{"id":5125,"date":"2025-02-10T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:32:23","slug":"minor-super-villain-724-bonto-of-duotania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 724: BONTO OF DUOTANIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perisphere Payne, a kind of outer space troubleshooter (whose name, by the way, was meant to sound cool and futuristic but because the Perisphere was one of the cool and futuristic building-mascots of the 1939 World’s Fair is in fact equivalent to someone today calling themselves Crystal Palace Collins, Parthenon Pete, or indeed Perisphere Payne) gets a wild alert on his televizo one day: the entire city of Freeton has been levitated off the surface of the Earth! Setting off in hot city-pursuit, Payne finds not only the city but he and his crew are captives in an enormous spaceship.<\/p>\n

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All questions of  who exactly is responsible for this are cleared up by the appearance of Bonto of Duotania, a giant two-headed alien and generally jolly guy.<\/p>\n

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Payne’s bluster earns him a place as one of Bonto’s pets, and en route he gets the lowdown from another pet, Janice of Venus: Bonto and his people come from the twin asteroids of Jutania (presumably aka Duotania) and are blessed not only with a second head and increased size but also an overabundance of cruelty and selfishness. He has captured Freeton as a source of slaves, with the slight implication that the rest of humanity will follow. (Please not also Bonto’s cool two-headed Jutanian pets)<\/p>\n

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The real practical problem with using slave labour to run your high-tech society, of course, is that your slaves will inevitably have to learn how to use your high-tech equipment if you want everything to be done as efficiently as you are used to, which is how Perisphere Payne becomes proficient enough in the use of Bonto’s magnetic tractor beam that he is able not only to deposit Freeton back in the giant spaceship for transport back to Earth but also do a cheeky alien genocide on his way out the door. I’m shaking my finger at you, Perisphere Payne – this might be a standard heroic move in the 1940s but as an enlightened future-man you ought to know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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