Additional Evil Overlord List Cellblock A: Difference between revisions

*** [[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.

*** 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.