{"id":4433,"date":"2026-03-30T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:37:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-948-dr-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 948: DR HORROR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sisters of Fear, a trio of witches who either are<\/i> the Three Witches of “Macbeth” fame or who take a lot of inspiration from them, have a new scheme: to create a horrible creature to spread death and destruction across the face of the Earth.<\/p>\n

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As part of the prep for this task they gather together all of their fiendish allies, the Demons of Land, Sea and Air, and I must commend them on being a diverse and fun-filled collection of grotesques<\/p>\n

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The Sisters do the “double double toil and trouble” routine – either in homage to the great witches of antiquity or as a callback to one of their own classic numbers, depending – and call Dr Horror into being. There are three things worth pointing out about this guy:<\/p>\n

1. his pupils are little human skulls <\/p>\n

2. he’s a dedicated nudist<\/p>\n

3. somehow he is a doctor, despite a) having just been created and b) having an innate antipathy toward human society, the only place where being<\/i> a doctor has any meaning. But perhaps that’s the point – that he cares so little<\/i> for the mores of humanity that he’s going to adopt that title, our puny certification boards be damned<\/p>\n

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Dr Horror is a pretty straightforward guy: he hates humanity, he has all the terrible power of the elements at his command and thus he spends most of his time post-creation blasting humanity and its trappings to smithereens.<\/p>\n

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Dr Horror’s depredations are unopposed by any hero. Instead, the forces of nature themselves rise up and destroy him by holding him in place with a whirlwind and then exploding a volcano under his feet. There’s a strong implication that this is because Dr Horror is a being of darkness and evil and that the essence of nature is bright and good, which is all fine but I really resent the implication that the dinosaurs were also<\/i> evil and that that is why nature destroyed them.<\/p>\n

Dr Horror swears that he will return to avenge himself and the Sisters of Fear (also blown up), but he has not yet managed to do so.<\/p>\n

Categorized in: Generica (Doctors)<\/a>, Murder (Attempted Destruction of Humanity)<\/a>, Origins (Magical Constructs)<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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