8 Really Stupid Plans Comic Book Movie Villains Tried
2. Lex Luthor Plans To Get Rich By Killing All His Customers - Superman Returns
The Plan: Midway through the movie, Lex reveals that he intends to create a Kryptonite-infused continent in the middle of the ocean that will raise sea levels to such a point that they flood most of the world, leading people to turn to him for help by purchasing a space to live on his giant rock.
Why It's Stupid: So, Lex... if your land-mass is going to flood most of the world, who's going to be alive to buy land off you? Won't the world's economy essentially cease to exist if you've drowned the planet?
And why would people even want to live on your desolate wasteland of a 'continent' in the first place? How will you build houses and grow food? That's not to mention the Kryptonite, a radioactive substance that, in the long run, could prove just as harmful to humans as it does to Supes.
It's all just poorly thought out. Lex wants to become the King of Earth's real estate market, by... killing all his customers, tanking the economy and selling a product nobody would want to invest in anyway.