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[–] [email protected] 198 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, but propelling them out of the solar system just sounds like the kind of fake-ending that ends up with the super villain coming back stronger in a decade. Have we learnt nothing from science fiction? You have to destroy your foes whilst you can.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList

4: Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

7: When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."

13: All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not Left for Dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Man, I haven't thought of the Evil Overlord List in many, many years. Thanks for that.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The phantom zone ain't gonna cut it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It blows my mind that this was cutting edge, jaw dropping graphics back in the day. A shape-shifting trapezoid with some panicked faces peeking out.

E. Nah now I'm thinking it's a one dimensional parallelegram.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That shit's laughable, but then there was Superman III and the trauma it caused:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That scene scared the shit out of me

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

What blows my mind is that I could right now recreate this in moments on a cheap, low-power microcontroller.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Which angel is that?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imploding submarines are far more efficient

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Okay when the options are throwing a football down field or up field, the option to hit a softball with a sledgehammer isn't helpful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Going easy on traitors is how Germany gave us WWII.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

But we gave him a nice little prison stay to write his manifesto in! Surely he learned his lesson and won't attempt to overthrow democracy again, right?

...right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

They can still come back from another parallel reality or some such - villains are like cats, they always come back (unless they are bored and then they don't).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sun's bad then too. Don't want them Voyage Homeing their way into the past

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, one is a final solution, the other is just pushing your problems elsewhere without regard for who else it could affect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/zoCvqDd2_C8

Back when RT wasn't shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

To the depths of Jupiter, then.