# Has a Dr. Evil/ Blofeld/ Hank Scorpio style criminal ever threatened the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301 "2006-01-03T23:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/21 "2006-01-04T07:20:38Z")
What about the Medici family? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/22 "2006-01-04T08:11:32Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > ::turning down the intercom, over which the agonized screams of Aquaman and Mera are being broadcast as my minions torture the secret of aquatic telepathy from them:: > > Why do you ask? If you’re going to be a supervillain, you’re going to have to do a lot better than kicking Aquaman’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/23 "2006-01-04T14:49:03Z")
Osama bin Laden fits the mold pretty well, doesn’t he? Billions of dollars, henchmen willing to die for him, agents in every (or at least many) countries in the world, secret mountain fortresses (at least pre-2001) and a name that strikes fear into two-thirds of the world’s population. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/24 "2006-01-04T15:00:14Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > It doesn’t count. Bush doesn’t have a Giant Laser But he has the giant Halliburton Hurricane Machine… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/25 "2006-01-04T15:13:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Osama bin Laden fits the mold pretty well, doesn’t he? Billions of dollars, henchmen willing to die for him, agents in every (or at least many) countries in the world, secret mountain fortresses (at least pre-2001) and a name that strikes fear into two-thirds of the world’s population. Come on, his “secret mountain fortress” is an unfinished cave, his henchmen are dressed in rags instead of readily identifiable uniforms, and as far as I can tell he doesn’t have a single monorail, orbiting space laser, underwater retreat, weather control satellite, disguised hydrofoil boat, or a lieutenant with a special deadly marquee. Having his followers take over a few airliners and crashing them into landmark buildings may make him evil, but he’s scarcely a mastermind. Heck, I bet I could beat him at chess in forty moves or less. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/26 "2006-01-04T15:45:17Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Come on, his “secret mountain fortress” is an unfinished cave, his henchmen are dressed in rags instead of readily identifiable uniforms, and as far as I can tell he doesn’t have a single monorail, orbiting space laser, underwater retreat, weather control satellite, disguised hydrofoil boat, or a lieutenant with a special deadly marquee. Having his followers take over a few airliners and crashing them into landmark buildings may make him evil, but he’s scarcely a mastermind. Heck, I bet I could beat him at chess in forty moves or less. > > Stranger [del]YOU’RE ON, INFIDEL![/del] I mean, oh really? You’re _that good_ at chess? My, how interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/27 "2006-01-04T15:59:30Z")
There is one common threat against us all and her name is Martha Stewart. Print: check TV: Check Kmart:check. Legal problems: check Megalomanical behavior: check An Army of Wannabe’s: check. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/28 "2006-01-04T16:29:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You are Number Six. Number Six is a hottie. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/29 "2006-01-04T17:13:08Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I am not a number. I am a free man. A-HA HA HA HA! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/30 "2006-01-04T17:16:21Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > There is one common threat against us all and her name is Martha Stewart. > > Print: check > TV: Check > Kmart:check. > Legal problems: check > Megalomanical behavior: check > An Army of Wannabe’s: check. I like the cut of your jib, but if she’s such a mastermind, how come her poisoned-centerpiece wielding right hand woman didn’t bust her out of prison in a flying Lexus or somesuch. I _can_ see her executing board members–probably by stuffing an Egyptian cotton tablecloth down their throat or beheading them with a weapon assembled from the components of a tablesetting–but her capture and imprisonment by authorities doesn’t speak highly of her plans for world domination. Besides, she may have Kmart, but she’ll never take our FREEDOM! Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/31 "2006-01-04T17:29:25Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > Number Six is a hottie. And like most of the women who have sex with me, only in my head. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/32 "2006-01-04T18:45:15Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I am not a number. I am a free man. > > Stranger BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAH! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/33 "2006-01-04T18:48:46Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > If you’re going to be a supervillain, you’re going to have to do a lot better than kicking Aquaman’s ass. > [@](#): > > Batman’s got an attitude everybody takes him seriously > And Superman never made any money well try to tell that to DC > All the other members of the Justice League > Say I have useless super powers and make fun of me > But I know that there will come a day > When they’re gonna stare in slack jawed wonder as they hear me say > > I am Aquaman and nobody better mess with me > I may be nothing to you but I am a king beneath the sea > Let’s see you get by under water as well as I do on the ground > I am Aquaman and you better not mess around Ookla the Mok – [Otmfan.com](http://www.otmfan.com/ltagallery/html/aquaman.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/34 "2006-01-04T19:22:28Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > If you’re going to be a supervillain, you’re going to have to do a lot better than kicking Aquaman’s ass. You may feel differently once my squadrons of electric eels begin making their way up your toilets. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/35 "2006-01-04T19:45:25Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > You may feel differently once my squadrons of electric eels begin making their way up your toilets. That would be a shocking experience :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/36 "2006-01-04T20:14:15Z")
> [@bubastis](#): > > Has a privatley funded criminal mastermind ever held world leaders to ransom? Perhaps it happens all the time, we just dont hear about it… Well, I was about to hold the world hostage, but when I told my entire plan with it’s achilles heel to the secret agent, he escaped from the overly elaborate death I had planned for him and stopped my 1920s style death ray with 1 second left before activation. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/37 "2006-01-04T22:09:39Z")
What about Rupert Murdoch, billionaire tyrant? I mean it’s not like he’d ever be a credible Bond supervillain… or would he? mm ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/38 "2006-01-04T22:28:58Z")
> [@mamboman](#): > > What about Rupert Murdoch, billionaire tyrant? I mean it’s not like he’d ever be a credible Bond supervillain… or would he? With a name like Rupert? It’d be tough, but then, maybe he was so twisted by a tortured childhood fully of bullying and ridicule that he felt he had to take over the world to protect himself. Besides, the Bond films already parodied him in _Tomorrow Never Dies_. Jonathon Pryce, an otherwise excellent actor, ended up being one of the weaker Bond villians, really. A “Stealth boat” and a plot to start a skirmish war in order to sell ad space? Just weak. Now, maybe a threat to contaiminate the water supply with nanoparticles that will enter the bloodstream and explode into spiked balls when triggered by an antimatter powered cislunar satellite hijacked from a French aerospace company by a cadre of supermodels and masterminded by a Leona Helmsley-type real estate magnate–that would be ufcking brilliant. I can hear the John Barry-esque score by Michael Giacchino already, complete with live CNN coverage and former Navy SEAL/professional wrestler/Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura calling up his _Predator_ co-stars (including a guest cameo by The Governator and a CGI resurrection of Robert Mitchum as **The Director** ; “Mr. President, we’ve got our best man on the job! Now, have you ever heard the story about Brother Love and Brother Hate…”) to hunt them down and stop the menace before they kill every man, woman, and child in North America. Instead, we get some half-baked crackpot wearing a tablecloth on his head and some balloon-faced tin-pot despot in a country that is starving to death and couldn’t buy the components for an Estes rocket. What kind of diabolical villians are these? No wonder Bond drinks so much…he hardly has anyone to match even his inebriated wits. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/39 "2006-01-04T22:51:14Z")
> [@](#): > > With a name like Rupert? But switch the name Rupert Murdoch around and what have you got? **Doctor Murder!** \* Now is that a great supervillain name or what. \*Okay, technically, you’ve got Dochter Murpur but throw me a frickin bone here. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301/40 "2006-01-04T23:12:36Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > With a name like Rupert? It’d be tough, but then, maybe he was so twisted by a tortured childhood fully of bullying and ridicule that he felt he had to take over the world to protect himself. Besides, the Bond films already parodied him in _Tomorrow Never Dies_. Hence the … or would he? But you’re right - Murdoch would be a prime cantidate for “A Boy named Sue” syndrome - a need to prove his manhood on a vast, global scale because of an emasculating christian name given to him by a father (who had a real Aussie man’s name, BTW) who secretly feared his son would some day surpass and consume him? (Kerry Packer, fellow Aussie billionaire tyrant, had exactly the same background) And Super League proved the man does have pure, diabolical evil within him. For Murdoch, truly, the world is not enough! mm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-dr-evil-blofeld-hank-scorpio-style-criminal-ever-threatened-the-world/338301.md?page=1)