Fu Manchu plays Pac-Man

[starwolf_oakley]

So, what does a super-villain do while waiting for the brave hero to arrive at his secret lair?
Play video games, it seems. One where the ghosts chase you, then you chase the ghosts. Rather appropriate, in retrospect.
From Marvel's SHANG-CHI: MASTER OF KUNG-FU #5.








Due to Marvel losing the rights to Sax Rohmer's characters, this character can't actually be called Fu Manchu. (Similar to LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.)

Comments

[icon_uk]

All the hip supervillains are doing it... Caroline Lefay, the main antagonist in "Fearless Defenders" mentions in passing, as credentials for her ability to play hardball, that she not only has the AIM Scientist Supreme on speed-dial, but plays "Words with Friends" with the Mandarin.

[thanekos]

To, aptly enough, the implied daughter of this guy!

[norj]

Dr.Doom would have conquered the world by now if it wasn't for his crippling addiction to World of Warcraft.

[siliconshaman]

Want to bet he plays for the Horde?

[glprime]

DOOM plays for no one but the glory of himself.

[glprime]

And bitchin' armor drops.

[halloweenjack]

He had his account yanked when it turned out that he'd used Doombots on raids.

[jlroberson]

HOW DARE YOU YANK THE THUNDERING ACCOUNT OF DOOM!

[siliconshaman]

Someone in the Marvel universe really needs to introduce the likes of Darkseid, Sinister and Galacticus to Eve Online... the multiverse would be a much safer place for it.

[cainofdreaming]

Really? I would think that the multiverse would not fare so well after someone in their guild defects with most of their stuff. That ragequit would not be pretty to see.

[darkblade]

"We the Galactic Tribunal here by charge the organization known as "GoonSwarm" with willful neglect resulting in the deaths of Fifty-Eight Hundred million Skurll, Twenty-nine billion Kree and a the complete extinction of the Furlings."

[vspope]

It would be awesome, up until the point when Kang starts messing with the timestream to expire other players' accounts before their actual creation.

Then things get ugly.

[donnblake]

Somehow, I don't see Fu Manchu playing Pac-man, although I could see him getting really into Conway's Game of Life or similar "very simple in concept, incredibly complex in possible permutations" types of 'game'.

[icon_uk]

Even the sharpest, most acute mind enjoys a little mindless entertainment every now and again.

[glprime]

I for one thoroughly enjoy the reflexive pattern recognition of Bejeweled Diamond Mine in between my bouts of megalomania and plots for world domination.

[icon_uk]

And many an amusing deathtrap commission has been considered whilst Candy Crush has been on the screen (If I'd been able to work out a Tetris based deathtrap, that would have been cool... though now I think about it again... hmmmm)

[qalchemist]

And of course, that man there is playing Galaga.

He didn't think we'd notice. But we did.

[starwolf_oakley]

In retrospect I'm starting to wonder if playing Pac-Man is a little more clever than I first thought.

The game starts with the ghosts chasing you. Then you chase the ghosts.

Whether "ghost" means "spy" or "chi," I think there's something there.