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=== Fan Works === |
=== Fan Works === |
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* Deconstructed to a great extent in issue #16 of ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655553/18/Ultimate_SpiderWoman_Change_With_the_Light Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With the Light]'', when the Beetle provides a number of rebuttals to the arguments that supervillains should just patent their technology. Even if you can patent your technology, there's always the danger that some [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] will try and screw you out of your share of the profits, something the Beetle claims happened to the Shocker when ''he'' tried selling his shock blasters to Justin Hammer. Starting your own business is no guarantee of success either, particularly when many businesses fail within their first year of operation. Then there's the fact that many supervillains do ''not'' want to spend their time working for people they view as [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Pointy Haired Bosses]] who got ahead through asskissing and brownnosing, rather than actual talent. This obviously isn't the case most of the time, but supervillains as a whole tend to be misanthropes |
* Deconstructed to a great extent in issue #16 of ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655553/18/Ultimate_SpiderWoman_Change_With_the_Light Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With the Light]'', when the Beetle provides a number of rebuttals to the arguments that supervillains should just patent their technology. Even if you can patent your technology, there's always the danger that some [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] will try and screw you out of your share of the profits, something the Beetle claims happened to the Shocker when ''he'' tried selling his shock blasters to Justin Hammer. Starting your own business is no guarantee of success either, particularly when many businesses fail within their first year of operation. Then there's the fact that many supervillains do ''not'' want to spend their time working for people they view as [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Pointy Haired Bosses]] who got ahead through asskissing and brownnosing, rather than actual talent. This obviously isn't the case most of the time, but supervillains as a whole tend to be misanthropes... |
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** Of course, so long as heroic billionaires keep owning technology companies, this argument makes no sense. Tony Stark would ''love'' to cut you a check so a) you get rich b) he gets even richer and c) the incredibly long parade of tech-themed villains that keep dropping by to ruin his weekends off grows shorter by one. Indeed, there was a period in comics where Tony did precisely this with several reformed members of Justin Hammer's supervillian stable. |
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=== Films -- Animation === |
=== Films -- Animation === |
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