10 Dumbest Villain Plans In Movies

10. Palpatine Broadcasts His Return... Because Reasons - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Nothing signifies the fact that the most recent Star Wars movie was a cobbled-together, reactionary mess than the sudden reintroduction of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in the film's opening title crawl.

Out of nowhere, we learn that not only has Palpatine been inexplicably resurrected, but for some reason he's decided to loudly broadcast this fact to the entire galaxy.

Really all this does is alert the Rebels to his presence and eventually allow them to prevail, by denying the Final Order the crucial element of surprise and ensuring they're never even able to leave Exegol.

Fans have certainly tried to contort Palpatine's logic into something half-way plausible, but the sad reality is that The Rise of Skywalker's story continued to receive major revisions until late into production, and this was likely a result of that.

Rather than find a believable way for the Rebels to find out about Sheev's existence, why not just have him literally broadcast it, and make it part of a Fortnite tie-in for "good" measure?

Though Order 66 was a strategic masterclass, Palpatine seemingly lost his tack-sharp mind during all that time he spent in the existential abyss.