If you could be a supervillain, what would be your motiv?
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Mine would be working to reverse the effects of the mass breeding of stupid people. I would be driven by the fear of Idiocracy becoming reality.
Death to "reality t.v.!"
Death to obnoxious, petty, vapid dipshits who have no idea how to function!
Mandatory intelligence and decency tests for all! Learn to pass or be the next victim of social darwinism!
Death to "reality t.v.!"
Death to obnoxious, petty, vapid dipshits who have no idea how to function!
Mandatory intelligence and decency tests for all! Learn to pass or be the next victim of social darwinism!
Well, nobody wakes up in the morning and goes "wow, I think I'm going to be really evil today" unless they are insane. Hence the reasoning behind the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Hitler and his followers for example believed they were doing the right thing, for the right reasons.
That said, IRL I'm not sure what I'd do with powers since I'd have to be very careful before deciding to do anything. It would give me a differant perspective. Internet rants about what to do are one thing, trying to force those changes single handedly just because I have enough power to try... well that becomes something else entirely for a lot of reasons I won't go into.
That said I'd imagine I'd become a villain by trying to accomplish anything of major import, simply because when you operate on a big scale lots of people are going to dislike what you do no matter what it is. This is one of the reasons why most comic book heroes wind up defending the status/international quo as opposed to trying to upset it for whatever reason. Exceptions like "The Authority" are a *fairly* recent development.
Let's say I ignored social issues entirely feeling that they were for the people themselves to sort out, no matter what I thought, but decided to say use my super abillities to speed up the unification of the world under American principles, the development of space technology, and similar things. Many people might agree with me, but since the use of personal power amounts to force about the time I destroyed a couple of closed cultures, and started whacking world leaders I didn't agree with, I'd be seen as a villain by at least as many people as saw me as a hero.
The fact that I understand that would be one of the reasons why I'd have to be VERY careful in deciding what to do.
Basically I'd imagine the fastest way to become a villain would be to try and become a hero. I mean stop and think about it sometime... back during like the 1970s and 1980s do you think the Russians in those works saw Captain America as a HERO or a VILLAIN? ... and there were a lot of them. Ditto for back when we still had a REAL Superman and noone was ashamed to say he fought for truth, justice, and the American way. Think of it as a population breakdown and it becomes questionable as to whether patrotic heroes had more people thinking of them as heroes or villains at the time period when you consider the other side.
It would be wrong if I had powers to more or less do nothing with them, I mean if they are there, then obviously they are intended to be used... but deciding the right things to do, well... nothing I tried, and no matter whom I teamed up with/worked for, a lot of ordinary people would wind up disliking me simply because any use of powers basically amounts to me using personal might to do what *I* think is right irregardless of the desires of others.
That said, IRL I'm not sure what I'd do with powers since I'd have to be very careful before deciding to do anything. It would give me a differant perspective. Internet rants about what to do are one thing, trying to force those changes single handedly just because I have enough power to try... well that becomes something else entirely for a lot of reasons I won't go into.
That said I'd imagine I'd become a villain by trying to accomplish anything of major import, simply because when you operate on a big scale lots of people are going to dislike what you do no matter what it is. This is one of the reasons why most comic book heroes wind up defending the status/international quo as opposed to trying to upset it for whatever reason. Exceptions like "The Authority" are a *fairly* recent development.
Let's say I ignored social issues entirely feeling that they were for the people themselves to sort out, no matter what I thought, but decided to say use my super abillities to speed up the unification of the world under American principles, the development of space technology, and similar things. Many people might agree with me, but since the use of personal power amounts to force about the time I destroyed a couple of closed cultures, and started whacking world leaders I didn't agree with, I'd be seen as a villain by at least as many people as saw me as a hero.
The fact that I understand that would be one of the reasons why I'd have to be VERY careful in deciding what to do.
Basically I'd imagine the fastest way to become a villain would be to try and become a hero. I mean stop and think about it sometime... back during like the 1970s and 1980s do you think the Russians in those works saw Captain America as a HERO or a VILLAIN? ... and there were a lot of them. Ditto for back when we still had a REAL Superman and noone was ashamed to say he fought for truth, justice, and the American way. Think of it as a population breakdown and it becomes questionable as to whether patrotic heroes had more people thinking of them as heroes or villains at the time period when you consider the other side.
It would be wrong if I had powers to more or less do nothing with them, I mean if they are there, then obviously they are intended to be used... but deciding the right things to do, well... nothing I tried, and no matter whom I teamed up with/worked for, a lot of ordinary people would wind up disliking me simply because any use of powers basically amounts to me using personal might to do what *I* think is right irregardless of the desires of others.
"If you WON'T do something, then...well, that's the same as saying you CAN'T do something, see. Because you'll never do it, same as if you couldn't. It means something is beyond your ability, beyond your capacity. Doesn't that make you feel weak? Make you feel small? That's why. That's why I do these things, the murders, the elaborate schemes, the senseless savagery. BECAUSE I CAN. YOU CAN'T. YOU WON'T SO YOU CAN'T. BUT I CAN. AHAHAHAHA."
My power is that I'd be incredibly normal.
My power is that I'd be incredibly normal.
My motive would be simple:
To Make The Mighty...Despair!
It would be no fun to pick on the weak. How does one know that one has accomplished anything unless one bests the best? What pride is to be had unless one crushes the pride of another( the bigger the ego, the better)?
Oh, I almost forgot: to be a bigger creep than old school comic cover Super-Man with impunity.
http://www.superdickery.com/
To Make The Mighty...Despair!
It would be no fun to pick on the weak. How does one know that one has accomplished anything unless one bests the best? What pride is to be had unless one crushes the pride of another( the bigger the ego, the better)?
Oh, I almost forgot: to be a bigger creep than old school comic cover Super-Man with impunity.
http://www.superdickery.com/
I'm not a surgeon, but I think you could only rip the brain apart with a long object through the nose, and maybe the lungs.MaxTheReaper said:
I'd go the Ozimadias route. Killing millions for the sake of billions. Then I'd take the mother-fucking world over so I can control all and bring my version of government upon the world, and ban the bullshit known formally as religion... Okay mabye not the Ozi route after all, I'd just do the first part to gain trust and power.
I'd want to change the world for the better, even if it was by brutal, dictatorial means, who's to know if I would succeed or not.
