Two of Hollywood’s great sci-fi villains from the last quarter century — Agent Smith from “The Matrix” and Marvel’s Thanos — both believed that the success of their evil schemes was inevitable. “You hear that, Mr. Anderson?” Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) asked in the first (and only) Matrix movie as he pinned his opponent in front of an oncoming subway train. “That is the sound of inevitability… It is the sound of your death… Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.”
