{"id":3330,"date":"2022-07-22T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:49:18","slug":"minor-super-villain-085-boss-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 085: BOSS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Blue Beetle Comics 002, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbS7DzrHISSS38XqZDRbSPt71evtjh2K5-qdcFw0Cqc3zO3KTW-aeYsk9mrboKvU1XHjifI_8Oab-fHSaYZ2AFYGae7yWgPiimEN4xgzyREjMYZU8c9E7494Sx_Uk4K9kPQ3MMQQiRRyBhLmTe4ioArCGzW8opEXcP_E3U2b4Lbg7KtYoGDs9fpDkgfA\/w640-h226\/c1.%20Boss%20X%20-%20Blue%20Beetle%20002,%201940%20-%20gang%20boss%20with%20cool%20name.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"359\" data-original-width=\"1020\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbS7DzrHISSS38XqZDRbSPt71evtjh2K5-qdcFw0Cqc3zO3KTW-aeYsk9mrboKvU1XHjifI_8Oab-fHSaYZ2AFYGae7yWgPiimEN4xgzyREjMYZU8c9E7494Sx_Uk4K9kPQ3MMQQiRRyBhLmTe4ioArCGzW8opEXcP_E3U2b4Lbg7KtYoGDs9fpDkgfA\/w640-h226\/c1.%20Boss%20X%20-%20Blue%20Beetle%20002,%201940%20-%20gang%20boss%20with%20cool%20name.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>What makes them a super-villain?<\/b> In thinking about this question I realized just how close comic book-style organized crime comes to supercrime to begin with and that Boss X represents the bare minimum of extra oomph required to make the leap to the super-villain designation: the name and the fact that he works out of a secret underground lair on an island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Blue Beetle Comics 002, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? In thinking about this question I realized just how close comic book-style organized crime comes to supercrime to begin with and that Boss X represents the bare minimum of extra oomph required to make the leap to the super-villain designation: the name and the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35,1910,3,47,54,23,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-blue-beetle","category-boss-x","category-fox-features","category-gang-boss","category-kidnapper","category-minor-super-villain","category-super-villain-definition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}