8 Lessons The Bond 24 Villain Must Learn So He Doesn't Fail Miserably

3. Have A Backup Plan

Bond villains are among the most evil, preening and downright strange in cinema's vast villain gallery €“ just look at Max Zorin. But all of them share one common flaw: overconfidence. It's apparent in how they share their secret plans with Bond and in the way they build giant, over-compensating houses of evil. But nowhere is it more obvious than when it comes to the dastardly plan itself: placing all their eggs in one basket, Bond villains always assume their seriously far-fetched scheme will work out. Hence why there's never a plan B. Every big operation needs a detailed backup plan in the case of emergency. Bond villains never commissioned one of those (only wimps prepare), which is why the spanner in the works - Bond - always throws things into total and complete chaos often all by himself. How do you stop Bond dismantling your nuclear sub, The World Is Not Enough's Renard, or prevent him from dashing your dreams of Korean unification, Die Another Day's Gustav Graves/Colonel Moon? Preparation, guys. You've spent all that money already on a private army and all their individual training sessions, a bit more expenditure to plan for the worst couldn't hurt.