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{{quote|''"Ah, how shall I do it? Ooh, I know. I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives, ahahaha... ''[[Memetic Mutation|I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!]]'' It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say!'' ([[That Poor Plant|BAM]]) '' ...Or, [[Cutting the Knot|to save on postage]], I'll just poison him with'' this!"|'''Yzma''', ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''}}
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Some popular examples of Evil Plans:
* ''[[Take Over the World]]'': [[That Guy With The Glasses|Of course!]] Probably the most popular villainous scheme of all. The scale of conquest can vary depending on the
** ''[[The Evils of Free Will]]'' is a popular means to this end: by robbing everyone of their free will, they will have no choice but to serve their rightful ruler!
* ''[[Earthshattering Kaboom|Destroy The World]]'': Why take over the world when you can blow it up? Like [[Take Over the World]], the scale of destruction also varies depending on the
* ''[[Kill All Humans|Kill All The Humans]]'': No one's going to miss [[Humans Are Bastards|the little bastards]], right?
* ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Kill Everything]]'': Why stop with just the humans?
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Normally, these are accomplished with [[Stock Evil Overlord Tactics]]. Of course, most of the smaller-scope plans can usually be accomplished [[Mundane Solution|in a less grandiose fashion]].
Can involve a [[Xanatos Gambit]] but ONLY if the
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== Fanfiction ==
* [[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Ultimate Spider Woman]] 'Change With The Light' did this with Jack O'Lantern, Spider-Woman's [[Arch Enemy]] as well. Jack immediately minimizes most of the risk to himself by using [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Phillip Watson as his mind-controlled dupe and making it look like ''Phillip'' is the one pulling the strings. Jack is giving Phillip instructions on what to say and do, and makes sure to delete all his correspondence with Phillip so it can't be traced back to him. The plan works out just as he'd
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** The evil plan of [[Big Bad Duumviarate]] General Koskov and Brad Whitaker in ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' is to get ludicrously rich using the profits from a large shipment of opium paid for using diamonds and to repay the loan from the Russkies they took and are a bit late in returning, as well as pitting the British against the KGB chief who is on to them by framing him for murdering British agents.
** Sanchez's scheme in ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' involves cocaine hidden in gasoline sold to Asian drug dealers, conducted via a televangelist, revolutionizing the drug smuggling business. He's also bought Stinger missiles from the Contras and is threatening to use them on American airliners if the DEA didn't back off. The story, however, is more about Bond's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] for what Sanchez and his people did to Felix Leiter and his new wife.
** Alec Trevelyan of ''[[Goldeneye]]'' sought revenge against the British government for betraying his family, who were Lienz Cossacks sent back to Stalin, by detonating the titular [[Kill Sat]] over London. Furthermore, he planned to steal billions of pounds from the Bank of
** Elliot Carver of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' wanted to start a war between the West and China to increase the ratings of his media empire, and then to murder the Chinese government so his ally in the military could take over, who would give him exclusive media access (China being the only country in the world that refused him broadcast rights after he gained the ability to reach the entire world with his new satellite system).
** ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'' has Elektra King and Renard scheming to raise petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul, destroying every oil pipeline except for hers and giving her a monopoly on Europe's oil.
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* [[Sherlock]] Basically the entirety of episode 3: {{spoiler|Every case Sherlock has to solve ends up having been orchestrated by Moriarty, looking for a fun challenge. It's implied that he, as a consulting criminal, has been arranging a vast array of crimes all over the place.}}
** {{spoiler|Subverted in that the [[Kansas City Shuffle|whole thing was to distract Sherlock from the plans]]. Revealed that the plans were a [[McGuffin]], and double-subverted, when Moriarty tosses them away.}}
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. According to their [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|whiteboard list]] the Trio plan to; "[[Weather Control Machine|Control The Weather]], [[Shrink Ray|Miniaturize]] [[Goldfinger|Fort Knox]], [[Glamour|Conjure Fake I.D.s]], [[Shrink Ray]], [[All Men Are Perverts|Girls]], [[You Need to Get Laid|Girls,]] The [[Killer Gorilla|Gorilla Thing]], and [[Awesome but Impractical|Workable Prototype]] [[Jet Pack
== Theater ==
* ''[[The Tempest]]''
== Video Games ==
* Raphael from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' has some of the most ridiculously insane plans ever devised, [[Love Makes You Evil|all for his adopted daughter]]. In ''Soul Calibur 2'' he planned to destroy the country that he fled from by giving its nobles the Soul Edge on the basis that they would tear the country apart in a demonically-dueled civil war so that the world would..somehow.. be safer for his adopted daughter Amy. In ''Soul Calibur 3'', on discovering that he and Amy had been accidentally turned into [[Our Vampires Are Different|basically vampires]], he decided to turn the ''entire world into creatures like them so Amy wouldn't feel left out''. Amy may constitute a pretty drastic subversion of a [[Morality Pet]].
* [[Shining Force III]]: The plot to abduct Emperor Domaric in the third game {{spoiler|is a rare villain-on-villain
* [[Tales (series)]] often has [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] s but the plot's have the same narrative purpose
** [[Tales of Symphonia]]: {{spoiler|Mithros wishes to revive his sister and end discrimination, and to do that he splits a world in two and makes them fight over [[Mana]] while his evil army antagonizes the dying one.}} The first part is [[Unwitting Pawn]] and the rest of the game is the heroes unraveling the plan and how to foil it.
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