“The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!”
There have been hundreds of supervillains in television, movies and the comics tht have attempted to take over the world, but if you could choose one to to actually become Emperor Of The World, which would you pick?
My vote goes to Victor Von Doom. He has shown that he can rule a country without screwing it up, and he is a man of his word.
PLEASE READ!: No voting for Skald-I am looking for fictional megalomaniacs, not real ones.
Lex Luthor. He has the requisite scientific genius, he already runs a legitimate business, he’s already served as U.S. President, and once he got rid of Superman, he’d probably settle down enough to be a reasonably benevolent dictator.
Assuming he got over his obsession with extraterrestrials.
Klaus Wulfenbach, although he already has conquered a sizable chunk of it. He maintains a stable, functional government, and seems to actually care about the plight of his people. As long as you’re not both a spark and opposing him, life is actually pretty good under his rule. Even when he is forced to commit atrocities, he does so as quickly, cleanly, and painlessly as he can.
Plus, the dude rules from a city-sized airship, and that’s just friggin’ cool.
Doom would get in an argument with his mirror. I’d take Sebastian Shaw any day (havent seen the last XMen movie, I’m refering comic book Sebastian Shaw. Besides, Shaw would probably take control without anybody realizing it. Doom would build a giant statue of himself fist fucking the world with an iron glove).
I have to agree with you here. Doom’s problem is his obsessive hatred of Richards. Take away that and he’s the guy you want in charge of the defense if the world’s getting invaded. And he’s not going to go on any ethnic cleansing programs; its just too petty.
There’s good things to be said about Lex Luthor as well. None other than the Big Boy Blue Scout admitted in some massive crossover about a humongous alien invasion that he was glad Luthor was president at that moment, and that Luthor – ahead of even Batman – was the guy to think them out of this situation.
In the first place, Evil!Skald is a fictional character. The real Christopher is not Skald.
In the second place, even Evil!Skald has renounced all ambitions to conquer the Earth. Too much paperwork.
In the third place, you may want to stock up on …
Nah. I don’t have any flaming bee jokes in me today. Left 'em all at home.
He’s not really a villain at all (in fact, it could be argued that he’s as much a hero as anyone else on the Discworld), but Lord Vetinari’s pragmatic approach to despotism would make for quite a pleasant dictatorship.
Latveria is stuck in the 19th century, despite their despot being a scientific and magical genius, and there are more than a few stories that present the ‘we love Doom’ attitude of the Latverians as a fear-based façade. So, it’s hard to claim he hasn’t ‘screwed it up’.
Pretty much anyone who wants absolute power is too unstable to be trusted with it, but, to choose one…hmm…
Sinestro. His methods are fucked to the extreme, but you can keep your head down and minimize your chances of being executed for some minor crime better when the despot doesn’t care if you like it (making ‘not being sufficiently enthusiastic in your love of the Great Leader’ a crime) and isn’t a paranoiac (making ‘being in the room when he thinks someone is trying to assassinate him’ a potential crime).
I’m going to go with Magneto. I figure as long as I don’t bother mutants, he won’t bother me. Might even offer me a cushy job in his administration…say prosecuting abuses under the now nullified Mutant Registration Act as crimes against Homo Superior or something…
Emperor Palpatine. He may have employed somewhat draconian measures to suppress the rebellion, but other than that, there’s nothing to indicate that the galaxy was any worse of under him than it was under the Old Republic.
