What makes a person intelligent?
Usually we associate intelligence with a wealth of insight, information and the applications
of knowledge in such a way that someone is able to accomplish what may seem miraculous,
or in a supervillains case, what may seem exceptionally villainous.
Supervillains typically use their intellect to conquest, attempting to achieve more power,
more money or dominance over others.
Sometimes they just want their enemies to suffer.
Today we are going to look at some of these villains that have been deemed intellects
and some of the plots that made us question whether or not they were actually as smart
as we thought as we count down the top 10 super villains who are dumber than you think.
Trust me, some of these plots will have you scratching your head too in regards to how
someone so brilliant could do something so stupid.
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10 Lizard
Curt Connors is a scientist working on the regrowth of lost limbs so we'd expect him
to be pretty intelligent, right?
Normally he is presented as such but there was one storyline that made us question everything
we knew about him.
Curt Connors is also the Lizard, transformed after one of his experiments on limb regrowth
goes terribly wrong.
While in his monstrous Lizard state it has often been shown that Connors is not in control
really of what he does, becoming more animalistic.
In a sense he is somewhat a victim himself who knows not what he does.
But what if he did know?
In the Lizard's Tale story arc from Spectacular Spider-Man we explore the idea that Curt is
more in control of the Lizard than we were originally led to believe.
Which is weird because it would mean that a lot of his other actions in the comics are
dumb and don't make sense.
In the end his plan to thwart Spiderman is to rob a bank and get arrested so that he
can easily break out of prison, which he figures won't actually be able to hold him.
This is an interesting version of the villain indeed.
9 Loki
The Avengers have come a long way in the MCU from defeating Loki to taking on and defeating
Thanos twice and one time he had a whole army with him to back him up.
Pretty impressive especially considering the cinematic universe Loki was pretty easy to
beat.
That might be a controversial opinion but let's take a second to look at Loki's plan.
Loki was of course being manipulated by Thanos or rather encouraged by him to follow this
plan through.
While Thanos had his own ulterior motives, Loki was looking for appreciation and world
domination, groveling and bowing down and that sort of thing.
Loki has an army incoming to invade and help him take over earth, the problem is this invasion
is tied to a portal, it's basically at the core of everything that is going on.
So what does Loki do?
Heavily guard it to make sure no one tampers with it?
No.
He leaves in on the roof of the Stark Tower where no one could possibly find it.
Right?
Anyways Iron Man guides a nuke through the portal and well that's the end of the invasion,
making Loki's plot a pretty mischievously easy one to thwart.
8 Joker
While the Joker may be pretty good at causing Batman a world of grief and scheming to destroy
the Bats and often in the process Gotham, his intellect always seems to come into question.
While criminally speaking the Joker seems to be psychotic genius, there are some plots
that have left us questioning some of the why's behind his antics.
In fact, sometimes it seems as though his intellect may have been carried off by his
madness when it comes to some of his random plots.
Like the plot where he became a successful painter and teacher and then got bored, or
when he tried to copyright fish.
But the most disturbed and pointless plot seemed to be the one where he let the Dollmaker
remove his face to "send a message."
Though what the message was we never quite found out.
7 Doctor Octopus
Doc Ock is typically known for being a brilliant scientist but this plot he attempted might
cause you to see him differently.
In order to control a nuclear plant that Aunt May has inherited which is for some reason
abandoned and yet also fully functional, Doc Ock decides there is one course of action
to take.
One that will see him gloriously victorious in terms of possessing this plant, marrying
Aunt May.
He could have stolen it from her, kidnapped her and made her hand over the deed, just
gone and possessed it himself.
I'm sure Aunt May would not have noticed.
She doesn't strike me as the nuclear facility type.
She probably would have never even gone to it, really.
But no, no, no, none of these plans are good enough for Doc Ock, he's got to marry her.
Which really would only entitle him to half of the plant anyways, had it worked.
Instead Spiderman swings in and saves the day, leaving Doc Ock behind as the plant goes
into meltdown mode.
6 Kraven
So admittedly I really love this story but it still makes Kraven look pretty dumb.
In Kraven's last hunt, Kraven kills Spiderman.
Admittedly a great plan.
Direct, effective.
Except for the part where he doesn't.
Near the end of the story we find out that Kraven just put Peter in a deathlike state
for a few weeks so he could run around and imitate Spiderman to prove that he was better
than him.
As the only prey that Kraven seemed unable to catch he felt this would prove, I don't
know, some kind of point, I guess?
Except that he is able to catch Spiderman and then just doesn't kill him.
Interesting choices here from Kraven.
After Kraven confesses all this to Spiderman who has risen from the dead and gloats, he
ultimately decides that Spiderman is free to go and then kills himself.
I know that Kraven was trying to make a point here but I think it probably went over most
people's heads, especially Spiderman's.
5 Magneto
Granted Magneto isn't intended to really be a villain in this storyline but either way,
he still acts pretty dumb.
This story of course comes to us not from the comics but from Days of Future Past, the
X-Men movie where we see Wolverine go back in time to try to prevent the post-apocalyptic
events of the future, which is his really his past.
Anyways, time travel is confusing.
Magneto is trying to help prevent this future as well and aims to kill Mystique in order
to do so before an event can take place where she was caught on camera and terrified all
of humankind, causing the huge war between humans and mutants.
When this fails, Magneto decides to take control of Trask's Sentinels and have them kill the
president.
Not a terrible idea until he decides to fly in and drop a stadium on the lawn of the White
House and confess, publicly on television, that he, a mutant was responsible for all
the destruction.
Face palm.
4 Ozymandias
Adrian Viedt's scheme villainous scheme to kill millions in order to obtain world peace
seemed brilliant.
His fellow heroes never saw it coming and he only revealed his plot after it had already
taken place, being sure to cover his tracks as he went.
He applauds himself and thinks he is the smartest man in the world.
Even the rest of the Watchmen decide they may as well join him.
Except Rorschach.
As such Ozymandias underestimates his potential opponents and Rorschach gets the better of
him despite Manhattan killing him.
Beforehand he was smart enough to send his journal with his findings surrounding Adrian's
plan to the news.
They decide to publish the information and expose Veidt for the villain he is.
Undoing everything he set out to accomplish and sending him into hiding.
So while he may claim to be the smartest man on earth, Rorschach still seems to have outsmarted
him.
3 Doctor Doom
Victor Von Doom has had a slew of great plans, to be fair.
But he has also had a slew of terrible ones.
One particularly ridiculous plans the prove how dumb the usual genuis-level intellect
supervillain can be involved him swapping bodies with Daredevil.
This plan could have been great except it mostly just involves Doctor Doom messing with
Daredevil, including a part involving a room that is giant sized, set up as a test to prove
that Daredevil is worthy of the planned body swap.
Doom's plan seems to be use Daredevil's connection to the Fantastic Four to do... something.
Defeat them I guess?
We never really get there.
Daredevil handily defeats Doom while in his body by threatening to start a war between
Latveria and China.
Doom knows this would not end well and agrees to swap back.
Oh and apparently, Doctor Doom also doesn't seem to notice that Daredevil is blind even
while in his body.
2 Lex Luthor
While Lex Luthor may be the most brilliant Superman villain in the comics, his film adaptation
leave much to be desired and it is for this reason that he made the cut.
Don't believe me?
You might need to rewatch Batman vs Superman again which paints him as the villain behind
the showdown between the two heroes who are usually portrayed as being bffs, instead of
making the President the one who issues the order and making the fight more revolve around
their different ideologies and Batman sort of going a little crazy in his old age.
This plot is so intricate and so haphazardly built on hoping that people will make the
move he anticipates.
You could argue that Lex is just that good at reading and manipulating people, but I'd
wager that it's more likely that he's just lucky.
If he was really a genius he probably would have made the plan more direct, less room
for things to go wrong.
Just kidnap Martha and make them fight already!
And let's not forget that Lex has no real motivation for this plan, at the very least,
not Batman's involvement.
And let's not forget in the 2000s when all Lex Luthor's plans just revolved around real
estate.
1 Green Goblin
In the 2000 Spiderman films we saw Norman Osborn meet his end in the stupidest of ways.
For a villain that even in the film franchise is supposed to be a genius and master manipulator,
this was a pretty dumb move.
He and Spiderman are having a stand off and he comes up with the brilliant idea, mid fight
to finish off Spiderman by impaling him with his glider.
Mwahahaha!
Brilliant!
Except for the part where it's not.
You see the problem is that the Green Goblin is just behind Spiderman, meaning that the
glider would like impale him too.
This becomes more of an issue when he goes for it and Spiderman, possessing you know,
spidey sense and being pretty quick to react to an attack, just jumps out of the way, leaving
Green Goblin in the way of his own glider and resulting in him impaling himself and
dying.
Nice one, Norman.
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I hope you enjoyed delving into the weird world of dumb supervillain moments from otherwise
brilliant supervillains with me.
It just goes to show you that even genius-intellect supervillains make mistakes.
And just because you are wicked smart in one area, doesn't mean you are wicked smart in
all areas.
Who are you're favourite brilliant supervillains?
And what are your favourite dumb supervillain moments from comics?
Are there any smart supervillains who you think are sometimes dumb that you feel should
have made our cut?
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