{"id":3687,"date":"2025-02-15T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:06:34","slug":"minor-super-villain-728-the-great-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 728: THE GREAT BRAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perisphere Payne, futureman of the year 2000, has his work cut out for him when six Earth battle rockets go missing and then subsequently attack their home planet! And upon defeating their seemingly traitorous crews, Payne discovers that they are being remotely mind controlled via a chunky black box stuck to each of their backs in a place that looks like it would be pretty annoying to live with. Good thing they’re mind controlled and presumably not capable of being annoyed, I guess.<\/p>\n

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Following the mind control carrier wave to an unnamed planet, Perisphere Payne and his associate Doyle (and here I was going to make a joke about Doyle also<\/i> being named after a defunct bit of architecture but in trying to find one starting with D I discovered that it’s surprisingly hard to do that. Therefore, we’re gonna call him Trylon Doyle and be done with this whole tangent) are attacked by what are clearly centaurs <\/i>but are consistently called satyrs<\/i>, which is about as annoying as being unable to find a list of defunct symbolic architecture.<\/p>\n

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Payne and Doyle are eventually captured by the centaurs<\/strike> satyrs<\/strike> centaurs<\/i> and ushered into the presence of the Great Master, aka the Great Brain, a human brain in a glass ball who wants to conquer the human race for unclear reasons.<\/p>\n

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Luckily for Payne, Doyle, humanity and basically everyone except for centaurs and centaur-lovers, though the Great Brain was savvy enough to make their dome ray gun proof, they forgot about the ballistic properties of the humble Oscar statuette. Once released, the Brain’s energies start a chain reaction that destroys the whole planet, centaurs and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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