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! Or, to save on postage, I'll just poison him with this."
What the
Big Bad is going to do, and the
Big Damn Heroes have to stop.
What
The Omniscient Council Of Vagueness and the
Hidden Agenda Villain are hiding.
The most popular:
Take Over The World.
Earth Shattering Kaboom can also be popular. Ones that are smaller in scope — such as revenge or stealing a
Mac Guffin — can usually be accomplished
much more simply.
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
.
- 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.
- Actually, that would have worked. Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, terrified the entire world, despite being the size of a beach ball and only able to go "ping-ping-ping". It demonstrated the ability to attack any spot on Earth at will. The Cobra laser cannon would have terrified the world, as it would have demonstrated the ability to send a city-killing energy beam anywhere with pinpoint precision. And if it could carve canyons on the Moon, it could certainly punch through the Earth's mass to hit any target anywhere in the world.
- Another attempt by Cobra Commander was to use a love potion to all 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.
- 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.
