10 Absurdly Contrived Bad Guy Schemes

9. J.R. Ewing (J.R. Returns)

dallas_jr_returns Though not a theatrical film, this made for television movie does feature one of the greatest bad guys of all time, the man you love to hate, good ol' J.R. Ewing. Set five years after the original Dallas ended in 1991, J.R. returns to Dallas after living in Europe and begins his usual scheming in order to do what's necessary for the Ewing family, for Ewing Oil, and most of all, for J.R. himself. He fakes his death, arrives at his own memorial, sleeps with the necessary people, manages to get Bobby back into the oil business who has long since quite, Sue Ellen to move home from England to Dallas, and his son, John Ross to finally start learning the oil business from the master himself. Over the top just like the series was, one has to suspend disbelief to enjoy such machiavellian plots. At the end of the day, its J.R. Ewing at his best...R.I.P Larry Hagman.
 
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