Sure, you really think you can get me to fall for this trick?
Every well educated Evil Overlord knows,
you don’t post your two year plan to conquer the Earth on an Internet message board!
CMC fnord!
Anybody want to take a crack at the DCU pre-Infinite Crisis?
I’ll be Ranchoth’s right-hand lieutenant, if nobody else has taken it yet…
Right, I did think of that, I just forgot to mention it. You would also have to develop a treatment for the X-Plague, and give it to Mags (he’d probably only trust you if you gave him the full formula and means to produce it, not just a regular dosage of the finished product). And even if he’s not personally affected, Magneto would probably be opposed to the genocide of what he regards as “his people”, so you’d probably want to institute some sort of plan where other Xs could join your cause in exchange for the antidote (Magneto will tolerate killing of mutants who oppose him). Of course, this introduces all new levels of complication, and new opportunities for betrayal, so Magneto would probably be the only mutant who gets the means of production of the antidote: Anyone else betrays you, they miss their weekly injection, and die soon thereafter. And it might be a good idea to keep a few more supers around on your side, anyway: There are a few non-X do-gooders around (Thor, the Punisher, and I think Black Panther and Ironman all come to mind), and Magneto probably won’t be able to handle them all on his own.
I didn’t actually consider giving Magneto the cure, my plan was to use the plague once he’d become expendable. However, I think you’re right and that it would be useful to keep him around for defence against the non-mutant supers and those that might arise. Ofcourse, for him to remain I would have to actually give him some part of the world as his own dominion, and therefore I wouldn’t be in total control… but it’s all good.
I suppose the X-plague could actually be used as a means to gaining control of the world. If I could somehow frame the UN security council for it’s development, then start manufacturing the antidote and get the mutants hooked. With enough propaganda they could be brought to the point where they would bring down those they see as responsible for the genocide, and even accept or atleast tolerate me as the world’s rightful leader. It would probably help Magneto recruit mutants to his cause too (it would be proof of a global plot against mutantkind), so he might actually go along with it. If that were the case then I could have him as my one loyal lackey, so I wouldn’t need to worry about him betraying me.
With regards to The Punisher, if I made a move to have him killed, would that just mean he would assasinate me? How tricky would it be to have him taken out? I’m not really sure what his powers are. I know that he’s supremely pissed off that his family were killed, but how much does he get involved in other issues?
Hey! Didn’t you post in **Winston Smith’s ** post talking about how he needs some henchmen?
You can’t double dip!!!
I, on the other hand, wasn’t accepted. I can happily claim this spot that Kytheria seems to covet…
I wasn’t applying to be his henchman! I was merely informing him of the SDMB deities’ official position at that time! Shee-eeesh!
(You can take the henchman position, though. Nothing gets me like a guy in black leather. ;))
I’ve got black leather pants. Don’t you dare make me whip them out.
double-dipper!!!
Oh, yeah? 
Sorry! Back to the thread. :o
Um…yeah!
So…there…take…that!
for the record, you were bragging about how you were going to learn eleventeen languages and develop the solution for cold fusion during the summer that Winston Smith was going to take over the world. Um. Should we stop the hijack? Have we already concluded it? I’m lost.