10 Movie Villains Who Would Have Won By Doing NOTHING

Kung Fu Panda 2's Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) is a villain ultimately hamstrung by his own dogged desire to ensure that an apparent prophecy doesn't come to pass.

After a soothsayer tells him in his youth that he would be defeated by "a warrior of black and white", Shen organises a massacre of all the pandas in a nearby village.

But in a feat of self-fulfilling prophecy, this is the very act which leads to Shen's downfall, as the massacre results in Po (Jack Black) being adopted by Mr. Ping (James Hong) and sets him on a path to eventually become the Dragon Warrior.

And so, without Shen's massacre of Po's village in the first place, Po never would've received the training necessary to take him on and ultimately defeat him.

Though this is very much a "chicken and egg" situation deterministically speaking, it's entirely possible Shen would've never met a fitting challenger had he not sacked the panda village that day, especially given that the Soothsayer gave a mere prediction of Shen's fate.