History Main / StepThreeProfit

* Also, [[http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/gallery/math/math07.gif this image]].

* In one episode of ''SuperChicken'', a villain named "The Geezer" attempts to steal the geyser "Old Facefull" from Yellowstone National Park. The narrator questions his motivation:

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* Al Qaeda has the same long-term planning capabilities as the underpants gnomes, it seems -- see their entry under TerroristsWithoutACause for more on that.
** This entry has become an excellent example of RecursiveReality since the otherwise blank TerroristsWithoutACause entry says to see their entry under InsaneTrollLogic, which says to see their entry under StepThreeProfit.

-->Step 2: Beat the Pokemon league

-->Step 1: [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/1/53/ Get on a boat]] ([[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/2/02/ survive drowning because of a miracle]])
-->Step 2: [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/3/01/ Gather]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/3/07/ a]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/8/16/ crew]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/14/17/ through]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/26/008/ a]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/41/11/ series]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/46/12/ of]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/45/05/ coincidences]].
-->Step 3: [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/101/16/ Go to the]][[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/102/02/ Grand Line]]

-->Step 5: [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/1/01/ Profit]].

** Arguably justified in that all the villains on that show were always from another dimension/planet/time period/whatever, and thus had no use for Earth money (except as a vehicle to their hands on whatever {{plot coupon}} they were after that season.)

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* [[AtopTheFourthWall Brute Force:]]
-->Step 1: Build army of cyborg animals with machineguns.
-->Step 2: ???
-->Step 3: Environment is saved!

Really, it's never even shown whether or not he even knows what he's doing at this point.

-->Step 4: Profit.

* [[BigBad Cyrus]]'s plan in {{Pokemon}} is to create a new world without emotion. It essentially boils down to this:
-->1. Steal Pokemon for evolution...[[BuffySpeak stuff.]]
-->2. Capture the Lake Pokemon and us their powerto make a chain.
-->3. Capture the Version Mascot.
-->4. Kill everyone.
-->5. ????
-->6. Rule over the world I created.
** Granted, he may be planning to revive them, but...there are a lot of holes in his plan otherwise, and can be extremely vague.

-->1. Make the RidiculouslyHumanRobots download GITD.\\

*** While angering WBC is definitely its own reward, many of us would prefer buying RonnieJamesDio albums. Especially considering [[MoralEventHorizon they picketed Dio's funeral]] after a series of CriticalResearchFailures when they stated their intention of picketing his funeral. In keeping with the trope, you must wonder what the point of protesting is when your beliefs include predestination...

* Harry was only following in dear old Dad's footsteps, considering that (after offing some business rivals -- that at least made ''some'' sort of sense) his plan in the first movie boiled down to:

*** ''{{Resident Evil}} 5'' finally explains their goals: [[spoiler: The rest of Umbrella was profitable, the zombie divisions were a personal project of the founders, who were trying to create immortality drugs.]] It doesn't make the rest of their intermediate plans any less asinine.