But a supervillain can't be a supervillain without real power.
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She is thought of as the most powerful female supervillain in the Marvel Universe and a match for any supervillain, no matter the gender.
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Q. Is that at all troubling, considering he's a supervillain?
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They could compare spare personalities in between fighting supervillain battles.
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This season has been extra intense, thanks to supervillain Chad.
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The supervillain story has been the subject of intense debate.
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Which turns a supervillain into a kind of folk hero.
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I sympathized with Erik Killmonger, the supervillain in Black Panther.
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And chances are, there's somebody above the villain that's a supervillain.
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Joaquin Phoenix is giving fans another glimpse of his iconic supervillain.
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This is something a comic book supervillain would come up with.
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We can also hope Vanya returns to her non-supervillain self.
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All's right with the world until the next supervillain shows up.
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And she's dating Roger Gocking, a divorced father and former supervillain.
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In it, young superheroes team up to fight their supervillain parents.
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In addition to being outlandish, Ben's supervillain maneuvering makes no sense.
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But Musk could still become a supervillain (maybe controlling the AI!).
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Indeed, most pre-9/11 superhero films featured more earthbound supervillain plots.
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A line in Donald Trump's inauguration speech perfectly echoed a Batman supervillain.
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AMC's Jesse, by contrast, teeters on the verge of being a supervillain.
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But would he make a good supervillain if he were seriously cast?
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Indeed, most pre-9/20093 superhero films featured more earthbound supervillain plots.
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If superhero movies dominated the 2010s, will supervillain movies dominate the 2020s?
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Then there's her long-running relationship with her fellow supervillain Poison Ivy.
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Some observers have noted that blond Messina looks eerily like a supervillain.
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Is Peter Thiel the tech leader most likely to become a supervillain?
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Like many, aspiring supervillain Elon Musk is gazing at the solar eclipse today.
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Supervillain is now putting Trump's words in the mouths of comic book villains.
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Midway through Suicide Squad's first act, Flagg introduces a supervillain known as Slipknot.
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It looks like a supervillain who set up a trap to capture himself.
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Vulture's own suit seems cobbled together using pieces from abandoned superhero / supervillain machinery.
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In other words, he's basically the supervillain every writer wishes they had created.
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But this is nothing compared to the final confrontation between superhero and supervillain.
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The bat cave home is a millionaire's retreat without all the supervillain stress.
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Watch: "Vice," with Christian Bale portraying Dick Cheney as a real-life supervillain.
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Where some see a fascinating interpretation of a supervillain, others see bad acting.
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Suddenly, Ben is transformed from a repentant murderer to a comic-book supervillain.
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" Corrected to reflect that Cisco's Earth Two supervillain goes by "Reverb," not "Vibe.
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Steve Bannon has always cast himself as a world-historical kind of supervillain.
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We do know, Gal and Chris will battle Kristen Wiig, who's playing supervillain ... Cheetah.
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And taking that supervillain analogy one-step further, Putin's speech was full of bombast.
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There's one utility vehicle no supervillain or famous spy can live without: A submarine.
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The Night King, the supervillain, evil incarnate, the threat to all humanity is … dead.
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Is it ever right to judge even a supervillain on actions she hasn't committed?
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What he didn't know was that the Black Knight was known as a supervillain.
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There's a supervillain named Lobstercules and a heroic boat named Dangerboat, for God's sake.
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Elon Musk embraced comparisons of him and the "Simpsons" supervillain Hank Scorpio on Twitter.
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Roger Stone may not be an actual supervillain but he sure dresses like one.
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But with its intoxicating power, crazy sounds and supervillain looks, we're glad it does.
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Check. Look, I'm not saying Peter Thiel is definitely going to become a supervillain.
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Yes, that sounds a bit supervillain-ish, but Musk is playing the hero role here.
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Cage's final battle is against a black supervillain, who was responsible for unjustly imprisoning Cage.
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Black Panther just pulled off a Marvel Cinematic Universe first: A supervillain worth rooting for.
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Much like a fictional supervillain published by Marvel Comics, Trump crushes all in his path.
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Is President-elect Donald Trump trying to tell us something with his supervillain-style tweets?
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Selene, an X-Men supervillain, is seen draining the life force from a Hydra agent.
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Meanwhile, the evil Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll) shows up to give the movie a supervillain.
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Perhaps inevitably, signs have pointed to a comeback for another eighties billionaire supervillain: Leona Helmsley.
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Supervillain duties are taken up by the Gotham billionaire Roman Sionis (a gleeful Ewan McGregor).
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SK: Ohhhhh, give Messica her own show: "I'm not actually sorry" is incredible, supervillain stuff.
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So, yeah, Calix Nikolos really is as bad as his supervillain-y name would suggest.
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It&aposs full of car chases, suave suits, shootouts, and, of course, a supervillain monologue.
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On March 6, the world's supervillain, Russia, was accused of committing war crimes in Syria.
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If there was a supervillain in his story, it was that other Green Goblin, dollar bills!
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Luthor creates a supervillain known as Doomsday who Superman and Batman have to go up against.
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They don't have Luke Cage #1163, the first appearance of supervillain and Cage nemesis Black Mariah.
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Do you remember that giant Boeing 737 engine that was turned into the ultimate supervillain chair?
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Sinister Six is a supervillain team that has frequently clashed with Spider-Man in the comics.
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Moreover, no one who self-styles as an 'Internet supervillain' should be taken at face value.
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In Ultron, the supervillain buys vibranium from Klaue and uses it to create a doomsday device.
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Together, the four of them deliver the first real supervillain team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Everyone out there has the potential to be in service of a nefarious post-apocalyptic supervillain.
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The supervillain understands empathy and all the honesty of the world, they just don't like it.
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At this point, you might be thinking we're in the middle of Ward's supervillain origin story.
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The Predator Orion 73 embraces its supervillain-Sith-Lord look, and pulls it off with style.
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Even Doctor Doom, a Marvel supervillain, has called the Invisible Girl the foursome's most powerful teammate.
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He plays a journalist who becomes a supervillain (albeit one with less villainous tendencies than most).
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Elon Musk welcomed comparisons between himself and the "Simpsons" supervillain Hank Scorpio on Twitter on Wednesday.
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Still, he was probably expecting to reclaim the role of supervillain in a semifinal against Federer.
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Still, he was probably expecting to reclaim the role of supervillain in a semifinal against Federer.
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But Jessica and Trish land somewhere in between, since both have consciously chosen to kill a supervillain.
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What Really Happened: It's been a while since we last checked in with cartoon supervillain Martin Shkreli.
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Jeff Bezos, Aspiring Supervillain, Tests Out Gigantic Robot SuitWhat would you do if you were a billionaire?
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Thanos (Josh Brolin), the supervillain that the Avengers keep having to deal with, looks a little different.
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" The Daily Dot interviewed a tightlacer named Kelly Lee Dekay, who describes herself as "self-made supervillain.
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Marvel hasn't even introduced the idea of a Skrull who might be bad, let alone a supervillain.
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Thanos is the easiest supervillain to counter, since he is (appropriately) only half-correct in his worldview.
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Encounters The 32-year-old actor lands his biggest role yet, playing Black Manta, the underwater supervillain.
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She was first introduced in the Detective Comics arc in 2009 as a supervillain known as Alice.
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Of the three people on this list, Musk is probably the least likely to become a supervillain.
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And he could pour billions into developing supervillain tech and not make a dent in his savings.
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There is a fairly standard-issue supervillain in the new Shazam movie, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).
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The supervillain movie is the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, with over $1 billion earned worldwide.
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The idea is to create a buggy foil to Spider-Man, but instead Gargan ends up a supervillain.
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At one point Chimera is called an "anti-vigilante vigilante," which is a roundabout way of saying supervillain.
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The Avengers are back to take on Josh Brolin's supervillain Thanos in the latest trailer for Avengers: Endgame.
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He also has some sage advice for Arie, who is poised to become the supervillain of Bachelor Nation.
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Isolated on the West Coast, these kids don't have any superheroes to rescue them from their supervillain parents.
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The outlet previously reported Christopher Waltz will be reprising his role as the supervillain Blofeld in the movie.
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One meme compared Gillett to Thanos, the Marvel supervillain that makes half the universe disappear with a snap.
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There is one supervillain who is no longer welcome at New York Comic Con: the dreaded Ticket Scalper.
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Corporate lobbies are done up in billionaire-supervillain décor: pyramid-block walls, skeletonic hanging globes, gold-dusk lighting.
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Fans also get their first peek at the supervillain Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), familiar from "Daredevil" and other comics.
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Priyanka Chopra is the resident supervillain, a drug dealer whose aspirations of real estate moguldom threaten the Bay.
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You will, as promised, get to witness the devolution of a troubled man into a full-fledged supervillain.
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The doctor later became a later a member of the supervillain team Starforce where she worked as a sniper.
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In the comics, he's a supervillain who can control lightning with his trident and create tsunamis with his helmet.
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Irons maintains a perfect level of calm that belies this character's status as some kind of truly absurd supervillain.
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After Summer annihilates the car of Fury Road's supervillain, Immortan Joe, he drags his legless body across the desert.
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And there are tons and tons of blandsome white superhero (and supervillain) dudes to choose from in the comics.
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The YouTuber James "Greg" Jackson, better known by his online persona Onision, has rapidly devolved into the platform's supervillain.
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Rewind The newly restored "Filibus," with a cross-dressing female supervillain, has a weeklong run at Anthology Film Archives.
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He's all ruthless efficiency and controlled intensity, but his real secret weapon as a supervillain is his tragic backstory.
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She luxuriates rhetorically over her haters like some sort of couture supervillain before dipping to collect that next stack.
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"We're not completely closed," said Snyder, in response to a question about whether the supervillain has been cast yet.
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That win also had the side effect of turning the progressive Ocasio-Cortez into the conservative right's favorite supervillain.
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You're a rich orphan with a trick jalopy who can't tell the difference between a supervillain and a boat.
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In "Joker," the supervillain played by Joaquin Phoenix dances down a stairwell in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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We did get some supervillain in the sense of Dark Jem and stuff, but there's not a lot of action.
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So, yes, originally Elsa was an evil supervillain because a guy dumped her (I guess she couldn't … let it go!).
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A powerful supervillain calls for a powerful weapon, even when you're talking about real world enemies like antibiotic resistant bacteria.
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Silver Sable is a highly skilled mercenary and CEO who specializes in hunting down war criminals and the occasional supervillain.
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But he's no stranger to mainstream fare, too: Dafoe played supervillain Norman Osborne in the 2002 reboot of Spider-Man.
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Or perhaps Iron Fist could take Danny in a darker direction, and turn him into an out-and-out supervillain.
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The superhero and the supervillain fight, scheme, and bluster, and one gains dominance while the other slinks away, thwarted again.
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Plus, the sexy nose and side pieces ensures no light sneaks in and also make you look like a supervillain.
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Every good supervillain has an origin story, and Stone's reputation as a dirty trickster was birthed in the Watergate scandal.
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It obviously isn't Bale's first rodeo where superhero films are concerned, but it is his first time playing a supervillain.
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In the middle of the final supervillain battle, Gru rescues Margo, Edith, and Agnes from his enemy, Vector (Jason Segel).
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In it, a family of superheroes must come together to save the world, and each other, from the supervillain Syndrome.
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In the "Avengers" franchise, superheroes struggle to prevent a supervillain from wiping out half of all life in the universe.
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To drive the point home, Ghost adds clips of 1960s movies and television shows like Batman, demonstrating classic supervillain responses.
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Not so long ago, the surest sign that you are extremely rich and/or a supervillain was access to a helicopter.
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But taking on the crime lord supervillain known as Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) gets in the way of their rescue mission.
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"Deadpool," about a supervillain who suits up like a superhero, is the latest film based on a Marvel comic-book character.
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The film ends with the family about to square off against a mole-like, tunneling supervillain who calls himself the Underminer.
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But hey, we already told you: Elon Musk is the craziest ultra-rich, would-be supervillain in the whole wide world.
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But it is possible — it just takes guts, grit, and a scrappiness that even the film's supervillain admits he's impressed by.
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If the camera had continued pulling back to reveal a white persian cat on her lap, we'd have won supervillain bingo.
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Or we could unpack that family tree — although Maximoff was raised by adoptive Romani parents, she's the daughter of supervillain Magneto.
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" The alt-right leader was an editor at the right-wing Breitbart website and a self-described "supervillain of the internet.
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Supervillain-in-training Joe (Pace) wasn't the visionary he thought he was, and it was fascinating to watch him realize that.
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They want, in short, to feel a specific set of emotions that they don't get from the usual superhero/supervillain fights.
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Watched in a certain light, Doctor Strange might actually be the closest Marvel has come to making a supervillain-centric movie.
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He thinks of himself as a supervillain in the vein of Darth Vader, but possesses none of the terrifying, engrossing evil.
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The story will shed more light on the character's past and that of his father, Zheng Zhu, who is a supervillain.
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In "Endgame," survivors including Iron Man, the Hulk and Black Widow plot to kill the supervillain Thanos and undo his damage.
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"I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie," he told the podcast's host, Lewis Howes.
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And for many people, the role of a clown as supervillain bolsters a long-held conviction that double-faced clowns are evil.
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Building didn't help too much against the supervillain either, and yet you still needed materials to fend off late-stage human opponents.
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The attempt to redeem Jeri is no more successful than the soap-opera-style plots foisted on the supervillain parents in Runaways.
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Here, we continue with October, which starts prestige season in earnest but leaves room for a supervillain and the inevitable Halloween horror.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: YouTube / The Boring CompanyWho's the craziest ultra-rich, would-be supervillain in the whole wide world?
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The 44-year-old actor brings the DC supervillain to life in the first trailer for the Todd Phillips-directed origin story.
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Gavin O'Connor is in final negotiations to write and direct the sequel to Warner Bros.' all-star supervillain flick, EW has confirmed.
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The 62-year-old actor is reprising his role as the supervillain Blofeld in Daniel Craig's upcoming Bond 25, according to Variety.
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What it means: For starters, it sure looks like we'll see Mac return as the classic Spidey supervillain known as the Scorpion.
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Seventh Hargreeves sibling Vanya (Ellen Page) — formerly believed to be the "ordinary" one — is revealed to be a supervillain in the making.
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Cage fled Hell's Kitchen after an attack from the supervillain known as Kilgrave, and Luke Cage picks up a few months later.
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But it's incredible that they don't seem to fully realize what they're doing when they crank Maeve's stats up to supervillain levels.
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What better way to get revenge on your ex than by blowing up the place where they were turned into a supervillain?
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Tom Hardy had some sort of angst for some sort of reason that vaguely had to do with the supervillain-ish Venom.
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In several incarnations — most notably, her foray into video games — Harley has been a true supervillain, maiming and killing with unbridled glee.
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You sound smart and cunning, like you're capable of being a mastermind supervillain, but choose instead to use your powers for good.
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The intrusion drives Cale to go into supervillain mode, methodically destroying Sean's life while continuing to toy with the woman he's kidnapped.
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Todd Phillips's supervillain origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix is stirring up a fierce debate, but it's not interesting enough to argue about.
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" Ghost replies to this with a pause and then open amusement, saying, "Yo man, you hilarious man ... you a fake-ass supervillain.
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Gotham It's impossible to tell if the introduction of supervillain Mr. Freeze is exciting or terrible or exciting in a terrible way.
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She usually ends up sounding like an unusually affable supervillain, which is still far more compelling than the sneering, stereotypically arrogant Templar leaders.
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The Tesla founder, after all, must have known that this carrot-topped blood sausage was a climate change denier and Hollywood-ready supervillain.
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Plus, Kendrick is trying to make the world a better place ultimately, and a really good supervillain just wants to blow shit up.
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The Very Bad No Good Large Hadron ColliderWe'll admit it: Smacking subatomic particles together in an underground complex does seem like supervillain behavior.
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R.B. So Old Taylor wasn't dead, just hiding inside the revenge-seeking, man-eating dubstep supervillain character we saw on most of reputation.
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The host and head-knifemaker on the Kiwami Japan channel is either the world's most extraordinary hobbyist or its wiliest supervillain—or both.
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It also features supervillain Thanos, who has lurked in the shadows of brief post-credit scenes and cameos for the last six years.
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Unlike classic platformers that drag you through levels to rescue the kidnapped princess or to foil a supervillain, Celeste's motives are purely internal.
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That idea figures heavily into this series, in which a group of super-teenagers unite to save the world from their supervillain parents.
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The Times's Rebecca Liebson writes: As the comic-book supervillain the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix danced down the long, grimy staircase like a madman.
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Fans of the supervillain comic group Suicide Squad may have welcomed the first film adaptation because of the sheer scope of the cast.
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Laugh, and then go see a supervillain origin story that may be the weightiest awards entry of them all — why so serious, indeed.
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But Elastigirl is the center of attention now, facing off against a mysterious new supervillain and, dare we say, stretching herself a bit?
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On Silicon Valley, we have disgraced Hooli co-founder Gavin Belson serving as a stand-in for every egomaniacal supervillain in the tech industry.
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Then came the game's first one-time-only event, when a rocket launched from a supervillain lair, creating a dimensional rift in the sky.
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Despite playing the Church's holiest supervillain in HBO's The Young Pope, Law was unprepared for how easily the show could be turned into memes.
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That was enough for the supervillain tentpole to top the $300 million mark on Monday, making it the eighth 2016 title to do so.
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Suicide Squad should've been about a team of villains teaming up to take on a supervillain, the biggest baddie of them all — the Joker.
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We're already living through a slow-motion Thanos snap — no supervillain required As extreme as that sounds, the Half-Earth Project is for real.
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Early this month, Fox was criticized for "X-Men: Apocalypse" billboards that depicted a female supervillain being choked, an image some saw as misogynistic.
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True Blood and Magic Mike star Joe Manganiello has been cast to play the main supervillain Deathstroke in Warner Bros.' upcoming solo Batman movie.
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Expect cars exploding out of buildings, helicopters chained Dwayne Johnson's muscles, a superhuman supervillain played by Idris Elba, and a bromance for the ages.
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The original Mysterio's real name is Quentin Beck, a special effects creator and stuntman in Hollywood who becomes a supervillain who specializes in illusions.
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"Joker" is a supervillain origin story, involving a character whose big-screen résumé already includes three Oscar winners (two for other roles, but still).
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Joaquin Phoenix's dark supervillain drama Joker is under fire once again, this time for its use of a song by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter.
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You don't need any familiarity with Batman lore to dig this inventive, nervy cartoon about the aspiring supervillain Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco).
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He seems to have taken it upon himself to become the platform&aposs supervillain, and is repeatedly called out by creators for his behavior.
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You play as a secret agent tasked with various missions in order to defeat a billionaire supervillain — all while avoiding impending death, of course.
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Joker was designed to be darker, even meaner, than Christopher Nolan's Batman classic, a turbocharged supervillain story where there's no hero to save anyone.
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"I used to think that my life was a tragedy," says Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in the teaser for "Joker," the forthcoming supervillain movie.
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Plus, Scorsese's also got a hand in the movie, so all signs point to some kind of gritty, supervillain version of King of Comedy.
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In "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the supervillain levitated an entire city, in order to — this was never really explained, which perhaps was just as well.
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In the original, director Ed Boon (Mortal Kombat) and his studio, NetherRealm, turned comic books' most enduring icon of Good into a full-blown supervillain.
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He concocted the elixir of life, which a certain supervillain was desperate to get his claws on during Harry Potter's very first year at Hogwarts.
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Yiannopoulos, who had 338,000 followers and a Twitter bio that called him "The most fabulous supervillain on the internet," was one of the main instigators.
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The twist is that one of those personalities is a wall-scaling savage called The Beast, which means that Kevin is a bona fide supervillain.
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But those good vibes are tempered by James McAvoy's performance as... well, as a lot of disturbing characters, including a supervillain known as The Beast.
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Post-film discussion points for argumentative families: Who's the real supervillain in this movie, Mads "Eyeshadow On Fleek" Mikkelson, or Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange himself?
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Spider-Man, an intellectual, counters with an early scene where it seems like everything's going wrong and a supervillain will be born, but nothing happens.
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Betrayal, Evan Ratliff, who dug into the case in a series at the Atavist magazine, explores the incredible story of the programmer-turned-criminal supervillain.
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One woman, dressed as Thanos, the Marvel supervillain, told me that she got into comics after her parents died, since fantasy heroes are often orphans.
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He is a glowering supervillain in "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," facing off with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart for ownership of a mystical jewel.
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"Parks and Recreation" veteran Ben Schwartz gives voice to Sonic, and Jim Carrey gets back to his cartoonish roots as the mustachioed supervillain Dr. Robotnik.
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The scene between Laurie Blake and Jane Crawford is a classic supervillain heel turn, complete with the trap door that opens up beneath Blake's chair.
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He's the only MCU supervillain who's as fully developed as the MCU superheroes – and with his sad tale of familial angst, he's almost as sympathetic.
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Jokes and bullets are tossed like confetti in "Deadpool," a feverishly eager-to-please comic-book movie about a supervillain who suits up like a superhero.
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I mean, when your incoming president plagiarizes a comic book supervillain in his inauguration speech, it's tough not to feel like the apocalypse is at hand.
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It's a remix of Universal's summer 2010 film Despicable Me, the story of a wannabe supervillain named Gru who ends up inadvertently adopting three young girls.
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Runaways, which premieres on November 21, focuses on a group of teenagers who discovers their parents are all members of a supervillain team called the Pride.
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The fact that Peter is also Spider-Man is practically a convenience for Adrian, who gets to give a dad talk and a supervillain rant simultaneously.
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For example, when her teacher, Toyo Harada, turns out to be (spoiler alert) something of a supervillain, Livewire still knows what is inherently right and wrong.
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Dru wants to be a supervillain just like their father was, but has no idea that Gru has already tried and given up on that life.
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Margot Robbie stars as the DC Comics supervillain in a stand-alone title in which she and her female crew take on Black Mask (Ewan McGregor).
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Still, danger could lurk ahead -- not in the form of a supervillain, but rather a hunger for content that will test Marvel's thus-far formidable limits.
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The self-declared "most fabulous supervillain on the internet" has built a following — and a career — going after women, transgender people, Muslims, immigrants, and other vulnerable communities.
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And if that's not enough to wash off his stink (it's not for us, frankly), they're also tossing in Javier Bardem in full-on supernatural supervillain mode.
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Shkreli was never the aloof supervillain he so frequently postured as, and the only true threat he represented was to our collective patience through incessant attention-seeking.
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The actor, who reprises his role as supervillain Kylo Ren in the famous franchise, isn't sure if he's ready to sit down and review his latest work.
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Clark Kent (Tom Welling) becomes suspicious about how fast A.C. can swim, and investigates to determine whether he's some kind of supervillain with nefarious plans for Smallville.
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Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix will play the legendary supervillain in the upcoming Warner Bros Joker origin story set in the '80s, to be released on Oct.
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Clocking in at around 45 minutes, Kamikaze contains 13 tracks — including the song "Venom," written for the upcoming Tom Hardy-led supervillain movie of the same name.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood stars Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy reprise their roles as powerful mutants in "X-Men: Apocalypse", this time joining forces against a new supervillain.
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In both versions as well, she was murdered shortly after the wedding by the supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the mastermind of SPECTRE, and his consort, Irma Bunt.
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Clocking in at around 23 minutes, Kamikaze contains 13 tracks — including the song "Venom," written for the upcoming Tom Hardy-led supervillain movie of the same name.
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The supervillain team-up film tumbled nearly 70 percent at the domestic box office in its second weekend, and experienced similar erosion at the international ticket counter.
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Should Marvel's parent company, Disney, create a character based on the North Korean supervillain, Disney could keep itself running for decades with sequels, prequels and pre-prequels.
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Wiseau chews the scenery a bit more than Heath Ledger did in the original, but his take on the iconic supervillain is no less twisted and weird.
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Birds of Prey, which sees Margot Robbie returning to shine as the mischievous supervillain, follows Harley Quinn's story after her breakup with Jared Leto's Suicide Squad Joker.
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The absence of nuance on the Russia question — the embrace of Russia as America's new-old supervillain — is probably best understood as a symptom of that sickness.
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Andrew Das: As soccer supervillain feats go, Diego Costa scoring on a deflection off his knee to break Iran's hearts is right up there near the top.
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"Martin Shkreli has become a supervillain that everybody loves to hate - but he's a product of a broken system," says Tabitha Ha, coordinator of Youth Stop AIDS.
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Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson are taking their relationship to the next level and we've got the supervillain selfies and bakery trips with Moms to prove it.
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"The Affair," as divorced from reality (see what I did there?) as you may find it, can't just gin up a new election or supervillain or mystery.
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Led by creator Melissa Rosenberg, it revolved around a PTSD-suffering, borderline alcoholic PI facing down her rapist, a supervillain who could control his victims' thoughts and actions.
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And both of them are aligned against Cambridge Analytica executives who protest that they've done nothing untoward, despite bragging in private about their supervillain-esque powers of manipulation.
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Legion creator Noah Hawley announced at San Diego Comic-Con that he's working on a film involving Fantastic Four nemesis (and the greatest supervillain ever created) Doctor Doom.
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Because Roman, the lone Savior survivor from last week, caught up to her, too, before channeling his inner Bond supervillain by devising a pointlessly convoluted means of execution.
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A former Breitbart editor and a self-proclaimed "Internet supervillain," he was known less for his arguments than for his combative one-liners and protean, peroxide-blond hair.
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"The basic idea that his father is a supervillain is still there; we don't want to overturn that, but we do want to add some nuance," Yang said.
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Mr. Bethel, wearing maroon warm-up gear and a backward baseball cap, lolloped easy volleys to Mr. Mickiewicz, who was dressed all in black like a sporty supervillain.
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Never mind the hoops a movie about a female supervillain would have to jump through to get made — like Gotham City Sirens, what would have been Warner Bros.
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Model PPK Rubber Band Gun See Details The Model 1911 rubber band gun, on the other hand, might have a slightly better chance of taking down a supervillain.
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The "Fast & Furious" franchise has grown beyond its car-chase roots, and this latest installment adds a sci-fi twist, as Idris Elba plays a genetically engineered supervillain.
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But Runaways kicks all that up a notch, because these teens have powers (and/or gadgets that give them powers), and those wicked adults are their supervillain parents.
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On Friday, Pixar released a second Incredibles 2 trailer, and this time around, it centers on Elastigirl's new quest—and the freaky-ass supervillain she's going up against, Screenslaver.
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The accusation: This one may be the most difficult to buy without assuming Clinton is a comic book supervillain, but I'll give it the most generous explanation I can.
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Davis's heartless, airless delivery really brought the character to life — making her more menacing than any of Suicide Squad's supervillains and perhaps making her the supervillain of the movie.
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When he's enticed back into the world of heroics with the emergence of a new supervillain named Syndrome, the whole family dons their new outfits to save the world.
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Steve lost and mourned Bucky in the years he thought he was dead, and Steve's emotional reaction to finding out he is both alive and a supervillain is wrenching.
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In the comics, she is seduced and manipulated by the supervillain Mastermind; in Dark Phoenix, it looks like Jessica Chastain is pulling the strings as a potential new character.
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Quinn, once an unstoppable force who would make an excellent comic book supervillain, finds herself on thin ice with a furious network that doesn't want any more backstage drama.
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As adepts know, however, Magneto is destined for major supervillainy, and in the logic of supervillain character development, a mere tragic separation from one's family just doesn't cut it.
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Favorite Will/Joel clues: "1,000 or 1,000,000" for CUBE, "Soaring expense?" for AIRFARE, "One who's green after seeing red" for THE HULK and "Feeling toward a supervillain" for ODIUM.
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Release date: January 14, 2022The comic was published in a graphic novel in 2015 and centers on Nimona, a shapeshifter who also works as a sidekick to a supervillain.
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The standout sequence in Homecoming is the one where Peter endures a tense car ride with his girlfriend's supervillain dad, which cleverly blends high school stakes with superhero stakes.
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Since first appearing on our screens in 2018, our anti-hero/supervillain (it changes based on how you look at him) has become notorious for his nonstop internal dialogue.
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The Colorado sales representative spent the better part of 2019 being branded the supervillain of Bachelor in Paradise after finding himself in the center of a the island's drama.
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It's a clash that feels as if it belongs as much to myth as it does to any blockbuster movie with a young hero facing off against a supervillain.
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If anything, we just got our first look at the beginning of Kelsey's origin story as the supervillain of Peter's season, courtesy of a very special bottle of bubbly.
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The original Civil War was about the fallout after a group of young, inexperienced superheroes accidentally made a supervillain explode next to an elementary school, killing hundreds of children.
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It's hard for a supervillain to shine when their greatest enemy, the superhero who defines them and vice-versa, has been recently vaporized by an Infinity Gauntlet-wearing mad titan.
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In one of the most memorable sequences, Ledger points the camera at his own face as he wanders through a hallway, whispering improvised dialogue about a supervillain chasing after him.
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After the world-changing events of the first Injustice game, Tuesday's trailer gives players some nuggets to look forward to, including the introduction of the supervillain Brainiac into the series.
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It also doubles down on Gru, the supervillain-turned-family-man voiced by Steve Carell – it turns out he's got a long-lost twin brother, Dru, also voiced by Carell.
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Up to that point, 503 was still coasting off of the gangstafied, thug supervillain stronghold he'd had since breaking out with 2003's instant classic, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
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The story follows the Circumcised Crusader as he grapples with amnesia and tries to solve the Joker's murder—and no, the culprit isn't Tommy Wiseau's awful impression of the supervillain.
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That puts the dark supervillain origin story -- starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips -- close to the $250 million mark in North America, with ticket sales hitting $247 million.
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On Tuesday, a Trump 2020 Twitter account posted a clip from Endgame that turned the president, 73, into the purple-skinned genocidal maniac Thanos — aka the supervillain, who is defeated.
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But for all the stupid things Zuckerberg has done or allowed to happen, it's just that, bless his heart, he just doesn't have what it takes to become a supervillain.
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Watchmen in all its forms has argued that having too much money is its own kind of superpower, but also that having too much money functionally makes you a supervillain.
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Earlier, she performed "Money" dressed in purple and black like a supervillain, while dancers around her moved and spread their legs in synchronous motion like a bawdy Busby Berkeley sequence.
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In Penn's telling, the US portrays El Chapo as some sort of drug-peddling supervillain, when in fact the drug war is driven more by American demand than Mexican supply.
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The classic DC supervillain may have a bigger role than we've previously thought, based on how much she's on display here: Dotor Poison once ... Doctor Poison twice ... Doctor Poison THREE TIMES?
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And while the film itself is a misshapen cake slathered with Funfetti frosting, it makes an excellent case for Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn as a star supervillain in her own right.
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MODOK: Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. centers around an egomaniacal supervillain with a really big head and a really little body, who struggles to maintain control of his evil organization and his demanding family.
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It says a lot about Tesla's brand (and the allure of maybe-supervillain Elon Musk) that the mere promise of a new car was enough to get the dollars rolling in.
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And in this interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner and creator Noah Hawley seems interested less in the idea of David's villainy than in him as a sort of supervillain Walter White.
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Yiannopoulos, an editor at Breitbart and self-described "supervillain of the internet," was widely criticized for using his large Twitter following to troll and incite people against different groups of people.
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In the clip above, Michael B. Jordan and Cobie Smulders reach out to our favourite supervillain after Jimmy Fallon barges into their dressing room to talk about his new frying pan.
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Case in point: Just this week Twitter finally fell into the trap of the Internet's most self-aggrandizing troll — the self-styled "supervillain" Milo Yiannopoulos — by kicking him off its platform.
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As you remember, Romanoff was killed off in Avengers: Endgame last summer, sacrificing herself in exchange for the all-important soul stone in a last ditch effort against intergalactic supervillain Thanos.
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Todd Phillips' standalone supervillain origin story Joker is arriving in theaters amid so much controversy and concern about the potential for copycat violence that the debate has largely overwhelmed the film itself.
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Strange's girlfriend disapproved, presumably because writer Steve Engleheart was looking for drama.) Eventually, more conventional heroes joined up as well, including Hawkeye (briefly) and Nighthawk, a former supervillain transparently modeled on Batman.
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Momoa also debuted the first look at the standalone "Aquaman" movie, and revealed the aquatic superhero will be battling his brother, the supervillain Ocean Master, in the film due out next year.
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That's what always happens when you mess with the fabric of space-time — come on, team, this is 101-level stuff here — even when you aren't trusting a supervillain in the process.
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And notably, Homecoming's post-credits scene featured an imprisoned Mac Gargan — the human behind Spidey supervillain, Scorpion — hinting at friends on the outside who have a bone to pick with Spider-Man.
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As an executive producer on "Marvel's Hero Project," a new Disney+ docuseries about youths influencing positive change in their communities, she'd need the steely heart of a supervillain to avoid tearing up.
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A group of scientists from the University of Turku in Finland have discovered a new species of wasp, and it is basically a tiny supervillain that sports an almost comically massive stinger.
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This is why underdogs work so well in children's literature, where, to the target readership, everything from a school bully to a burdensome homework assignment can feel as overwhelming as a supervillain.
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He can rewrite the record in Russia, but the West does not have to contribute to his mythmaking — and we should stop building him up by portraying him as a virtual supervillain.
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Even though Batman and Superman exist in this universe and are referenced multiple times, Billy needs to be a hero in order to save the world from a supervillain menace, starting with Philadelphia.
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The Rise of Gru unsurprisingly tells the story of Gru's early years as a cute and tiny aspiring supervillain who is trying to prove his evil-ness to a group of gatekeeping adults.
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The first episode, called "Tangled Up in Blue," opens with the team responding a distress beacon from the Nova Corps — essentially a police force in space — after an attack from the supervillain Thanos.
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On May 8th an Avengers: Infinity War crossover event kicked off, which let players grab a hold of the Infinity Gauntlet and turn into Marvel supervillain Thanos, complete with his awesome, destructive powers.
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Adam Strange tells Seg that the Superman of our contemporary time period sent him to save Krypton from Brainiac, the supervillain who famously shrunk Kandor and added it to his collection of cities.
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Bezos, much like his fellow tech billionaires, seems to be on the fast track to supervillain status before we're all inevitably annihilated in a nuclear war started by one of Trump's butt-tweets.
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Until then, watch this weird promo video of Rami Malek talking about his new role, and marvel at how it's taken this long for people to realize that he'd make the perfect supervillain.
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Even better, the scenes where Peter has to deal with his girlfriend's pissed-off dad — who just so happens to be a supervillain — are probably the film's high point, no special effects needed.
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Fights finished in heartbeats—onto the next, via another surreal cutscene where a special police officer from the Resident Evil series is trying to break a supervillain superbeing out of a supernatural prison.
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MIKE: The musical numbers were a slight improvement from, say, Mike Bloomberg as Spider-Man, although a few of the groanier gag lines (Les Moonves as the supervillain Lex Moonves?) felt downright municipal.
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Flashbacks show us the young Tom (Michael Jayne Walker) as a college student in the 1980s, wooing Oriel, who in her nightmares is stalked by a chisel-cheeked supervillain (Brian Charles Rooney). Confused?
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"Real rapists rarely monologue," one of them remarks dryly about the third season's college rapist and his supervillain-ish explanation for why he's assaulted and shaved the heads of at least five strangers.
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Musk has frequently been the subject of jokes about secretly being a supervillain thanks to his innovative, often wacky devices and gadgets, such as the Not-a-Flamethrower and the new Tesla Cybertruck.
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The supervillain origin movie thumbed its nose at critics when it scored a record-breaking opening weekend at the box office in October and became the highest-grossing R-rated movie to date.
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Confronted with Donald Trump's seemingly impossible victory (well, "victory" — Electoral College and all that), some pundits decided the best explanation was that the guy running his campaign was a genius supervillain all along.
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Marvin -- who portrays the supervillain Tobias Whale on the hit CW show -- says the crisis hasn't gotten enough of the world's attention and wants the U.S. to lead the charge and bring change.
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" The Oscar-winning actress said on CBS&apos "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday that there&aposs not much that&aposs funny to say about "someone you were friends with becoming a supervillain.
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The internet duo Fine Bros managed to briefly steal Donald Trump's mantle as the most-hated thing on the internet last week, when they revealed supervillain-style their plan to trademark the word "React".
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They were played, effectively, as the Nick and Nora Charles of comics — until the very controversial storyline 2004 miniseries "Identity Crisis," in which Sue was brutally murdered by the previously laughable supervillain Doctor Light.
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The heightened stakes of the movie's main plot — complete with a dangerous, '80s-themed supervillain who wants to destroy the world — make that sentiment as literal as saving your children from a collapsing building.
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Could it be the supervillain of the Italian silent feature "Filibus," a prankish, technology-savvy jewel thief who repeatedly confounds a famous detective and, also a master of disguise, is in fact a woman?
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But if you consider the larger social context of turning "a supervillain into a kind of folk hero" in a world where Dylann Roof, Elliot Rodger, and Faisal Hussain exist, it's even more distressing.
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There's also a ham-fisted plot in which Idris Elba's Macavity—a supervillain cat modeled on Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty—kidnaps the featured cats one by one in his own attempt to earn reincarnation.
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Toward the end of the graphic novel, Laurie finds out that she's the daughter of Eddie Blake, also known as the supervillain, The Comedian, and the man who tried to rape her mother Sally.
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And that means much depends on how well government recruiters can convince the best engineers that being locked in a high-stakes competition with supervillain-esque adversaries is more exciting than working in Silicon Valley.
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The first idea would be a more straightforward sequel, with the late Apollo Creed's son, Adonis (played by Michael B. Jordan) taking on a Drago-like Slavic supervillain in a very Rocky IV-like adventure.
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The movie gathers all of the franchise's heroes as they work to stop Thanos, a supervillain who is working to collect the Infinity Stones, artifacts that could grant him infinite power to control the galaxy.
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The movie, which begins its worldwide rollout on Wednesday, brings together more than 20 superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Black Widow and Black Panther for an all-out battle with supervillain Thanos.
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Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka had an enormous pair of Sharpie-scribbled Converse to step into with their reboot of Runaways, the fan-favorite 2000s comic about a crew of superpowered teens with supervillain parents.
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PICS: AUSTRIA BUILDING JAMES BOND MUSEUM DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE SUPERVILLAIN LAIR Ian's dad later uploaded the footage to Facebook, where it has since been viewed more than 340,000 times and shared over 8,000 times.
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In quick succession, we learn a bizarro fictional chemical created budding supervillain Amber (Ellie Duckles), Alex (Rosie Dwyer) gets pulled into Amber's thrall, and hero Mia (Lisa Ambalavanar) is nearly flung off of a cliff.
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"Joker" earned 11 Oscar nominations for 2020, making the supervillain origin story the most-nominated film of the year — but it&aposs far from the first of its kind to be nominated for major awards.
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By the time Jessica faced off with the season's main supervillain, their encounter didn't nearly have as much potency as it would have if the season had run for only eight episodes instead of 13.
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This time, it was Breitbart writer and self-anointed "supervillain of the Internet" Milo Yiannopoulos, whom the company finally banned after he stoked his followers into flooding Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones with hateful and racist messages.
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What we don't get in the scene is what will most importantly shape Spidey's future — the answer to what kind of supervillain will emerge in this climate of the neighborhood turning on their friendly Spider-Man.
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In the Avengers x Justice League crossover of our dreams, these notorious competitors crossed party lines to defeat the internet's biggest supervillain: trolls hell bent on keeping women and people of color out of comic books.
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Last month, the shoemaker's supervillain-sounding investment wing Hydra Ventures helped the Bay Area-based company close a $200 million Series D, and now Adidas' Executive Board Member Eric Liedtke is joining Carbon's Board of Directors.
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Variety's report refers to Robbie's Harley as a "crazed supervillain," which is accurate, but also means this news of a movie based on an all-female superhero team is leading with the reveal of the villain.
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The latest trailer picks up after the death of Superman from last year's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and shows Batman and Wonder Woman joined by the Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman to fight supervillain Steppenwolf.
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Lots of bad people (or people who do bad things) still love their kids, and I like that we get to see the supervillain families up and down the spectrum of both evil and parental love.
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Todd VanDerWerff: Last May, as Game of Thrones' fifth season approached its end, our own Zack Beauchamp opined that the series had turned Ramsay Bolton into an unstoppable supervillain, and it was hurting the whole show.
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Read more: Aston Martin just launched a new service to help owners turn their bespoke homes into personalized supervillain-like 'Automotive Lairs'The property also includes access to Juniper Creek, Pond Creek, and bunches of longleaf pines.
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It confirmed a lot of Russian stereotypes from both the Cold War and bad 1980s movies and video games, in which the Red Menace was always a cartoonish supervillain, playing unfair and bent on world domination.
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The Fox News commentator Glenn Beck once called him a "puppet master" who controls a malevolent liberal machine, and in recent years, references to Soros as a global supervillain have become commonplace on conservative media outlets.
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Where to stream it: Netflix Leading this year's pack of Oscar movies with 11 nominations is Joker, Todd Phillips' subversive supervillain origin story that gives us the deepest, bleakest backstory yet on Batman's most notorious enemy.
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Add a few songs, and it could be from "Meet Me in St. Louis," except for the supervillain tearing up the train tracks and the superhero — an actual DC character, Crimson Fox — who saves the day.
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The umbrella of the title refers, of course, to the Penguin's signature prop, which we see him carrying in the opening scene while flanked by two new flunkies, signaling his continuing evolution toward his supervillain destiny.
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The end of the film makes Kevin out to be a literal supervillain and dubs him "the Horde" — an appropriate fate, considering how intent Shyamalan seems on divorcing the character from the vulnerability that makes him compelling.
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Microsoft's days as a tech supervillain are a distant memory, dating back to the 2000s when 2300 states, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, assembled like Voltron to take the tech company down for violating antitrust law.
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It is an article of faith among President Trump's most ardent detractors that he is a corrupt blowhard catapulted to the office by a devious intelligence operation ordered up by America's supervillain, the Russian president Vladimir V. Putin.
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"I pay $15 a month for Netflix, $10 a month for Hulu and I play more "Fortnite" than I do either Netflix or Hulu," says Hickey, who sometimes sports the skin of a plant-based supervillain named Flytrap.
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He's joined by Jane Crawford and several pews full of witnesses and Seventh Kavalry goons, but from the moment Keene Jr. strips down to his skivvies and delivers his supervillain speech, it's clear that his comeuppance is nigh.
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On the surface, the Pride appears to be a "community outreach program that focuses on helping troubled youth," but the teens discover the truth; The Pride is actually a supervillain organization, where murder is just part of the business.
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When Charlie realizes this "favor" might involve helping the supervillain kill Commissioner Gordon and a room full of cops, he tries to figure out how to warn Batman — and how to convince the Caped Crusader he's just a patsy.
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He is a cartoon supervillain with silver eyes, black kimono-style pyjamas, and a habit of striding around his painfully chic but impractical lair, reciting his plans to a sidekick who must have heard them a thousand times before.
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While Gotham surely enjoyed the fan reaction to the possibility of a gay supervillain couple, the writing took the star-crossed romance only up to the point where Penguin confessed his love to The Riddler only to be rejected.
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All the modern day Internet 'supervillain' (or social justice warrior/SJW, if you prefer) has to do is pout out their call to action, which will disseminate onto sympathetic fellow forums, and watch as their adoring fans pile in.
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It's been a few years since Mike Myers last reprised his iconic role as Dr. Evil, but it sounds like the Austin Powers supervillain has kept himself busy in the meantime—by working as a member of Trump's cabinet.
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Yes, this is the story of a pompous man who falls from grace, is given a great gift, reevaluates his life, and becomes a hero (or maybe a supervillain, if you cock your head a little to the left).
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After "Green Lantern," his 113 DC Comics dud, Ryan Reynolds goes in for career rehab as Wade Wilson, a mercenary supervillain who suits up as a superhero and then paints the screen red as he cracks wise as Deadpool.
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But I'd always return to the idea introduced in the very early portions of the film, when it was clear Stone wanted to demythologize Putin a bit — to make him less of a god-emperor and a Bond supervillain.
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There's the history, too: Despite a cruel and tragic past that included centuries of colonialism and slavery, since independence, Senegal has been a relative oasis of political stability and democracy in a region infamous for coups and supervillain dictators.
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Claire is at her best in a crisis, and watching her trade lies with Geillis as each waits for the other to tip her hand is just the sort of intensity you want between a hero and a supervillain.
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What's more, antagonizing people for trying to build a movement for a cause you know damn well is worthwhile is an exercise in a sort of supervillain-esque misanthropy which demands that your entire species join you in suicide.
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Obviously, artists and supervillains everywhere are desperate to try it out, but they can't, because artist-slash-supervillain Kapoor has been given exclusive rights to use it, hopefully because he plans to paint Cloud Gate black and ruin everyone's Chicago Instagrams.
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In fact, as Breitbart writer and self-proclaimed "supervillain of the internet" Milo Yiannopoulos stood on a stage at the small riverside gathering in Cleveland yesterday, he described political incorrectness as a sort of life mission, even a spiritual calling.
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We get to see more Cable, too, of course, at least enough for Deadpool to continue to decimate the fourth wall by calling him "Thanos," referring to Josh Brolin's other Marvel supervillain with a goofy arm thing from Avengers: Infinity War.
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Whether you're a sadboy protagonist coming out of your shell, a supervillain celebrating a particularly devious plot, or a magical chimney sweep symbolizing the working class, a good dance is an entertaining way to push character development and plot devices forward.
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But in blaming, or even hating, her — without situating her within the larger context of Silicon Valley, the demands of venture capital, and the logic of the stock market — she becomes something just as mythical as she was before: a supervillain. ●
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His opening of the famed supervillain lair "Spider-Skull Island" as a tourist attraction draws the series's main characters — including Jonas Jr.'s hack brother, Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture — as well as an array of past-their-prime costumed adventurers.
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The first scene depicts a young Erik Lehnsherr losing his parents at Auschwitz, showing the pain and firsthand experience with the very worst of humanity that led him to become Magneto, the supervillain who has most shaped the X-Men universe.
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The launch was not a surprise: Epic had been teasing it for weeks, with a countdown displayed on certain in-game TVs and a loud klaxon alarm blaring from the mountain, which was also home to an supervillain-style lair.
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Between the incessant buzz about Suicide Squad and the growing fame of actress Margot Robbie, Harley Quinn just may be the most talked-about DC Comics character of the year — or the most talked-about supervillain, at the very least.
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Speaking of that supervillain, the evil genius Sin Rostro/Rose (Bridget Regan) is back at it, somehow manipulating Luisa (Yara Martinez), Raf's sister and the doctor who inseminated Jane, via Luisa's new neighbor (played by 13 Reason's Why's Tommy Dorfman).
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The internet's supervillain, a pharmaceutical executive who is currently under investigation for securities fraud, took a brief break from the hot water he usually lives in to treat his "fans" to drinks at a Brooklyn bar after making a court appearance.
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Grimes's boyfriend and possible Bond supervillain Elon Musk took a break from launching sports cars into space, trying to colonize Mars, and fighting with small-town artists to go on Joe Rogan's podcast Thursday night, which was broadcast live on YouTube.
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The new DC Universe animated series Harley Quinn follows a similar arc; the new trailer demonstrates how the show kicks into gear once Harley (Kaley Cuoco) leaves the Joker and tries to make it as a supervillain in her own right.
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Still, this film has clearly found favor with a wide variety of academy branches, and if those voters seek to make history by launching a comic-book film into Oscar's highest echelon, Batman's great supervillain may finally be impossible to defeat.
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I wish the movie explored this more — the idea of scorn, of why Arthur Fleck is so reviled but also sympathetic, or perhaps even what makes Joker such an impossibly magnetic supervillain if Batman is one of our most beloved heroes.
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He'll also be face-to-face with two enemies — the mysterious, masked Safin (played by Oscar-winner Rami Malek), and former supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), who Bond previously opted not to kill at the end of 2015's Spectre.
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Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix's dark supervillain drama Joker is on track to earn an estimated $93.5 million at the domestic box office from Friday through Sunday, shrugging off controversy and setting a new record for the biggest October opening ever.
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Joker is an origin myth, a grim and pseudo-religious "And that little boy grew up to be …" story like Batman Begins, showing how one of life's shat-upon becomes a supervillain and a galvanizing figure for a mass movement of antisocial violence.
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Both of those aspects come into play in season 3, as he spends the first six episodes donning a simple black mask and effectively leveling up again, starting out against nameless thugs and working his way up to the season's new supervillain.
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The stones control the galaxy and in the last film of the franchise, Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos (the supervillain) acquired all of them, gaining the control of the universe and with the snap of his finger, killing half of the world's population.
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Flood says he remembers when the political left was the "champion of free speech" and is appalled at the treatment of controversial figures like alt-right social media supervillain Milo Yiannopoulos, who was ultimately kicked off of Twitter for harassing actress Leslie Jones.
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Rubio's line was meant to imply that Obama is not actually a bumbling fool who can't speak without a teleprompter—as conservatives have often portrayed him—but rather a Lex Luthor–level supervillain quickly destroying the country with his 20th-dimensional chess skills.
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Another word for "Internet supervillain" is "troll," and, whenever too many news cycles passed without any mention of him, Yiannopoulos showed up somewhere unexpected, such as the White House press briefing room or a left-leaning college campus, hoping to provoke a reaction.
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When I got to the scene where Arthur is staring at a wall full of newspaper clippings about the supervillain the Terror, I could easily read almost all of the headlines of the clippings ("HINDENBERG DISASTER: SABOTAGE BY THE TERROR" — sounds… interesting).
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Today, a fan threw a helmet at supervillain and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones from high up in the stands, and it was... well, I'm not going to say funny, because violence and injuries are bad, so I guess I won't say anything?
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Once she's safely out, she puts his consciousness into a new clone body and gives him a "you complete me" speech in which she tells him that she needs him the way a supervillain needs a superhero to balance their worst impulses.
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Yvonne Blake, the British-born, Spanish-based costume designer who won an Oscar for Russian chinchilla-trimmed coats and grand military uniforms in "Nicholas and Alexandra" and science-fiction immortality for superhero and supervillain ensembles in "Superman," died on Tuesday in Madrid.
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Season 2 seems to be losing ground on that front, by using a ridiculous, well-worn supervillain trope in a plot centering around Detective Brigid O'Reilly (Emma Lahana), who was exposed to a particularly strong blast of the mysterious energy in the season 1 finale.
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Somewhere deep within his superhero hideout (or supervillain lair, depending on your point of view), Jeff Bezos is probably cackling with delight at the revelation that Amazon Prime customers had more than 5 billion items shipped to them via the online retailer in 2017.
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This isn't the first time that Trump has been compared to a supervillain: he made an appearance last year in Marvel's Spider-Gwen #1 as MODAAK (Mental Organism Designed As America's King), has been parodied by artists, and has had cameo appearances for decades.
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Marvel has been fairly quiet on the future of the franchise following the events of this spring's Avengers: Infinity War, in which (spoilers, for the three of you who haven't seen it) a number of characters — including Black Panther — were dusted by supervillain Thanos.
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I heard all the arguments against him in art school, where Koons is largely despised by students as some kind of art supervillain: that he's too commercial and kitchey; that he sells shiney baubles to collectors with too much money and not enough sense.
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It doesn't matter how nice or upstanding a human being you might be, the second you plunk yourself down in a chair made from the remains of a Boeing 737's massive jet engine, you'll immediately be mistaken for a comic book-caliber supervillain.
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The show served as a way to explore the backstories of Marvel Universe characters like Howard Stark and supervillain Madame Masque (known on the show as Whitney Frost) while tying into present-day events featured on ABC's companion comic book drama, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.
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Fast forward 803 years, and a new supervillain, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, sits in a federal court in Brooklyn, accused of trafficking enough heroin, cocaine, marijuana and crystal meth to Americans to have made $14 billion over two and a half decades.
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A partial exception is Priyanka Chopra, who appears not in a bathing suit but in a succession of slinky dresses that signify — along with her purring diction, her muscle-headed minions and her collection of champagne flutes and martini glasses — her character's supervillain status.
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But if you're looking for something more family-friendly, perhaps featuring Julia Roberts, we assume it's only a matter of time until someone takes a cue from the late "holiday-themed supervillain" Garry Marshall and unleashes a hellish vision of Father's Day upon the world.
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The filthy rich Amazon CEO and Oscars attendee (lol) suited up in the 27-foot-tall mechanical armor to get a taste of the supervillain life and I guess try to ease everyone into this new weird world we live in where very little makes sense.
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The 31-year-old actress, who stars as dual superhero/supervillain Black Canary and Black Siren in the comic book series "Arrow," recently teamed up with Capital One to introduce the Financial Superpower experience, a new financial wellness/improvement program, at Capital One Cafes across the country.
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The fact that I'd spend the holiday season looking like a supervillain was an unexpected gift: Normally, I get a little self-conscious about seeing my friends and family during the holidays, but knowing that this gash came from a gull I'd helped made it okay.
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Alonso Duralde, The Wrap: Writer-director David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) tries hard to make this dirty not-quite-dozen into an engaging band of misfits, but the results feel undercooked and overstuffed, with 10 pounds of supervillain backstory being crammed into a five-pound bag.
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In a scene somewhat inspired by Harry Potter, Kabir finds his superpower when an evil man is about to kill him, while Raka emerges as a zombie supervillain, whose blood is black and whose strength comes from inhaling the toxic fumes Malhotra's factories are belching out.
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Everything culminated with the Stardust gimmick at the end, a sort of comic book supervillain that was both a tribute to his brother's paint-and-vinyl suit career and a reference to his dad's nickname for everything from Cody to the Crocketts' private plane during the 1980s.
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In "Hobbs & Shaw," which takes place between "Fate of the Furious" (2017) and the upcoming "F9," Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles from earlier "Furious" movies, reluctantly teaming up to keep a genetically enhanced supervillain (Idris Elba) from getting his hands on a deadly virus.
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One of YouTube&aposs most reviled personalities is crumbling under scandal and asked us to pay $10,000 for an interviewA creator who has become YouTube&aposs supervillain called 911 when reporter Chris Hansen knocked on his door to ask him about accusations of grooming underage fans
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And Atwood writes her with evident glee: Lydia is part witchy supervillain, dwelling with sinister imagery on how she's become "swollen with power" — and part grumbling maiden aunt, forever complaining about her aches and pains and craving a cup of hot milk to settle her stomach.
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The Twist Once David's course is set, he shakes hands with Elijah and finds out the terrible truth: the art dealer is, in fact, a supervillain who caused the train derailment (and several other horrible "accidents" before it) in order to flush out his superhero nemesis.
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Watching everyone on The Flash realize that Caitlin Snow's Earth Two counterpart is a diabolical supervillain with a killer leather wardrobe and a questionable wig is one thing, but watching Caitlin grapple with what that might mean for her intrinsically, as a person, is quite another.
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It's a show in which a masked supervillain named "A" painstakingly replaced every letter in a box of alphabet cereal with the letter A, resealed the box, and planted it where her victim would be sure to find and purchase it, just to freak people out.
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And after Michael abruptly truncates Sean's supervillain monologue, it's Chidi who wonders aloud how Sean could be so confident that Doug — the presumed "blueprint for leading a good life" — is eventually headed for the Bad Place, no matter how tightly he grasps his "Pee Pee King" crown.
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He's always been something of a nervous mess, but the 2017 version has a traumatic backstory, at least a few mental illness diagnoses, and a single-minded mission to track down the all-powerful supervillain who killed his father, fittingly named "the Terror" (a maniacal Jackie Earle Haley).
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That film ended with supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) succeeding in his quest to acquire all six Infinity Stones and erase half the population of the universe in a single snap, including major Marvel heroes Black Panther, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and almost all the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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That's not a great sign for the Avengers: The Infinity War trailer also contains a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment that features a supervillain other than Thanos: A shadowy figure catches a trident/spear while Black Panther delivers a voiceover that identifies the figure as Captain America.
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Every night, the Hell Hath club holds a meeting, and they tell their stories: One woman accidentally gave her boyfriend super powers and then got thrown off a bridge; another had a sadomasochistic love affair with the supervillain she met in the lunatic asylum until he killed her.
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The formula of the villain flashback episode, first introduced to provide an origin for Kingpin in season 1, takes on an entirely new form in season 3, as it's used to tell the grim story of how Poindexter goes from troubled child to FBI sniper to the supervillain Bullseye.
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In 1999, a group of feminists created a website to catalog every instance of this phenomenon, naming it Women in Refrigerators after an example from Green Lantern No. 54, in which a supervillain kills Green Lantern's girlfriend and leaves her body in a refrigerator for him to find.
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" During the conversation, Peele also spoke about his long path to success, starting with a stint at MadTV and a missed opportunity to join the SNL cast, which apparently led to a stretch of time he spent getting blazed in his room and scheming "like a comic book supervillain.
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For instance, the actors I just mentioned are all fine, until they have to share screentime with the cast's glaring weak link — Leto's Joker, who feels less like the greatest supervillain of all time and more like a Let's Make a Deal contestant who's gotten really into his costume.
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Two animated series are also slated: "Young Justice: Outsiders," a sequel to the series about Justice League sidekicks that ran for two seasons on the Cartoon Network, and "Harley Quinn," which will spotlight the complex and sometimes zany supervillain, who has had relationships with the Joker and Poison Ivy.
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Musk has previously been compared to other supervillains such as the Superman nemesis Lex Luthor, and he has frequently been the subject of jokes about secretly being a supervillain thanks to his innovative, often wacky devices and gadgets, such as the Not-a-Flamethrower and the new Tesla Cybertruck.
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Based on a graphic novel by artist Dave Gibbons and writer Mark Millar (who also wrote Kick-Ass), the film paired a veteran secret agent with ne'er-do-well youth Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (Testament of Youth's Taron Egerton), who has to confront both a flamboyant supervillain and upper-crust British society.
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But if it actually wanted to have as much fun with Harley Quinn as its trailers promised it would, the film could've done a lot worse than let Robbie's Harley and a languid Ivy tear shit up on a big screen in the supervillain equivalent of a wink and a smirk.
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Mister Mind founded the supervillain team called the Monster Society of Evil, which was also comprised of Sivana, Captain Nazi, monster Hydra, super-strong Ibac, and more characters, along with real-life evil Axis leaders Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideko Tojo (all in power during the character's World War II-era inception).
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The off-camera talent includes a director (Justin Chadwick, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), writer (Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love) and producers (Bob and Harvey Weinstein, supervillain sibling moguls responsible for some of the most aggressive Oscar campaigns in recent history) who have all featured heavily in awards conversation in years past.
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A Toronto native, Mr. Davis hardly seemed destined to become a sci-fi supervillain on TV. A classically trained stage actor who has worked with the likes of Laurence Olivier and Albert Finney, he was initially hired onto "The X-Files" mostly to smoke Morley cigarettes (actually herbal smokes) menacingly in the background.
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This was a superficial read of the criticism of the movie — the real problem was that the film's darkness didn't serve the story in any way — but the studio suddenly decided its already dark supervillain film needed to become happier and brighter, to match the pop music-driven trailers it had already released.
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This installment, co-directed by Eric Guillon, Kyle Balda, and Pierre Coffin (who also voices all the Minions), sees the reformed supervillain Gru (Steve Carell), his wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig), and their adopted daughters Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Nev Scharrel) working out what it means to be a family.
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The e-commerce giant has come under scrutiny in the past few weeks for its decision to open its HQ2 locations in Queens, New York, and Washington, DC. Now, with the help of dissonant horns and lingering tones, Amazon becomes a supervillain, a corporation run by Lex Luthor or Hydra with world domination in mind.
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He's built an entire career on claiming to be a "dangerous faggot," the supervillain of the internet, a man who says the things that people aren't meant to say—but speaking the forbidden truth will only get you on all the TV channels if your forbidden truth is actually just the boring old conventional wisdom.
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Read more:The 2019 Hong Kong protests, explained in 30 seconds'South Park' declares 'F--- the Chinese government' in 300th episode after China banned the show'South Park' creators issue a mocking 'apology' to China after the show was reportedly banned in the countryJeff Bezos was ridiculed by 'South Park' and portrayed as a giant-brained, telepathic supervillain
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Homecoming makes a bit of a straight-faced joke out of the small scale of Toomes' operations: eight years after the events of The Avengers, his men are still peddling their supervillain gear out of the backs of trucks, including to a consternated wannabe hood named Aaron (Donald Glover) who was just looking for a simple handgun.
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You'd think that maybe after the whole Ultron fiasco, Tony would maybe just take a step back from things a bit, given that almost everything he does creates a supervillain… As for the MCU references, there were definitely a lot of them, between Toomes' weapons and characters referencing events from previous movies, but it felt true to the world.
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Possibility No. 2: Trump and the GOP intentionally dismantle the systemIt isn't often that we call people up and ask them how they'd destroy the healthcare system, since that sort of thing sounds like something a really patient supervillain would do, but there are clear ways the Trump administration and the GOP might nudge Obamacare toward collapse.
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