Humor
Operation Diabolical Was About The Friends We Made Along The Way
And in that sense it was a success, even if world dominion was elusive
Now hear this, my pitiful peons! This is the voice of your leader, Dr. Malevolent. And yes, let me address the obvious: we didn’t take over the world.
But does that make ‘Operation Diabolical’ a failure? Sure, if you adopt the narrowest possible view of what “success” means. We didn’t take over the world. We didn’t exterminate the inferior human race and replace it with the progeny of my hand-picked genetic elite. We didn’t kill Special Agent Nichols. And I am, as we speak, bleeding out after a violent confrontation with him.
But enough of “The Didn’ts”, which as you know are a bugaboo of mine. Because what did we do? We did try. And I personally think that in a world of people afraid to pursue their dreams, it was very brave of us to try to poison gas the world. We lost, but we won.
And we did, in one another, find some of the most special friends we could ever hope to have the privilege of knowing. I’m thinking of Virus, my henchman whose thing is — was, I have to remind myself with a tear in my eye — tossing little vials of acid at his adversaries. He really loved that acid. And I loved him. I don’t know…
