facing a genius adversary theme

A character experiences what it is like to face a genius in a fight, competition, or other adversarial situation. The adversary might be a stock evil mad scientist type character, a criminal mastermind, and so on.

22 total · 1 choice · 19 major · 2 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
voy3x09 choice It was up to the Voyager crew to stop the tech genius Henry Starling from commercializing 29th century technology on 20th century Earth.
ds94x10 major It was up to Bashir and Garak to stop the evil genius Hippocrates Noah from destroying the world in a global flood.
futurama4x04 major The New Justice Team took on the super villain the Zookeeper.
movie: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) major Batman and Superman were pitted against Duperman's old nemesis, the criminal genius Lex Luthor.
movie: Kamikaze (1986) major Albert, who invented a weapon that enabled him to explode people he was watching live on television, was considered to be an evil genius by the police, and they assembled a force of 50 men and women to track him down.
movie: Latitude Zero (1969) major Captain Craig McKenzie was involved in a fight of good versus evil against the evil Dr. Malic.
movie: Lost Planet Airmen (1951) major It was up to Professor Millard and company to stop the evil Dr. Vulcan from destroying New York City with a sonic ray device.
movie: SpiderMan (2002) major Peter took on the disgruntled genius Norman Osborn (a.k.a. Green Goblin).
movie: SpiderMan 2 (2004) major Peter came out of retirement as Spider-Man to save the people of New York City from the criminal genius Doctor Octopus.
movie: Superman (1978) major It was up to Superman to stop the criminal genius Lex Luthor from destroying most of California with a nuclear weapon.