10 Most Ridiculous Supervillain Plots In Comics History
Sometimes, bad guys steal forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
Stock supervillain plots are such that you can spot them coming a mile off. They come in a handful of different varieties, many with the same end goal: kidnap the superhero's romantic interest/best friend/elderly relative, find some deadly MacGuffin which saps the hero's power and makes them easy to defeat, invent a death ray. There are some variations in them, but that's how the basic bad guy will operate, whether you're talking Bond film, comic book, or Chick tract. Every so often, though, a writer will decide to break away from the pack and come up with a truly unique villainous scheme, unlike anything you've seen before. And it will be a bad idea. It is the nature of superhero comics that villains recur on a frequent basis, and they're not just going to try the same thing every time. What didn't defeat their nemesis the first go-around will surely fail on every later occasion as well. That's how you get to the multi-layered planning of The Joker in the Dark Knight, for example. If that one felt ludicrous and reliant on coincidence, however, it's nothing compared to some of the frankly bizarre ideas cooked up in actual comic books. Extreme lengths to find a new heir, a dubious way of helping Superboy and marrying an octogenarian all figure into the ten most ridiculous supervillain plots in comic history.