greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd and I'm so
excited about this one and if you like it we can do so many parts so get
excited with me this is dumb supervillain plots you know
how melodramatic villains get and how convoluted their plans are I have set
sights to show you I'm gonna take you to realms you could only ever dream of or
you know reading these comics or in some cases watching these movies
I'm Sasha and these are the top 10 supervillain plans that make no sense
get ready to try and take over the world or kill your favorite soups but only in
the most ludicrous fashion let's get started let's start off with some good
old-fashioned propaganda which 100% still happens don't let anyone try to
convince you otherwise it's just a bit more subtle sometimes remembered 10
Nazis raise milk prices this comes to us from 1942
so get ready full steam propaganda ahead all the heroes who around at this time
period were fighting Nazis and Wonder Woman was no exception but they still
want there to be comic book plots like this one from sensation Comics number 7
in this tale Diana notices that the price of milk is soaring and she's on
the case she goes to speak to the head of international milk Co but he's
dismissive long story short they're secret Nazis and they're raising the
price of milk to make it inaccessible for American youth so that they will
have week brittle bones and not be able to fight playing the long game they also
try to drown her in milk but she changes in the milk escapes and ultimately
ensures the safety of good affordable milk prices that's the kind of
out-of-the-box thinking you would expect from the Golden Age villains kept you on
your toes number 9 Rochelle ghoul pretends to be Talia to get Bruce
Wayne's body this is gonna take us over to Batman Beyond and is largely on here
because I want to talk about this show in this fantastic episode this plot
comes to us through the episode of the past and deals with Bruce's sadness
about aging and how he feels the best years of his life and his great loves
are behind him when lo and behold Talia appears offering him a chance to
rejuvenate in the Lazarus Pit fastly leaving Gotham to tarry and come and
finally live their life together also this is all pre Damian so she hasn't
raped him in this continuity that's how Damian was conceived Fastback
Bruce starts to take her up on it but as you can imagine it's too good to be true
and after sharing a kiss and maybe more it's revealed that Talia isn't Talia at
all it's race who is overwritten Talia taking control of her body this is all
part of a long quest because he wants Bruce's body to rejuvenate it transfer
his consciousness into it and pretend to be his long-lost heir continuing his
plans with Bruce Wayne's resources here's the thing he didn't have to do
this with Bruce he could have picked any old rich Joe Schmo with no legitimate
heirs and tempted them with youth this business creepy and leads me to wonder
about his true feelings for Bruce great episode good series watch it that is all
and look I didn't go off on my usual DCAU tangent which this series is a part
of number II you have to take a look at a movie now we've got Captain America
the really cheesy one from 1990 the movie that gave us a Steve Rogers who
steals vans by pretending to be carsick in this film the Red Skull is really
against the president's pro-environmental campaign and decides
that really there's only one thing to do and that's kidnap and brainwash him this
is instead of assassinating him which was an option but the kidnap brain watch
plan is just so much more fun the Red Skull needs a challenge
there's also nukes involved but this brainwashing plot was the crux of it
this plan is weak and if the Red Skull were real I'm sure he'd sue for slander
because he'd never come up with such a played-out plan at least not in the 90s
maybe in the days of the great milk price hike though it was a joke I know
they're from different companies lower your pitchforks number seven last movie
for now I promise then we're on to the full comic book zaniness but we have to
talk about Catwoman the Halle Berry one people often get caught up in the Halle
Berry as Catwoman or the terrible CG or the costume trying so hard be sexy it
does a 180 and just becomes sad but what is often skipped over is the plot so
this film involves an evil cosmetics company whose product will eventually
destroy the faces of the woman who use it while also hardening them into stone
this is actually a classic storyline we've been here before however when you
make it the focal point of a 2004 movie people start to poke holes in it Lauren
hidari played by Sharon Stone is the wife of the CEO of the beauty company
and she has becomes obsessed she kills patients Halle Berry is not playing
Selina Kyle in this movie she kills her own husband and goes to great lengths to
keep this a secret they need to release this product and keep it going
however here's the thing this is an untenable plan people are going to
use this product and then the word will get out are you gonna kill every single
person who uses it no so essentially the fight is Catwoman trying to stop people
from having to file a civil suit a class-action lawsuit actually this movie
is actually really fun if you accept it on its own terms it's not good but that
doesn't mean you can't have a good time number six
scarecrow makes everyone illiterate so the DCAU
that being the DC Animated universe had a series of tie-in Batman comics to
series actually and this plot comes from those pages it takes the heroes a while
to figure out that it's actually a scarecrow plot because in all fairness
it doesn't match his usual mo at least not until you really think about it so
in this story nobody can read anything anymore they can't read signs books
nothing in society just instantly collapses train conductors can't run
trains people can't follow road signs pandemonium the thing with this plan is
that he's a very loose look at illiteracy like people can't understand
symbols of any kind or things that were color coded nothing it's just a bit of a
stretch they can't even take money out of an ATM all they're seeing is bizarre
symbols people are dying they call it the illiteracy disease this story was
two parts on the second cover it has Robin cowering in fear of road signs the
thing with this one is well it's just not accurately labeled it makes for a
fun story but you really have to suspend your disbelief which I am 100% willing
to do way to go outside the box scarecrow that's good thinking number
five identity crisis identity crisis is one of those stories that was really
well received when it's released but people now look back on it with a bit of
a jaded eye identity crisis was released from June to December of 2004 I was
written by fans driller novelist Brad Meltzer who wanted to create a thriller
in the superhero format the ramifications it had on characters are
some of the mischaracterizations are still discussed to this day but
paradoxically it was very solidly written it just really means to be taken
on its own and a bubble which thanks to two universe white ships since one can
now do so the villainous of this tale was Jean Loring the former wife of the
atom Ray Palmer who said about terrorizing the loved ones of heroes
that she and the atom would get back together because he'd be concerned about
her safety the only thing is right out the gate she accidentally killed the
elongated man's wife and then it was just a case of escalation
they kill my friends that my ex will get back with me or you know I could call
him this is why she ended up in Arkham which was also a terrible idea
she knew identities but Rae put her there any way maybe they truly were
meant to be number four Lex makes a robotic Lois Lane
so Lex is obsessed with Clark on many levels some that he probably doesn't
want to admit to himself and he's always scheming something
remember when Conner Kent aka Connell was Lex and Clark's son before they
wreck on that well I will always remember the new 52 what's that so in
Action Comics number 890 we learned that Lex's assistant had made a Lois Lane
robot and while Lex was like okay thanks I'll keep it and he did and he slept
with her it's just weird this is just bizarre
villainous behavior it happened while plotting really but you need to know
I mean he's creating clones of him and Clark's DNA he's sleeping with a Lois
Lane bot there are things need to be discussed here that probably never will
be all I'm gonna say is clacks number three Doctor Doom vs. office supplies
this comic is from 2006 and it's full title is spider-man in the Fantastic
Four in brain drain teachers count slash office Mac's custom comic number one
this comic features Doctor Doom trying to drain the intelligence of the
children of the world but really what the story is about is being sponsored by
Office Max and featuring some actual teachers this is a PSA comic so a public
service announcement its message is that teachers need to be paid more how it
delivers that message well is yeah basically is trying to talk about how
they have to contend with real-world issues like having to buy their own
office supplies but then goes thankfully there's office max so they're super
affordable hint hint and also they take on ignorance such as
doctor dooms brain drain machine this comic does have some stellar
moments though such as the teachers throwing office supplies at doom and
also Reed being impressed by the office max supply store he's actually like wow
look at all these supplies rubber bands in a ball Reed is impressed by many
things but a ball of rubber bands okay shuri-chan number two magneto was Zoran
all along this arc and the retcon that had to be done afterwards are still
confusing to people so thorn debuted in the new x-men animal number one and he
existed like he was real only at some point he was replaced by Magneto
and no notice because maybe to sort of mimic
the abilities that Zoran had and he was masked
but then he was unmasked and haha with the help of Chinese supporters it was
men needle the whole time and he wasn't dead and he did all this pretended to be
a teacher for months because he wanted to infiltrate the x-men so yeah this was
clearly a reveal to be a reveal and then they have to wreck con it away and it
doesn't even make sense how they did it just why I'm a popular opinion I think
this entire run by Grant Morrison is overrated
leave your unpopular opinions down below I can see them now you're overrated you
move your hands too much number one big Barda and Superman are
kidnapped to make a porno so for this we need to go back to Action Comics number
592 and in this story poor Barda who is just adjusting to her life on earth
tries to stop a crime only to end up in the sewers and kidnapped by a villain
called the sleaze who lives up to his name and then some he can control
people's emotions and force them to do his bidding and his plan at first is
just to make her dance for him but by happenstance Superman ends up tracking
sleaze the sewers and then they both end up under his control and his next plan
is to take them to a pornographer to shoot an official porn movie for the
money the worst part they're both fighting at
the entire time but can't thankfully they're saved by barda's husband mr.
miracle and all they've done is kiss okay this plan it makes sense it's just
really gross and icky it's not even a bad story it just leaves you feeling
like you need several showers it's a super patty week plan
I mean sleaze you are from apocalypse and this is the best you got actually
I'm kind of glad if this was the B plan I don't want to see the a plan it's
probably like a superhero orgy or something so those were 10 super villain
plans that make no sense or just really terrible I want to tell you about so
many more so please like this video and drop a comment so we can make more i'm
sasha-ann this mist talk 10 nerd thanks so much for watching we'll see you again
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