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Ocelot II

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1. Bond villains were evil and sometimes crazy but they weren't stupid.

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2025, 06:53 PM

Feb 2025

We have villains who are evil, and crazy, and really, really stupid. We have Dr. Evil and his Mini-Me (I'm not sure whether Trump or Musk is Dr. Evil), with Vance as Mr. Bigglesworth. If they weren't so fucking evil the whole thing could be another sequel in the Austin Powers series - wicked, incompetent slapstick villains.

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I grew up watching James Bond films, fully expecting the bad guys to be like the Bond villains. They're actually worse. [View all] PeaceWave Feb 2025 OP

Bond villains were evil and sometimes crazy but they weren't stupid. Ocelot II Feb 2025 #1

A parallel to Musk might be Drax from MoonRaker. CentralMass Feb 2025 #2

I think that the Elliott Carver character in Tomorrow Never Dies us likely Rupert Murdoch CentralMass Feb 2025 #3

They're kinda the Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) type of psychotic. TheBlackAdder Feb 2025 #4