8 Really Stupid Plans Comic Book Movie Villains Tried

5. Lizard's Serum Would Only Last A Few Hours On The Whole City - The Amazing Spider-Man

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The Plan: The bulk of the first act sees Dr. Connors experimenting with limb regeneration, due to his own arm being missing from the elbow down. He eventually creates a serum that works, with a catch; it transforms him into a human/lizard hybrid.

So, naturally, Connors decides he's going to unleash this serum on the entire city in the form of a toxic gas cloud, in an attempt to turn the population into a bunch of green, scaly beasts.

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Why It's Stupid: At numerous points throughout the film, we see Connors turn into the Lizard, then turn back into a human again a short while later. So, at best, his evil plan to transform the city of New York into a city of Lizards will last... a few hours.

Surely he knows that, because he's the only test subject! All he'll accomplish with this scheme is the creation of a bunch of lizard-people for a short while, leading to increased media coverage and police attention on himself, making it more likely he'll be apprehended faster. Smooth.

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It's not even like Connors is an idiot, either; he's shown to be a very smart, grounded man from his very first scene, which makes his sudden turn to an 'all-conquering villain with a big-scale destruction master plan' even harder to swallow.

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