Cut to his boss wearing a supervillain outfit, sitting in a snake circle, sipping a martini.
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Okay, so Ewing's explanation of the Beyond Corporation is that events of "Nextwave" was basically a prank the Corporation was playing on them. They wanted Nextwave to turn on HATE as part of their game.
My theory is that Maxine is being obviously evil because they want Ben to do the same thing. She didn't even try to act convincing there. Unfortunately, Ben apparently didn't inherit Peter's brains. They're probably frustrated he's not taking the bait.
Ben did inherit his brains...but apparently he never grew out of Peter's initial naivety. And it took YEARS for Peter to get properly suspicious of things.
It's really difficult to make a corporate head not seem evil. If the creators go ahead and make them seem nice and reasonable, the reader suspects that it's too good to be true.
The compromise here - she doesn't seem to have a shark pool or a pet cat - is just going for the middle-of-the-road realistic depiction of a corporate head. Everyone knows the corpos are inherently evil anyway, so a few armed goons and an eccentric dress sense are nothing to look twice at.
Palpatine looks like more of a smooth operator with each passing day. When he wanted to manipulate a hero around to his side, he did so via feeding an insecure teenager's ego and providing the praise (warranted or not) and emotional support he wasn't getting from the Jedi. Very little pointless gaslighting and / or verbal abuse.
You'd think more villains would at least get wise to that method of operation. I mean, you chose that person as your minion. Why fark it all up by being an arsehole? Give positive reinforcement a try.
Cut back to the time he demanded Tony Stark cure his sickness or admit his inferiority or he'd detonate a bomb. At first, Otto claimed he only called it a device, but Tony said he explicitly stated it was a bomb at a couple of points. "I lied," was the "ingenious" response.
Seriously though, something is wrong with Ben. His memory is failing him and he seems easily confused.
Also one of Otto's schemes was him telling the world he was going to solve global warming when actually he was going to...melt the earth with the sun or something?
"The problem with global warming is that was happening on a timescale that made it possible for invested power structures to deny its urgency, right? I solved it! Pretend THIS isn't manmade, Petrocrats!"
Except Lady Ock had an ENORMOUS forehead. Well, I'm basing this on a single panel where Ben is punching her force field, but she's got a head shaped like The Leader in it.
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Date: 2022-01-13 02:57 am (UTC)Cut to his boss wearing a supervillain outfit, sitting in a snake circle, sipping a martini.
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Okay, so Ewing's explanation of the Beyond Corporation is that events of "Nextwave" was basically a prank the Corporation was playing on them. They wanted Nextwave to turn on HATE as part of their game.
My theory is that Maxine is being obviously evil because they want Ben to do the same thing. She didn't even try to act convincing there. Unfortunately, Ben apparently didn't inherit Peter's brains. They're probably frustrated he's not taking the bait.
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Date: 2022-01-13 05:05 am (UTC)Burly well-dressed goons.
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Date: 2022-01-15 04:06 pm (UTC)Just a radically misunderstood extremist? ;)
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Date: 2022-01-14 07:44 pm (UTC)The compromise here - she doesn't seem to have a shark pool or a pet cat - is just going for the middle-of-the-road realistic depiction of a corporate head. Everyone knows the corpos are inherently evil anyway, so a few armed goons and an eccentric dress sense are nothing to look twice at.
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Date: 2022-01-13 01:37 pm (UTC)When he wanted to manipulate a hero around to his side, he did so via feeding an insecure teenager's ego and providing the praise (warranted or not) and emotional support he wasn't getting from the Jedi.
Very little pointless gaslighting and / or verbal abuse.
You'd think more villains would at least get wise to that method of operation.
I mean, you chose that person as your minion. Why fark it all up by being an arsehole? Give positive reinforcement a try.
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Date: 2022-01-13 01:49 pm (UTC)Cut back to the time he demanded Tony Stark cure his sickness or admit his inferiority or he'd detonate a bomb. At first, Otto claimed he only called it a device, but Tony said he explicitly stated it was a bomb at a couple of points. "I lied," was the "ingenious" response.
Seriously though, something is wrong with Ben. His memory is failing him and he seems easily confused.
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Date: 2022-01-13 02:25 pm (UTC)IDK it was fuckin crazy
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