To be fair with Shen - I think no one can predict that panda can catch and deflect cannonballs (especially after master Rhino's death and Poe's near death)

Shen's mistake wasn't failing to account for Inner Peace. He did that by "killing Po's Parents" (they escaped but Po doesn't know that until the next movie). His real mistake was failing to account for the ability to heal from grievous scars to one's mind, as he was entirely unable to let go of his own scars. After all his bewilderment at the end isn't directed at how Po redirected the cannon fire, but at how Po was able to find Inner Peace in the first place

4:50 Another reason Syndrome’s monologuing fits his character is because he still desperately wants the approval of his idol, Mr. Incredible, so he keeps bragging to try and get it

The problem with smart villains is you have to be smart yourself to be able to write them. Otherwise you get forced fake intelligence

Basically: smart villains' downfall is that they can't predict bullshit

The problem with capes isn't that it's a cape, It's that they're too strong. A cape shouldn't be strong enough to pull you anywhere, and if it does pull you it needs to be able to rip itself off of you.

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Another reason for Syndrome’s downfall is he programmed the Omnidroid a little too well

It quickly realized that his remote was a threat and acted accordingly… because he forgot to program it to let him win, and so it saw him as an enemy to be defeated just like all the other superheroes

0:10 in Syndrome's defense I wouldn't call getting a car thrown at your plane a 'malfunction'.

I love that basically every single example in this video is immediately followed by "see, Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2 doesn't have this problem"

I can't forget the fact that Vector ate a cookie-robot, he bit into that peice of steel and acted like nothing happened. Man, he must have the teeth of a rhino

To be fair, de la Cruz was able to hold the lie his entire life, even with the movie on TV and all. How could he have known that this will be revealed by chance in the afterlife?

The funny thing is Ernesto never came as far as he did because he was a genius, it was because the family of hector, the man he killed, thought he left them and spend decades forgetting and hating him, not bothering looking into what happened.
It was all thanks to Miguel, a boy who wanted to break free from his family’s petty hatred,
that the truth came out at last and Ernesto was exposed as the murderous scam that he is.

Hear me out: Breakaway capes. They are strong enough to stay attached during normal operation, but when they get snagged, they break off of their mooring to the suit without issue.

I think it‘s important for genius villains to have flaws.
Both because they need to have a weakness the heroes can exploit to win and to emphasize a important message to the audience:
That even with high intelligence, you are just as human as all of us and this gives you no right to control other people‘s lives.

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This probably explains why Darth Vader is such a memorable villain.

He shows up, the room practically bows to his presence, he barks his orders and then leaves.

His total screen time in the OT was like half an hour* or something like that.

Yet he is one of the most impactful and memorable villains

12:22 Death in puss and boots is NOT A VILLAIN, Death is a warning, a teacher. Death already knows how puss’n’boots life will end because he is Death, so Death GIVES puss’n’boots the opportunity to rectify it. The actual villain is Jack Horner.

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0:23 The Writers.

I’d argue that for Death, he doesn’t actually even want to kill Puss. He literally wants to put the fear of death back in him, and fully succeeds