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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    09/07/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    East High School? That High School Musical stuff is pretty evil..
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    Image of Shadowcat24 Shadowcat24
    09/06/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    I remember the Massachussetts Academy. The Hellions deserved their nickname. In one of the New Mutants comics, Emma Frost tried to recruit the New Mutants and kidnapped Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). The New Mutants went to rescue her. If I remeber correctly, Kitty's friend Doug Ramsey (Cypher) went there before he joined the New Mutants.

    My favorite Hellion was a six foot tall female shape-shifting mutant named Catseye. Her and Wolfsbane from the New Mutants were actually became friends and were briefly roomates.

    The HIVE Academy from the Teen Titans is definitely the worst of the worst villian schools. I think one of the Teen Titans infiltrated the school in the cartoon series.
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    09/06/09

    @Shadowcat24:

    Doug Ramsey... worst mutant power ever.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    Yale? Harvard?
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    " a lifelong grudge against the lab partner whose negligence caused you to lose your jaw bone."

    I rarely LOL, but this made me smile and reminded why I love this show.
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    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    What about Miskatonic U? Go Fighting Cephalopods!
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    Image of andromedeia andromedeia
    09/05/09

    @Wookie1972: SERIOUSLY. where else can you go to mount expeditions into the creepiest places and come out twisted in strange, nefarious ways?
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    09/05/09

    @andromedeia:

    Any school that claim a fricking RE-ANIMATOR among its alumni is definitely doing its part for evil science.

    As much as I love the Stuart Gordon movie, a faithful adaptation would be very cool. (Of course, Guillermo Del Toro wants to do At the Mountains Of Madness after he makes every other movie in the world).
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    Image of JohnnyZito JohnnyZito
    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    Real world Super Villain school has to be something like The School of The Americas.
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    lukeoneil47 promoted this comment JohnnyZito was starred JohnnyZito was unstarred
    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    09/05/09

    @JohnnyZito: Liberty University
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    I hope their hall monitors get combat pay.
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    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    I'll bet the school librarian at these august institutions is a thankless task. It's not like you can expect a fledgling super-villain (even one with rosy cheeks so plump you just can't help pinching 'em!) to even pretend planning to return them before their due date.
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    09/07/09

    @Trai_Dep: Let alone trying to collect the late fines, even with the threat of not being able to attend dances or field trips.
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    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was starred Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/05/09

    In reply to Top Schools for Supervillains
    No Hahvahd? No Yail? No Regent or Liburti?

    Oh you mean fictional ones, not the alumni that is castigated in books like the Best and the Brightest or in the many books about Iraq.
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    Image of SwapnaStoat SwapnaStoat
    08/06/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    What is the difference between a evil genius and mad scientist? Are they the same thing?
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    Roklimber promoted this comment SwapnaStoat was starred SwapnaStoat was unstarred
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    08/06/09

    @SwapnaStoat: No. Not all geniuses are scientists and not all scientists are geniuses, regardless of their evilness or madness.
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    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    As a former mad-scientist who owns a secret lair inside the Krakatoa volcano (currently on lease to another ioniner) and who was for a time bent on conquering the world, until the bad economy took its toll, I feel it's my obligation to defend my fellow comrade in arms, Syndrome.
    Need I remind people that Syndrome invented a number of extremely useful things, like his flying boots and his zero-point-energy weapon?
    I'm constantly appalled by how little love we mad scientists get. If it wasn't for us, those pathetic heroes would live depressing and unfulfilled lives.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    @Roklimber: *wipes away tear*
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Does it make insane/evil if you totally agree with one of the people on this list? I mean, Catgirl does kinda have a point.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Hey, what about ROACH -- or rather, the bozos ROACH was formed to fight against?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/05/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: We can't "go" bad if we were bad to begin with.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Ooh, good point.
    I think we can make a case for the C.H's as fans-gone-bad, in the same way that Comic Book Guy did in the mentioned episode.
    Superheroes in costume in comics? Good.
    Fat unemployed nerds in costume IRL? Bad.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    the Trio from Buffy was an insult; make fun of "Comic Book Guys" if you will, but he made them such preening idiots that it wasn't at all what I thought an "evil nerd organization" should be like
    a true sign that by the final seasons, the Buffy writers were going mad with power
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    08/05/09

    @CodenameV: Sir, the Troika was an amazing thing. You must've watched a very different season 6 than I.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Mojo, X-Men fan.
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