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alt title(s): Evil Scheme "Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives... I'll smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say!" ( BAM) " ..Or, to save on postage, I'll just poison him with this!"''
So you've got your Big Bad Evil Overlord, looming over the world like a colossus. But he can't just putz around on his throne all day, waiting for the Big Damn Heroes to show up and kick his butt. And while The Omniscient Council Of Vagueness doesn't seem to do much but sit around and wait while spouting off cryptic nonsense, they've got to have some sort of hidden agenda to hide or there isn't much of a point.
So they've got to have a plan. An evil plan. Otherwise there's not much of a story, is there?
Some popular examples of Evil Plans:
- Take Over The World: Of course! Probably the most popular villainous scheme of all. The scale of conquest can vary depending on the setting - some warlords are content to settle with conquering a kingdom or nation, while Science Fiction overlords will go for nothing less than universal (or multidimensional) domination.
- Destroy The World: Why take over the world when you can blow it up?
- Kill All The Humans: No one's going to miss the little bastards, right?
- Kill Everything: Why stop with just the humans?
- Cause The Apocaylpse: Not so much destroying the world or humanity as really screwing up civilization; though the former two may be involved in the bargain.
- Gain Unlimited Power: Don't just play God, BE God!
- Grand Theft Macguffin: Steal an ancient artifact with untold powers. Of course, this is usually done in the pursuit of one of the other Evil Plans.
- Vengeance Is Mine!: You know that guy that wronged you in the past? It doesn't matter how petty or misplaced your grievance is, it's payback time! Time to kill the bastard, or make his life a living hell!
- Get Rich Quick: Or, if you're already rich, get richer. Any scheme is fair game in the pursuit of the profit margin, be it theft, blackmail, or auctioning the world off to hungry demons.
- Ignore A "Keep Off The Grass" Sign: ...Wait, what?
Of course, most of the smaller-scope plans can usually be accomplished in a less grandiose fashion.
Can involve a Xanatos Gambit.
Examples:
- Of Boris and Natasha's many Evil Plans on Rocky And Bullwinkle, this troper's favorite has to be the sinister plot to for giant, robotic mice from the Moon to eat through American TV antennas so that entertainment-starved Americans will flee the country, leaving it ripe for conquest. Boris is, of course, the Big Cheese.
- The less creative of us may use the Evil Plan generator
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- Cobra Commander from GI Joe once wasted a huge amount of resources stealing equipment to build a giant laser... so he could carve his face in the moon. Destro was not impressed.
- Another attempt by Cobra Commander was to use a love potion to allow The Baroness to seduce a ship magnate, only to have a fight break out between Cobra and G.I. Joe over the chemical, only to have the potion stolen by a crab. At least this time Destro found the whole silly fiasco hilarious.
- Endlessly lampshaded and subverted over and over again by the various Card Carrying Villains of Kim Possible.
- In fact, while tutoring another villain, Shego explains how it's the single most important part of being a villain.
- Parodied (we hope) in Justice League Unlimited, where Grodd's elaborate evil plan turns out to be "transforming every man, woman and child on Earth...INTO AN APE!!!" This is appropriately lampshaded, and also face-shotted.
- The Robot Devil in an episode of Futurama: "My ridiculously circuitous plan is one-quarter complete!"
- Raphael from the Soul Series has some of the most ridiculously insane plans ever devised, all for his adopted daughter. In Soul Calibur 2 he planned to destroy the country that he fled from by giving its nobles the Soul Edge on the basis that they would tear the country apart in a demonically-dueled civil war so that the world would..somehow.. be safer for his adopted daughter Amy. In Soul Calibur 3, on discovering that he and Amy had been accidentally turned into basically vampires, he decided to turn the entire world into creatures like them so Amy wouldn't feel left out. Amy may constitute a pretty drastic subversion of a Morality Pet.
- Tons in Sluggy Freelance.
- Hereti Corp: 1) create an army of invincible alien clones to conquer the world, 2) locate Oasis by making the trigger for her homicidal rages the symbol for a national fast food chain.
- Chilus: release a swarm of mind-eating insects to bring about "the end of the world through bugs" as prophecied.
- Dr. Steve: brainwash his adoptive daughter so she can "go on a date with a lesbian and then tell all." Okay, they can't all be winners.
- Every James Bond villain has had one of these:
- Dr No's plan was to dominate the world by controlling U.S. spaceship launches from his Jamaican island.
- Kronsteen and Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love wanted to steal a cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them, as well as take revenge on Bond for killing Dr. No.
- Goldfinger's scheme was to nuke Fort Knox to devalue American gold and increase the value of his own.
- Emilio Largo's plan in Thunderball was to steal two nuclear missiles and try to get ransom from the U.S. by threatening to launch them.
- Blofeld's plan in You Only Live Twice was to start World War III by destroying American and Russian spacecraft.
- Blofeld's plan in On Her Majestys Secret Service involves turning young women into unwitting terrorists.
- Blofeld's plan in Diamonds Are Forever is to use stolen diamonds to build a Kill Sat and hold the world hostage.
- Kananga/Mr. Big from Live And Let Die wanted to corner the heroin market with the help of voodoo.
- Scaramanga, The Man With The Golden Gun, wanted to hold the world to ransom during the energy crisis.
- Stromberg from The Spy Who Loved Me wanted to start World War III by hijacking nuclear submarines.
- The plan of Hugo Drax of Moonraker was the genocide of the human race in order to repopulate the world with his own "ideal" specimens. Being that the original villain of Moonraker was a Nazi, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
- Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only wants to recover a Mac Guffin for the KGB.
- A Renegade Russian in Octopussy wants to start World War III, and part of that plan is detonating a nuke at a circus.
- Max Zorin's ultimate plan in A View To A Kill is to detonate explosives along the Hayward and San Andreas Faults, causing them to flood. The other major bomb was set to destroy a "geological lock" that's in place to prevent the two faults from moving, causing a double earthquake that would cause massive destruction.
- Whitaker's evil plan in The Living Daylights is to rearm the Soviets using the profits from a large shipment of opium paid for using diamonds.
- Sanchez's scheme in Licence To Kill involves cocaine in gasoline sold to Asian drug dealers, conducted via a televangelist. He also plans to buy Stinger missiles from the Contras. The story, however, is more about Bond's Roaring Rampage Of Revenge.
- Alec Trevelyan of Golden Eye sought revenge against the British government for betraying his family, who were Lienz Cossacks sent back to Stalin, by detonating the titular Kill Sat over London.
- Elliot Carver of Tomorrow Never Dies wanted to start a war between the West and China for ratings reasons.
- The World Is Not Enough has Electra King and Renard scheming to raise petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul.
- Die Another Day's Big Bad, Gustav Graves, takes a page from Blofeld's book from Diamonds Are Forever and uses a diamond-powered Kill Sat that runs on solar energy.
- The new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, involves two bad guys who short-sell successful companies and engineers terrorist attacks in order to sink their stock values and turn a profit, but get pissed when Bond wins their poker tournament and decide to make him suffer.
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