10 Smartest Villain Plans From Sci-Fi Movies

10. A Super Realistic Simulation - The Machines (The Matrix)

The idea of living in a simulation is present throughout sci-fi history, but nothing does it quite as well or as famously as The Matrix.

And the sequels, yes, but who really wants to talk about those?

Through the eyes of Thomas "Neo" Anderson, we learn that the world we believe to be real is actually a load of baloney.

After a war between humanity and machines in the early 21st, the super-intelligent robots started placing people in stasis and draining their life force to use as energy. To keep them occupied, they projected an image of life in the year 1999 into their brains and convinced them that it was reality.

Imagine being stuck in 1999 forever. Britney Spears on loop until the end of time.

It's a really smart plan on the machine's part; why would humanity fight back if they don't even know they're being enslaved?

Of course, this all falls apart when you factor in the whole resistance movement thing, but hey, nobody bats a thousand.

The real world being a simulation is a horrifying thought, but something like that could never happen in real life... or could it?