Sometimes, any motivation is better than none at all.

Umbridge's motivation was political/mage-racesit. at the end of book 4 when harry returned with dead cedric and announced to everyone that "He" is back - the public panicked. or at least Cornelius Fudge (the minister) didnt want to be seen as panicking so he started a smear campaign in the media against potter and dumb-dork. the main goal was to discredit harrys claims and to de"throne" dumbles from all his positions. furthermore Umbitch is a pureblood fanatic and the mere thought that a "halfblood" Potter could have even the lightest bit of positive fame is unbearable for her. - thats the reason she sends the dementors to Little Winging to assassinate Harry. The basic motivation for appointing Umbitch to Hogwarts is to "Spy" on Dumbles. Cornelius has the "bright" idea that Dumbles, wanting HIS seat as the Minister, is building an "army" of students to overthrow his regime. Dolores hat the task of proving this and bringing them in as criminals.

Umbridge is trying to discredit Harry because he said the Dark Lord was back, and because they are either stubborn, or stupid they don't believe him (shoulda taken a picture).

No no no... Umbridge’s motivation isn’t she doesn’t like kids... you got it all wrong, she was the typical Damage Control government official... Smh

He who utterly controls the media of the world, controls the world. That's what that Bond villain was after. Because once he had control, he would only need to silence a few voices, and everybody else would be under his rule. Scary

What about Cats and Dogs? The main antagonist, Mr. Tinkles wants to make the whole world allergic to dogs.

The Home Alone franchise is fun. But not to be taken too seriously. Therefore, one kid against dumb villains with little something extra is the motivation.

Number 1 should’ve been Dark Helmet’s motivation from Spaceballs Because he just wanted to tell Lone Starr that he is his father, grandfather, and his cousin’s former roommate.

A lot of these weren’t about the villain’s motivations, they were about their plans. In fact, most of the motivations on this list boiled down to “money”, which is a fine motivation for a villain.

1. Dr. Doofenshmirz He broke his train

Selling dinosaurs on auction isn't that stupid. It makes sense in the story

Professor umbridge loved slytherine kids she just strictly ordered the kids to believe voldemort has not returned. The reason Gryffindor were constantly punished is because they believed Harry potter and they loved Dumbledore who both refused to not believe voldemort has returned.

Laurel Hedare's motivation from Catwoman wasn't just out of greed but narcissistic spite. As she explained in her monologue at 4:33, Laurel created Beuline as a means of saying "If I can't be pretty and powerful anymore, no one will!".

Mojo: *has venom in thumbnail* Me: *say sike right now*

What about the girl in The Purge Election Year who wanted a candy bar?

In the comics during Agent Venom's time with the Guardians of the Galaxy they find the symboite homeworld. There they learn that the majority of the race seek out worthy hosts to make them great heroes and help promote and maintain peace and harmony. Maybe that's were the writer got the idea for the motivation.

I think Dr Emma's motivation to bring balance to Nature by introducing giant Radioactive Monsters in Godzilla deserves a mention on the on this list.

After seeing so many other lists with Umbridge in them, I thought you understood her better. She was just sadistic that way.

to be fair.. home alones motivation is kind of legitimate for people of their position.....

Bad motivation or not, the Wet Bandits are still two of the funniest villains in movies. I never get tired of seeing Harry and Marv getting their asses kicked every Christmas season.

Got one: Malecifent Didn’t get an invite.

This is a good vid. Coming from a person who read the Order of the Phoenix a couple times, Umbridge's motivation was linked to the ministry of magic, where she was before going to Hogwarts. The ministry and her believed that Dumbledore was lying about Voldemort's return. She despised harry because he had witnessed Voldemort's return, and therefore contradicted her beloved ministry. She was better to the Slytherins because they opposed Harry. Just had to get this out :D

Remember, Dolores umbridge is the only person to leave a permanent scar on Harry's body other than Voldemort

"Voldemort is back!" Umbridge/Fudge: "FAKE NEWS!"

I remember Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert praising the villain's motivation in Tomorrow Never Dies b/c at the time the media's power was a lot more prevalent. In Ebert's own words: "James Bond has battled evil commies and megalomaniac madmen; perhaps it was only a matter of time until he faced off against a media baron -- the only sort of figure in today's world that actually does seek global domination. His enemy in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' wants to start a war in order to create headlines for the launch of his latest news channel. Just imagine what Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner would like to do to each other and imagine either one of them doing it to the Chinese, and you'll get the idea."

There are tons of movies and stories where a villain is evil for the sake of being evil. This is by far the worst, most shallow, and easiest villain to write. I think because movies are usually only 2 hours it can be difficult to establish philosophical or psychological backstory, yet some movies are still fully able which means it comes down to writing talent.

I don't like the Mandarin twist but should Trevor Slattery be really in here? Dude doesn't even know what's going on around him.

9. The Mandarin being an actor isn't a villain's motivation; it's a plot point. 8. You are 100% correct about this entry. I remember when I walked out of the theater I thought "Amanda Waller's first mission for Task Force X is to save Amanda Waller from a threat she created by assembling Task Force X?"

Um... No, Slattery didn't take anyone out, he literally explains that he never killed anyone. Jeez, no wonder creativity is dying when audiences are so simpleminded...

What about Darius Sayle in Stormbreaker - causing a mass genocide because he was bullied at school? Yes it's the same as the book and it was dumb in the book too.

In the cinema industry, either a villian is super good, or a villian is super bad.

Nice vid guys your scripts are solid. Keep up the good work!!!

the reason they were auctioning off the dinosaurs was so they could get more funds to create more indoraptors

Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s plot of a highway was based on highway expansion in the LA area back in the late 40’s to mid 50’s. The expansion was trying to make the automobile the dominant transportation over trains/rail-way-systems. Do your homework better, guys. You are cool, but you missed on that one.

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Electro had a really stupid motivation also. Come to think of it, good majority of the Amazing Spider-Man movie villains had stupid motivations.

I've never seen Catwoman, but motivation reminds me of the Batman: The Animated Series 2 part episode, Feat Of Clay. As to Roger Rabbit, motivation isn't that dumb when you think about it as if you can buy up land cheap and sell it at a high price. It's not the first time something similar happened.

I always said the villain in Iron Man 3 made no sense.

With Umbridge, I assumed her schtick was that she's a psycopathic control freak. With Harry and Marv, they're motives are relatively sane compared to these other schmucks (they're only going after Kevin 'cause he's a witness... who keeps pissing them off). But yeah, Carver's scheme always felt stupid to me, as far as bond villain schemes go.

Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed night

The honorable mentions are the best part of any mojo video, it’s the only time the narrator doesn’t talk over the entire scene.

Tbh. I was fine with Drake's character in Venom. The whole thing with symbiosis is they have to be a perfect match mentally. This is where the scene where Venom comes in and calls both Eddie and himself losers. Riot sees the humans nothing more than fodder to further his own agenda. The same thing can be said about Drake. We see him murder various innocents, to his own scientists to line his own pockets. He talks about curing people with his speeches, but that's all it is. Talk. He's just looking to line his pockets and he doesn't care who he hurts to get there. And it's not like this is unrealistic. How much have we seen Disney damage something just to line their own pockets? I'd say Mandarin's motivation in Iron Man 3 was way worse. He decided to antagonize Tony because he stood him up on a business chat... really!? I don't care how crappy your life is, a no-show isn't going to turn somebody into a terrorist sociopath.

2:59 Without Tony Stark, there´s no way or point in fixing the Mandarin

I remember in The Pacifier, when we learn the seemingly nice next-door neighbors are actually spies, Vin Diesel asks them why, and the husband just replies, “North Korea pays better.” I thought that was pretty stupid. Sorrento in Ready, Player One had a rather dumb motivation, too. In the book, it made sense-his company wanted to win the contest so they could get people to pay to use the OASIS, but in the movie one scene suggested they wanted to make a section of the OASIS that’s just ads, and why would anyone want to go to it?

I'm surprised Shredder and Erik Sacks Evil Plan from 2014 Ninja Turtles Movie didn't make it on The List. Poisoning New York, and using Mutigian too Cure The Poison he and Shredder Unleashed, just so he can become Stupid Rich.

I think TMNT 2014 with Eric Sacks motivation being wanting to get rich from the government by selling the antidote was stupid because he’s obviously incredibly wealthy with his own company, doesn’t make sense that he’s doing it for money when he already has a lot of money

Dr. Doom better get the characterization he deserves in the MCU

Tearing down the youth center to build a supermarket breakin 2 electric boogaloo

Excellent list. Seems like more and more that dumb reasons to be a villian, goes along with the villian talking too much, revealing their farfetch plans, and then letting hero getting the upper hand. Once again, excellent list.

Well if they do have good motivation wouldn't that make them less bad? if you think about it the worst are those who do bad stuff for no reason

I need a Top 10 Smartest Villain Motivations. Thank you..

Malekith didn't want to create a world of darkness but a universe of darkness. By using the Convergence to spread the Aether(Reality Stone)everywhere. How can you not get that right?

vulture from homecoming has the best motivation: he needed money for his family, and not to help sick mother, but to bring food on the table

"Umbridge doesn't like kids, we guess?" Aaaaand video off...

Venom is an anti-hero and his motivation was to stop Charlton Drake from bringing the symbiotes down to earth

Weird, but of the villians with "good" motives can have stupid ones as well. Doc Ock for example.

Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith(bad dreams), President Scroob in Spaceballs(air), and my personal favorite Loki in the Avengers(Sibling Rivalry)

They could have made Umbridge the main villain in Harry Potter, she’s more evil than “he who must not be named”

I cant believe you included Uma Thurmans Poison Ivy. I thought we all collectively agreed that movie never happened?

12:12 I LOVE your TINY WIDE CAPTION for Poison Ivy's motivation. Couldn't you have shortened it? :)

Aldrich Killian(Guy Pearce) was the Mandarin. He literally says that later in the movie. Trevor Slattery(Ben Kingsley) was just a decoy. Aldrich also explains in great detail why he hates Tony Stark(RDJ).

Umbridge was clearly a magical purist. She was absolutely hateful of muggles and muggle borns. She wanted suppression of those individuals.

What about Syndrome from The Incredibles? He became a supervillain just because he got rejected by Mr Incredible? give me a break.

Ooh ooh, do top 10 most preventable deaths in anime. :)

Selling Water at ridiculous prices is ridiculous because Nestle's already doing stuff like that with rainwater.

If I were you, I would put Hans from Frozen on this list.

Tighten should totally be on this list

friezas entire motivation in broly movie was to grow a centimeter taller and no mention?

*Number 1:* The Raiders _In Area 51: The Movie, we are the real villains in this one because the guards wanted to do what is right and this is the biggest mistake we have committed._

It's kinda cute that you think corporations don't make addictive products and still stay in business, and that if a product is dangerous the FDA would ban it. Obviously you've never heard of cigarettes.

re - 5:30 ish "The FDA would see her in court." There was a time when that might have been believable. However, legislation in america over the last 20 years seems to unreasonably favour the corporations over the consumers; protecting profits over people. In all likelihood, she'd have hired lobbyists and paid off enough doctors to spread the false message that the product is harmless and that the negative effects were due to outside factors, not her products. It wouldn't be until 30 or 40 years later (after she dies or grows a conscience) that her 'skincare' products would be seen as harmful and even then, the FDA would still be on the sidelines. Her victims would have organised a class action lawsuit, which she'd have settled out of (civil) court. The victims would have to waive any litigious aspirations, so there'd be no criminal prosecutions (ie: no FDA). In the end, her products would still be on the shelves of stores. It's honestly 50/50 as to whether- on this day in the hypothetical future- her products even have a safety warning on them... Ps: Of course, in the 3rd world, these products would have been freely available the whole time. Other advanced nations however would never have approved the products for sale, so Dumb Motivation Lady would have to avail herself with the profits coming from sales in america and in 3rd world nations only. All in all, it genuinely seems like a viable business plan. You just have to remember to -bribe the right people- use your corporation's right of free speech to talk to the right politicians...

I disagree with Judge Doom in the honorable mentions, it was fully a sane plan for an insane toon. :D

Judge Doom's only motivation wasn't building a freeway. That freeway was just a symbol of power. Business over anything else. Power, money. Doom was an insane toon, whatta hell do you want from him as a motivation?

Wow completely missed the point of Umbridge, can’t blame you as the films don’t convey character motivations well ie Mr Crouch... But Umbridge was authoritarian and power hungry, also she was supposed to blare the boundaries between good and bad, as in she definitely wasn’t a death eater and was loyal to the ministry but at a time were the ministry itself was blaring the the lines between good and bad (still anti-Voldemort but also denying his return and trying to control Hogwarts) like it says in the books, “the world isn’t separated into good people and death eaters” Fuck me ive just realised I’m a nerd. 👍

0:52 *sigh* Fred and George man, lol

good list, w]ell thought out

Umbridge's motives were unclear, unjust and unfair.

Judge Doom wasn't building the freeway (Eddie Valiant's opinion of it was in error)...he wanted to bulldoze Toontown and build motels,restaurants and various businesses to capitalize on it.

Fallen kingdom was great and so was Jurassic world and lost world.

I’m surprised you didn’t include Emma from King of the monsters with her excuse of releasing the titans to ‘save’ the Earth.

"Selling water at grossly inflated prices" - you mean like every single bottled water company does?

1993 Broly from DBZ should've been on here and we all know why.

If you really stop and think about it, using Dinos as living weapons is pretty stupid. Depending on how the law treats them, various weapons banned for use against humans/civilians are suddenly on the table, modern weaponry could make short work of any dino, you have to raise, feed, house, and train them all, and to top it off, their cold blood severely limits the number of potential theaters they could be deployed in.

Don't forget the Maximoff siblings from Avengers 2. They went after Tony Stark because the bomb that didn't detonate said Stark on the side. Okay, so if it said Raytheon or some other DoD Defense contractor, they would go after them instead? Nevermind the country that was dropping the bombs in the first place. Another instance of blaming the gun and not the shooter.

To be fair, in Jurrassic World Hoskins wanted to make weapons out of dinosaurs. So in Jurrassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the weaponize dinosaur idea came to be.

Amazing

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Nice to see what Match Mojo lady looks like!

Here’s some other movie villains with dumb motivations 1. Clayton - Tarzan 2. Henry - The Good Son 3. Chozen - The Karate Kid part 2 4. Mike Barnes & Terry Silver - The Karate Kid part 3 5. Bane - The Dark Knight Rises 6. Ivan Drago - Rocky 4 7. Ed Rooney - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 8. Kingpin - Daredevil (2003) 9. Eddie Brock/Venom - Spider-Man 3 10. Juju - Superfly (2018) 11. Mysterio - Spider-Man: Far From Home 12. Shen - Kung Fu Panda 2 13. Joker - Batman franchise 14. Klaw - Black Panther

I see the og home alone I CLICK

Malakith wanting to turn the world into darkness makes sense. The dark elves existed before light was introduced into the universe and the light deformed them. Why else do you think they were called the DARK elves.

"caused Harry to abuse his hand" Uhh, she assaulted him.

If you have a terrible read just say that being the bad guy is fun.

For professor umbridge, read the book

Number extra one: Broly because Kakarot didn‘t stop crying

Top ten 80s anime you need to watch. Top ten anime that were ruined by American censorship, dubbing and editing. Ex: Saint Seiya AKA Knights of the Zodiac.

13:38 That is the UGLIEST looking thing I've ever seen.😂

I agree with #1 I hated that man and his motive. Understandable to save humanity but doing that with alien parasites HELL NAH.😡

0:54 **THROWS TOMATO AT HER** *NITWAD!*

Is Shinzon motivated by revenge or just bitterness that a clone has no birthright?