…I won’t go so far as asking “which supervillain would it be best to live under,” but I think “least-bad” will do nicely.
My suggestions?
•Dr. Doom
He seems to do a good enough job running Latveria, and his people seem to love him. Of course, if you piss him off, you’d be toast. But that’s true of most supervillains.
•Colossus (The Forbin Project)
He always seemed like a pretty competent fellow. If absolutely cold-hearted (Well, no-hearted is more accurate, I suppose.) And he promised to eliminate famine, poverty, disease, etc. And he’d already put an end to war, thanks to a nuclear “Sword of Damocles.”
Frankly, living in the Matrix seems preferable than living in the reality of the Matrix world…assuming it is in fact the reality, but that’s a discussion for another day. I doubt that, given the choice, many people would thank Morpheus and company for taking them offline…
Azathoth. Complete idiot of a god, won’t even notice you unless you do something really really stupid. Just sits at the center of the universe listening to bad music all the time.
Oh, I think life under the vast majority of your supervillains would be pretty much indistinguishable from life as lived now by most of us. They want evreyone to keep producing all that wealth so they can have all that power. A certain percentage of the world’s wealth would go to grotesque follies and those who come in immediate contact with the supervillains would be endangered, but for most of us, life would go on. There are exceptions like Magneto and others whose ideas of good living conditions would either kill most folks or make them wish they were dead, but they’re jsut that … exceptions.
Let’s eliminate the obvious ones: Galactus, Dracula, Kang and Kodos. A good rule of thumb is you never want to live under any supervillian who considers humanity to be one of the four major food groups.
Aku from “Samurai Jack” seems mostly uninterested in the actual running of the world… everybody Jack runs into seems to pretty much live their own way.
Dr. Richard Cheney and his “Bush” Puppet. Oh, wait.
Hmm…the Antichrist of Revelation doesn’t sound too bad. Lots of money and blasphemy and immoral sex, and some cool natural disasters to boot. Best of all…no more Fundies! They all get whisked away!
