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* A big problem in ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]''.* The thought of an evil [[Mega Corp]] ''profiting'' from distributing a cure for a deadly virus affecting half the world's population lacks the real ''oomf'' villains need, so they try to ''suppress'' it, instead. However, even though they have no plans on using the cure in any way for themselves or their own benefit, they still want to go through the very specific trouble of cutting off and cryogenically preserving Johnny's head (the only remaining source of the data for the cure), even though [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|they could just shoot him]] or [[Remove the Head or Destroy the Brain|completely ''destroy'' his head]], and the cure would be ''permanently'' suppressed, anyway.

** AlsoOf course, itsthe statedbad inguys are not immune to infection -- should any of them personally end up hit by the movievirus, they would need the cure. Also, it's stated that assince the cure is cheap and requires only one dose, but the palliative treatment used to help disease-sufferers before the cure was invented is expensive and requires repeated doses, the corporations would genuinely make a greater profit by not distributing the cure. (Personally, I don't see how this works -- after all, the above calculation assumes that your entire potential market can ''afford'' the expensive version, which they probably couldn't -- but itsit's a plausible enough logic chain that the corp execs don't look like total morons for following it.)

* Sebastian Shaw, the mutant villain fromof ''[[X-Men: First Class]]'', plans to purposely start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia, resulting in humans killing themselves so mutants can rule the world. Yeah, plans that start with "start [[World War III]] on purpose" never end well. First off, despite being labeled ''homo superior'', most mutants aren't much tougher than humans, meaning he'd probably kill as many mutants as he would humans. Even if they ''did'' outnumber humans in the end, what would be the point? All they'd have to "rule" over would be a nuclear-ravaged wasteland.

** Thanos from ''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]'' and ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''. For most of his career, the Mad Titan (who truly deserves that title, no matter how sick he gets of hearing it) considered himself a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] and [[Necessary Evil]] who claimed the only true way to save mortals from doing themselves in was to reduce populations of inhabited worlds. Gaining the Infinity Gauntlet gave him god-like power, able to complete his goal with a snap of his finger, but also made him the most hated and reviled man in the cosmos, as survivors had to watch family and loved ones turn to dust. He never considered that, maybe he could abandon his original plans and instead use this omniponent power to, say, construct more livable planets and heal existing ones, while providing them with infinite supplies of food and drinkable water. He'd have been viewed as a heroic savior instead of the horrific villain he became. [[Word of God]] has indeed admitted that Thanos is [[Hypocrite| not as well-intentioned as he claims]], and is desperately trying to prove that his previous plan could work to the point where it blinded him to all better options. {{spoiler| This is proven in the second movie, when he stops pretending to care for anyone but himself and attempts to destroy the universe so he can remake it into one where people will be forced to be grateful to him.}}