10 Movie Villains Who Wanted To Be Caught

10. Joker & Bane - The Dark Knight Trilogy

There are a lot of similarities between Heath Ledger's Joker and Tom Hardy's Bane from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. They both targeted Batman, they both began the film covering their faces, and throughout the events of their individual plans, they both intended to be caught.

Compared to the rest of what he did, this was actually a rather small part of the Joker's scheme. He allowed Batman (Christian Bale) and Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) to lock him up so he could break back out of jail with criminal accountant Lau (Chin Han) accompanying him, so he could learn the location of the Gotham mobsters' money pot.

He said himself that it wasn't about the money, so he burned the pile of dollar bills with Lau sitting on top. Bane's entire plan, however, hinged on his capture at the beginning.

Before Bane did anything else, he got himself taken by the CIA, in order to get on the same plane as Dr. Pavel (Alon Aboutboul). This allowed him to fake the doctor's death and kidnap him all at the same time, allowing him to then work on the nuclear bomb that he would later threaten Gotham City with. Plus, it doesn't really matter if you get caught when you plan on killing everyone present anyway.