Hmm, I'm gonna have to go with Danny Devito's Penguin from "Batman Returns" Let's see, so...

1.) Step one: Capture big city mogul and, instead of holding him ransom or blackmailing him for millions, start a partnership!

2.) Use newly-founded partnership to set up an elaborate plan involving a clown, the mayor's baby, and you materializing out of a sewer to save the day. It worked for the Ninja Turtles, right?

3.)Run for mayor, ignor the fact that you just bit off some guy's nose, eat raw fish in front of your campaign supporters.

4.) If Batman gets in the way, wire his car to one of those rides in front of the supermarket, and frame his ass! (Make sure you're accompanied by a cat fetishist)

5.) If Batman survives and exposes your plan, scream loudly, start shooting, and head back to the sewer. The circus freaks who work for you for no discernable reason will be waiting there.

6.) Attempt to slay thousands of children across the city. Utilize circus freaks and expect no trouble from the superhero you tried to frame a minute ago. The cops won't even notice your child-collecting mobile cages.

7.) While #6 is happening, attempt to capture big city mogul...again, but this time in a rubber ducky. Do this at a public party that's probably swarming with security.

8.) If the goddamn Batman pops up again, just say "fuck it" and strap a bunch of rockets to your penguin army.

It can't fail!

I believe a strong contender for stupidest supervillain plan ever would be down to the infamous Baron Greenback, nemesis of the Greatest Secret Agent in the World, Dangermouse.

In the episode "Custard," Baron Greenback devises a plan to drown the world in custard. To do so, the Baron distributes tainted custard to all of England, such that when the tins of custard are opened, they explode violently, filling the house (and often rupturing the structure) in which they are opened. Baron Greenback's plan nearly comes to fruition, before it is thwarted by Dangermouse retrieving the Custard Mite of Glut. When Dangermouse returns, the entire world is dripping with custard, with only a few points visible from space which are not swamped in runny yellow.

It is not made clear in what way Baron Greenback intends for this to bring about any success. He does not appear to be demanding a ransom, nor even to have any way to reverse the process. Indeed, but for Dangermouse's intervention, Baron Greenback appears to be suffering the same fate as the rest of the world.

Beyond Baron Greenback's other ploys, drowning the world in custard for no purpose and with no benefit seems a sure "stupidest" winner.

Remember that daffy Legends of the Superheroes TV special from 1979? The one where Solomon Grundy disguised himself as a gas station attendant? Where Sivana created a bomb that would blow up the world, with everyone on it including the bad guys, if the Super Heroes didn't find their hidden island, then the bad guys proceed to lure the Super Heroes to the island (Sinestro as a cross dressing fortune teller, Riddler as a head shrinker, Weather Wizard as a used car salesman...you get the un-hilarious idea), even though doing that would defeat their own idiotic plan of global destruction?

I win. Unless someone can figure out what the Empire's plan was on that God-awful Star Wars Holiday Special. Whatever it was, I'm sure it will beat out any other entry.

Cobra Commander had a few real gems from the old G.I. Joe cartoon that made me shake my head even as a kid.

The two that really stand out in my mind are as follows:

1. Build a giant laser to laser-blast your face onto the moon for the sole purpose of spreading terror and mayhem. Do I really need to offer more details about why this plan was just absolutely daft? I mean, the moon? If you have a laser that can shoot that far through the vaccum of space and cause permanent, epic-scale destruction, why not just mount it on a sattelite and point it at a major city, then demand a ransom?

2. Destroy the ozone layer by marketing your own brand of shaving cream and/or deodorant (I can't remember which one) that releases a hell of a lot of CFC's... and also have a bizarre arctic base where you manufacture the stuff, where you also plan to simultaneously release the CFC's into the atmosphere to rip the ozone layer a new one. I don't remember all of the details - I was about eight years old at the time - but I recall the CFC producing installation was guarded by snow troopers who zoomed around on rocket-propelled snow boards. I remember wondering why they wasted so much money building a nearly inaccessible installation, staffing it with rocket boarder guards, and filled it with shaving cream and harmful gasses rather than something worth guarding.

I would have to go with Arthur Petrelli from Heroes.

Ok, so he wants a formula to make people have powers, but why? Also, he can time travel and warp but still seems to need help from others. Basically, he is the ultimate super villain but is weirdly inept (and yet still, he is more competent than anyone). Ok back to his plan - oh wait, despite watching every episode I don't think I can really explain it.

Actually, I don't know if anyone actually knows what his plan is, so maybe this doesn't count as an entry.

Forget the t-shirt - Just thinking about this gives me a headache. I am going to go drink some scotch.

Hmm...

I'm going to have to say Dr. Robotnik.

Not video game Dr. Robotnik, mind you. TV Show Dr. Robotnik. In particular, the episode "Sonic Racer."

Right off the bat, from the episode title, you can tell this is a bad idea. Racing? Sonic? That little blue (kinda porky back in the day) hedgehog that goes Warp Factor 5 whenever he gets a Power Ring in the TV Show? You wanna challenge this guy to a race? Well, okay, be my guest...

So Robotnik unveils this master plan at the beginning of the episode, constructing a... cheetah (apparently Robotnik failed African Biology and does not know that cheetahs can only go incredibly fast for short periods of time) to race against our speedy blue friend. Well, this is Saturday morning TV show fare, so we'll forgive the life science faux pas and look onto the more glaring details of Robotnik's plan:

1) The Sonic TV Show theme song clearly states "He's the fastest thing alive!" Granted, your robot may not exactly be alive, but when a dejected, former 80s power rocker is screeching that out at the top of his lungs, I would hope you would pay attention.

2) Glue. Every episode, Sonic gets stuck in glue, a bog, something. You would think Robotnik would cease-and-desist with the glue traps and go for, oh, I don't know, walls of lasers or something? They certainly show up in every other episode, why Robotnik doesn't just throw up a few laser walls here? Hell, combine it WITH the glue, because Sonic always seems to get stuck in it for a good minute. That would incinerate Sonic, rather than have him squirm for a minute, providing more poses for the furries to mimic in their art, and then get away.

3) Robotnik seems to ACTUALLY WANT TO WIN THE RACE. And even then, what he wants to do is unclear. I'm pretty sure he wants to kill Sonic, but then again... he's just using the glue trap. No, I think Robotnik actually wanted to outrace Sonic. Not destroy the Freedom Fighters, not take advantage of the fact that Sonic (and half the Freedom Fighters) are currently in Robotropolis to raze the goddamn forest where they live (seriously, there's gotta be like, one forest left on Mobius, why is he having a hard time finding these guys), not even RESTRAIN THEM THERE FOR A WHILE, but he wants to WIN A RACE.

Robotnik. You run 99/100s of a planet. If you want to win a race, just take your retarded cheetah and have it race against another one of your stupid robots and call it a day. Don't let Sonic into your city so that he can blow a bunch of stuff up while still winning the race.

The aliens in Signs had a pretty silly plan. Why travel through the vast reaches of outer space to enslave humanity if they were deadly allergic to water - the substance which covers over 70 % of this planet? And since they obviously were a bunch of nudists, they probably didn't bring any raincoats...

I would have to say the evil plan from the movie The Tuxedo. An evil water bottling company that has chemicals that dehydrate their consumer, in their water, so that people buy more of their water! MWAHAHAHAHA!

*facepalm*

I think the stupidest super villain plain I've ever seen was in an episode of Super Friends. Some evil scientist guy opened a diner and tricked Superman into eating a kryptonite sandwich so he could replace him with a robot. He also replaced Marvin and Wonder Dog with robots as well. Somehow he was hoping to steal money from NASA to help the homeless. I've only seen this episode once, so the details are a little sketchy, but those are the important points. I really want to see this again so I know I wasn't dreaming or medicated or something.

You could actually use darn near any plot from any Superfriends for this list. But for the sake of challenge, I'm going to use one from the GOOD Superfriends days. No Wendy and Marvin. No Wonder Twins. Just the Justice League vs. The Legion of Doom, as Julius Schwartz intended.

Here was the Legion of Doom's plan for world domination in "Invasion of the Fearians".

1. Make contact with evil aliens from Venus, known as The Fearians.

2. Strike deal with evil aliens - we terraform the planet to make it more suitable for them, they use their superior technology to stop the Superfriends and we rule the Earth for them as they'll be busy conquering the rest of the Universe.

3. Ignore that if the aliens were THAT superior, they could terraform the planet themselves.

4. Also ignore that if we make the planet livable for them, it will be uninhabitable for us .

5. Also ignore that the aliens - if they actually ARE that superior - could double-cross at anytime and we'd be powerless to stop them.

6. Use Captain Cold's biggest freeze ray to bring about the next Ice Age. Ignore that Venus is much hotter than Earth and that this is an ass-backwards way to make the Earth more like Venus.

7. Keep freezing most of the Earth until The Flash shows up. Let him melt all the ice. This will release a butt-load of steam, increasing the ambient humidity of the Earth and making it swampier. Through SCIENCE!

8. Get Black Manta to set the Pacific Ocean on fire. No, really.

9. Count on Aquaman showing up and trying to put the fire out by using an ass-load of whales who jump up and down until they make a tsunami big enough to douse the flames... and flood every coastline in the world, making things even MORE swampy!

10. Get Sinestro to send a ton of yellow comets directly at the Earth.

11. Count on Green Lantern being sent out to deal with this by moving the Earth out of the path of the comments and forgetting to put it back where it was, thus causing the earth to become even MORE hot and human. Hope like hell that Superman doesn't go instead to just move the comets or punch Sinestro himself since he doesn't have to worry about yellow things.

12. Let the Fearians take out the Justice League and then move in to take over the world for however long we have left to live before excess humidity, heat and Al Gore smugly telling us that he was right all along kills humanity.

If you consider the intelligence of much of the citizenry and heroes of these stories, and that the plans actually often succeed or come close except for one small chance occurrence which gives the heroes victory, it's hard to call even some of the sillier ones, such as Cobra's "Cold Slither" plot "stupid." At the least, they're effective.

However, so as not to disappoint, here's one from Megatron, the original G1 version. I'm sure you know it well:

The Autobots need energon to mount a major strategic assault so they can reclaim Cybertron, and so Optimus sends a shuttle to Earth for more. The Decepticons intercept, and Starscream says "let's turn this bitch around and frag us some damn Autobots," and Megatron says "no, we're riding this bad-boy to Earth and totally punk'n those Autobots."

They arrive on Earth, and attack Autobot City after the BIG GAPING HOLE they left caused them to be detected by young gun Hot Rod. They tear shit up, but get some of their own shit torn up, too. The Autobots call Optimus, who brings the Dinobots. They take down Devastator, leaving Optimus to kick the collective ass of every single Decepticon left on Earth, saving Megatron for last.

Prime and Megatron fight to the death, literally. Megatron lives, but barely, which is good enough for Starscream to toss his ass out because the economy was crap enough that Astrotrain couldn't afford a full tank of gas. Megatron gets left for dead, until he sells his soul to TransFormer Satan. In return, he (and the other corpses) becomes a Decepti-demon with Leonard Nimoy's voice, which would be cool if not for the migraines he keeps getting that say "you belong to Unicron now, so back on your knees."

He does get to destroy Starscream, but for all the good it does him; the damage is done, there's no turning back now. Megatron is officially fucked.

Running errands for Unicron, he winds up with the one thing that can destroy him, but because "he's a Decepticon," he can't figure out the fingerholes. Hot Rod does and destroys Unicron, but by that time Galvatron is already out of the picture by getting his ass chucked helluva far, Mr. T style, into a pool of lava that fries his brain for the rest of the series.

All because he didn't listen to fucking Starscream and just turn the damn bus around and blow up the moon when they had no energy.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie and I love it very much, but you're either looking at a stupid plan or a very bad fucking day.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

This doesn't count for my entry, and that may very well bite me in the ass, but I just wanted to bring it to light anyway:

Mega Man cartoon, "Curse of the Lion Men." Dr. Wily resurrects an ancient civilization of lion men who want to rule the world, and for some reason thinks they'd serve him, just like the robots he re/programmed to do so. So they enslave him, his robots, everyone else, and turn everything not made of metal into lion slave people.

With eye-lasers.

Thus helping make that episode perhaps the worst in the entire damn series. The piss-poor animation and errors doing the rest of the job.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

Stupidest Supervillain Plan? My choice would be from "Dead Recknoing", an episode of Justice League Unlimited. In this episode, Grodd, the psychic talking gorilla steals a magic jewel from a Tibetan monastery which, when used to power a machine sitting in the heart of Gorilla City, can turn all the humans in the world (and apparently some non-humans like Superman) in GORILLAS!

What makes this plan so stupid (I mean, aside from the whole "turn all humans into gorillas" part)? Well, for one thing, Grodd decides he has to invade and take over Gorilla City to get to the machine, forcing him to hold off the entire Gorilla City army (and several members of the Justice League) while trying to get the damn thing to work. This, while Grodd is leading a team of about 40 supervillains, many of whom could simply pick up the damn machine and carry it someplace quiet where Grodd can dick around with it at his leisure, as well as several super-scientists like Lex Luthor, who could probably reverse-engineer the thing just by looking at it.

Second, while fighting a full scale war against Gorilla City, Grodd, who, as I just mentioned, is leading a team of about 40 supervillains, take SIX of them with him to back him up. And they're not even the six most powerful.

Third, it begs the question of why Grodd even wants to turn humans into gorillas. Other gorillas HATE Grodd; it's why they kicked him out of Gorilla City in the first place. Besides, we've seen in previous episodes of Justice League that Grodd has something of fetish for human women (and they, inexplicably, seem fond of him as well). Making them all look like him would rob him of one of his favorite pasttimes.

Finally, Grodd never once considers whether the other supervillains WANT to become gorillas. Oh, it's obviously occurred to him; it's the reason why he doesn't tell any of the other villains his plan until it goes ass-up. But he clearly did not see the repercussions of inflicting his plan on his supervillain team (did I mention there was 40 of them?) who were going to be extremely pissed to see themselves sprouting fur in weird places. Turning 40 people with superhuman abilities, no detectable scruples, and poor impulse control into animals doesn't seem like a good career move to me.

So why did Grodd WANT to turn everybody into gorillas? I honestly don't know. Lex Luthor shoots him before he has a chance to explain himself, which was the one saving grace of this episode.

I'm sure this will make me some friends.

Adrian Veidt's plan in Watchmen. So the problem, as you see it, is that there are two nuclear-armed superpowers teetering on the knife's edge of global nuclear destruction. To solve this you realize, harkening back to the precedent set by the Second World War, that the two superpowers would join together against a third more dangerous faction if such a faction existed. You then in rapid succession: search the globe for a psychic, develop teleportation technology, genetically engineer a living gigantic monstrous squid based on a ramped-up version of the afore mentioned psychic's brain, commission the world's greatest artists to create unimaginably horrific Lovecraftian imagery, and dump all of that imagery into the brain of the afore mentioned giant squid. You know that if you were to teleport the squid it would die and explode like so much polbo á feira, but before it died it would psychically broadcast all the imagery into the brains of an unprepared populace thus causing death, death, really bad nightmares, and more death. You have created the prototype for a falloutless neutron bomb that kills through pure terror, kills only people, and leaves infrastructure intact. Also have I mentioned that you named yourself after Alexander the Great and have a thing about taking over the world? I bet you see where this is going...

You're wrong. So very wrong. Instead of using your new weapon of mass destruction to A). Take over the world or B). Force the two superpowers to join together to defeat you, you instead decide to fake an alien "invasion" and then teleport the prototype, the only one you have, into New York City. Your plan is so flimsy that you had to spend the last month or so killing anyone who knew anything at all about the plan including everyone who helped you create the prototype, some guy who randomly stumbled across your plan, your butlers, and finally some ultra-violent paranoid schizophrenic who figured out the plan because you left the entire outline of the plan on your work computer and you pick passwords like an idiot. When your "invasion" is finally complete nobody calls it an invasion and instead it is immediately compared to a freak natural disaster. Surprisingly, nuclear tensions completely disappear when the USSR and the USA announce the Joint International Commission for the Prevention and Study of Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Giant Psychic Squid Aliens.

Okay, I got one that is pretty bad (if movies count)

The whole plot in LEONARD PART 6 with Bill Cosby! The villaiin was a woman who was going to take over the world with animals! Some weird guy would say quelish(sp?) and all of a sudden a bunch of frogs jumped a guy's car into the lake.

Or the weird vegetarians that she had as minions(throw meat patties to defeat them!). If anyone remembers that piece of garbage....my apologies!

Any of the Bond villain plans would qualify, but Goldfinger's is one of the best.

As I understand THE PLAN:
1. Accumulate gold.
2. Detonate a (priceless) nuclear device inside Fort Knox, making the gold RADIOACTIVE! The radioactive gold, that no one was intending to sell, is rendered unsalable.
3. PROFIT!

Of course, it's not as good as the plan from Casino Royale.

1. Win back the money he lost "investing" by gambling.
2. If that doesn't work, yank on some guy's nuts until he gives you the money back.
3. Get killed by terrorists/SMERSH.

I'll have to nominate Dracula from the Castlevania series. Hey, he counts as a supervillain, right? He's supposedly got powers of some sort, right?
I say 'supposedly' because all he has ever done is get his ass kicked hard. I mean, he hardly even gets to spout off about 'a man being a miserable little pile of secrets' before a little girl kills him with a throwing pigeon.

Anyway, here's his master plan:
Step 1: Get resurrected by some evil priest/crazy priest/hot vampire lady with really awful hair.
Step 2: Crush those fool Belmonts at last and take over the world.

It usually turns into this:
Step 1: Get resurrected for about five minutes until...
Step 2: ...he gets killed by a Belmont or whoever happens to be in the neighborhood.

I'd say the surest sign of stupidity is doing something over and over again, failing, and trying again, even if your 'ingenious plan' has managed to get you killed hundreds of times.
Dracula is a failure. He never wins, never learns, and never tries anything different. When he returns from the grave, does he honestly think he has a chance this time? After getting his ass kicked by Maria Renard, did he honestly think anybody would ever take him seriously again?
The final nail in Drac's coffin is that his own subordinate, Death, has been far more creative and successful in his own effort (Especially in Portrait of Ruin and Curse of Darkness). That's not to say that Death is in any way effective, he just manages to suck a little less than Dracula.
I hear the next Castlevania pits Dracula against a hobo armed with a can opener.

In addition to all the stuff The Shadow said, I don't think Grodd ever considered that, since gorillas are much stronger than humans, making the superheroes (and his fellow villains, for that matter) into super-strong apes might be a bad idea.

I mean, just think of Gorilla Superman, proportionately as strong compared to regular Superman as a gorilla is to a normal human... that's fucking scary.

What? How can no one mention the greatest stupid plan in recent history?

All I have to say is one sentence, rather than a detailed explaination, and you will say it is dumb.

Lex Luthor creates his own island with increased real-estate, but makes it out of kryptonite so Superman can't get on it. The end.

The Grinch. Does he count?

Imagine you were pissed off because the Whos keep singing Christmas carols 'round the clock. Not hard to imagine being in a frenzied rage over Christmas carols at this time of year, is it? Anyway, what's the easier plan?

Plan A: Sneak into the town, go into everyone's houses, and quietly steal all Christmas-related items of every sort. Haul all of this crap up the chimney. Once you have it all, push the entire freakin' mess up the tallest mountain in the area. All of it. At once. Then tip it off.

Or, Plan B: Sneak into the houses in the middle of the night and slit some throats. Faster and easier, and no chimneys required. Plus all that stuff you were going to throw off a mountain? Yeah, that's YOURS now. And you have an entire town's supply of Roast Beast if you start raiding fridges; they don't need it anymore.

GREAT ZEUS!!! For some reason cartoons in the 1970s (especially in Canada) were very strange but one of my favorites was the MIGHTY HERCULES. Its had the best theme song and the gayest sidekicks - Newt and Toot. Despite the fact that it took him five minutes to put on his ring that gave him his strength he still defeated his lame villians - And my vote for the worst cartoon villian of all. It begins and ends with the MASK. How weak is this guy? Of course "nothing can harm him when he wears the MASK OF VULCAN!" but Herc always finds a way to get it off of his head....put a chin strap in the damn thing why don't ya??? Best scene was when he made similiar masks for a herd of cows...why a herd of cows? I totally forget but he thought that it would somehow allow him to take over the world.

I'd go with the original live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Shredder just wants to kill the turtles I don't really know why, but his master plan is fool proof. He assembles his own team of ninjas (Foot Clan), and how does he do this?

Step 1: Get a bunch of teenagers to steal electronics, to improve their stealth I guess? (Wise ninja know to go for the LCD flat screens, those Plasma screens are fools gold)

Step 2: Let them play video games, to improve their their reflexes? (When you can get the frog across the road then your training will be complete)

Step 3: Let them smoke, to make them cool? (Everyone knows ninjas are cool)

His only flaw, his teenagers were human not mutant animals, but that's what sequels are for.

Wonder Woman's rogues are perfect for this challenge.

Baroness Paula von Gunther spent seven million dollars to inflate the price of milk in America. Her hope was that the poor would not be able to afford to buy milk, and they would grow up weakened and dwarfed. Thus making the next generation of Americans easy prey for Germany.

Perhaps this is where the idea for the old "It does a body good" commercials started.

In one of his first appearances, the Mandarin had a giant robot (Ultimo?) kidnap Iron Man. Instead of having the robot crush Iron Man in one hand, Mandarin ties Iron Man to a spinning wheel with what looks to be ordinary rope. Since the Mandarin didn't deign to explain his plot (which was unusual for Stan Lee),I'm assuming that he wanted Iron Man to dehydrate to death while being too disoriented to escape. This would take a few weeks. Alternately, if the wheel was spinning fast enough, Iron Man could vomit and drown in his own helmet (a problem he'd face years later as a raging alky). This plan was pretty direct as far as overly complicated murder plots go, but the major flaw was that Mandarin left Iron Man's armor on. This is akin to leaving Batman's utility belt on after you've captured him or not putting any kryptonite in your dath trap for Superman. Needless to say, Iron Man doesn't stay tied to the wheel of fortune for too long. The least the Mandarin could have done is remove his mask so he would know to kill Tony Stark in his sleep after his inevitable escape. He didn't even videotape IM's humiliating torture so he could blackmail shellhead with threats of releasing it to America's Funniest Home Videos. To add some neccessary context, the Mandarin has ten alien rings, each with a different lethal power, that he fails to use on Iron Man with while he's unconscious. The Mandarin honestly thought tying a guy in high tech battle armor to spinning wheel would be more effective way to be rid of him than shooting him with his rings' disintegration and matter rearranger rays. Saddest of all, somehow he's considered an A-list Iron Man villain.

TangledPlaid> Sort of.

I think the plot ran thus:

1) Lure kids in with promises of freedom and pleasures.

2) Put them to work stealing stuff, to help finance the Foot.

3) Train them as ninja. For ninja stuff. Like attacking mouthy reporters. And possibly stealing entire trucks' worth of packages and things in mere seconds without a trace.

Pretty sure he was doing this before he knew of the Turtles. They stuck their nose in his business, proved themselves a credible thread, he wants them dead. So he sends in his army of Foot Soldiers to wear them down (if they die, lucky, but unlikely). Then he beats the hell out of them himself.

He just didn't count on a turncoat teenager and hockey mask-wearing vigilante freeing his trump card hostage.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

Another GI Joe doozy. Cobra Commander has a plan to control the minds of the youth subliminally and enslaving them in the process by using Zartan's Drednoks, forming a band called Cold Slither. With videos and everything.

Now as to who would let known terrorists air videos, sell records, and hold concerts to lure in people is beyond me. But then again I realize that ICP have a lot of Juggalos out there...

Mumm-Ra plans in Thunderctas always involved him capturing one of the good guys then disguiseing himself etc and infiltrating the base. I also recall him mummifying all of them....except Snarf....who saves them.

Damn Matt, I the Penguin army was the first one I thought of too.
The first episode of the Iron Man cartoon in the 90's had some brilliant writing to it. Sink a nuclear submarine, killing everyone on board, release a chemical to turn them into some kind of super zombies. Then Iron Man will be compelled to go down their, putting on his underwater armor which appears out of nowhere, and be murdered. Even those the super powered semi-intelligent villains he's been sending after him can't kill him.

Cobra's worst plan by far cab be summed up by two words: "Red Rocket." This plan is a kaleidoscope of stupidity anyway you look at it, even for Cobra.

1. So Cobra has these incredibly destructive missles but apparently no place to launch them from despite their assortment of hideouts located around the world.

2. "Hmm...what if we could launch them off the top of a chain of restaurants?"

"How are we going to do that?"

"We make the missile part of the logo!"

"Fucking Brilliant!"

3. Cobra, despite having the financial means to build a ton of destructive warheads, is apparently too cheap to build their own restaurants, so they want to convert existing restaurants by using the Dreadnaughts to scare away customers. That way the owners sell cheap.

4. They name the chain of restaurants something more obvious than "T.G.I.Fuck The World" and something with more than a little sexual innuendo: "Red Rocket." Because what says "Family Dining" more than the thought of the family dog, Fido, sporting wood. This is like your local butcher changing the store's name to "Meat Curtains."

Red Rocket is your typical Cobra plan, but really, what can you expect from an organization whose principle decision makers are a guy wearing a rag over his head, a metal-headed black Scotsman, an S&M practitioner, two twins, and an accountant dressed like a bird.

Okay, do The Others from LOST collectively count as a super-villain? Sure, why not? So, lemme see if I can go over their plan (the ultimate goal of which seems to be protecting the island from outsiders) a bit.

So, the goddamn hippies show up and start planting weed or whatever, and doing their commune thing. The Others thus have to kill them all, because, well, the giant sonic shield around the commune apparently doesn't do the job of keeping the two groups separate, and they don't get along for some reason. But! A bunch of jungle-people apparently have access to enough poison gas to wipe out a small village, so now they have the island to themselves. *Awesome*.

Then!
Oceanic 815 crashes and disturbs their new utopia (which seemed to consist of book clubs and awkward love triangles), and they respond by ... taking names. Then they kidnap all the children, and the survivors that weren't lame, and, uh, don't gas all the rest (they only had enough poison gas for one village, with no backup?).

But then the survivors figure out that there are other people on the island (who steal babies), and get all emo about it, so now The Others have to come up with a new scheme to protect the island's virginity. That scheme involves, um, packing up and NOT going to their other island with the compound, but wandering around in the woods.

The paramilitary people show up on the island!
So, here's where The Others get back to being badass, because they somehow unleash the Smoke Monster (but only once, and they don't do it again because- well, fine), and the only way to keep the island's chastity is to, um, turn a big frozen wheel that makes the island disappear. But it didn't help, because now Bad Things are happening anyway, and the leader is now back in the real world (where he can get into Penny's dad's bedroom, but won't kill him, because... ?).

Shouldn't part of their plan have involved controlling the Hatch, since its explosion is what made the island show up to Penny's search teams (an presumably also her father's) in the first place? Since it was only being kept by Desmond at the beginning? One Scotch Eeyore should have been way easier to take down than a bunch of Survivors; but since they didn't, now he can see through time or something, and could thus take out their jamming station.

I love LOST, but let's be honest: The Others' plan to protect the island from, uh, others has been an utter failure. They had it right the first time (You want to live here? Well, try this *poison gas*! Now what, bitches? That's right, All Your Village Are Belong To Us), but for some reason decided cosplay and NOT using their clearly superior combat and marksmanship skills would somehow work better.

The whole thing turns out like some sick co-dependent/passive-aggressive/love-hate relationship: the newcomers are clearly going to ruin the island, but they're *special*, and so The Others just play mind games with them for a couple seasons until their lack of balls catches up with them, in the form of an inexplicably vengeful billionaire.

Waiting for the new season has turned me into a bitter, empty shell of my former self.

i love how you pluralize "Snarf" to "Snarves" like "scarf" is to "scarves".
Personally, I think Snarfs is correct, but yours is more literary and scholarly.

Transformers - Auto-Bop Episode

What do you get when you have an episode that includes Blaster, Soundwave, Starscream, Tracks, his lover Raoul, Raoul's pals, some break-dancing, and a nonsensical plot? An absolutely brilliant episode that should have been nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

The plot? Starscream and Soundwave create a nightclub called "Dancitron" to hypnotize humans into slaves so they can build some building which the audience never really knows why it was being built for in the first place.

Like I said, brilliant! To further entice us somehow this club is so badass that Housewives and Construction workers frequent it. This episode makes absolutely no sense and the plot is convoluted and ridiculous, but any episode where you have some major Robo-eroticism in it makes it a winner.

Also, where else would you get to hear the same cool club music from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends? How about some Robo-human love between Tracks and Raoul? What about the most memorable moment for most? That's right the sound system battle between Blaster and Soundwave! Epic! "Autobots inferior. Decepticons superior."

But for me the even more epic and memorable battle was between the two biggest prima-donnas and robo-bitches this side of Cybertron. Yes the epic battle between Sassy Starscream and Turn-Trick Tracks. Hot damn! Which one of our slump-bustin' servos would be queen supreme? Ah the 80s. Gotta love it!

Good topic. You could list the stupid super-villain plots to take over the end of the world till the end of time and never list them all.

Okay, I'm going to stretch the definition of "super-villain" to include alien invaders, specifically "THE Invaders" ("a Quinn Martin production!") from the under-appreciated 1960s TV series. I think this is valid, since the Invaders sneak around, avoid direct military confrontation, and try to destroy or enslave humanity using various methods worthy of a Bond villain.

I've been watching these on DVD lately, and they hold up really well. This is a greatly under-appreciated show, one that paved the way for "X-Files," and "Torchwood," and countless others.

Now, it isn't that the Invader's schemes are absurd. Sure, they're a bit outlandish, but we're talking aliens here. Mostly they're pretty straight-forward. Create a material that renders Earth's atmosphere unbreathable to humans, or a device that turns regular insects into (even cute, little, butterflies) into controllable, flying, crawling swarms of flesh-eaters.

It isn't that these plans can't work, because in almost every instance, they come withing moments of doing so. Only by luck and pluck does architect David Vincent stumble onto the scheme and put a stop to it, sending the aliens off to regroup and try again.

No, where it gets stupid is when you view the series as a whole. Because week after week the aliens come up with a plan to take over Earth, and week after week, Vincent shows up and takes it down.

But it was a GOOD plan. It ALMOST worked. And while Vincent is clearly the most bad-assed architect in the history of the world (he must have been some kind of elite commando in the war, as he's able to kill a man with his pinkie, showing no more remorse then a serial killer swatting a fly), he's just one man, and the rest of the world thinks he's a certifiable nut-job.

So, when Vincent thwarts your just-short-of-perfect plan, what do you do? Do you move to another town and and start making more atmosphere-destroying rock, perhaps beefing up the security and working on your cover a bit more? Do you perhaps start doing this at TWO locations at once, knowing Vincent can't stop both of them even if he can find them?

No. You come up with a completely DIFFERENT almost-perfect plan and wait for Vincent to come along with his damnably good luck and demonstrate its minor flaws for you.

Then you'll move on to ANOTHER almost-perfect plan from the "Big Book of Almost Perfect Plans" that was such a big seller on your planet back in the late 50s.

Me, I'd be building plants to produce that atmosphere rock by the dozens.

Also, I'd smother Vincent in his sleep. He's not hard to find.

Damn, the hard thing is AVOIDING him.

I have to go with Dr. Robotnik, its been mentioned before, but this time its the game version, why in sweet blue hell does a man with the resources and money that that Dr Ivo Robotnik (that has to be a name he changed by deed poll)has, decide that the best way to create the ultimate utopia is to take small cute animals and make them into fucked up cute cyborgs. How will this help him? Surely just making normal robots would be enough, or maybe just making a great mobile phone or reality tv series would help shape the world. But to capture rabbit and plug them into to evil looking hopping metalic bodies, how is that gonna win him the nobel peace prize? Maybe if these messed robo beastiallity buddies of his could make dinner or fix cars that would be useful, but all they seem to do is fire really slow projectiles at fast moving objects, or wonder aimlessly with a look of desperation on their faces. He can't even sell them as pets, what child wants their father to bring them back home a psycotic killer robo puppy which jumps in a line and will kill them if they touch it? Using them as weapons is out of the question to as they seem to be built out of cheap knock off korean lego and fall apart if anyone rolls over them or hits them with a mutated rodents tail. And finally why build an army of slow ass robots to take down a face moving junkie hedgehog, why not just tie a thin strip of razor wire between two trees in the green hill zone and watch that spikey smurf with a fire cracker up its arse chase after its own decapitated goofy head?

How about C. Montgomery Burns blotting out the sun over Springfield to drive up the town's electricity consumption, thereby making more money, only to be shot by a baby? You have to admit the plan worked up until that point, but it seems like a pretty big flaw to have. I mean: anyone, at any point, can thwart your evil plan with the smallest amount of effort. Even by accident.

What about C. Montgomery Burns trying to blot out the sun over Springfield in the infamous two-part Simpson episode, only to be shot by a baby? You have to admit that the plan works up until that point, but that seems like a pretty big flaw to have when anyone, at any point, can thwart you with the smallest ammount of effort.

George W. Bush/Dick Cheney

THE PLAN: Let's convince everyone that a cokehead frat boy dickhead who has failed at every business venture he's ever been involved in is cool enough to have a beer with, then rig an election with his Florida-governing brother's help, then let America think he's the only thing that will save them from those scary, impossible-to-understand Terrorist Monsters that are lurking everywhere and get elected TWICE, all the while making sure their friends in Big Evil Corporations are having their way in every manner they could possibly imagine.

Right, guys. Nice try.

Hmmm...there's been so many horrid supervillain plots, and so many of them from the 1960's/1970's Marvel and DC comics. I like to think that storytelling has evolved slightly since then. Because of this I am choosing the Machine's plot to destroy humanity from The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, also known as "the two sequels so bad they made Mortal Kombat Armageddon look like Tolstoy".
In the first Matrix movie we learn that human-created artificially intelligent machines has taken over the world and are using humans as batteries. In the second movie (and animated DVD, and webisodes, and promotional T-Shirts and decoder rings, etc.) we learn the machines are trying to get to the last human city, Zion. Now at first this kind of made sense. Evil robots destroy grungy mudhole base of free humans so they don't disrupt the program designed to keep the duracelly-inclined humans complacient. Unfortunately for us the Wachowski Brothers hate simplicity and reason.
As Neo finds out near the end of the second film, the machines are driven to destroy Zion to keep the Matrix running. The cycle goes; Machines run Matrix, humans free selves from Matrix, humans form base at Earth's core, Matrix residents get excited at prospect of escape (?), machines destroy base and kill free humans, Matrix goes back to being complacient. Or something like that.
I just don't see why the machines had to complicate this whole process! They were already mass-producing humans for bio-energy! Now they have to keep the humans "happy" and give them hope that someday they'll escape this cycle of being living lithium chargers?
Also still with the Matrix, Smith's plan was also pretty dumb. Does it make any sense why he'd want to populate the Matrix with nothing but himself? Wouldn't that kill all the humans hooked up to the Matrix? Wouldn't that mean there's then nothing to power the machines, and by substitute, the Matrix itself? For someone who wants to be alive so desperately, it's sort of counterproductive. "But dude," you might say, "He also escaped into the real world." Yeah, he sure did. For what purpose? To kill Neo? That's it? A machine breaks the bonds of a computer-generated reality and inhabits a real-world body and all it wants is to extract revenge? Well at least if he had have been successful he could have looked forward to life in mud-huts eating groul with mesh-wearing stink-beasts...but then again, that's just what Smith wanted, didn't he? Oh that's right, he hates humans. Guess he should have been using all that spare time he had thinking of a way to overcome the humans-as-batteries problem.

LBD "Nytetrayn"> That makes more sense I haven't seen it in a while so it's kinda fuzzy to me. But don't get me wrong I love that movie it's one of my favorites. I think I'll watch it now.

"Ninja kick the damn rabbit"

The Purple (yea that's RIGHT) Pieman (you HEARD ME) of PINNACLE PEAK (SWAK SWAK!).

Who in thier RIGHT minds would EVER try to take a Berrytastic PIC-NIC away from the sweatest little tykes this side of Candyland? This berry evil wretch of a tasty-cake maker that's who (plus he has a mustache like Rollie Fingers... fuckin' EVIL)!!! Did I mention CROWS??? His pet is a CROW!! Berry evil I can tell you... berry fuckin' evil.

Watch your ass Strawberry Shortcake cause this dredge will try to "murk" up your berry fun with berry bad plans of berrytastic proportions!!

Blue"berry" Balls is what you will have to cope with when this miser of the Berry Patch shows up... that's right he tried to "murk" up a PIC-NIC!!! I JUST WON'T STAND FOR SUCH SHANANAGANS!!! NO... I... WILL... NOT... PIEMAN!!

I'm thinking if someone can do that to Strawberry Shortcake and friends he can turn anyones pic-nic into a sticky jammy mess... fuckin bastard! BERRY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I need to wipe this berry small tear from my berry sad face.

Not that I'm defending the Matrix sequels, but I think the plan the machines had was a little more sensible...but it really only makes REAL sense if you factor in the way the script was originally written.

Originally, humans were NOT the machines' power source. Human brains were actually used as processing nodes for the Matrix; hence the whole agents-jumping-into-people thing.

Taking that into account, they had to keep those humans sane and in a form of consciousness (no lobotomizing everyone, etc). Zion served its purpose as a backup (hence them rebuilding it and allowing people to repopulate it) in case the Matrix failed, though they occasionally had to prune it so the humans didn't get out of control. Between prunings, they let it go wild, because, hell, why not? The whole prophecy and oracle situation was just to let the humans have something to dicker over that couldn't possibly hurt the real goals of the machines.

And as for Smith - he was insane.

Stupidest Supervillain Plans? It's Rita Repulsa from the Power Rangers, hands down. Just take a look at her plan to conquer the world (And it's not just from one specific episode, but from THE WHOLE SEASON!):

Step #1: Send ONE monster to Angel Grove, a specific location where the Power Rangers live.
Step #2: Get the monster's butt kicked by the Power Rangers
Step #3: Grow the monster into a giant
Step #4: Get the giant monster's butt kicked by the Power Ranger's robot
Step #5: Repeat from Step #1

Seeing how she has unlimited amount of monsters and that she actually knows the secret indentities of the Power Rangers, it makes me wonder why don't she just:

-Send several GIANT monsters at the same time at night, and order them to crush the Power Rangers' houses while they're asleep, killing the Power Rangers.
-Send thousands of GIANT monsters and human-sized monsters to all around the world (not just Angel Grove) at the same time.
-Conquer the world.

Or basically any plan that use the advantage of her unlimited monsters and her knowledge of Power Rangers secret ids. Instead of, y'know, repeating the same old mistake each week. But being trapped in a trash can with retarded henchmen for 10.000 years might have something to do with her messed-up strategic skills.

Lex Luthor. He has to be the worst super villain genius ever. The guy is a couple hookers short of a three way. I mean how often does Clark Kent interview him then with in the hour Lex is fighting Superman. He can’t realize that to two are the same person? Are glasses and a unitard that good of a disguise? But his plans are terrible he is one of the oldest running super villains and his only goal is to destroy Superman, WTF, he was president and still wasn’t happy.
But since the forties when he became Sups number 1 villain he has had the same plan. Here is a break down for anyone not on Ritalin.
1. Get green kryptonite.
2. Get kryptonite close enough to Superman.
3. Destroy Superman with a clever plan that will not work at the last minute.
4. Suck it up, and try again.
But here is the only way the plan ever differs.
1. Get any color kryptonite. (Apparently during one of the wars green ink was scarce).
2. Get kryptonite close enough to Superman.
3. Destroy Superman with a clever plan that will not work at the last minute.
4. Suck it up, and try again.
For a guy who is in the top 10 of Wizard magazine’s “100 Greatest Villains of All Time” some thing is rotten in Smallville. He only has one plan. Either the list was written by a bunch of dope smoking, Dragonball: Evolution script writer rejects or Wizard is really owned by LexCorp.

The Master, from the movie Dr Who.

Okay, he wants to get into the Eye of Harmony to do something incomprehensible. But he can't cos it can only be opened by a human and he is Time Lord. So he AND HIS FREAKING HUMAN SIDE-KICK capture The Doctor cos he is half-human and can open the eye.

No, "Oi, minion - look over here a sec," but instead get the guy over who has kicked your ass repeatedly over the history of time. Nice work.

Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes.
That's as many as 4 tens.
That's terrible.

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In defense of Gorilla Grodd, in JLApe (which was the inspiration for the much better Dead Reckoning episode) it was explained that Grodd wanted to turn everybody into apes because they are easier to control with his telepathy than humans. It was for global mind control efficiency. He could always revert a few women back to humans for engaging in bestiality after he brainwashed the entire world to serving him.

Voldemort!
-He gets a second hand account of a prophecy about his downfall IF he acts on it, he acts on it.

-Spilt his soul into 7 different pieces. Puts them in things that are significant to him, therefore easy(ish) to figure out.

-Gets defeated by the possibly the stupidest boy ever to live, many times.

-Waits till everyone knows he's back before taking over the ministry of magic in like a week. Therefore giving the only people time to stop him, work out how to well, stop him. When he and his followers could have do it easily in secret ages ago.

-And he has no nose.

Just gonna throw out Warren aka the Jackal and the lovely mess known as the Clone Sage in ASM. Basically let's make second rate copies of our enemy and his dead girlfriend that we really love, however, not spend time working out the kinks so they don't end up a pile of goo. While we're at it let's play with the guy's head so that everyone questions who the real Spidey is, all the time leaving reading so messed up, none of us can really explain this whole story line out, unless we use charts, graphs, and hours of research.

Or what about the supervillain in "An Inconvenient Truth". Those damn mega corporations raising the earth's temperature ever so slightly each year, in an attempt to melt the ice, flood the earth and destroy civilization. No need to fear, SuperGore is there to stop them.

The Super Smart Sharks in the movie 'Deep Blue Sea.'

Why because they're goddamn super smart sharks! T

Genetic scientists super engineer the brains of sharks to harvest cells in order to prevent people from getting Alzheimer. "As a side effect, they got smarter." Its like giving the shark from jaws steroids, and oh yah, there's all so 3 jaws's (jawsies, Jaws is already plural, this is a lost cause)

So we watch this whole movie following the group of scientists get picked off one by one by the super duper brainy sharks that they themselves had created.

The sharks plans for an escape start by them smashing a helicopter into a gas tank making the entire water facility that they're kept on start sinking.

BTW this all happening during some crazy ass hurricane or some shit. Probably the same one that freed the Velicopters in JPark.

So the sharks crash the helicopter creating into the facilty which then ignites a gas tank and about a thousand explosions happen for no reason.

The scientists spend the whole movie trying to reach the surface. As they're going up they have to open more doors or some shit making the place flood more and more. When they finnaly reach the top they realize that there actions of flooding the place has made the cages that stopped the sharks from escaping in the first place sink, so now the sharks can just swim away.

And they admit in the movie that "They knew all along." The super smart sharks were chasing them so that they could escape! They did it on purpose!

Let's not forget Dr. Doom's first plan was to put a big net around the Baxter Building...

Fun Haus's plan to take over christmas (this was foiled by Batman and Red Tornado)

1- Fake UFO invasion demanding earth hand over Santa
2- Fake Robot Santas that are basically just huge jerks, but do cause children to freak out when batman knocks off their heads
3- Toy invasion on Christmas Morning, the toys (that the parents each paid a good $20 for, and the profits went right to the bad guy) are actually robots that pop out of their boxes and steal from the homes they were in, then merge into a giant robot that gets taken down by red tornado's wind power.

Oh did I mention that Bat man decapitates one of the Santa sin his sleigh in front of a group of kids then drives them all off a cliff? Or that we get the revelation that Bruce having a fit over not getting what he wanted for Christmas is the reason that the Wayne family went to the movies then went down that dark ally where they got shot?

I can't really tell you what the plan was. I'm not really sure, but the team up of Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze in "Batman and Robin" is the dumbest plan ever.

There was a diamond that if placed in Mr. Freeze's giant lazer, it would freeze all of Gotham. But Poison Ivy likes plants. Frost kills plants. My succulents are dead right now because of the cold. Why did they team up?

The "plan" itself? I can't really say what that was.

In my opinion, the worst possible supervillan plan has to be Ra Al Ghul's plan from Batman Begins.

To recap, for generations his orginization has destroyed cities in various flamboyant ways in attempts to get people to stop being such douchebags.

The end result so far as they leave the situation worse than if they had just all become cops and cleaned up the streets or raised funds, or just left things as they were.

So the newest scheme involves breaking a wealthy sociopath out of a remote Chineese prison in hopes of training him to be a ninja or something and infiltrate the infrastructure of Gotham...

In case anyone forgot, they had actually already done this without Bruce Wayne's help so why they needed him is still unclear.

They're next step is to synthesise the hallucination enducing flower they use in their ninja training to get everyone to go bat shit nuts and kill each other I suppose.

Now if we're not already in WTF territory, then they pick a psychotic shrink and a local mob boss for infrastructure of their plans. Again, they had already infiltrated police, goverment, and other emergency services so why this was needed is unclear other than to introduce Scarecrow.

But the best part, the coup de gras of inneptitude was let's make a drug that we can easily put into the city's water supply. Fine, good enough plan. But the drug can only be activated by a microwave emmiter that vaporizes water within a specific range.

Quick science lesson, people are 78% water so if there was a device that could cause water to evorate with explosive force then everyone within the same range would inplode as well.

Yet no collateral damage, just some poor people and escaped convicts having a really bad trip... And instead of using an armored car or tank to deliver the weapon they decide on PUBLIC FUCKING TRANSPORTATION OWNED BY THEIR BIGGEST THREAT.

Now that's foresight you can belive in...

What about the best plan ever conceived by lex luthor?
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i want revenge just like these villans, says, me, brandin lee detroy from hutchins, texas, but, i only want revenge
like my fox friend tails miles prower /tailsko because she's has a recipe for revenge, hating on her father sonic
hedgehog who is now female sonic, / femme sonic/ dark sonic
and that's the kind of revenge i want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think that tails prower should be a female fox named
tailsko,.. because she has big huge breasts and you know in
other words ,... she's mixed with demon/ fox/ and vampire
she serves the infamous alkumajo dracula the king of vampires,... so watch out he-man, and darth vader, and
spider-man , and all you characters of dc and marvel this
fox is a bad girl fox born and raised by demoniac forces,...