12 Dumbest Action Movie Weapons
6. Prospero - The Avengers (1998)
Why do supervillains tend to think that dominion over the forces of earth are always a good thing?
It takes a specific brand of evil to sit there and think, "Take that, coastal tides! Feel my wrath, destabilised fishing trades!".
However, there's still an old school mindset of villainy that still thinks that this is perfectly normal.
Case in point: Sean Connery's Sir August de Wynter from 1998's The Avengers.
Now, given its source material is from the 60's, you have to give it a wee bit of credit for being daft.
That being said... why the weather?
Oh sure, conjuring up hurricanes and typhoons to wreak localised destruction is feasible, but who really benefits from that?
At the most, you're causing mass indiscriminate death tolls. At the very least, you're inconveniencing the local council and community with damage repairs and disrupted travel.
It just seems an odd choice, considering evil geniuses usually have funds and resources for say, genuine doomsday devices. Or at least pay people to think up new ones.
Tch, it's almost like they don't care what effect they have on the global ecosystem when they want a localised hurricane to hit London.