10 More Smartest Villain Plans In Movies

10. Richmond Valentine Manipulated Everyone - Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman: The Secret Service is an off-the-wall, for lack of a better term batsh*t crazy movie that takes full advantage of eccentric and bombastic visuals and action sequences. As such, it needed an equally eccentric and bombastic villain, which it got in the form of Samuel L. Jackson's Richmond Valentine.

As a multi-billionaire with the ultimate goal of culling the world's population leaving only the elite and wealthy, Richmond utilised his resources immaculately well. Not only was his seemingly limitless pot of money put to good use, so were his reputation and his connections.

Valentine preyed on those he wanted to rid the world of by appealing to what they needed and wanted most, essentially unlimited data that wouldn't cost them a penny. This was master manipulation, and through his sim cards put the entire world within range of the signal he let off that set them all to slaughtering each other.

Jackson's character brought onto his side powerful people, including the President of the United States, Swedish royalty, and the head of Kingsman. Had it not been for the suspicion and sleight of hand of Eggsy (Taron Egerton), Arthur (Michael Caine) would have killed the one remaining threat to Valentine's scheme and it would have gone off without a hitch. Even with what remained of the Kingsmen ultimately bringing him down, this villain still managed to successfully set off the impulse that must have seen an immeasurable amount of people killed.