10 Movie Villains Who Would Have Won By Doing NOTHING
3. Zhylaw - The Chronicles Of Riddick
Similarly to Kung Fu Panda 2's Lord Shen, The Chronicles of Riddick's Lord Marshal Zhylaw (Colm Feore) was compelled by a supposed prophecy to commit a series of actions which ended up sealing his fate.
30 years prior to the events of the film, Zhylaw launched an attack on Riddick's (Vin Diesel) home planet of Furya, slaughtering young men en masse to ward off a prophecy that foretold he would be overthrown by a Furyan.
However, Riddick was one of the few Furyans to survive the massacre despite a failed attempt to strangle him with his own umbilical cord, which in turn set Riddick on course to become a mentally unstable, murderous sociopath who, indeed, kills Zhylaw at the end of the movie.
Though just like Lord Shen Zhylaw could never have been certain if he eluded his fate simply by doing nothing, it at least would've ensured that Riddick never ended up in his orbit. Probably, anyway.