supervillains

People like us were born to change the world. It__ filled with shit. It__ filled with people who did the things they did to you. It__ filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don__ you feel it too?

He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.

How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? How does he learn to make the hard decisions he's going to have to make in life, the ones only a man can teach?

Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they__e obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye.__an we be very clear,_ Polly Cradle murmurs, __hat I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?__oe swallows. __es, we can,_ he says carefully.__here will therefore be no more __ay hello, Polly_?___here will not.

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.