5 Underrated Movie Villain Plans
If there's one element of storytelling that film fans love to pick apart, it's the elaborate scheme that the hero sets out to stop. Every great movie antagonist has a plan, but some have been ripped apart over the years, while others don't get the positive attention they deserve.
Movie villains are often more appreciated than heroes. Wild agents of chaos, cold calculating geniuses, superhuman physical threats, clever manipulative masterminds, or inconceivable monsters have become fan-favorite characters in the villain role. Unfortunately, writing a lovable bad guy is often much easier than coming up with the methodology they use. That's what makes the compelling examples even more interesting. Spoiler Warning for every film mentioned.
Action Movies Where The Villain Wins
Though completely drowned out by its sequel and ongoing franchise, Bryan Singer's first take on the iconic Marvel franchise was a decent film. This movie came almost a decade before the introduction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making it one of the earliest superhero films in the modern model. The 2000 original sees Sir Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr, AKA Magneto, in the primary villain role.
As is often the case, Magneto's motivations are sympathetic. He was persecuted as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, and sees the treatment of his fellow mutants as a similar crime. Magneto and company move to stop the passage of the Mutant Registration Act, which seeks to force every mutant to self-identify and face persecution. Magneto's plan to resolve this issue isn't to kill everyone involved or bomb the White House. Instead, he seeks to transform the anti-mutant legislators into mutants, forcing them to contend with an identity that they, like their new peers,
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