The Do's and Don'ts of the Bad Guy Handbook

[SargentToughie]

I was going to provide a link to the evil overlord list... but somebody beat me to it

hum de dum...

 

[Syphonz]

When being a serial killer, don't have a specific agenda. Always pick your victims at random and without reason.

 

[DirkGently]

When being a serial killer, don't have a specific agenda. Always pick your victims at random and without reason.

Actually have a plan. Then randomly start whacking off people to throw people off.

Don't be too quick to execute the hero. Round up his family and friends and their family and friends and put them to death too. Be sure to get any bastard children or people who'll want to seek revenge on you.

Also, strap your captive hero into the slow death machine, and then leave the room. As it powers up have ten henchmen run into the room to shoot him. then chop his body into bits and thorw it into a vat of sulfuric acid.

 

[Killerbunny001]

Don`t trust the chick that is about to fall in love with the hero.

 

[Asehujiko]

When eliminating a target, skip the one vs one duels and the spectacular entry. Go for a ghillie suit and a sniper rifle.

 

[Space Spoons]

Stop leaving cases of ammunition, medical supplies and various weaponry around the lair. It's dangerous in the event of a hero getting in, and what's more, it's just trashy. Take pride in your workspace, gentlemen.

 

[SargentToughie]

When eliminating a target, skip the one vs one duels and the spectacular entry. Go for a ghillie suit and a sniper rifle.

Or better, send a body double to do the one vs one duel with the spectacular entry while you take the ghillie suit and the sniper rifle

 

[Omnidum]

Hire Superman [http://www.superdickery.com/]. He is just as evil as Satan himself.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I doubt many people would like movies in which Batman/Superman/WTF dies.

We cheered when Cyclops died though.

 

[MercFox1]

Never leave any explosives on a timer, because that will give the hero enough time to defuse it. Better yet, put a timer on your weapon of choice, but make it so that it isn't tied to the weapon itself. That way, when he stops the timer, you can remotely detonate the device and vaporize the gleeful hero.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Do not, and I repeat DO NOT, leave your arch-nemesis alone while he is dangling over a pit of spikes/electric eels/bunnies/etc, your arch-nemesis is guaranteed to find a way to escape and foil your evil plans.

Take a page from the Monarch's book. He chucked in the contrived rope-suspension-flesh-eating-fish scenarios for a good old-fashioned laser bazooka to the face.

 

[Darthracoon]

One of the biggest don'ts is using traqilizer guns, so you can capture the hero and gloat while he is lowered slowly into pihranas but some how he throws you in and he wins...

Fuck that i say, machete his legs off and drill his eyeballs out, whilst raping his wife.

The biggest gripe i have about supervillans is the traps, you know the ones tripwire hooked up to a cage...a fucking cage? WHY?! if i was a super villan i would put cheese wire and shotgun traps everywhere not some poxy cage.

 

[Maddenfreak]

DONTS
1. never reveal your plan to the hero, even if he's captured.
2. dont capture the hero, KILL THE BASTARD
3. dont show mercy
4. less talk, more mutilation with da weapon

DO's
1. kill everybody

 

[Shadow88]

Revise your ideology to NOT include backstabbing this gose double for any aprentices.

 

[Zer_]

"Oh how long I've waited for this moment. So allow me to explain that to you while I hold a gun to your head for a long period of time. Nope, nothing can go wrong when I ramble on about something before I kill the good guy." *Crashing sound.* "Fuck!"

 

[RobotoWorks]

Make sure all entrances are blocked, and put a few guards by them just in case. You don't want a friend(s) of the hero to "unexpectedly" come to the rescue.

 

[Bluntknife]

This is my problem,
I most games where you have a choice the first time I'll play as the good guy
and the second play as hitler.

but when I play as an evil dickhead I always feel the need to torture people before they die
ie: shoot them in the kneecaps. (fallout 3 has made that very entertaining)

and then I forget about the guy behind me and get killed. GAH! why oh why must the evil dude die?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Never go on a monologue about your evil plan! keep it in your head! also, leave no witnesses. and never fuck over your henchmen, they may turn on you, don't have a hidden lair as it will eventually become unhidden. don't be obviously evil, leave some doubt in the hero's head. never use the hero's family/loved ones as hostages, this will only enrage him. invest in weaponized microwave technology(despite what MGS4 would have you believe; NO ONE can survive it)

Well to be exact you can survive. Simply break the microwave machinery and then walk by the broken stuff.

 

[Johnny Ringo]

Don't bother killing the Hero's family before them. Chances are, they'll go ballistic and end up trying to gun you down.

Do rig the timer to explode an hour before it's been set to. This way, anyone looking to defuse it at the last second will receive an unwelcome suprise.

Go the extra mile in hiring henchman, price shouldn't be an issue when the world's at stake.