villain plots you could do better than.

Now this all started when me and a friend turned on to see Catwoman on TV. The discussion went as follows.

"Ok so if people stop using the cream their face basically falls off right?"

"Pretty much."

"America does have an independant goverment body that tests these products before they give the ok to go on sale right?"

"I'm assuming so, which means it'd never pass goverment inspection for a start."

"Alright, lets say the independant body has been bought off and they're OKing the cream even though they know that its dangerous, I'm assuming they still want to be a successful company, they wouldn't have spent that much on marketting, social parties and generally buying off a goverment body in order not to, which is also the reason they want people to keep using it, which is more money. Wouldn't they get sued to hell and back, there's a reason America has the nickname of 'the land of litigation' right?"

"Ok yes, the plot is particularly dumb, you know what, it's dumb enough that I think between us we can come up with atleast two better plots."

Plots we thought up, they're both incredibly cliched but atleast they make more sense.

1) Pure insane revenge. The cream is designed to disfigure, that is the primary goal of Ms. Supervillain. Her husband cheated on her and driven mad with revenge vowed to make every woman ugly.

This could be expanded that the woman was scarred horrifically in a car accident, thus her using the cream constantly because it covers up this flaw, said horrific scarring led to her husband cheating on her and thus the desire for insane revenge and the want to make women ugly. She's insane to the point where she actually doesn't care about the company in the slightest, it could crash and burn around her for all she cares, just as long as she disfigures a lot of people.

2) Desperation move and greed. Lets say the company was contracted by the military to make something that made their soldiers literally rock hard, bullet proof soldiers. The company poured so much of its earnings into this venture, thinking they would succeed, that when the military funding was pulled the head of the company realised they would go bankrupt, losing all her money and left with nothing.

Thus she retools the cream as a beauty cream, ignoring warnings from scientists on the project that long term use resulted in problems (which is why the military ditched it). She's basically looking to make as much money as he can, embezzled it all and then go to a country with no extradition ties with the United States.

Both of these villain plots are, as mentioned, cliched but they're STILL better than the villain plot the movie tries to foster on you.You can't be both Super Villain AND successful businessman with a product that melts peoples faces, Lex Luthor atleast hides his stuff in a draw somewhere and even the things he does release to the public don't out and out cause them to go all opening of the Arc if they stop using it.

And that's why everyone forgets Halle Berry was in a Marvel and DC franchise before Reynolds.

Plot 3: do a Joker (Nicholson not Ledger) and make an entire line that alone does nothing but combined with other products makes a deadly maguffin (Smilix in the 90s Batman movie). Much harder to trace that way.

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