8 Really Stupid Plans Comic Book Movie Villains Tried

All movies count on you to suspend your disbelief to truly engage with what it is a filmmaker is presenting you.

Whether it's a man dressing up like a bat and punching criminals in the face or a group of scientists creating dinosaurs from DNA extracted from mosquitoes preserved in amber, each time you take your seat to watch something on the big-screen, you to do so with an open mind.

Comic-book movies, in particular, are relying on your ability to accept the fantastical, but sometimes, even they can go a little too far, abusing your trust with absurd storylines and completely ridiculous plot threads.

And more often than not, this stupidity stems from the villain of the piece. After all, our heroes need a tough-old adversary to beat up, and superhero screenwriters seem intent on delivering us just that, no matter how much their evil plots defy logic.

So, in honour of those baddies who probably should have thought things through a little bit more, here are eight villainous schemes that left us scratching our heads...

The Plan: We haven't seen too much of Thanos yet so the intricacies of his plan are still unknown, but the overall gist is likely this; he wants to assemble the Infinity Stones in the Infinity Gauntlet, and conquer Earth. And the universe. Or something like that.

Anyway, the Infinity Stones are his plan, and they'll hand him the necessary power to defeat anyone who stands in his way, including the Avengers.

Why It's Stupid: So, naturally... he gave his only Infinity Stone away. In The Avengers, we learn that Thanos entrusted Loki with the scepter so that the trickster would have enough power to retrieve the Tesseract, the blue space-cube at the centre of the movie's plot.

But if your plan is to assemble the Stones, why would you give the scepter away? Why not go get the Tesseract yourself? The scepter contained the Mind Stone which led to the creation of Vision, so not only is Thanos one Stone down, he's got one more powerful enemy in his way.

And bizarrely, in Guardians Of The Galaxy, the Mad Titan makes the same mistake again; this time, he trusts Ronan the Accuser with retrieving the orb containing the Power Stone, only for it to end up being locked inside a Nova Corps vault.

In Avengers: Age Of Ultron's post-credits scene, Thanos finally vows to gather the Stones himself, but if he'd done that a few movies earlier, he could have one or two by now, instead of... zero.

Perhaps his plan seems odd because we haven't seen how it fully plays out yet, but right now, it doesn't seem too clever on the surface.