OddHat Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Villain? Please! If I want something, I take it! If I want someone, I take her! I do what I want, when I want, how I want! You just wish you could be me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug McCrae Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! I don't think of myself as a supervillain. I'm a pragmatist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! I used to be a Hero, but then the writing team changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug McCrae Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Everyone's out for #1. It's a dog-eat-dog world. If I don't screw the other guy over, he'll do the same to me. So I have to get my screwjob in first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Villain? Please! If I want something' date=' I take it! If I want someone, I take her! I do what I want, when I want, how I want! You just wish you could be me.[/quote'] Hey! You copied that out of my autobiography! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Because it's fun. My life sucked before I became a supervillain. Now, even with all the caped morons showing up to meddle in my affairs, I'm having the time of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! My GM has personal issues he needs to work out, so we're all stuck playing Supervillains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metaphysician Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "Because the unions won't let me make a living any other way, the bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "As God is my witness, I shall never go hungry again!" "I'm bonded to a powerful artifact that fulfills my every whim--provided those whims are selfish or harmful to others. Good thoughts get me nothing, so why bother?" "The government pays me top dollar to put on this suit and job to their hero team any time they need a public relations boost." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! I'm damned for my sins, and my immortality depends on killing the innocent. If I stop, I burn forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oberon Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! I envy you' date=' heroes, you who have not seen how things are, who still hold to your faith and hope. Know this: yes, I am a monster. But the world I shall create will have no place for the likes of me. I do this not for me, but for you.[/quote'] Wasn't that also the motivation of the Agent in Serenity? "Yes, I know I'm bad, but the world I'm working toward will be a better place. And I won't have a place in it." to paraphrase oberon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendaran Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Not.. exactly quite. Well, not quite on the same scale, as far as who Meta was talking about in terms of a campaign villain he was describing. It has an extra layer of belief in that good is worthy, and wonderful, and glorious, but ultimately futile, pointless, and a lie. The Operative more believes in careful shepherding and pruning in order to bring out what salutary aspects there are of the world into flourishing. Said pruning just has some really atrocious methods. Endymion believes that a multiverse that contains infinite evil alongside infinite good, but seems only to reward those who engage in varying degrees of ruthless bastardry with anything beyond just status quo maintenance of worlds chock full of suffering, is a multiverse with glaring, fundamentallly conceptual flaws. Where the salutary aspects there are can never actually flourish, and are thus regularly stomped on, hollow shams that do nothing in the long run but convince people to indulge their survival impulse as though it means anything. The ideals of hope, faith, valor, justice, honour and simple decency are thusly not the very worthy things they should be, but are instead cheapened into hollow mockeries, delusions of what they /could/ be, and do nothing but keep people going like little more than purile religious homilies. High minded discourse about how it matters in terms of "keeping humanity's soul intact" doesn't change that the lot of sentient life yet generally sucks. If humanity were actually getting better, the hard and their hard methods would stop being the ones that work, that are the most rewarded. It's not that those constantly denied ideals aren't beautiful. They are. And it's not that Endymion doesn't want them to mean something. He wants /so terribly/ for them to. He admires those that yet truly cleave to such principles, even as he pities the futility of their lives. He doesn't, in his opinion, want to be right about how the world works, but he is, and the only thing that's left then is to acknowledge that, and shake reality apart until a solution comes out of it. Therefore the system has to be remade from the ground floor up, and unfortunately, the only tools that reality lets have effective results, are the most horrible tools imaginable. And while that's a tragedy, so is the universe, one more in the scope of it is certainly sad, but in a universe that runs on necessity, only necessity can be strong enough to overthrow and remake it into something different, better. Or, put another way: The world is ultimately cold, cruel and pragmatic. The people who live as the world should be, to show people how it could be are nothing but ephemeral flashes of gossamer of the beautiful potential that will forever be stamped out, crushed, and denied a lasting legacy of any worth. The brightening touch they have on the souls around them is thus exquisitely, perfectly, meaningless. That only in pragmatism strength can be found is abominable, but it is the universe exposing its jugular vein. For he then who is the most pragmatic, the most ruthless, the most extreme, is the most strong, is the embodiement of an entire universal law. And can then do with that strength whatever they like, for theirs is the ultimate control. Control enough to destroy, control enough to remake, control enough to redefine the very underpinnings of thought, space and time. For things then to be better, and for the workings of the previous reality to now be meaningless, to transcend all definition and make it so that they were /always/ meaningless, and that virtue has /always/ ruled the day. And Endymion? Why no such person ever existed. Well, so goes the view of the villain in question anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebon Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! She told me I was worthless. I'll show her. I'll show them all. They called me mad at the University. Laughed at me! Well, who's laughing now, huh? Huh?! It was so easy to get what I always wanted. It gets easier everytime. They used to beat me up. They beat me so bad once, I see funny out of my left eye. No matter. I have plenty of left eyes, now. Because they taste so good. Not like chicken at all. Because I have to have more of it, and it's so expensive. But I have to have more. Just so I can sleep at night. Because nothing makes me feel better than seeing some punk jock crying like a little bitch after his bones snap like tinkertoys. Forget money. Holding some guy's life in your hand, and it's yours to give or take? Nothing like it. Nothing. Money is the only thing that matters. With money, you can get everything else: women, power, land, anything. The more, the merrier. Why not? What has anyone ever done for me? Because people are lying stupid children, and children needs to be diciplined until they can behave. Because people are sheep, and sheep are born to be sheared... Because no one else has the clarity of vision to do what needs doing. Only I have the insight along with the capability to do this. Because they all deserve it. I should have been rich, but the fat cats hoard it all so there's nothing left for the rest of us. They think they're so big. Wait until they see me. I'll show them who's big now. God has shown me the way, and I am His instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Best Reason of all - You stop being a worm, terrified of confrontations, especially with Authoritative people. Now YOU use THEM as doormats. You cross the line anxiety draws in the sand in front of you, again and again, the sparks flying around you. You look into their eyes until they can't stand it any more and then YOU scare THEM. How to Win Friends and Influence People - the OTHER Version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starblaze Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Not.. exactly quite. Well, not quite on the same scale, as far as who Meta was talking about in terms of a campaign villain he was describing. It has an extra layer of belief in that good is worthy, and wonderful, and glorious, but ultimately futile, pointless, and a lie. The Operative more believes in careful shepherding and pruning in order to bring out what salutary aspects there are of the world into flourishing. Said pruning just has some really atrocious methods. Endymion believes that a multiverse that contains infinite evil alongside infinite good, but seems only to reward those who engage in varying degrees of ruthless bastardry with anything beyond just status quo maintenance of worlds chock full of suffering, is a multiverse with glaring, fundamentallly conceptual flaws. Where the salutary aspects there are can never actually flourish, and are thus regularly stomped on, hollow shams that do nothing in the long run but convince people to indulge their survival impulse as though it means anything. The ideals of hope, faith, valor, justice, honour and simple decency are thusly not the very worthy things they should be, but are instead cheapened into hollow mockeries, delusions of what they /could/ be, and do nothing but keep people going like little more than purile religious homilies. High minded discourse about how it matters in terms of "keeping humanity's soul intact" doesn't change that the lot of sentient life yet generally sucks. If humanity were actually getting better, the hard and their hard methods would stop being the ones that work, that are the most rewarded. It's not that those constantly denied ideals aren't beautiful. They are. And it's not that Endymion doesn't want them to mean something. He wants /so terribly/ for them to. He admires those that yet truly cleave to such principles, even as he pities the futility of their lives. He doesn't, in his opinion, want to be right about how the world works, but he is, and the only thing that's left then is to acknowledge that, and shake reality apart until a solution comes out of it. Therefore the system has to be remade from the ground floor up, and unfortunately, the only tools that reality lets have effective results, are the most horrible tools imaginable. And while that's a tragedy, so is the universe, one more in the scope of it is certainly sad, but in a universe that runs on necessity, only necessity can be strong enough to overthrow and remake it into something different, better. Or, put another way: The world is ultimately cold, cruel and pragmatic. The people who live as the world should be, to show people how it could be are nothing but ephemeral flashes of gossamer of the beautiful potential that will forever be stamped out, crushed, and denied a lasting legacy of any worth. The brightening touch they have on the souls around them is thus exquisitely, perfectly, meaningless. That only in pragmatism strength can be found is abominable, but it is the universe exposing its jugular vein. For he then who is the most pragmatic, the most ruthless, the most extreme, is the most strong, is the embodiement of an entire universal law. And can then do with that strength whatever they like, for theirs is the ultimate control. Control enough to destroy, control enough to remake, control enough to redefine the very underpinnings of thought, space and time. For things then to be better, and for the workings of the previous reality to now be meaningless, to transcend all definition and make it so that they were /always/ meaningless, and that virtue has /always/ ruled the day. And Endymion? Why no such person ever existed. Well, so goes the view of the villain in question anyway. Geez, with this guy the glass isn't half empty, its totally empty and cracked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zakueins Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "I slit open the belly the whore that claimed she loved me and strangled the man that cucold me, they called me a monster. "I killed nearly a thousand men and women and children-often with a sniper rifle, sometimes with my bare hands, and they called me a 'Hero of Greater Serbia.' "I killed that man because his enemy was willing to pay me a million dollar to see his death and you call me a villian. "I don't care what you call me. One day, you will need my services. I can put a bullet through my choice of eye slot for Dr. Destroyer. My blade will be between Menton's second and third rib even before he knows I'm there. One day, you will consider the price I offer to be...fair."-Mr. Gogul, being dragged off by PRIMUS agents. "One day, they will laugh at me no more! Steam shall save the world!"-Steammaster upon the declaration of his next campaign of conquest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "Through conflict comes strength. The strongest survive. Humanity must be tested." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimble Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! The world WOULD be a better place united under one ruler...and I really am the best man for the job. King Grimble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Johnston Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! A supervillain is someone with exceptional abilities who is at odds with the law. So, yes. I'm a supervillain. But then again, I do live in a dictatorship ruled by a madman... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "My Member of Parliament was arrested for being a pederast. My mother was arrested for selling E to pre-teenagers. My father went mad one day at the post office and killed 9 of his co-workers. My sister makes porn video's with titles like 'Walking the dog' and is a Heroin addict. My best friend suicided after failing his final exams because he wouldn't pay off the examiner... Exactly what, in this litany of despair, gives you cause to think that I like people?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BcAugust Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "Humans deny themselves as a part of Nature. They seek to pull themselves outside such, outside what I am. They declare themselves masters, pull themselves out of the cycles that all obey. And in doing so, kill the Earth to try and claim it. So, if they will not listen, I will uphold the screams of the earth. I would be famine to their fields, predator to their children and elders, the disease that thins their ranks. It simply must be." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BcAugust Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! "People need the truth. What worth are ideals if the person can't stand to have them tested? And I must admit, I'm perfect for that task. Better that they break now then have their imperfections infect others. And those that do succeed? Ah, those I take special care of. It's such a pity that their fellows tend to kill them, isn't it?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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