{"id":2049,"date":"2022-07-12T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:51:47","slug":"minor-super-villain-068-the-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 068: THE MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Action Comics 030, 1940)<\/p>\n

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I’ve decided to introduce a system for dealing with some of the more minor super-villains who do not incite as much excitement in me to vomit out more than a cursory sentence about them (slightly unfair to the Master, who is kind of interesting, but I am uninspired today) In such cases, we will be answering one or both of the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes them a super-villain?<\/b> In addition to his super-villain name, the Master has three qualifying super-villain attributes<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Methods: he kills those who resist his extortion attempts by releasing huge poisonous beetles in their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Powers: the Master, unlike many of Zatara’s opponents, is a magic user. Specifically, he has the ability to resist and shrug off Zatara’s own magic<\/span><\/p>\n

3} Association: he employs the services of the Tigress<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What’s interesting about them?<\/b> Honestly, it’s the idea of a crook being able to resist a magical hero’s powers. Underused and underappreciated!
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(Action Comics 030, 1940) I’ve decided to introduce a system for dealing with some of the more minor super-villains who do not incite as much excitement in me to vomit out more than a cursory sentence about them (slightly unfair to the Master, who is kind of interesting, but I am uninspired today) In such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,17,51,131,1040,23,20,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-action-comics","category-dc-comics","category-extortionist","category-magic","category-master","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-the","category-zatara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}