Ozymandias in "The Watchmen". He fabricates a fake alien invasion to trick the U.S. and U.S.S.R into standing down from a mounting nuclear crisis in an alternate earth timeline. To cover his tracks, he employs telepaths and a tachyon field. When the heroes finally catch up to him and break through his defenses, they have to leave him alone because his plan just saved the world from nuclear Armageddon. Sweet!
Megatron's plan in Beast Wars to use the Time Discs to locate the Arc and kill Optimus Prime one million years before his awakening was pretty darn smart. The best part of it? That was his big plan to start with from the beginning! Holy shit! So the alien fusions, making superweapons, and trying to create an army of soldiers to populate the planet were just cover-ups!
Originally posted by Doc OckOf course 😄 All these are prefect examples of./.. uh... ingenius plots... EG: Hit Jason Todd a lot with a crowbar, plant a bomb, lock the door, piss off and... uh... become Iraq's UN ambasassador guy...
The Joker crippling Barbara Gordon just to prove a point.The Joker killing Jason Todd.
The Joker killing Gordon's wife.
Heck, everything the Joker does is brilliant.
Though I did enjoy his plan in the Killing Joke, that wasnt quite so crude... 🙂
From the comic book movies: David Banner in "Hulk". As soon as he was released from prison he set his plan into motion. He basically manipulated Bruce, Dr. Ross, the US military and Thunderbolt Ross into doing his bidding to eventually achieve his ultimate goal of harnassing the Hulk's power and become the most powerful force on the planet. Not bad for an old and meek man.
From the comic books: Dr. Doom from "Triumph and Torment". Who else could be so manipulative that he'd trick the Devil into freeing his mother's captive soul.