20 Idiotic Decisions Made By Characters In The X-Men Franchise

6. Yashisa Foils His Own Plan & Lets Wolverine Slip Through His Fingers - The Wolverine

Here's a really massive and highly questionable decision courtesy of a supposedly intelligent villain - odd, given that it's the one decision that drives the entire story inherent to The Wolverine, which has everybody's favourite X-Man battling samurais and ninjas and such in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The villain in question is an old Japanese man named Yashida; his ultimate plan is to take Wolverine's healing power from him so that he might live forever. Okay - it's little sketchy, but it's still fine. The problems arise from the ways in which he goes out achieving this, however, which is in pretty much the worst way imaginable.

Firstly, Yashida asks Wolverine to give him his powers. Wolverine says no. At this point, and with all his is superior technologies, Yashida should have captured Wolverine (we know he's capable of this) and gone about doing what he needed to do. Instead, he decides to just "weaken" Wolverine whilst the hero roams Japan (talk about an unnecessarily slow process) only to set about capturing and bringing him back at a later point.

But Wolverine was already in Yashida's house. He stayed the night. Why did Yashida bother to let him go?