@@Hillthugsta I think it's more of a built-in reaction. For example, if I suddenly threw a realistic-looking plastic knife at you, wouldn't you flinch? I think it's more of a mind game/muscle memory thing. But, don't quote me on it. After all, writers do things that don't make sense all the time if it comes off as cool or they need to move the plot along. Just my two cents though.
The smartest decision made by a villain, would have to be that goon from the Batman Animated series, who looked into a room, saw batman standing in it, closed the door, and just walked away.
Honorable mention goes to the member of an invading alien race who, upon learning that Earth had a kryptonian and multiple green lanterns protecting it (And that's just for starters), suggested that they just leave Earth the hell alone. While it didn't happen, just suggesting it proves he was smarter than most alien invaders in DC Comics history.
@@masquerabe6692 I don't have the actual comic, but I found a demotivator for it. ddemotivators.tumblr.com/image/58345129239 Honestly, given everything that DC Earth has on it, it amazes me that anyone ever tries to invade.
Except for Darkseid. Honestly, between the Themegarians, Kryptonians, Lanterns, and everything else on Earth, the only planet that actually stands a chance of successfully conquering it is Apokalypse, and even then, it’s a fairly even game because Darkseid has no problem playing the long game.
@@coltonwilliams4153 honestly if darkseid was written properly he'd kick all of their asses Least till characters like spectre, doctor fate, orion, or a properly written flash show up
@the Pun-isher I believe that was the Reach the race that created the scarab that Jaime Reyes bonded with as the blue beetle. they are a less overt alien invader claiming to come in peace before introducing tech, altering food, and offering wonder drugs to cure all none ills while slowly transforming the populus into willing slaves with the beetles as super powered enforcers
In all fairness, the riddler was always the brains behind Hush. The movie just cut out the pointless middle man of an obvious best friend turned evil dude.
@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 WOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!! He really was behind it?!? That makes him an amazing enemy! I mean, he ain't no joke in the arkham games, but he kinda is.lol
Bane Definitely deserves the number one spot it still blows my mind in every reread how he took down the Dark Knight by using his flaw of going it alone against him.
@@gilessaint-loup2426 we know what movie to thank for that awful bane depiction 😫, when I started reading comics I was in shock at how different Bane was
You kinda have to ignore all of Superman's character to do that though. At the point, Superman would have either killed Joker or sent him to the phantom zone. But becoming a fascist dictator is just the total opposite of Superman. He's seen and felt worse than that before and not become a fascist dictator. Injustice is just stupid for that. The very story that invented the "one bad day" talking point for Joker ended in Joker himself not even being able to prove it, against Jim Gordon, an old cop, and against Batman, a man with numerous mental disorders. There is nothing Joker can do to Superman that would make him hateful and evil. Lex Luthor, THE smartest homo sapien in DC, and likely the richest, Superman's greatest nemesis, who himself idolizes Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, and Adolf Hitler, not even he can do that. That's the antithesis of Superman, and "inverting it" is such a tired and boring and uninspired trope.
@@jacobclark6002 yup u r right injustice is cool and fun but should never be referenced like its canon its borderline fanfic, with most of the characters not even worthy of their names. as a superman fan one bad day doesnt apply to him, he is the paragon of hope.
@@OhNoTheFace Ozymandias wasn't supposed to be a straight up villain, his plan was to stop, or at least slow down, the end of the end of the world by killing a few million people with a giant telepathic squid everyone thinks is an alien. People would put aside their differences and try to prepare for invasion.
@@OhNoTheFace I think a villain like that would be better and more interesting than a villain who brags about their plan while in the middle of it giving the hero time to stop it.
One of the smartest moves I have seen was from the Young Justice TV series. A rouge villain was going to blow up the play date with the kids/spouses of JL members. A representative of criminal organization, The Light, killed him because killing the families would cause the League to be out for blood when hunting villains.
Uh.... did you know hear the part that they 'harvestedhis dna' and grew the result in an artiificial womb. 1st way i thiught and easiest way to do it would be by using condoms to catch all of bruce' sample.
I wouldn't exactly say that Batman is paranoid for creating contingency plans to fight allies, should they turn rouge. That's just intelligent pre planning.
@@sacrificial420 but its happened before (to a lesser degree) and most of the JL also have villains with the same powers as them so the contingency plans could be applied to them in some way. That being said a few of Batman's plans were dependent on the hero's personality so they probably wouldn't work on a villain or if they were mind controlled it would have a limited effect.
Hulk in Glasses would you create a plan to kill your entire family and anyone like them? Even if you helped them fight crime I doubt you would. Batman is insane, and that’s that. Although it isn’t technically confirmed.
@@sacrificial420 You're 100% right that Batman is insane. But looking at things from Batman's perspective (and its kinda the same with some politics) he's a human surrounded by gods. What's going to stop them from deciding to stop following human laws? Nothing can stop Superman or Flash if they went full evil. And Batman doesn't consider them his friends or family. With the exception of Superman Batman considers everyone on the League people he works with. He doesn't have a contingency plan for his true family (Alfred, Nightwing, the other ex Robins) because he completely trusts them. In the real world everyone is practically equal. Sure there's always someone physically better but they are still bound by the laws and force can be used to stop them. But what force is there to stop Green Lantern from recreating an entire city? Flash from snapping people's necks? Aquaman and Wonder Woman declaring war on humans? Or Superman from going on a murder spree? And Batman didn't make the plans until after he saw the bad that the heroes could do. Superman already took over the world in the main continuity and no one could stop him. He ended up coming to his senses and apologizing but that was it. GL already murdered hundreds of Lanterns and it took a while for it to be punished. Batman was preparing for the situations to happen again.
The Joker using kryptonite fear gas to make Superman believe he saw Doomsday, where he launched him into space, and that it was actually Louis Lane. The cherry on top was that her heart was connected to a nuclear bomb in Metropolis, when her heart stopped it went off. It's the start of Injustice, still my favorite though.
The smartest thing a villain has ever done in the DC universe was in the Batman animated show, a random goon is on patrol walks into a room, sees batman, walks out, and tells another random goon there was nothing in the room to see.
How can you have a list like this and not include Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom, Reverse Flash) baiting Barry Allen (the Flash) into going to change history by revealing that he was the one who killed Barry's mother and framed his father of the crime. Not only does this action result in Barry never becoming the Flash, but his inexperienced time travel created a shockwave in space and time that altered the destiny of many heroes and the world itself, resulting in the almost literal Hell on Earth that is the Flashpoint Paradox. What's worse about all this is that Thawne got the last laugh because, as he put it, all the death and destruction and the world coming to an end was all thanks to Barry messing around with the timestream like an amateur.
That's what I'm saying. Or Luther for President was pretty ingenious. Sinestro's betrayal. Dood, there are so many that aren't Batman-based it's kinda ridiculous.
@@davidsabol2632 that scene was improvised. That's how. The explosion didn't go off as expected but rather than break character heath ledger went with it and as a result we wound up getting that incredible scene.
There is no way that the full intricacies of Ozymandias’s plan was explained to the public. Rorschach only knew that Brody was responsible for the death of the Comedian and setting him up to be caught by the police. He put his journal in the drop box for the newspaper before he had all of the information. It would take someone with more than a little intelligence and a severe desire to uncover conspiracies to fully piece together Brody’s final plan.
They have a family to feed. In a corrupted socaty like Gotham City many were forced to a life of crime. The politicians are corrupted, the billionairs only care about beating the living shit out of them and the police are mostly killed based on stupid desitions made by the one that makes orders.
I dug the notion in Old Man Logan of someone organizing all the villains to take out the heroes. Mysterio singlehandedly took on Wolverine and beat him.
Wasn’t there a comic book where Killer Croc lived with a married couple, and eventually surrendered to the cops when they showed up, saying “People are the real monsters?” That’s deep.
The idea of Knightfall but in Arkham Knight.... Add a tank to even the odds, but even he has his limits when tackling a bunch of super villains in a single night,
Too bad they made jason another typical villain who really just has daddy issues and not the badass he is, like he had a point in under the hood, batmans ways dont always work, but in AK they just decided "nah lets just make him want revenge and thats all he has to go on"
@@IsaiahINRI i like him more as redhood which he does become after the end of the game, but remember that the Arkham version of jason gets tortured by the joker wayyyy longer and doesnt die, he just has to live with a mind broken by the joker
@@IsaiahINRI Not hyper familiar with the comics, but doesn't red hood hunt criminals with a passion? In arkham he's like "nah bruh imma become a criminal myself and create an army just to take down big daddy"
@@mihneaiordan1813 yeah basically. He becomes the head drug lord through intimidation and murder so that he controls the drug trade and thus minimizing its damage ie no selling to kids
Batman himself gave Bane the idea for breaking him in their first meeting. "You're threatening me? Get in line!" Bruce will forever regret telling him that.
I loved when yellow Lantern made tiny versions of himself to figure out how to get a little space aliens living in the big robots to work with the legion of doom
Time to update your list. Darkseid preparing for the collapse of the Source Wall (end of time, space, and the Fourth World) by hiding top secret Mother Boxs in a hidden dimension called the Ghost Sector he would later retrieve to forge a new Apokolips called Sepulkore has to be #1. Darkseid basically had the only life raft in the entire universe once Perpetua broke the Source Wall and ended the universe- and that life raft was a superdestroyer battleship that fired nuclear missiles. That's a pretty damn smart decision to make and prepare for thousands of years in advance as a mere prince of Apokolips who still had to get through his parents to become ruler of Apokolips first.
Also, a cool thing to remember is that Knightfall takes place after batman "kicks" a bad illness from withdrawal. He's physically weak, then arkham is busted open, then he has to deal with Bane, sitting in his house
I'd disagree. If anything, it was the most effective and smartest decision if his plan was wreaking havoc, breaking Clark and turning him against the world. He got killed, yes, but it resulted in a distopian future, turning Superman, the strongest known defender of humanity, evil. This is a world, which I would assume to be very similar to the Joker's goal. Plus given the character's rather unique personality and attitude towards life in general (even his own), it would not be OOC for him to willingly throw away his life, in order for his plan to succeed.
Mirror Master from Rock of Ages should be on this list. Batman offers him a small fortune as a donation to the struggling orphanage in which MM was raised, and Mirror Master walks away when the shit goes down. Also, Deathstroke in Identity Crisis. He takes down a squad of Justice Leaguers by exploiting their powers, and only loses after getting stabbed in his empty eye socket by Green Arrow (making him go berserk).
The smartest decision a villain has ever made was to stop being a villain. Looking back at history should tell them that villains never win in the long term. No matter how much they seem to be winning at first.
Hey guys, good content as always! Love watching all of your videos! Quick thing I noticed... a typo on the first (number 8) entry. You have hier, pretty sure you meant heir. Take care!
3:46 actually, it was the other way around. Prior to this scene Waller revealed she knew Batman's identity, and that pretty much stopped him in his tracks...until it didn't. Waller ended up learning the hard way from then on...you don't mess with the Batman. th-cam.com/video/ruwIBT-noAs/w-d-xo.html
i have a smart DC villain plans not from the comics but from the Arrowverse Malcolm Merlin's second earthquake machine in Arrow season 1. so if someone (Police or Vigilante) stops him earthquake machine he's got a back up. that worked the earthquake machine went off and killed over 500 people.
Bane is or is not a formidable villain, depending on whom his antagonist is. Bane vs. Batman is epic. Bane vs. Superman, Wonder Woman, or the Martian Manhunter? Bane gets curb-stomped.
I thought one of the smartest decisions in super villain history was in forever evil when lex luthor was fighting mazahs ( his doppelgänger and Shazam’s equivalent) and realizes he or any of the other villains can’t beat mazahs so lex says mazahs because it’s the word that transforms him to his human form and it worked because again they are doppelgängers so lex could kill mazahs when transformed into a mortal
Death stroke single handedly defeating the justice league in identity crisis. First he takes out elongated man with a trap full of explosives Sets off a series of explosives that force Wally to attack Slade from behind only to run into his blade Then he strikes Zatanna in a pressure point in the gut to make her vomit constantly so she can’t do spells Ties a bag around Black Canary’s head to suffocate and prevent her scream Uses a laser pointer to take out the atom who was in shrinking form Cuts off the back parts of all of Green Arrow’s arrows to prevent him from knocking them with his bow Cuts off Hawkman’s straps to his wings to prevent his flying And removes Kyle Rayner’s green lantern ring by force He would’ve won if Green arrow hadn’t stuck an arrow in Deathstroke’s empty eye socket
Deadshot wins Jk its darkseid (if omega beams count otherwise deadshot) the man has pulled off ridiculous feats, like so has bullseye and hawkeye and the like but like deadshots are a whole nother level
Rebirth slade vs superman is the worst confrontation I've seen between them, cause usually for certain heroes like superman,wonder woman or green lantern its avoiding at all cost for a lot of street level villains lol
8:20 terra is not a good gy yes she was abused but that doesnt mean she wasn't evil in fact marv and George BOTH said she was always meant to be a villain and nothing more she really shows that just because your backstop is sad and hard doesn't mean you arent a bad guy
@@VonWenk No, you're thinking of Dr. light. Dr light hired Slade to protect him from the JL. The whole battle was strategic. Cut Green Arrow's arrows, cut off hawkman's wings, hits Zatanna in the throat to stop her from spells, stabs flash when he tried to come from behind. He really f*Ed them up.
@@mdudevoire Thanks. I read Identity Crisis when it came out and forgotten why the Justice League was fighting. Deathstroke did something similar in his own title facing Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Flash.
When Deathstroke straight up threw green rock at superman and made him flinch. That was hilarious.
Sket6984 glowing green rocks. Important detail. They have to glow or it won’t work as well
It really shouldnt work anyway. Clark should have known it was bs since he wasnt suffering any ill effects in its proximity.
*Jumps at him* "bitch"
@@Hillthugsta I think it's more of a built-in reaction. For example, if I suddenly threw a realistic-looking plastic knife at you, wouldn't you flinch? I think it's more of a mind game/muscle memory thing. But, don't quote me on it. After all, writers do things that don't make sense all the time if it comes off as cool or they need to move the plot along. Just my two cents though.
@@Hillthugsta if someone hit you with a shovel made out of foam wouldn't you flinch? Besides, kryptonite isn't as powerful as people think lol
The smartest decision made by a villain, would have to be that goon from the Batman Animated series, who looked into a room, saw batman standing in it, closed the door, and just walked away.
That was Justice League though.
@@Darth_Bateman as well as Btas
No. He was even smarter. Another goon asked if something was wrong when he closed the door again. He just said ‘Nope’ and noped out
What episode was it
@@ZenoReaperMax1781 It was the "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman" Movie
Number one: that time a henchmen caught Batman looking for evidence and just walked out of the room
"Something wrong? *goon looks back to door* Nope"
Smartest villain decision: Joker refusing to go against the IRS.
Batman is one thing, but the IRS!? Nooooo thank you.
@@gelusvenn5063 amen to that one ,,,
Honorable mention goes to the member of an invading alien race who, upon learning that Earth had a kryptonian and multiple green lanterns protecting it (And that's just for starters), suggested that they just leave Earth the hell alone. While it didn't happen, just suggesting it proves he was smarter than most alien invaders in DC Comics history.
Who was this?
@@masquerabe6692 I don't have the actual comic, but I found a demotivator for it.
ddemotivators.tumblr.com/image/58345129239
Honestly, given everything that DC Earth has on it, it amazes me that anyone ever tries to invade.
Except for Darkseid. Honestly, between the Themegarians, Kryptonians, Lanterns, and everything else on Earth, the only planet that actually stands a chance of successfully conquering it is Apokalypse, and even then, it’s a fairly even game because Darkseid has no problem playing the long game.
@@coltonwilliams4153 honestly if darkseid was written properly he'd kick all of their asses
Least till characters like spectre, doctor fate, orion, or a properly written flash show up
@the Pun-isher I believe that was the Reach the race that created the scarab that Jaime Reyes bonded with as the blue beetle. they are a less overt alien invader claiming to come in peace before introducing tech, altering food, and offering wonder drugs to cure all none ills while slowly transforming the populus into willing slaves with the beetles as super powered enforcers
I remember when Thomas Elliott was Hush. Those were the days.
Yes we all know the hush animated movie sucked
Wait! He not Hush anymore?!? Si the movie was actually based on canon comics?
In all fairness, the riddler was always the brains behind Hush. The movie just cut out the pointless middle man of an obvious best friend turned evil dude.
@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 WOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!! He really was behind it?!? That makes him an amazing enemy! I mean, he ain't no joke in the arkham games, but he kinda is.lol
Get a life I am a big DC fan but I don't go round commenting that
Bane Definitely deserves the number one spot it still blows my mind in every reread how he took down the Dark Knight by using his flaw of going it alone against him.
Yeah everyone thinks that since he's a big brute that he's dumb but when you actually look into him he's really really smart
@@eze1300 That always angered me, Bane is actually very articulate and intelligent. Could probably give Deathstroke a run for his money.
@@gilessaint-loup2426 we know what movie to thank for that awful bane depiction 😫, when I started reading comics I was in shock at how different Bane was
I would also include almost all of Joker's decisions in *"Batman: White Knight"*
Jack Napier shits on Batman 10/10😂
He technically wasn’t the villain in that story.
@Toriano Reno that's what I said
@@jordanloux3883 that is true but it was pretty amazing and unique
@@jaydez5698 👍
I could say Joker proved "all it takes is 1 bad day" for the boyscout to become a dictator a smart move, other than him getting killed at the process
Hush did too just kinda creepier
well, it's not like Joker cared if he died. he wanted to win, which he did. he through the whole world out of wack with one scheme.
You kinda have to ignore all of Superman's character to do that though. At the point, Superman would have either killed Joker or sent him to the phantom zone. But becoming a fascist dictator is just the total opposite of Superman. He's seen and felt worse than that before and not become a fascist dictator. Injustice is just stupid for that. The very story that invented the "one bad day" talking point for Joker ended in Joker himself not even being able to prove it, against Jim Gordon, an old cop, and against Batman, a man with numerous mental disorders. There is nothing Joker can do to Superman that would make him hateful and evil. Lex Luthor, THE smartest homo sapien in DC, and likely the richest, Superman's greatest nemesis, who himself idolizes Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, and Adolf Hitler, not even he can do that.
That's the antithesis of Superman, and "inverting it" is such a tired and boring and uninspired trope.
@@jacobclark6002 Finally someone said it. It was kinda long overdue
@@jacobclark6002 yup u r right injustice is cool and fun but should never be referenced like its canon its borderline fanfic, with most of the characters not even worthy of their names. as a superman fan one bad day doesnt apply to him, he is the paragon of hope.
Batman screaming "patience is a virtue" while in a pose to freak out Disney's Beast broke me.
Bad move. He should've calmly and patiently stared at him until he understood
@@mihneaiordan1813 pfft, what is this, Pre-Miller Batman?
Hero: why are you telling us your plan villain: because i already did everything like 35 minutes ago dude
Makes a boring villain
@@OhNoTheFace Ozymandias wasn't supposed to be a straight up villain, his plan was to stop, or at least slow down, the end of the end of the world by killing a few million people with a giant telepathic squid everyone thinks is an alien. People would put aside their differences and try to prepare for invasion.
If you're a villain only brag about your plan when it's already succeeded not when it's still going on like most of them do.
@@OhNoTheFace I think a villain like that would be better and more interesting than a villain who brags about their plan while in the middle of it giving the hero time to stop it.
The Batman and Robin version of Bane is a crime against humanity.
Hairy shoulders are wierd
Most versions of Bane are.
germanvisitor2 sad but true. Too many times, he's played solely as dumb muscle and ignores his intelligence.
One of the smartest moves I have seen was from the Young Justice TV series. A rouge villain was going to blow up the play date with the kids/spouses of JL members. A representative of criminal organization, The Light, killed him because killing the families would cause the League to be out for blood when hunting villains.
Sure Bruce, leave the cowl on but a condom would just be, 'too uncomfortable'
Hehehe nice
The suits are skin tight, but condoms are "too small" for you? They can literally stretch over someone's legs! Typical.
And don’t drink the suspicious liquids?
@@amanzeihedioha YES! Bruce was drugged and raped but every single time this plot point comes up everyone dances around what actually happened.
Uh.... did you know hear the part that they 'harvestedhis dna' and grew the result in an artiificial womb. 1st way i thiught and easiest way to do it would be by using condoms to catch all of bruce' sample.
I wouldn't exactly say that Batman is paranoid for creating contingency plans to fight allies, should they turn rouge. That's just intelligent pre planning.
gabe clone that’s paranoia, I hate when people like you worship fake characters.
@@sacrificial420 but its happened before (to a lesser degree) and most of the JL also have villains with the same powers as them so the contingency plans could be applied to them in some way. That being said a few of Batman's plans were dependent on the hero's personality so they probably wouldn't work on a villain or if they were mind controlled it would have a limited effect.
Hulk in Glasses would you create a plan to kill your entire family and anyone like them? Even if you helped them fight crime I doubt you would. Batman is insane, and that’s that. Although it isn’t technically confirmed.
@@sacrificial420 You're 100% right that Batman is insane. But looking at things from Batman's perspective (and its kinda the same with some politics) he's a human surrounded by gods. What's going to stop them from deciding to stop following human laws? Nothing can stop Superman or Flash if they went full evil. And Batman doesn't consider them his friends or family. With the exception of Superman Batman considers everyone on the League people he works with. He doesn't have a contingency plan for his true family (Alfred, Nightwing, the other ex Robins) because he completely trusts them. In the real world everyone is practically equal. Sure there's always someone physically better but they are still bound by the laws and force can be used to stop them. But what force is there to stop Green Lantern from recreating an entire city? Flash from snapping people's necks? Aquaman and Wonder Woman declaring war on humans? Or Superman from going on a murder spree? And Batman didn't make the plans until after he saw the bad that the heroes could do. Superman already took over the world in the main continuity and no one could stop him. He ended up coming to his senses and apologizing but that was it. GL already murdered hundreds of Lanterns and it took a while for it to be punished. Batman was preparing for the situations to happen again.
Definitely, especially considering how many times they've had to deal with mind control and power thieves (such as Parasite).
The Joker using kryptonite fear gas to make Superman believe he saw Doomsday, where he launched him into space, and that it was actually Louis Lane. The cherry on top was that her heart was connected to a nuclear bomb in Metropolis, when her heart stopped it went off. It's the start of Injustice, still my favorite though.
The smartest thing a villain has ever done in the DC universe was in the Batman animated show, a random goon is on patrol walks into a room, sees batman, walks out, and tells another random goon there was nothing in the room to see.
"Batman doesn't take his mask off while having sex"
*Hmm...where did i hear this before?*
Lmao 😂😂
Spider-Man?
Lord shaxx when he had sex with mara sovv "the helmet stays on"
Woman: Yes, daddy
BM: don't call me daddy, call me... THE GODDAMN BATMAN!!!
"The Mask 2"
How can you have a list like this and not include Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom, Reverse Flash) baiting Barry Allen (the Flash) into going to change history by revealing that he was the one who killed Barry's mother and framed his father of the crime. Not only does this action result in Barry never becoming the Flash, but his inexperienced time travel created a shockwave in space and time that altered the destiny of many heroes and the world itself, resulting in the almost literal Hell on Earth that is the Flashpoint Paradox. What's worse about all this is that Thawne got the last laugh because, as he put it, all the death and destruction and the world coming to an end was all thanks to Barry messing around with the timestream like an amateur.
That's what I'm saying.
Or Luther for President was pretty ingenious. Sinestro's betrayal. Dood, there are so many that aren't Batman-based it's kinda ridiculous.
When Ledger acted like his detonator wasn't working, he made a smart decision.
How so
Ah, you mean the scene where the detonator literally didn't work?
@@davidsabol2632 that scene was improvised. That's how. The explosion didn't go off as expected but rather than break character heath ledger went with it and as a result we wound up getting that incredible scene.
I honestly appreciate how you always pronounce Ra's right
There is no way that the full intricacies of Ozymandias’s plan was explained to the public. Rorschach only knew that Brody was responsible for the death of the Comedian and setting him up to be caught by the police. He put his journal in the drop box for the newspaper before he had all of the information. It would take someone with more than a little intelligence and a severe desire to uncover conspiracies to fully piece together Brody’s final plan.
Christopher Priest has had an amazing run on Deathstroke.
Bless that man for making Wilson a bigger creep towards kids😂
The smartest decision would, of course, not to be a villain.
Yeah, but these are comic books. They’ll be getting their asses whooped by men in spandex until the sun burns out.
But sometimes the villain wins...
Kendrez Reed Still bad odds, which is not smart
Nathan J Sure, but they’re still stupid
They have a family to feed. In a corrupted socaty like Gotham City many were forced to a life of crime. The politicians are corrupted, the billionairs only care about beating the living shit out of them and the police are mostly killed based on stupid desitions made by the one that makes orders.
That Batman line about looking at his jawline from more than a second so funny
I dug the notion in Old Man Logan of someone organizing all the villains to take out the heroes. Mysterio singlehandedly took on Wolverine and beat him.
Wasn’t there a comic book where Killer Croc lived with a married couple, and eventually surrendered to the cops when they showed up, saying “People are the real monsters?” That’s deep.
The idea of Knightfall but in Arkham Knight....
Add a tank to even the odds, but even he has his limits when tackling a bunch of super villains in a single night,
Too bad they made jason another typical villain who really just has daddy issues and not the badass he is, like he had a point in under the hood, batmans ways dont always work, but in AK they just decided "nah lets just make him want revenge and thats all he has to go on"
@@IsaiahINRI i like him more as redhood which he does become after the end of the game, but remember that the Arkham version of jason gets tortured by the joker wayyyy longer and doesnt die, he just has to live with a mind broken by the joker
@@IsaiahINRI Not hyper familiar with the comics, but doesn't red hood hunt criminals with a passion? In arkham he's like "nah bruh imma become a criminal myself and create an army just to take down big daddy"
@@mihneaiordan1813 yeah basically. He becomes the head drug lord through intimidation and murder so that he controls the drug trade and thus minimizing its damage ie no selling to kids
Oh, right. I always forget Watchmen is a DC property.
Slade is so badass he's on this list twice!
Batman himself gave Bane the idea for breaking him in their first meeting. "You're threatening me? Get in line!" Bruce will forever regret telling him that.
5 is iconic. Oh the plan? That happened 30 minutes ago
2:50 "Ikon shield at 9200% of design limit. E-mailing funeral arrangements to Wintergreen" lmao
I loved when yellow Lantern made tiny versions of himself to figure out how to get a little space aliens living in the big robots to work with the legion of doom
I actually remember reading the Deathstroke versus Superman comic. Pretty good read if you haven't already
Time to update your list. Darkseid preparing for the collapse of the Source Wall (end of time, space, and the Fourth World) by hiding top secret Mother Boxs in a hidden dimension called the Ghost Sector he would later retrieve to forge a new Apokolips called Sepulkore has to be #1. Darkseid basically had the only life raft in the entire universe once Perpetua broke the Source Wall and ended the universe- and that life raft was a superdestroyer battleship that fired nuclear missiles.
That's a pretty damn smart decision to make and prepare for thousands of years in advance as a mere prince of Apokolips who still had to get through his parents to become ruler of Apokolips first.
2:50 E-mailing funeral arrangements to Wintergreen
Slade came in prepared! XD
Any villain that decides to stay off of Superman's radar
Also, a cool thing to remember is that Knightfall takes place after batman "kicks" a bad illness from withdrawal. He's physically weak, then arkham is busted open, then he has to deal with Bane, sitting in his house
Bruce wanted serious cosplay in his love night with Talia. 😏 guess he took that quite literally.
Conversely, the dumbest decision a dc villain made: The joker killing a pregnant Lois Lane (injustice gods among us storyline)
I'd disagree. If anything, it was the most effective and smartest decision if his plan was wreaking havoc, breaking Clark and turning him against the world.
He got killed, yes, but it resulted in a distopian future, turning Superman, the strongest known defender of humanity, evil. This is a world, which I would assume to be very similar to the Joker's goal. Plus given the character's rather unique personality and attitude towards life in general (even his own), it would not be OOC for him to willingly throw away his life, in order for his plan to succeed.
Why? Dead or not, that change in Superman meant he won
Joker's goal was to sow chaos and break the heroes, he suceeded
Nope one of the smartest moves the Joker ever made there. He Won utterly and completely. Death is irrelevant to Victory.
When Bane took Batman to the limit on Rebirth. Hunting every Batfamily member
The Joker do that already
I AM BANE
Deathstroke and painted bullets! I gotta get back to reading. I stopped at Terminus Agenda.
It's honestly one of the more underrated runs of Rebirth. Plus the Defiance suit looks hella cool
@@Lynch2507 DId you read Terminus Agenda? Do you think I could continue reading Deathstroke without being too confused? I'm not a fan of crossovers.
Executing the plan before explaining it to the heroes.
Also another one, the entirety of the Batman Who Laughs story arc!
Spoilers for batman hush..
I personally think that hush being riddler was a great twist.
Mirror Master from Rock of Ages should be on this list. Batman offers him a small fortune as a donation to the struggling orphanage in which MM was raised, and Mirror Master walks away when the shit goes down.
Also, Deathstroke in Identity Crisis. He takes down a squad of Justice Leaguers by exploiting their powers, and only loses after getting stabbed in his empty eye socket by Green Arrow (making him go berserk).
the batman who laughs also had quite a few good decisions
He's just batman tho TBH. He just does batman stuff.
The smartest decision a villain has ever made was to stop being a villain. Looking back at history should tell them that villains never win in the long term. No matter how much they seem to be winning at first.
Hey guys, good content as always! Love watching all of your videos!
Quick thing I noticed... a typo on the first (number 8) entry. You have hier, pretty sure you meant heir.
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DC just recreate the Justice League series in movie form and the money will just flow down!
"Aren't you gonna wash your hands?"
"No, because I'm evil."
3:46 actually, it was the other way around. Prior to this scene Waller revealed she knew Batman's identity, and that pretty much stopped him in his tracks...until it didn't. Waller ended up learning the hard way from then on...you don't mess with the Batman. th-cam.com/video/ruwIBT-noAs/w-d-xo.html
The time a robber gave up as soon as he saw Bat Man. He made a good choice.
You mean this guy?
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i have a smart DC villain plans not from the comics but from the Arrowverse Malcolm Merlin's second earthquake machine in Arrow season 1. so if someone (Police or Vigilante) stops him earthquake machine he's got a back up. that worked the earthquake machine went off and killed over 500 people.
Did you know that order 66 is also called operation knightfall same name as that comic
You spelled heir wrong... Just saying.
What kind of editing was Dan doing that nobody caught a misspelled word on the first entry?
Justice League couldn't kick Batman out. Batman abandons the Justice League.
He kind of owns the Watchtower lol
Love u guys keep making videos
"tower of babble" lol
Its "heir" not "hier" even in England.
9:02 where is this one from?
#1 is joker not taking on the irs
I'm all about the Knightfall storyline but it's still a case of don't kill the hero at the end when you have a chance. Sure; smart.
Bane is or is not a formidable villain, depending on whom his antagonist is.
Bane vs. Batman is epic.
Bane vs. Superman, Wonder Woman, or the Martian Manhunter? Bane gets curb-stomped.
I thought one of the smartest decisions in super villain history was in forever evil when lex luthor was fighting mazahs ( his doppelgänger and Shazam’s equivalent) and realizes he or any of the other villains can’t beat mazahs so lex says mazahs because it’s the word that transforms him to his human form and it worked because again they are doppelgängers so lex could kill mazahs when transformed into a mortal
3:22 I LOVED THIS CARTOON.
I prefered the original JLA rather than U tbh
0:32 what is this panel from please anyone ;)
I wish Deathstroke had a more loyal family...
I would have to add Vandal Savage from the Teen Titans animated series, steals War World from Mongul and teams up with Darkseid.
Death stroke single handedly defeating the justice league in identity crisis.
First he takes out elongated man with a trap full of explosives
Sets off a series of explosives that force Wally to attack Slade from behind only to run into his blade
Then he strikes Zatanna in a pressure point in the gut to make her vomit constantly so she can’t do spells
Ties a bag around Black Canary’s head to suffocate and prevent her scream
Uses a laser pointer to take out the atom who was in shrinking form
Cuts off the back parts of all of Green Arrow’s arrows to prevent him from knocking them with his bow
Cuts off Hawkman’s straps to his wings to prevent his flying
And removes Kyle Rayner’s green lantern ring by force
He would’ve won if Green arrow hadn’t stuck an arrow in Deathstroke’s empty eye socket
And now Bane snapped Alfred neck latest Tom king run on batman.
1:20 total chad moment right here ladies and gentlemen
My top 3 Batman artists; Neal Adams, Jim Lee, Greg Capullo, and HM Kelly Jones and Frank Miller. Rest in Peace Micheal Turner.
I would like to see an top 10 marksmen in Marvel and in DC comics
Deadshot wins
Jk its darkseid (if omega beams count otherwise deadshot) the man has pulled off ridiculous feats, like so has bullseye and hawkeye and the like but like deadshots are a whole nother level
@@IsaiahINRI i think that omega beams can't be counted as well as domino Powers because they can hit anything but not because of their accuracy
0.52 - HIER instead of "Heir"
Smartest moment: That time Harley dumped the Joker.
1:38 and lets just forget the part about how Bruce was an unwilling participant in his making a child as he was drugged.
Before watching this im guessing there will be at least 1 lex luthor moment
I would've made the Watchman entry #1, but otherwise a good list.
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All the protection Batman has yet has a weak pull out game. Thats rly interesting lol
0:51 ah yes damien wayne. The "hier" to the al ghul and wayne fortune
So why are Superman and Deathstroke fighting each other
Cause Deathstroke is a criminal?
@Oisin Lynch I know that
@@nilehoruseus he was in an active war zone doing his thing and lois happened to be in the line of fire during an investigation... i think
Clearly Dr. Doofenshmirtz hasn’t read that watchmen comic
I feel like Deathstroke would have way more popularity if he wasn't mainly a teen titan/Arrow
Batman caused Amanda Waller's hands to quiver. So yes, he's still intimidating.
Rebirth slade vs superman is the worst confrontation I've seen between them, cause usually for certain heroes like superman,wonder woman or green lantern its avoiding at all cost for a lot of street level villains lol
#0: That one thug in Justice League (DCAU) who minded his own business.
Judas Contract! That was my jam.
8:20 terra is not a good gy yes she was abused but that doesnt mean she wasn't evil in fact marv and George BOTH said she was always meant to be a villain and nothing more she really shows that just because your backstop is sad and hard doesn't mean you arent a bad guy
DC really gave Batsy some hard times.
The Al Ghuls get their Hier
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I like the use of villains here.
But like if you have dead shot you can just have him blast batman from like 3 miles away
Deathstroke fighting the Justice League in Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
How was that a smart decision> They attacked him, thinking he killed Sue Dibny, as I recall.
@@VonWenk No, you're thinking of Dr. light. Dr light hired Slade to protect him from the JL. The whole battle was strategic. Cut Green Arrow's arrows, cut off hawkman's wings, hits Zatanna in the throat to stop her from spells, stabs flash when he tried to come from behind. He really f*Ed them up.
@@mdudevoire Thanks. I read Identity Crisis when it came out and forgotten why the Justice League was fighting. Deathstroke did something similar in his own title facing Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Flash.
Hey, is Brad Meltzer an author and novelist now?
Great list but background music is off
This is the Damien origin I thought was true. All my friends say "no, he is a cloned hybrid of R'as and Bruce."
Which is right?
You want to know which i think was smartest? Mystery of Batwwoman. Closing the door and pretending they saw nothing.
Do a video about Wolverines Berserker Rage.
Deathstroke still remains one of my favorite DC villains ever.