September 05, 2011

How to Be an Evil Overlord

Peter Anspach has aspirations. He might be an inspiration for you.



Go well

Amplify’d from www.proft.org

Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well,
there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However
every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably
gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I've noticed that no matter
whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists, or
alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every
single time. With that in mind, allow me to present...

The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
  • My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear Plexiglas visors,
    not face concealing ones.
  • My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
  • My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not
    kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell in my dungeon.
  • Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
  • The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on
    the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragon
    of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to
    the object which is my one weakness.
  • I will not gloat over my enemies predicament before killing them.
  • When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you
    kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say,
    "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought, I'll shoot him and then say
    "No."
  • After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately
    in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time
    during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
  • I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely
    necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button
    labelled, "Danger: Don Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not
    Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to
    disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will clearly not be labelled
    as such.
  • I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum - a small
    hotel room well outside my border will work just as well.
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