10 Smartest Villain Plans In Horror Movies
6. David - Alien: Covenant
The Plan: Pose as Covenant's android and destroy humanity.
Even by futuristic cyborg standards, Michael Fassbender's David is ferociously intelligent. Unfortunately for humanity, this manifests as a murderous desire to exterminate mankind, viewing them as an inferior race.
David's plan is as clever as it gets. How does one remove an organism from the top of the food chain? Add another level. Using technology attained in 2012's Prometheus, Peter Weyland's bionic protege engineers the franchise's iconic Xenomorphs to eradicate humanity.
Even the crew's valiant escape attempts aren't enough to foil the android's plans after they encounter him in Alien: Covenant. Faking his death, David disposes of the ship's identical cyborg Walter, posing as him in plain sight. If defeating a version of himself - designed to be superior to him in every way - doesn't constitute proof of David's terrifying intellect, this writer cannot posit what conceivably does.
David's nefarious Trojan Horse act holds up until it is too late to matter. As anguished protagonist Daniels realizes that "Walter" is actually David, he leaves her with conceivably the most horrifying "good night" in history as she slips into cryo-sleep.
"Don't let the bedbugs bite. I'll tuck in the children."
The treacherous android barfs up two face hugger embryos, placing them in cold storage along with the colony's human supply. As Covenant sails silently on towards Origae-6, David's genocidal plan remains in full hellish motion.