Additional Evil Overlord List Cellblock A: Difference between revisions

* Instead of attempting to take over the world starting with highly developed countries, I will start my world conquest in Southern Asia and Africa (or whatever Universe I happen to be stuck in's equivalent to an area that is poor, badly defended, and has little importance on the global market.) The plan goes as follows:

** Buy lots of weapons. Key elements include RPGs, tanks, and a healthy amount of bulletproof vests and cheap, but effective rifles. The AK-47 should be good enough. All of these will allow my soldiers to have complete dominance over anything but a strike from the air, and that is unlikely in developing countries.

*** [[Rule of Cool|And it must be sufficiently cool.]]

*** As long as it does not make me a ripoff of [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]].

** If for some reason I must wear a mask, I will try to make it something that is not sinister in some manner. Things such as skulls, demons, etc. tend to unsettle subordinates, lower moral and [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|make myself a more obvious target for assassination attempts]].

*** If I must wear such a mask for whatever reason I will require all my minions to wear the same mask to confuse said possible assassin.

*** Then, I will send the footage to one of those home-video television shows, whereupon I will undoubtedly win the grand-prize at the end of the season. If this fails in America, I will send it [[South of the Border]]. They love the [[Groin Attack]] there.

** Alternatively, the drinks are free but laced with slow-acting poison to which [[Find the Cure|only I (supposedly) have the cure]]. I will use this as leverage to force the heroes to get me a [[MacGuffin]], at which point I will break tradition and actually give the hero the cure I promised. However, the 'cure' I give will actually be a ''fast''-acting poison that kills him in half an hour.

** [[Portal (series)|There will be cake.]]

** Why am I building a [[Circus of Fear]] again? Screw this—I will hire a competent psychiatrist to remove the compulsion that led me to do this in the first place and then go and do something ''useful''. To assuage my needs, I will build a ''regular'' [[Amusement Park]] with an [[Of Doom]] theme. That oughta scratch my itch and provide some much-needed funding for the real plans.

*** Just buy Disney altogether. It probably rules, like, half of the world already. And then put subliminal messaging in the movies/television shows/music.

**** Except Pixar movies. We shan't be ruining those.

** Instead of making an amusement park of doom, let's make everything funnier and far more overpriced than Disney! Ah, and it'll have anime. Heroes love anime.

* If I ever feel the need to slow down the hero's progress by placing doors that can only be opened once he has a certain number of [[Plot Coupon]]s, I won't bother creating a large number of such doors requiring an increasing number of items. Instead there will be a single door, right at the beginning, that [[Locked Door|cannot be opened]] until the hero has all of them. Needless to say, all plot coupons are on the other side of the door.

*** We're playing at their expectations to lure them into a false sense of security.

*** Anyone who uses the phrase "false sense of security" will be shot. If he's smart, the hero won't buy it anyway. [[Idiot Hero|If he's not]], there are much more effective ways to kill him.

** I will remember that [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|very competent]] opponents will [[I Know You Know I Know|likely be doing the same thing in reverse]].

** I will, however, note that not everyone goes into fiction that well and just hope they are [[Genre Blind]] idiots.

** There are [[Blatant Lies|only two]] detonation triggers: my personal escape pod and the aforementioned button. In case my personal escape pod is boarded by the heroes (which I would have to disobey the original list to allow in any case) I will have a third detonation trigger for the escape pod given to my most trusted lieutenant. And even that will only work [[Taking You with Me|after I'm already dead]], so no assassination attempts.

 

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