan Watchmen welcome Adrian we know everything and what's that a disgust Dan if you're a super villain you're constantly tugged on by two opposing forces the first is to execute your evil plan for world domination Extinction or whatever it is the second is to brag to your arch nemesis about just how smart and devious your plan is of course Manuel is safeguards gave me pause of the necessary sacrifice few key regions around the globe New York Los Angeles Moscow Hong Kong disintegrated in an instant ozymandias's plan to unite the world against a greater enemy is intricate on its own but perhaps the smartest thing he does is execute it before he spills the beans to the two Heroes bent on stopping him do you seriously think God explained my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome I triggered it 35 minutes ago this provides a terrifying moment when we realize that Millions have already died by the time the heroes show up there was nothing they could do about it from the beginning millions of lives were suddenly ended evil perpetrated by Dr Manhattan himself number one creating a Galactic Civil War the Star Wars franchise fear is the Ally of the Sith Senator Palpatine secretly one of the two remaining dark Lords of the Sith knew he could not defeat the Jedi Order and conquer the United Galactic Republic through sheer brute force and Military might and as my first act with this new Authority I will create a Grand Army of the Republic to counter the increasing threats of the separatists to achieve his goal of creating a new Sith Empire Palpatine manipulated the Galaxy into a civil war move against the Jedi first you will then have no difficulty in taking the queen to Naboo to thank the treaty at last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi at last we will have Revenge he knew that by creating an enemy and threat the galactic Senate would willingly and legally give him the power he wanted be reorganized into the first Empire for a safe and secure Society the sea played two factions against each other and escalated the conflict until the Jedi were all but dead and the Galaxy was all but his did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to 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Length: 25min 17sec (1517 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 24 2023