In which we discuss real people who might well be mistaken for refugees from action movies & comic books, in our world because they’re hiding from James Bond or Batman.
Let’s leave fellow Dopers out of it, please. Well, apart from that one dude.
Kim Jong Il?
We’ll need you to add either more detail or a wisecrack of some sort.
Cracked dot com does some analysis:
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Hugo Chavez is really going for the gusto lately. Seriously, he dug up Simon Bolivar because he had a crazy-ass theory about his death, and then he Twittered about it.
This is gonna get ugly fast.
Yeah Chavez is currently in the phase that eventually gets revealed as backstory of the fall into villainy about 50 issues in. He will disappear in shame for 10 years and appear in issue 2.
I’d have to go with Karl Rove. Manipulative lying sociopathic bastard fof the Bush Admin. The traitor would have sold out every American’s well being, and in fact did, for political gains.
Too bad there wasn’t a real Batman to kick his ass. Preferably while he starts eating an ice cream cone.
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing” - Karl Rove on education.
I misread the title as “He’s just a cat. And a monocle away from being a Bond villiain.”
And I thought, well doesn’t that pretty much describe most cats?
Steve Jobs.
I mean, come on, guys. Isn’t it obvious?
Julian Assange of Wikileaks.
He conducted the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which supposedly shows how ordinary people can be turned evil – but also, keeping in theme with the OP, shows how quickly people can be turned into sadistic brutes working for an unseen director.
He’s written a book on evil – The Lucifer Effect.
He now claims to run an organization dedicated to using psychology to help people, but who knows, really?
He has a goatee.
And he’s named Doctor Zimbardo.
But if he were truly a Bond villain, he wouldn’t have stopped the experiment, now would he?
What makes you think he doesn’t have a cat?
I did too!
My best friend from high school.
Supposedly his field is materials science, but he knows an awful lot about human anatomy. He also has all kinds of strange injuries on his right hand. He’s missing the top joint of his index finger, and he supposedly burned his hand so now his pinky finger is hooked like Dr. Evil.
He says he stopped it.
HEY!
Hell, Dick Cheney.
Bathing in virgin’s blood in “undisclosed locations”.
Hmph.
A little too nice, but the judge (?Tom something?) on “Top Chef”; he’s always accompanied by an exotic beauty who pretends to have something important to do but is clearly there for looks, and he’s constantly setting his weapon-bearing minions to bizarre tests and banishing the ones who fail.
Or, for that matter Heidi Klum, from “Project Runway” (hey, I’m not always in charge of the remote). Her minions aren’t nearly as intimidating, of course, but she’s got the whole convinced-of-her-innate-superiority thing, and of course the villanous accent.
“I’m sorry Mr. Bond, but you’re out.”
I think the name is critically important. A slightly unusual first name and a sophisticated European-sounding last name work well in the case of Julian Assange; or a doctorate combined with a last name reeking of evil, like Doctor Zimbardo.
I’m surprised you don’t like him as a candidate – c’mon, he’s literally written the book on evil! And he testified in defense of some of the Abu Ghraib torturers!