10 Smartest Villain Plans In Movies

10. Syndrome's Omnidroid - The Incredibles

In The Incredibles, Syndrome plots to launch his destructive robot, The Omnidroid, onto a heavily populated city. After he swoops in to destroy it, he assumes society will perceive him as a superhero.

In most comic-themed stories, the villain has some sort of doomsday device which the hero ultimate destroys after exploiting an obvious weakness.

However, Syndrome is fully aware of this. He's been obsessed with superheroes since childhood and knows how resourceful they are at uncovering weaknesses in weapons and doomsday machines.

In fact, Syndrome used this fact to his advantage. For years, he "hired" superheroes under the guise of a mysterious benefactor and asked them to destroy the Omnidroid, which had supposedly gone rogue on an island.

If the superhero emerged triumphant, Syndrome rebuilt the robot so it was immune to the way it was defeated. If the Omnidroid won, that was one less superhero for Syndrome to worry about.

By the time the insidious supervillain believed he had killed every superhero on Earth, only then did he release the Omnidroid on the public, which by this point, was nearly invincible. Although Syndrome was beaten (by a baby), it was still a masterfully orchestrated stratagem.