{"id":5211,"date":"2024-08-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:35:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-582-baron-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5211","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 582: BARON BLOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Detective Eye 001, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAZW4XITOFB4oAOLczxZmdFKdJdoYlpUKnpH13lI9izfKqAzCHI8oWLsqOVsaZ8qHwlENOcwP6gKBIr-ywxX_Q4JVzcaUtC7ehhpLBTVnDJ7xc7kcyzIU4UmUdLr98XjGvMrczuyb2bY26DxkUvOmO9rSLhFXFsO65e3oduteqAD8SJmF-tlXM-b2mmmDv\/w640-h460\/582a%20baron%20blood%20detective%20eye%20001%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"937\" data-original-width=\"1304\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAZW4XITOFB4oAOLczxZmdFKdJdoYlpUKnpH13lI9izfKqAzCHI8oWLsqOVsaZ8qHwlENOcwP6gKBIr-ywxX_Q4JVzcaUtC7ehhpLBTVnDJ7xc7kcyzIU4UmUdLr98XjGvMrczuyb2bY26DxkUvOmO9rSLhFXFsO65e3oduteqAD8SJmF-tlXM-b2mmmDv\/w640-h460\/582a%20baron%20blood%20detective%20eye%20001%201940.JPG\" title=\"baron blood\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not the first knockoff of Count &#8220;the Most Dangerous Game&#8221; Zaroff we&#8217;ve met, and certainly not the last. Baron Blood incorporates quite a lot of elements that you&#8217;ll find in various adaptations of the story: the island castle with built-in lighthouse to draw victims in via shipwreck, the monocle and prominent facial scar and the pack of hunting dogs and huge hunting guide\/servant.<\/p>\n<p>What sets the Baron apart from the rest of the bored island-dwelling human-hunting aristocratic crowd is that for one he is not actually a baron but an escaped maniac. For two, he both dresses like a super-villain (orange chain mail!) and employs a staff composed of guys dressed as Vikings and armed with machine guns. Really great stuff, top score on the henchman front. Like the original and a lot of knockoff Zaroffs he also gives himself a bit of a hunting handicap, in his case using poisoned darts fired from a sling &#8211; some real eccentric villain behaviour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjy1J6861ifw6ZF4-dYUDH6j3DG6rQGF33OZxEx9KxHZVnzdzU8-rVMlXD521yUvarwbbajcjuuKV_6Yxw_ix_UBGudLRmmk0MIqEdKinYUcCPCljIBhijWs2cfZ9oXmjI1mUt6Xr9XXGnjXRkG0hDnLAMJYCFHVmsIIdCIvk1qkJaRgv3WwIyvM0Vxm6Pi\/w442-h640\/582b%20baron%20blood%20detective%20eye%20001%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"944\" data-original-width=\"651\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjy1J6861ifw6ZF4-dYUDH6j3DG6rQGF33OZxEx9KxHZVnzdzU8-rVMlXD521yUvarwbbajcjuuKV_6Yxw_ix_UBGudLRmmk0MIqEdKinYUcCPCljIBhijWs2cfZ9oXmjI1mUt6Xr9XXGnjXRkG0hDnLAMJYCFHVmsIIdCIvk1qkJaRgv3WwIyvM0Vxm6Pi\/w442-h640\/582b%20baron%20blood%20detective%20eye%20001%201940.JPG\" title=\"baron blood\" width=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He of course (of <i>course<\/i>) meets his end at the point of his own darts after Dean Denton tackles him from out of a tree. Just carrying around a fistful of them like that is a Health and Safety nightmare in a regular workplace, let alone a jungle island where man hunts man. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Detective Eye 001, 1940) Not the first knockoff of Count &#8220;the Most Dangerous Game&#8221; Zaroff we&#8217;ve met, and certainly not the last. Baron Blood incorporates quite a lot of elements that you&#8217;ll find in various adaptations of the story: the island castle with built-in lighthouse to draw victims in via shipwreck, the monocle and prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2503,144,44,205,36,820,23,254,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-baron-blood","category-centaur","category-dead","category-dean-denton","category-good-henchmen","category-human-hunter","category-minor-super-villain","category-monocle","category-murderer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211","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=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}