# Evil Genius or Valiant Hero?  Which are you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-genius-or-valiant-hero-which-are-you/247442>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 27, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-genius-or-valiant-hero-which-are-you/247442 "2004-05-27T23:41:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-genius-or-valiant-hero-which-are-you/247442/21 "2004-05-28T11:24:11Z")

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I’d like to be the evil genius. I really would, but I’m more of the hero type.

Sure, I get to beat the snot out of the evil genius in the end, but I get messed with and pounded on. I don’t even get to catch/kill/incapacitate/generally stop the villain at all. Curse my generally good nature!!

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**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-genius-or-valiant-hero-which-are-you/247442/22 "2004-05-28T11:45:13Z")

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The noir detective who has a cynical line for every situation but in the end tries to do what’s basically right. (But frequently fails because the world’s a corrupt place.)

I’ve considered the evil genius route but frankly I don’t have the right stuff for evil genius, I keep wanting to help people, and not in the overarching benevolent dictator way, either. Drat.

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**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-genius-or-valiant-hero-which-are-you/247442/23 "2004-05-28T13:04:06Z")

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I’m the evil genius who works part-time on the side of Good so they’ll never suspect a thing.

Never forget that Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb.

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