Every formulaic screen villain has lessons to learn from how to be the insuperable evil overlord
Movies probably set up evil overlords for failure to teach a moral lesson - as in do no evil it does not pay in the end. To paraphrase - bad guys finish last. A laudable objective without doubt in a time when one mostly sees good guys limping up to the finish line - definitely, indubitably last. The manner in which the end comes in the end to a typical screen villain is however material for comic relief.
There are some lessons that not well served by either humor or hyperbole.
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