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So you've got your [[Big Bad]] [[Evil Overlord]], looming over the world like a colossus. But he can't just [[Orcus On His Throne|putz around on his throne]] or [[Kingpin in His Gym|hang out in his gym]] all day long, waiting for the [[Big Damn Heroes]] to show up and kick his butt. And while [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] doesn't seem to do much but [[We Wait|sit around and wait]] while spouting off cryptic nonsense, they've got to have some sort of [[Hidden Agenda Villain|hidden agenda]] to hide or there isn't much of a point.

* ''[[Sealed Evil in A Can|Unleash The Evil]]'': Release the source of all Evil from its prison. [[Evil Is Not a Toy|This rarely goes well for the villain attempting it]].

* ''[[Revenge|Vengeance Is Mine!]]'': You know that guy that wronged you in the past? It doesn't matter how [[Disproportionate Retribution|petty]] or misplaced your grievance is, it's payback time! Time to kill the bastard, or make his life a living hell!

 

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 [[Evil Plan]] is arranged so that whatever the heroes do helps the villain in some way. See the trope page for details.

 

 

== Anime ==

** [[Snow White (Disney)|Snow White]] was more about vanity; "Then I'LL be fairest in the land!"

** [[Peter Pan (Disney)|Peter Pan]] was Hook's revenge on the protagonist.

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* [[Austin Powers International Man of Mystery (Film)|Austin Powers International Man of Mystery]] parodies this trope. Dr.Evil explains various evil plans only for his [[Number Two]] to point that they already have happened. At last he throws up his hands and says, "Let's just do what we always do: hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage."

* [[Sherlock (TV)|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.}}

 

 

* 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 [[Evil Plan]], perpetrated by Domaric himself. When he hears that one of his sons is plotting to have him killed, blame it on the breakaway republic of Aspinia, and use the resulting war to seize the throne and conquer the rest of the continent, Domaric sends his own agents to infiltrate his son's conspiracy and allows himself to be kidnapped. Then, when the empire's armies are geared up to invade, Domaric has his mole "free" him, takes control of said army, and marches on Aspinia - just as he's wanted ever since the country seceded 20 years before. He even corners his son's partner in the whole plan, to force him to use an ancient superweapon to break down Aspinia's walls for him.}}

** [[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|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.

** [[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]: The [[Big Bad]] and his minions are more upfront about their goal of ending [[Because Destiny Says So|The Score]] but unraveling the details and creating a counter measure still drives the bulk of the plot

* [[Legend of Dragoon]] likewise has a series of [[Man Behind the Man]] whose plans drive the plot. From Emperor Doel's plan to usurb his homeland to Lloyd's manipulation of that war to collect [[MacGuffin|Macguffins]] to the final [[Big Bad]]'s [[A God Am I]] ambition.

* In the ''[[Baldurs Gate]]'' series, Bhaal [[War God|the Lord of Murder]] sired the the Bhaalspawn in order to revive himself. They would kill each other until none remained, at which point his essence that was scattered among them would have accumulated, and his chosen follower, Amelyssan, would have performed rituals that would have [[Back From the Dead|brought him back.]] Neither [[Dragon Ascendant|Amelyssan]] nor [[Spanner in The Works|the last Bhaalspawn]] (the protagonist) complied to these plans, however.

* The less creative of us may use the [http://members.tripod.com/~mrpuzuzu/plan.html Evil Plan generator].

* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' has a whole big complicated scheme. The short version? {{spoiler|Lear Dunham wants to bring down the corrupt power systems of the world and end the suffering they cause. To do so, he plans to use various high-tech gadgetry to blast a [[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] "God signal" across the entire planet. Major world leaders and military honchos implanted with a certain chip -- a chip they thought was supposed to protect them while the blast took care of their enemies -- would find that in actuality the chip ''enhances'' the signal, and all implanted with the chip will die horrific deaths, and surrounding un-chipped populations would be hit with massive psychic trauma. The rest of humanity would receive the signal but would not die; instead they would hear the ominous voices, see the giant [[Evil Eye|"eye of God"]] in the sky, and feel the signal-stimulated fear in their hearts, and submit themselves to the angry God. Those few whose brains are less prone to the signal's power would be drawn to Lear's [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]], where he would make them his apostles, helping him rebuild the world. Oh, and in order to broadcast the "emotion" element of the signal, he uses ''his own daughter'', an [[The Empath|empath]] born and bred to fulfill precisely this function}}.

* The Necromancer of the [[Whateley Universe]] has one, but it still hasn't been revealed, because he's still at the Grand Theft [[MacGuffin]] stage of the plot.

** He still had a massive plan in play just in "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" where he found out Ayla was having a birthday party in Boston. He spun it into a plan to: break his minions out of the inescapable superjail outside Boston; find out which of his other minions was [[The Mole]]; steal yet another [[MacGuffin]]; create a hostage situation to get yet another [[MacGuffin]]; take out the SWAT teams that would get sent to that hostage situation; get Fey under [[Mind Control]] or worse; and also kill a bunch of Ayla's friends, just to send a message to someone who had pissed him off. He pulled off most of it.

* Cobra Commander from ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' once wasted a huge amount of resources stealing equipment to build a giant laser... so he could carve his face in the moon. Destro was not impressed.

** Another attempt by Cobra Commander was to use a love potion to allow [[The Baroness]] to seduce a ship magnate, only to have a fight break out between Cobra and G.I. Joe over the chemical, only to have the potion stolen by a crab. At least this time Destro found the whole silly fiasco hilarious.

** In fact, while tutoring another villain, Shego explains how it's the single most important part of being a villain.

* The Robot Devil in an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'': "My ridiculously circuitous plan is one-quarter complete!"

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