X-Men 3. Isn’t there an easier way to kill Leech that doesn’t involve tearing the Golden Gate Bridge loose from its moorings, turning it towards Alcatraz, then mounting an attack on the entire US Military and X-Men? Like maybe having that speedy girl just quietly speed past all the guards and then shoot him? Or having Jean Grey just think about killing him?
It’s a pretty dumb plan, but Darla’s illness wasn’t part of it. W&H’s spell resurrected Darla as the human she’d been originally, a whore in the Jamestown colony. She was dying of the syphilitic heart condition that would have killed her if the Master hadn’t made her.
But speaking of evil schemes, we never found out what Darla and Drusilla were up to. They had some sort of plan, that involved recruting a demon army, but did we ever find out its objective?
Okay, not *every * book But ‘evil taunting TM’ took place in book two, too -even if it was a little bitty Voldie bit.
Various people yell out to each other in the last four books that Harry is to be kept alive on Voldie’s orders.
Book four: He needed blood, preferably human. Taking Harry’s was yet another buttockular mistake - As Dumbledore said, Voldie didn’t understand the magic he was trying to circumvent.
Apologies for the late reply - I’m in a different time zone.
Turning everyone, including your nemeses, into dogs and then forgetting to put a butt patch on will do it.
(No one else saw that Powerpuff Girls episode?)
Pretty much anything at ground zero of a nuclear blast is not going to be very recoverable. The term dust in the wind leaps to mind.
Putting a significant amount of your power into some sort of ring, amulet, medalion or other trinket that can be easily lost, stolen, conceiled or tossed into a volcano.
For that matter–why not simply drop the bridge on top of the facility and barracks, if you’re going to be ripping it out of its moorings anyway?
That never bothered me. Darla was just in the mood for some carnage. 'Sides, Dru’s enthusiam for the plan pretty much died once Daddy set her on fire.
(Which brings to mind an idea for a new thread: intelligent villainy responses to bad-ass hero actions. Drusilla deciding to skedaddle after Angel set her on fire has to be the winner.)
How about Fargo? Jerry Lindengard apparently needs the money because he has committed a white-collar crime, getting a bank to finance the purchase of nonexistent cars – and he thinks he can just fax them a blurry, unreadable list of VIN numbers and nobody will notice; and he has done it so clumsily that it is impossible to erase his tracks. (What did he do with the money, anyway? He doesn’t seem to have a mistress, a gambling problem, or any other expensive vices; apparently he’s just too stupid to handle money.) And then he sets up a kidnapping (blithely oblivious to the vast number of things that can go wrong with such a scheme) and, in partial payment, gives the kidnappers a car that can be traced to his dealership.
Garrison Keillor complained that the film portrays Minnesotans as “dumber than brook trout,” and indeed it does appear that not only are all Minnesotans dumb, but out-of-staters are required to check their brains at the state line. The only smart character is Police Chief Marge Gunderson – and she pursues dangerous criminals while seven months pregnant. How smart is that?
Its a bad idea if you’re a possesed little girl to laugh at the death of the Seinior Exorcist in front of the Junior Exorcist if said junior does a little boxing on the side.
This can be boiled down into a rule: Don’t make it personal. It transforms the hero from someone who is merely trying to get you into someone who is trying his damndest to get you.
That never ends well for a villain.
Yeah, the key is, you should only do it to the hero’s sidekick/friend who will allow himself to be taunted into a rash - suicidal, in fact – frontal attack. But never try the same thing on the hero.
Wasn’t he just trying to buy himself time?
He doesn’t expect them not to notice, he expects them to call him back and say the numbers weren’t clear, could you please fax them again, and that will buy him a couple more days of back and forth until he can get the money from his father-in-law so he can replace the money he’s embezzled. He’s just trying to extend the float on the missing money.
And of course Jerry’s a pathetic idiot.
Well, that’s, that’s, I’m not gonna go inta, inta - see, I just need money.
Oh wait, wait, now I remember. Didn’t Jerry propose some glamourous new parking lot or something to his father-in-law, and he wanted FIL to invest in it?
But he wouldn’t, so the embezzled car money was going to fund it instead.
Except it couldn’t, so that’s what the ransom money was for.
I immediately thought of one entry on a similar list:
- All younger siblings, spouses, children, students, and old army buddies of an enemy I have just killed will be hunted down to prevent them from attacking me at some future point in a quest for vengeance.
(From http://www.evilrulers.com/eviloverlord.htm)
It should be obvious that the siblings, spouses, children, students, and old army buddies of the dead enemy will have friends, relatives, and acquaintances of their own. Thus, unless you’re willing to go Charn on your entire world (Kill of everyone else but yourself,) it doesn’t make sense to begin with pre-emptive killings on this scale. Of course, doing a risk analysis and killing off a FEW people who are likely to attack you at some future point in a quest for vengeance MIGHT be workable. Certainly it makes sense to watch a lot of suspects. 
Ah, yes. Another thing to remember is that when you are the indescribably powerful evil badass ruler of the galaxy, and you have the second most powerful evil badass in the galaxy thoroughly under your thumb where he has been for the last twenty-odd years, do not turn your back on him while you torture his long-lost son (and reminder of his old innocent days) to death under his very nose. This goes double if you just revealed your plans to betray him to his death and install said son as his replacement.
I think the investment Jerry was pushing was just bait - he his father-in-law to loan him $750k to invest in something, but was really going to use the money to payback the bank for the embezzled loan instead of actually investing it. His FIL looked at the investment, decided it was worth doing, but invested it in himself instead of loaning Jerry the money. As he said, “Loan you the money, Jerry? What’s in it for me?” He did offer Jerry a finders fee though.
It was never made clear, but the impression that I got was that Jerry was hoping the nonexistence of the vehicles would never be noticed at all, because the people who handle that kind of thing are just as dumb/lazy/incompetent as he is, and later he could claim they were unsaleable and the bank would just write off the loss; happens all the time.
Dumber than brook trout.
Here’s one: When you’re trying to raise your mid-level country to global superpower status, don’t try to take on the Soviet Union, the British Empire and the United States all at the same time. That’s just what the Jews want you to do, dammit!
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. There is a division of the Nazi regime dedicated to releasing an unholy, imprisoned, thousand-year-old, immortal, German prince to use as a superweapon against the Allies.
Apparently, said prince was only “immortal” by 942 standards, as he is killed by sustained machine gun fire at the game’s climax.
Idiots.