{"id":3525,"date":"2022-09-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:57:40","slug":"generic-costumed-villain-round-up-001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 001"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel a little bad about what I said in the Armo<\/a> post. The generic masked guys are, after all, trying their best, even if they aren’t quite measuring up to my standards. So while I can’t quite bring myself to write an individual post about each one, there’s no harm in doing a roundup of them every now and again, starting with the guys that Blue Beetle fought in 1941:<\/p>\n

Ivor Nick<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This guy had a lieutenant named the Wart and a dirigible that he eventually fell off of! (Blue Beetle v1 006)<\/p>\n

Mason<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This guy sabotaged his own construction company for convoluted reasons! (Blue Beetle v1 007, 1941)<\/p>\n

Carveth Manners<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This guy killed his own father for not that much money, honestly! (Blue Beetle v1 007, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel a little bad about what I said in the Armo post. The generic masked guys are, after all, trying their best, even if they aren’t quite measuring up to my standards. So while I can’t quite bring myself to write an individual post about each one, there’s no harm in doing a roundup of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,3,197,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-blue-beetle","category-fox-features","category-generic-costumed-villain","category-patricide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","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=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}