13 Things We Can Learn From Supervillains

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Since you will definitely find a highly placed mole in your organization and have to kill him in a dramatic fashion, why not save time by investing more time in HR up top.

You'd be surprised how often an intricate, billion-dollar scheme is foiled by a 10-cent oversight. Triple check your garbage chutes and drainage shafts and have a well-maintained coffee machine, because sleepy and inattentive guards are strongly correlated with disaster.

Just don't have one.

You think it's expensive? Try hiring a whole new army of henchmen because you decided to save a few bucks on marksmanship lessons.

Sure, on one hand it's like having an ugly friend at the bar to make you look good. But you've got money — hire personnel capable of making their own decisions and improvising in a bad situation.

Sure, it's tempting to brag about your world domination plan — after all, it's already in motion, so what could go wrong?

EVERYTHING could go wrong. Dominating the world is hard enough without flying your plane directly into Hubris Mountain. In a high-stakes situation, pull the trigger yourself, literally or figuratively.

You get to world domination the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice practice practice. Whether you have an important speech, evil laugh, or catchphrase — and we know you do — rehearse it in the mirror until you have it down pat.

No matter how airtight you think your plan is, things always go wrong. Don't get cocky — always have an escape plan.

Picked on savagely as a child? There is no better payback than lying in the tall grass, waiting until everyone's guard is down... and THEN blowing up the moon.

So many great plans seem to be undone with a few seconds left on the clock. Before you leave the prospective crime scene, take five seconds off the timer. You'll thank us later.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

We know this is super specific, but you'd be surprised how often it comes up.