10 Dumbest Villains In Movie History
4. Loki - Thor (2011) & Avengers (2012)
The Asgardian God of mischief, Loki Laufeyson, doesn't fare too well in his first two outings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Brought down and banished in his attempt to usurp the throne of Asgard during the first Thor film, the wicked prince falls through a wormhole into oblivion and of course, in reality into Thanos' clutches.
The events of the Avengers movie see Loki attempting to obtain the Tesseract for his monstrous master, at the head of an alien army. He uses the power of the Tesseract to open a wormhole to allow the Chitauri invasion, but the aliens find themselves defeated by the combined forces of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and Loki is captured and brought back to Asgard in chains to rot in prison.
So why is the self-proclaimed master of lies, trickery, and deceit on this list? There are those who claim that Loki's fiendish master plan in Avengers was to betray Thanos and deliberately lose, so that he can return to Asgard - where he fell from at the end of Thor - and continue plotting to seize the throne. There are even some who go further, detailing intricate plans in which Thanos and Loki conspired together to have him fail in New York and returned to Asgard, where he might regain control of the realm and have the Infinity Gauntlet, the Tesseract, and the Aether delivered to his master all together.
Sadly, Loki's immense popularity with the Marvel movie's fandom has blinded some people as to his true nature. Loki isnt some Machiavellian evil genius, or a master strategist: he specialises in lies, deception, and illusions, your classic trickster archetype. Loki is an opportunist, not a chess player, capricious and impulsive, and (his constant taunts to Thor aside) he's certainly not the sharpest tool in the box. A petulant little-boy-lost, Loki only ever begins to truly plot against Thor when it's revealed that he's not Odin's real son, only to fail at the end.
In Avengers, he stumbles upon Thanos, who gives him command of the Chitauri army and a mind-controlling sceptre to further his conquest of Earth, only to fail at the end yet again. Theres no way Loki would have required help to return to Asgard if he'd wanted to go there; this is the man who had his own sneaky ways in and out of the realm revealed in Thor: The Dark World.
So why start a war on Earth to be captured and thrown into prison when he was already presumed dead by his family and could sneak back in to plot anew whenever he chose? No, the only explanation that makes sense is that the plan detailed in Avengers (not even his plan, remember) was the plan all along: a plan he's tricked out of by Black Widow, and which is then foiled by his allegedly stupid adopted brother and his friends, who can barely even get along with one another long enough to do so. Loki is completely out of his depth throughout both films, and dumber than a box full of hair.