Plankton Paradox

Villain's IQ: 200

Eternal Downfall: Always overlooks glaring flaws in the designs of Weaponized Mechas they build.

A dilemma that goes as follows: "When someone is capable of orchestrating highly complex and grandiose schemes, yet cannot achieve far more simple tasks". The problem in the Plankton Paradox is if they're so intelligent and have the ability to construct mostly foolproof plans, why does the paradox's subject fail to accomplish objectives that are more basic than the plans that they create?

Plankton Paradox is a term coined by EmpLemon in this video(35:46) that he used to describe how Matt Watson's failure to attract people to his videos on YouTube contradicts his power to control thousands of people in order to achieve his goal. The name derives from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants and its lead villain Plankton, a genius microorganism whose plans involve either stealing the Krabby Patty formula — the secret recipe to his rival restaurant's staple meal, the Krabby Patty — or bringing customers to his restaurant, the Chum Bucket. Plankton occasionally attempts these schemes of his using sophisticated machinery. However, in spite of all of his efforts in becoming a successful business owner, he either has his plans foiled by one of the show's leads or eventually fail because of a mistake in his plan he didn't see before.