When it comes to ridiculously cumbersome and ultimately unsuccessful evil plans for world domination, you can depend on two things: the James Bond films and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. While enough has been penned on the latter, it's time someone exposed the former. So as the world eagerly awaits the release of Spectre, let's hark back to a time when Bond was far less convincing€
10. Blofeld Thwarted By His Own Fail-Safes - You Only Live Twice
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The Plan: Steal US and Soviet spacecraft (while they're already in space) in order to incite global nuclear war by playing the superpowers against each other. Dastardly villain Ernst Stavros Blofeld had previously made mysteriously unseen appearances in Bond films but You Only Live Twice marked his first proper outing as 007's ultimate cat-stroking, scar-faced, Nehru-suit-wearing nemesis. Residing in a hollowed out volcano filled with piranhas and a pet cat (a health and safety nightmare of a workplace if you ever saw one), Blofeld (Donald Pleasance) certainly knows how to make an explosive first impression. However, his plans for world domination misfire and leave him clearing out the litter tray after Bond takes advantage of the fact that Blofeld ensures that all of his key modes of attack happen to have their own self-destruct button. You know, just in case he has a change of heart. So that swanky volcano base and the spacecraft he's been using to start a nuclear apocalypse all go up in smoke just in the nick of time. It's somewhat ironic that his goal of world domination was thwarted by his own safety measures.