Ozymandias. Not only was it a brilliant plan, it succeeded.

@gordol66

Жыл бұрын

@@Canrugger All superhero movies are SciFi. Not everything has to be "Contact".

@booffwooowooo9549

Жыл бұрын

You guy realize that the story continues after that and sadly to say ozzy made it all worse. Everyone found out through Rorschach's journal. People believe the u.s. helped plained it and started world war 3. His plain was flawed because he left the one person that is all about truth live to long.

@gordol66

Жыл бұрын

@@thedevilsrockstxr2309 So? Science Fiction is a setting. Also, Dr. Manhattan himself isn't science fiction?

@frostythechimneysweep1171

Жыл бұрын

True. Though afterwards he spent a lot of time in a one-prisoner prisom on the moon only staffed by clones of his adoptive parents. Also his plot eventually was revealed to the public. All this in the brilliant series that followed.

@Tanstaafl_74

11 ай бұрын

@@thedevilsrockstxr2309 bull. Frankenstein is science fiction due to the creation of Frankenstein's monster. Watchmen is scifi due to the creation of Dr. Manhattan.

I still think Ozymandias in Watchmen had a flawless plan.

@Luviborix

Жыл бұрын

Not flawless, there's Rorschach's diary.

@shawncollins3624

Жыл бұрын

@@Canrugger watchmen is my favorite hero movie it's falls under hero sci-fi same as superman

@matthewp9569

Жыл бұрын

@@Canrugger You are absolutely wrong on that. It's a superhero movie; how is that not science fiction?

@matthewp9569

Жыл бұрын

@@BlackHatCinephile I agree with you and Kalel. Ozymandias was smart enough however, to know what the reaction of his fellow Watchmen would be. He knew the apathetic Manhattan would not see the forest from the trees and kill Rorschach, who he knew would have the righteous indignation to "have" to report on this. Love the opinions though, you're both right.

@brianlara6451

Жыл бұрын

I got to see watchmen in imax. First date with the future mother of my kids. We separated recently but before she met me she thought comics were only for kids. Sin city was another great adaptation.

I have always said that the Star Wars prequels were just as much a story of the rise of Palpatine as it was the rise of Darth Vader. In fact, the duplicity and manipulation from Palpatine was my favorite part.

The real master plan of Palpatine was not taking the Senate, although was a big part of it. The genius move was... hiding. By not fighting the Jedi Order as a Sith, he allowed them to grow compliant, letting them become arrogant, and weak. He exploited every weak link in the order, and he only failed just because Sith had the same wrong concept of The Force. The Force is one thing, it doesn't really have sides. Luke ends up becoming a true agent of it, embracing all of it.

Everyone needs to watch Upgraded! Absolutely fantastic movie!

Ra's plan in Stargate made perfect sense. Earth slaves revolted, the gate was buried as part of an agreement to avoid further conflict with the Not-Goa'uld; its uncovering and use meant that the agreement was broken and O'Neil's team represented a threat to the Not-Goa'uld.

@shlatekkin

Жыл бұрын

O'Neil with one "L" Two "L's" is for the show as stated by Richard Dean Anderson

Where's Ava from Ex Machina? Not really a villain, yeah but she was the antagonist to the male humans & succeeded by playing them both quite elaborately

@alm2187

Жыл бұрын

You mean not really a villain because she's a villainess? 😉 I thought of her too, though. Interesting how that unfolds.

@trintenm8551

Жыл бұрын

Good example and I think she would classify as a villainess, especially when she abandoned her love interest to die, locked in a small portion of the mansion. Her arranging the death of her creator is arguably justified given he was holding her "captive" (assuming we grant her the same rights as any self-aware being), and experimenting on her, and generally being cruel to her. But the other guy? She played him, then left him to die.

5:46 And Biff ultimately causes his own demise by doing that (according to the Deleted scenes list posted recently)

Am I the only person who remembers & loved the TV series spin off of Minority Report even though it lasted just 1 Season?

@daniela_k_

Жыл бұрын

I don’t remember loving it or hating it, but I do remember watching it.

Dune, the Baron Harkonnen had a smart plan to use the Emperor to get rid of his own biggest enemy. Then with the power he would get from that, and positioning the Emperor in a dangerous and vulnerable situation to take the crown for himself.

@TonyHammitt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and it didn't work because of sentimentality. Piter wanted Jessica, so he spared her and her son, thinking that they weren't a threat and leaving their demise to underlings. He should have just had them both shot in the "crossfire". No explanations needed, woops, sorry, collateral damage... Or "no, I said Don't shoot them, you must have misheard me". Oh well, that book would have sucked. Things turn out alright in the end, just needed to cause the scattering once people were no longer so predictable as to make prescience useful.

I just had a vision of Palpatine with a cigar saying "I love it when a plan comes together" a la A-Team. also- Ozymandias zapping dr Manhattan not to destroy him- probably aware it would not be permanent- but give him the time to set off the nukes without Manhattan interfering. then revealing his plan 1/2 hour after it went into effect, not before...

Palpatine wasn't patient. The reason he failed was because he ignored the rule of two and became impatient.

@7:38 Humorously, in Superman Returns, Lex's plan is more or less a variation of the same thing. Destroy a bunch of existing land, own the new kryptonian island, ???, Profit!

Amazing video Josh from what culture of smartest villains plans in sci fi movies,fantastic job.

What about HAL 9000 in "2001"? Yes, he's made more sympathetic in "2010", but in the first story he's pure inscrutable malice. And his plan to get rid of the crew was brilliant: Fake a malfunction, draw a crewman outside to fix it, kill that crewman with the pod, draw the only other active crewman out to rescue the first one, kill the three crew in cryosleep while he's gone, and then don't let him back inside when he returns. This plan failed, but I think it had a better chance of working exactly as HAL intended.

@trintenm8551

Жыл бұрын

I think the issue keeping HAL off the list is that HAL wasn't acting out of evil or intentional malice. He was trying to resolve a conflict between his core programming ("Don't lie.") and his mission orders ("Lie about what the crew is really going to investigate."); paraphrasing on both of those. The solution? HAL doesn't need to lie if everyone is dead, meeting both of his requirements. It was a logic driven decision, horrific by human standards, but to something which has morality defined in binary code and very clear parameters... not so much.

came here for superman 3 with the micro-penny deductions from bank transactions

not only Did Palpatine succeed but he also managed to become the Emperor through purely legal means, as well as manipulate the Jedi into comitting treason and attempting to seize power for themselves. In fact part of what led to Anakins fall just happened to be when he was shot down while reminding a certain Jedi that does nothing but insult and disrespect him that the Jedi way and the law said Mace had no right to kill Palpatine. And told flat out by Mace Windu turning to the dark side that Mace's word is law.

Sci-fi films are so underrated.🎥

@COEYRN

Жыл бұрын

Wholly agree.

I made the mistake once of thinking to hard about being in a Matrix. You wouldn’t know who your parents or siblings were. How would Neo and Trinity know they aren’t brother and sister? That’s the kind of thing I think about at 3:33am. Lol

@markgarrett3647

Жыл бұрын

Interesting 🤔

For Thanos, not just what was in the video, but also waiting until very powerful entities that could oppose him were dead: Odin, Hela, Ego, and Ronin (I guess even though Ronin betrayed Thanos.)

I mean…couldn’t thanos have just doubled the resources in the universe? That’s essentially what he was going for

Much of Palpatine's plans were actually his predecessor's, Plagueis, built on foundations of concealment and quiet building of strength dating back to Bane himself. Though it's obviously impossible to deny how skilfully and brilliantly he executed them

I once read a fan theory that Palpatine is Anakin's father & he had spent decades behind the scenes not only gaining power to become Emperor & take out all of the Jedi, but also to have his son become his apprentice to take over the Empire from him. Now, this is based on a story about Palpatine written before Disney gained the rights to Star Wars, so it's no longer canon, but given everything else Palpatine did during films 1 through 6 this isn't implausible.

@anigodess

Жыл бұрын

I think at a certain point we should consider anything AFTER Disney to be non-canonical.

@TonyHammitt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and I think a better third movie would be having Anakin flip out because Padme was cheating on him with Obi Wan, who turns out to be the twins' read dad

@TheErockaustin

Жыл бұрын

I always liked the theory that Anakin was the result of Palpatine experimenting with the Force

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia, round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perditions flames before I give him up!

@isomeme

Жыл бұрын

To which my question is "How did Khan know about those places? Or was he just riffing?" 🙂

Good Video 🤩👌👍🥰

Khan is the name on the Folder in Season Finale of Picard. So we might see Khan again.

The Back to the Future franchise will always be amazing (even if the 2015 "future" never actually happened 😭)

@donnamurphy8551

Жыл бұрын

Well, there are hover boards (sort of), and Trump (Biff) did become President. But that’s nothing compared to The Simpsons. So far that show has an almost perfect score.

@TonyHammitt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, because Marty screwed up the timeline!

@markgarrett3647

Жыл бұрын

@@donnamurphy8551 That's Biden just read his daughters diary.

Burying the tripods wasn't smart. The aliens could have gotten the same results if the tripods just landed on Earth. Besides the tripods that were buried were outdated by thousands of years.

@GoranXII

Жыл бұрын

That, and probably broken due to thousands of years of zero maintenance.

Not sure how the aliens' plan in _War Of The Worlds_ (2005) counts as genius. If they were aiming to take over, why not do so centuries before? I don't think much of the machines' plan in _The Matrix_ either, given that nuclear reactors are much more efficient at generating power.

Palpatine definitely earned the top spot

Wow. Biff Tannen actually made it onto a list of the smartest villains in Sci-Fi movies. One question: what are you smoking??

Ava from Ex Machina deserved to be on this list.

KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!! …I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it xD

You say that Palpatine was just a "lowly Galactic Senator" but I can't tell if you are joking or being serious. Even if you are just a galactic senator, that still means you are basically in charge of at least 1 planet. Like if we had a single world government here on earth, and there was 1 person in charge of that government, they would be the equivalent of a galactic senator. So that's still kind of a ton of power actually.

I think Palpatine is the greatest movie villain in history controlling both sides of a war I can't think of anyone else who has done that

So basically, patience is a key skill

I've often said that what Thanos should have done in Avengers Infinity War was 1) wipe out between 1/8 to 1/6 of the population of just intelligent life in the universe & 2) double all natural resources in the universe to help meet the growing population's needs. Thanos wiping out 1/2 of all life was a problem since he wiped out all intelligent life & animal life which still resulted in further inequality of resources that would be difficult to distribute amongst the surviving 1/2 of the population.

@briwanderz

Жыл бұрын

I said the same, mostly, tho I was saying go ahead and snap away half of the dominant species on each ppl planet, leave the rest.. or you could even say snap away half the dominant species and shrink the remaining half so they require less resources and less space, solves long term problems if they repopulate.

@sjadarkest

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. He lowered the numbers but the ratio was still the same. Always bugged me that fellow MCU fans touted Thanos as being one of the most successful villains when his plan has such an obvious flaw.

Good things come to those who wait

maybe no one noticed the machines get hidden in war of the worlds because they were placed there thousands of years ago

Point of fact, Doc Brown says in Back To The Future that he would be able to see the winner of the next fifty World Series. The whole thing was HIS idea, not Marty's, not Biff's, Doc's.

The universe is big, Thanos Apologists, not infinite. Entropy is inevitable. The Doctors argument against the ATMOS devices is valid.

9:51

Actually Skynet can only send one Terminator at a time, since this alters the future and the new skynet would not know that timeline of the other skynet and send a different one.. sending a second one in the first place would result in the second one never arive..

I don't know if The Matrix belongs on this list, looking back on it, the machines weren't really the villains.

In the Matrix the AI could have also grown people without arms and legs..... soooooooooo they only needed the brain....and internal organs.......

@TonyHammitt

Жыл бұрын

Or not people at all, if they needed "power". I think they probably meant to have the simulation run in the people's brains, but chickened out with something easier to explain to the movie audience.

@GoranXII

Жыл бұрын

Or, you know, nuclear power. Humans are terribly inefficient at producing anything. Really, they should have come up with a different explanation altogether, such as the machines being programmed pacifists, Thus not allowing them to kill humans.

The Matrix should have used cows; no rebels there!

Totally disagree on War of the Worlds buried tripods. Why wait thousands of year to take over? Could have taken over much earlier.

Tyler Durdan?

The “eels” aren’t telekinetic.

Khan was in one movie. I don't know what to call that character Benedict Cumberbatch played.

The golden code proves the second Matrix layer.

Simulayyytion

They literally recycled the plot of the original superman movie with the superman returns failed reboot... instead of the west coast and nukes in superman Luthor tried using superman crystals from the fortress of solitude infused with kryptonite and the east coast/Atlantic... they thought that'd slip past us...

Kahn's Centauri Eels had telekinetic powers?? Since when ?

@DrFeelGoodHelpDesk

Жыл бұрын

Since the writer of the article thought of it as they didn't listen to Khan's rather detailed explanation in the film ...as they probably didn't see it given the assertion that they factored into a grand scheme. Khan didn't have a grand scheme beyond revenge on Kirk, rather simple really.

@chefdean7257

Жыл бұрын

@@DrFeelGoodHelpDesk Odd reply, as it seems to have no correlation to telekinetics versus telepathics.

@DrFeelGoodHelpDesk

Жыл бұрын

@@chefdean7257 you asked "since when", and I've basically said that the writer made it up for the article

Gonna go out on a limb and say the writer hasn't seen Wrath of Khan, as the explanation of what the parasite did was quite simple and didn't involve telepathy

The Waffle House Has Found It’s New Host

Let's stick to the first Matrix....shows clips from sequels