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** 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 omnipotent 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.}} |
** 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 omnipotent 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.}} |
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* The schemes of some [[James Bond]] villains can be pretty dumb sometimes, and not [[Bond Villain Stupidity|just for the obvious reason]]: |
* The schemes of some [[James Bond]] villains can be pretty dumb sometimes, and not [[Bond Villain Stupidity|just for the obvious reason]]: |
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** Elliot Carver, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''. A media mogul who is the embodiment of [[New Media Are Evil]] he seeks to provoke a war between the United States and China to boost sales and ratings of his news divisions. This guy can actually blackmail the President, something he does as a [[Character Establishing Moment]]; if he has ''that'' much influence, maybe he could fulfill his goal by manipulating something with, you know, much less chance of extensive civilian casualties and global economic crisis? Not only does this plan get 007 after him, but China's equivalent, who eventually sides with Bond. |
** Elliot Carver, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''. A media mogul who is the embodiment of [[New Media Are Evil]] he seeks to provoke a war between the United States and China to boost sales and ratings of his news divisions. (Again, the old "start [[World War III]] on purpose scheme" that never ends well.) This guy can actually blackmail the President, something he does as a [[Character Establishing Moment]]; if he has ''that'' much influence, maybe he could fulfill his goal by manipulating something with, you know, much less chance of extensive civilian casualties and global economic crisis? Not only does this plan get 007 after him, but China's equivalent, who eventually sides with Bond. |
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** Gustav Graves, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Die Another Day]]''. He plans to use his solar-powered [[Kill Sat]] to destroy the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, so the North Korean army can invade South Korea. Even the guy's father - an actual North Korean general - realizes low ludicrous this is and the one-sided slaughter such a blatant violation of the treaty they hold would result in. Graves actually murders his father as a result, proving to everyone he's a bona fide lunatic. |
** Gustav Graves, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Die Another Day]]''. He plans to use his solar-powered [[Kill Sat]] to destroy the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, so the North Korean army can invade South Korea. Even the guy's father - an actual North Korean general - realizes low ludicrous this is and the one-sided slaughter such a blatant violation of the treaty they hold would result in. Graves actually murders his father as a result, proving to everyone he's a bona fide lunatic. |
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* The ''[[Wishmaster]]'' films, in a big way. The [[Jerkass Genie]] actually has motivation for his job: once the person who releases him makes three wishes, genies will be freed from the hell-dimension they're trapped in and rampage across the Earth. Time and again, however, he proves not just to be [[Obviously Evil]], but also a unique combination of Stupid Evil and [[Chaotic Stupid]]. He could simply ''trust'' that the person who released him would have three things that they wanted to wish for - and the odds of that are pretty high - but instead, he insists on causing mayhem and destruction whenever someone makes a wish (particularly random people who ''aren't'' the person who can free the genies with three wishes), ensuring that whoever actually ''did'' free him will never make their three wishes. |
* The ''[[Wishmaster]]'' films, in a big way. The [[Jerkass Genie]] actually has motivation for his job: once the person who releases him makes three wishes, genies will be freed from the hell-dimension they're trapped in and rampage across the Earth. Time and again, however, he proves not just to be [[Obviously Evil]], but also a unique combination of Stupid Evil and [[Chaotic Stupid]]. He could simply ''trust'' that the person who released him would have three things that they wanted to wish for - and the odds of that are pretty high - but instead, he insists on causing mayhem and destruction whenever someone makes a wish (particularly random people who ''aren't'' the person who can free the genies with three wishes), ensuring that whoever actually ''did'' free him will never make their three wishes. |
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