Capes And Cowls

So is it just me, or are a lot of super-villains really, really, stupid, despite some of them being absolutely brilliant?  I mean, earlier today, I was fighting a guy who had a gun that pretty much would require rewriting the textbooks on how the laws of thermodynamics work, and he was using it to rob a bank.

I really need to come up with new ways to pass the time on stake outs.