{"id":1781,"date":"2023-02-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:37:58","slug":"minor-super-villain-249-the-scarlet-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 249: THE SCARLET MERMAID"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Scarlet Mermaid is elegant in her simplicity: she’s a good swimmer who lives near a river where a lot of rich people hang out on boats, so she swims out and robs them. That plus a great name (and an okay costume – could use a contrasting colour) make for a winning combo.<\/p>\n

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Even a cool villain must eventually reckon with a super-hero, however, and the Scarlet Mermaid ends up being one of the King’s few non-Witch opponents and is captured without much complication, never to appear again. This is a shame, because, like the Black Gondolier<\/a> before her, I reckon that the Scarlet Mermaid is exactly the sort of low-level supercrook that should be lurking around every city in every super-hero universe. Some great grandniece of hers should be robbing megayachts to this day, dang it. BRING BACK<\/b> the Scarlet Mermaid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Flash Comics v1 019, 1941) The Scarlet Mermaid is elegant in her simplicity: she’s a good swimmer who lives near a river where a lot of rich people hang out on boats, so she swims out and robs them. That plus a great name (and an okay costume – could use a contrasting colour) make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42,17,104,1134,23,1400,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bring-em-back","category-dc-comics","category-flash-comics","category-king","category-minor-super-villain","category-scarlet-mermaid","category-the","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}