Top 20 Smartest Decisions Ever Made By Movie Villains

Evil geniuses! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most clever moves that film antagonists have made no matter whether they led to success or defeat. Since we’ll be talking about major villain plans, beware of spoilers ahead. Our countdown includes villains from "Face/Off", "Goldfinger", "The Matrix" and more! What’s your favorite evil scheme from a movie? Let us know in the comments below.

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[WatchMojo]

What’s your favorite evil scheme from a movie? Let us know in the comments below.

[joshdelagarza]

Palpatine has the most complete victory of any villain ever. Destroyed the Jedi order, virtually wiping all traces of them from existence, and reigned over the galaxy for decades.

[totterdell]

Palpatine is definition of perfect planning, manipulation, cunning, and knowing when to use your biggest assets.

[BigFella]

When I saw Palpatine’s plan finally come to fruition, I was hella impressed with his patience

[TheWarmachine]

"Madness is like gravity. All it need is a little push." - Heath Ledger Joker

[Theprophet]

Palpatine's genius is almost frightening.

[chheinrich]

If it comes to villain plans, nothing beats palpatine

[Cygnus]

I was really sceptical when the republic's senators clapped for Palpatine declaring himself an emperor. But seeing recent developments going on in the world, it's more realistic than I thought.

[ewokk]

Ozymandias lampshade of comic book villains bragging about their plans is the most meta thing ever - and he manages to avoid that pitfall despite being one himself. Hats off!

[nitzan]

I think Zemo himself deserved a place on the list. He's not only the very few superhero villains to win, but he has no superpowers, or even mundane power in the form of money like Iron Man, Batman and Lex Luthor. All he had was information, and he completely and utterly destroyed the Avengers with a book and some leaked tapes.

[ernestoreyes]

Palpatine’s smartest decision was somehow not dying after being thrown down a reactor chute.

[LoveHandle]

“The villain is the hero of their own story.”

[boysavege]

Joker's ways were chaotic and violent, but his plans and what these led to have made way for a theory about the Joker being the secret hero of The Dark Knight.

[TheWarmachine]

0:46 Samuel L. Jackson's best villain role and his quote, "This ain't a movie, bruh."

[toddbonny]

The smartest thing about the Ring is not just that it kept Sauron alive, but that it could utterly corrupt anyone else who possessed it, thus seeing to it they would never willingly destroy it--the one action that would defeat him.

[Gor]

Palpatine's genius is amazing. Such manipulations, cunning, patience. He's brilliant

[ryanwalker]

The pronunciation of Isildur is unforgivable. 'Isiladur' ... where the hell did the 'a' come from?

[davidmitchell]

The bad guy in Speed had a smart plan. Like the detective said, ”he knows everything about bombs and everything we do to stop them”. He crafted two plans, the elevator & the bus, that were designed to be counter-intuitive to every hostage crisis plan the police might come up with. The villain plans in Swordfish and The Taking of Pelham123 were also pretty smart.

[emiebex]

Saw V: Jigsaw giving them the anwser of how to survive all the traps by working together, & knowing they'd do the exact opposite.

[shauncroissant]

The ending of The Usual Suspects was one of the cleverest plot twists I've ever seen. It completely outsmarted me.