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[[Dungeon Keeper]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[James Bond]]. You are the titular evil'''Evil geniusGenius''', and it is your job to construct [[Supervillain Lair|a villainous lair in an active Volcano]], recruit [[Mook|henchmen]], steal priceless treasures, hold the world for ransom, and fight off pesky super agents. Also, you need to keep your minions well-trained and happy, because the looting and ransoming won't take care of itself.
 
Notable for a quirky sense of humor mixed with classically over-the-top megalomanical villainy. Everything has a '60s vibe to it, and the forces of justice are just as stereotypical as your own minions.
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There's also a great deal of freedom and a wide range of methods you can use to complete your overarching goal. Want to run a fortress island with massive numbers of armed guards, machinegun emplacements, and horrifying freaks of nature, all emphasizing [[More Dakka|firepower?]] Perfectly reasonable. Want a deadly secluded island filled with martial arts disciples? Feel free! Want to beguile your enemies with squads of elite deceptive social minions who will leave their heads spinning and questioning their loyalty? That's also perfectly viable. Want to set a thousand deadly traps and twisty, mystifying corridors that will leave the forces of justice lost, confused, and very very dead? Nothing's stopping you. You're allowed to either discard the [[Villain Ball]] with prejudice or wrap both hands around it and run straight for the end zone.
 
[[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Rebellion have recently announced a sequel]]... [[Not So Fast Bucko|For Facebook]].{{When}} Fortunately for the loyal and the die-hard, a "true" sequel is on the way - ''[[Evil Genius 2: World Domination]]'' was announced for PC, with [https://store.steampowered.com/app/700600/Evil_Genius_2_World_Domination/ its page on] [[Steam]] listing the release date as March 30th, 2021.
 
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* [[Action Bomb]]: {{spoiler|If you die, your genius is rolled into a morgue... where you see that they're actually a robot clone, whose face lifts to reveal a timer that quickly reaches 0. Boom!}}
* [[Alliteration]]: When mousing over Shen Yu, he is described as "a mysteriously mystical maniacal man."
* [[The Ahnold]]: Dirk Masters provides the over-the-top [[Sylvester Stallone|Stallone]] style gunplay, while Red Ivan provides the physical presence and exaggerated accent of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Schwarzenegger]] (despite being Russian instead of Austrian.)
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Both of the male Evil Geniuses.
* [[BFG]]: The Mercenary minions carry immense machineguns. [[Eagle Land|P.A.T.R.I.O.T.]] agent [[Rambo|Dirk Masters]] carries [[Guns Akimbo|two]].
** And then Ivan turns it [[Up to Eleven]] and has a [[Memetic Mutation|RAWKET]] [[Metal Slug|LAWNCHAIR!]] Most players refuse to use him, since he's a bit trigger happy and will set most of your base on fire. Others [[Game Mod|swap it out for a machinegun]], usually Dirk's. Those that insist on using him unmodded take advantage of the fact that henchmen won't pass through level 3 or 4 doors unless specifically ordered to, and lock him in a topside shack until they need him.
*** Those that insist on using him unmodded take advantage of the fact that henchmen won't pass through level 3 or 4 doors unless specifically ordered to, and lock him in a topside shack until they need him.
* [[Board to Death]]: The second objective in the game is to summon the crime lords of the world to a presentation where you present your evil plan, {{spoiler|then zap the one that gave you lip with a shrink ray hidden in the volcano.}}
* [[Bodyguard Babes]]: You can get one (or a Bodyguard Hunk if you play as Alexis).
* [[Brown Note]]: Several henchmen can do this. For example, Lord Kane's presence can cause people to cower in fear or flee in panic, while Eli Barracuda plays a boombox with hypnotic suggestion that causes people around him to uncontrollably break out into dance.
* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: Jet Chan, (altougha heBruce mightLee beClone morenamed of aafter [[Jackie Chan]] clone)and [[Jet Li]].
** To be precise, he's a [[Bruce Lee]] rip off named after [[Jackie Chan]] And [[Jet Li]].
* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: in one of the menus, scuba diver models do a "synchronized swimming" variant.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The entire cast in one form or another.
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: The doppelgangers sent out to fool the specialists.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Your minions. Construction workers wear yellow, social minions wear red (except for the Spindoctor), military minions wear orange and science minions wear white.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Most of the ways you torture prisoners, including forcing prisoners to watch a [[Mook]] do Michael Jackson's dance moves. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Now that's just uncalled for.]]
* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]] -: The Super Agents cannot be killed through any amount of minions, traps, gunfire, or interrogation. Only specific methods that donaren't become available until the second half can deal with them.▼
** Including forcing prisoners to watch a [[Mook]] do Michael Jackson's dance moves.
* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: Why does your [[Elaborate Underground Base]]'s entracesentrances have slowly-opening doors? Why do your minions ignore [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] s unless you've specifically told them to do something about them? Because you're the [[Evil Genius]]. If you weren't Contractually Genre Blind, ''more than half of the gameplay would have to be changed''.▼
*** [[Even Evil Has Standards|Now that's just uncalled for.]]
▲* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]] - The Super Agents cannot be killed through any amount of minions, traps, gunfire, or interrogation. Only specific methods that don't become available until the second half can deal with them.
▲* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: Why does your [[Elaborate Underground Base]]'s entraces have slowly-opening doors? Why do your minions ignore [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] s unless you've specifically told them to do something about them? Because you're the [[Evil Genius]]. If you weren't Contractually Genre Blind, ''more than half of the gameplay would have to be changed''.
* [[Death Trap]]: Part of the fun in the game is designing a convoluted, Goldbergesque series of them.
** Ironically, the most valuable traps are non-lethal. Lethal traps generate too much heat, and non-lethal traps can be made to sweep up enemies in endless loops of money-making combos.
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Freaks do a lot of damage and can take a lot of punishment before going down, but have one of the lowest maximum smarts statistics in the game. The value is so low in fact, that they will constantly be triggering the player's own traps when they pass by the trigger mechanism, even if their smarts are at full value. Some players take full advantage of this by instaling a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627182837/http://wiki.n1nj4.com/index.php?title=Freak_Trigger Freak-trigger].
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: No, really.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Late in the game, you {{spoiler|capture diplomats from each Force of Justice and replace them with your own}}. Ultimately, this makes the Forces of Justice fight each other when they see each other... sometimes.
** Even when it does work accurately, the fight generates Heat (and thus, more attention from the Forces of Justice) the same as if ''your'' minions shot them.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: "PATRIOT intelligence reports seeing some of those evil HAMMER agents on the [[Evil Genius]]' island. A secret partnership is suspected, but more evidence is required."
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** Gloating increases notoriety because your minions then tell others about it. As for super agents escaping when you gloat over them during interrogation... that's part of the genre!
* [[Evil Minions]]: No prizes for guessing.
** [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: More of an aversion really. Every minion is a white male. The only "equal opportunity" is in the henchmen and enemies.▼
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]
*** While the character models are all white (due to limited game resources), looking at a minion's stat screen shows a wide variety of names, often in truly bizarre cross-cultural mashups. The Martial Artist minions are pretty clearly Asian, and many Guards look more South American than Caucasian.▼
▲** More of an aversion really. Every minion is a white male. The only "equal opportunity" is in the henchmen and enemies.
▲*** While the character models are all white (due to limited game resources), looking at a minion's stat screen shows a wide variety of names, often in truly bizarre cross-cultural mashups.
**** The Martial Artist minions are pretty clearly Asian, and Guards look more South American than Caucasian.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Minions and foreign agents are both more likely to set off traps when their attention stat is low.
** Also, the less-skilled agents fail to notice all but the most blatantly suspicious things (dead bodies, looted artifacts, prisoners, openly stored weapons).
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** Additionally, this comes with the benefit of giving a ''large'' boost to the stats of any minion who is observing the execution.
** Each evil genius has his or her own method of execution. Maximillian shoots the minion, Alexis [[Kill It with Fire|sets him on fire]] with a cigarette, and Shen Yu stabs him with a dagger.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: ifIf you've got the money, its possible to defeat even squads of enemy veterans by simply having waves of construction workers mob them with their fists.
* [[Zeerust]]: despiteDespite all the bizarre technology, the game's timeframe appears to be somewhere in the 60s or 70s (LasersLASERs and Pong cabinets are both described as brand new technology). Per [[Word of God]], it's the 60s, but if they liked something enough from another time period, they'd [[Throw It In|throw it in]] anyway, such as the very 80s Dirk.
** It is still "laser", not "LASER". In the 70s it was new enough that people still pointed out that it was an acronym in movies.
*** Per [[Word of God]], it's the 60s, but if they liked something enough from another time period, they'd throw it in anyway, such as the very 80s Dirk.
 
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