Date: 2022-01-13 02:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mastermahan
"There's no way my boss is a villain!"

Cut to his boss wearing a supervillain outfit, sitting in a snake circle, sipping a martini.

...

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.

Date: 2022-01-13 03:13 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] akodo_rokku
Assuming this Beyond is still part of an extra-dimensional entity, it's possible they've changed up their game after the whole multiversal collapse.

Date: 2022-01-13 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] super_fly
Don't forget the pair of goons.

Burly well-dressed goons.

Date: 2022-01-13 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
You just can't beat the personal touch you get with Hired Goons

Date: 2022-01-14 01:58 am (UTC)
lbd_nytetrayn: Star Force Dragonzord Power! (Default)
From: [personal profile] lbd_nytetrayn
Hired Goons?

Date: 2022-01-13 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] blues32
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.

Date: 2022-01-13 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
I mean I have that exact outfit and I'm not a supervillain

Date: 2022-01-13 08:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fra080389
Eh

Date: 2022-01-13 10:34 pm (UTC)
skjam: Horrific mummy-man. (Neighbors)
From: [personal profile] skjam
Riiight.....

Date: 2022-01-14 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] agent8
sure, but of course that's what a supervillain would say isn't it?

Date: 2022-01-14 01:19 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
To quote the great Chairface Chippendale: "I've always thought of myself as an extraordinary villain"

Date: 2022-01-15 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] dan_ingram
"I mean I have that exact outfit and I'm not a supervillain "

Just a radically misunderstood extremist? ;)

Date: 2022-01-14 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shakalooloo
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.

Date: 2022-01-13 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] scorntx
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.

Date: 2022-01-13 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] blues32
"I am many things, but a liar isn't one of them."

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.

Date: 2022-01-13 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
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?

IDK it was fuckin crazy

Date: 2022-01-13 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] donnblake
"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!"

Date: 2022-01-13 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
Otto is awarded the Polluting Medal of Pollution for his tireless work here

Date: 2022-01-13 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] donnblake
I'm imagining a medallion with a tiny functioning smokestack here.

Date: 2022-01-14 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
That is exactly what it will be :)

Date: 2022-01-14 02:02 am (UTC)
lbd_nytetrayn: Star Force Dragonzord Power! (Default)
From: [personal profile] lbd_nytetrayn
So what you're saying is that he lied about lying?

Date: 2022-01-13 04:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mastermahan
Otto is just angry she stole his haircut.

Date: 2022-01-13 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] scorntx
Also because he just can't work that shade of pink.

Date: 2022-01-13 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tinygaylaura
"Don't let the haircut fool you, I'm quite wealthy"

Date: 2022-01-13 10:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zachbeacon
Look, Lady Ock and him go way back and this chick stole BOTH their looks.

Date: 2022-01-17 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] blues32
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.

Date: 2022-01-13 10:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zachbeacon
I know people miss Superior Otto but I'm just happy to have "will do the right thing out of pettiness and spite" Otto back.

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