{"id":3561,"date":"2022-07-16T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:02:09","slug":"minor-super-villain-075-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 075: “UNCLE”"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Adventure Comics 057, 1940)<\/p>\n

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As I’ve said before, sometimes a character is very clearly a super-villain but chooses no name for themself, in which case for administrative purposes I pick something that the text boxes or other characters refer to them as and go with that. Scientists are usually easy – they just go by their name. This fellow, on the other hand, is basically only ever referred to as “Uncle,” so Uncle I call him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Uncle is a credible threat! He tries to ransom the world by threatening to destroy it by knocking it off of its orbit, then actually tries to do it in a fit of pique – it’s only the timely intervention of Sandman that saves the day.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the last entry, when I was talking about mad scientists as perfect characters to bring back<\/b> as reformed? <\/b>This is the kind of guy I had in mind. What a gift to a cast!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Adventure Comics 057, 1940) As I’ve said before, sometimes a character is very clearly a super-villain but chooses no name for themself, in which case for administrative purposes I pick something that the text boxes or other characters refer to them as and go with that. Scientists are usually easy – they just go by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,284,42,17,506,23,539,1973,63,356,1265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-adventure-comics","category-bring-em-back","category-dc-comics","category-mad-science","category-minor-super-villain","category-sandman","category-uncle","category-unofficial-name","category-world-destruction","category-world-ransomer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}