Chapter Fifty-Four
Monologuing
You’ve seen movies.
You’ve read comic books. You know
the alleged deal. Supervillains cannot
help themselves…they are obliged to reveal the details of their plans to
someone, usually the superhero. This is
a gross exaggeration.
Personally, I am not, generally, one who monologues. Not that I haven’t used the technique to feed
disinformation to the Golden Speedster once or twice. Stupid fucker fell for it every time. They always do.
But, yes, there are some villains, who just can not
help themselves. Admiral Nemo does it a
little bit, sure, but he speaks telepathically, and sometimes, you get a stream
of consciousness version of his plan impinged on your mind. Fucking Anton Mirsk, though. That guy spills it all. He’s got such an exaggerated sense of self-importance
that he is always telling Platinum Man his entire plan just as soon as he forms
it. I was got a cc of an email he sent
to the big alien detailing some crazy scheme to outlaw space aliens through a
patchwork of municipal codes and state laws, which he sent at 4 am. He has been known to drunk dial his invulnerable
nemesis on multiple occasions. Nemo had
to stop telling him key details of our plans, and sometimes, he would feed the
Russian billionaire disinformation, knowing that the xenophobe could not help
but taunt his adversary with it.
As bad as Anton Mirsk was, there was one villain
worse. Riddle Man. He was one of Zorro’s rogue’s gallery. You’ve
probably seen his picture on the news.
The question mark suit guy. You
know the one. He had worked once or
twice with the Prankster, so he has his number.
We needed to get a piece of information to the Hero’s Guild, but we wanted
to seem as inconspicuous as possible.
Riddle Man had a thing where he had to leave clues to
his plans for Zorro. He claimed that it
showed his intellectual superiority over the dark vigilante. Or, he was just conflicted about his life of
crime, and actively wanted Zorro to catch him.
Either way, Zorro aided by the villain’s clues, caught him each and
every time. Prankster called him and asked him to assist him in one of his
capers. Two weeks later, the information
Nemo wanted to slip out, was delivered in monologue form to Zorro, courtesy of
Riddle Man. The trap was set.
And that’s how we used supervillain monologuing as a
key in our plan to destroy the Hero’s Guild.
(c0 copyright 2020 Diana Hignutt
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