What about the Medici family?
Marc
If you’re going to be a supervillain, you’re going to have to do a lot better than kicking Aquaman’s ass.
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.
But he has the giant Halliburton Hurricane Machine… :rolleyes:
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!
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.
Number Six is a hottie.
A-HA HA HA HA!
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
And like most of the women who have sex with me, only in my head.
BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAH!
Ookla the Mok – Otmfan.com
You may feel differently once my squadrons of electric eels begin making their way up your toilets.
That would be a shocking experience :eek:
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.
What about Rupert Murdoch, billionaire tyrant? I mean it’s not like he’d ever be a credible Bond supervillain… or would he?
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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
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.
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!
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