{"id":1871,"date":"2023-02-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:45:50","slug":"minor-super-villain-239-dr-brine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 239: DR BRINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Flash Comics v1 008, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Dr Brine should be in the soon-to-be-unveiled first roundup of minor mad and criminal scientists who don’t quite qualify as super-villains. He’s a guy in a purple pin-stripe suit who has a plan to steal a bunch of submarines and then profit from that somehow. There are two very important reasons for his inclusion here:<\/p>\n

1. He’s either a guy who named himself Dr Brine after getting into the submarine piracy game or (even better) he’s a guy who was named Jared Brine or similar and the souped up nominative determinism of the DCU steered him through grad school and right into a job hijacking submarines.<\/p>\n

2. His evil science specialty is that he figured outa way to make his henchmen semi-amphibious, and that the method in question, seen above, is that they must go raw vegan. <\/p>\n

10\/10 top-tier crime scientist, no notes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Flash Comics v1 008, 1940) Dr Brine should be in the soon-to-be-unveiled first roundup of minor mad and criminal scientists who don’t quite qualify as super-villains. He’s a guy in a purple pin-stripe suit who has a plan to steal a bunch of submarines and then profit from that somehow. There are two very important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,984,17,1462,104,36,23,101,481,1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-cliff-cornwall","category-dc-comics","category-dr-brine","category-flash-comics","category-good-henchmen","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-submarine-pirates","category-superhuman-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}