Re: Bluemage
...and now I'm imagining the same guy, except that he's just an absurdly wealthy man who has armies of loyal (and well-payed) minions and likes to fantasize about being a supervillain... which means that once a hero shows up and "finally takes him down", it turns out that everything was legal, moral, and aboveboard, including all necessary permits.
...or perhaps he's *really* wealthy, and does this as a way to mess with superheroes. He has armies of fantastically good lawyers who manage to get him out whenever they *do* catch him at a crime, and it's really very hard to tell at any given moment whether the "terrified hostages" are actually terrified, or whether they're just out-of-work actors being reasonably well-paid for their troubles. Sometimes even *he* doesn't know.
...and now I'm imagining the same guy, except that he's just an absurdly wealthy man who has armies of loyal (and well-payed) minions and likes to fantasize about being a supervillain... which means that once a hero shows up and "finally takes him down", it turns out that everything was legal, moral, and aboveboard, including all necessary permits.
...or perhaps he's *really* wealthy, and does this as a way to mess with superheroes. He has armies of fantastically good lawyers who manage to get him out whenever they *do* catch him at a crime, and it's really very hard to tell at any given moment whether the "terrified hostages" are actually terrified, or whether they're just out-of-work actors being reasonably well-paid for their troubles. Sometimes even *he* doesn't know.