Sirrocco Wrote:Re: BluemageI can also see some chefs getting kidnapped, being forced to create something new and different for The Chairman... and then either finding inspiration in the experience, or just adding their new dish to the menu at their place. Maybe have chefs looking to have the guy take their place 'hostage', figuring the publicity would do them well.
...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.
Heck, he could be trying to be a serious villain, only to tragicomically find out that all his 'victims' are refusing to press charges, and in fact are benefiting from his attentions. No matter what he does, none of it ends up being a crime, though he does get good food out of the deal.
Or maybe he's doing it to film Iron Chef, but with the 'extreme' angle of a villain protagonist thrown into the mix. Maybe the whole supervillain thing is basically kayfabe.
Who knows? All of them could be true. Like the Joker, and his 'multiple-choice past'.
I have this mental image of the guy in a courtroom, being tried for stealing a truck of foie gras, driving it into the front of a four-star French place, and setting the head chef to work at gunpoint. His only defense is slapping the judge, jury, and occasionally the bailiff in the face with sheafs of high-denomination bills until they let him go.
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I've been writing a bit.