{"id":633,"date":"2023-05-03T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:46:32","slug":"minor-super-villain-269-the-brain-of-professor-donaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 269: THE BRAIN OF PROFESSOR DONAIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 015, 1941) <\/p>\n

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I must admit that I was predisposed to give Professor Donaire the benefit of the doubt, given that where I’m from a donair is a delicious late night drunken street food. But he didn’t need it! Even with a non-snack-based name, Prof. Donaire would be a terrific villain.<\/p>\n

Having said that: Prof. Donaire is a real dummy. He suffers from exactly the same failure of imagination as our old pal Python<\/a>: that nobody would bother to investigate the nearby vicinity when large numbers of corpses are found in quick succession.<\/p>\n

But the similarities to Python don’t end there! Like Python, Donaire lives in an old stone structure (a temple rather than a castle, buts still) retrofitted with a modern lab, has a big bald goon with a K name (Karlo to Python’s Kreeper) and the corpses he’s dumping are sans<\/i> brain.<\/p>\n

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Unlike<\/i> Python, Prof Donaire has no interest in the brains of his victims. No, he’s a body<\/i> thief. He’s scooped out his own brain and put it in a jar and now can control five seperate bodies on the 40s equivalent of a Local Area Network. And as always with any kind of body part thief, Donaire is just salivating at the thought of adding a toned super-hero bod to his collection.<\/p>\n

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Luckily for the Angel, merely having<\/i> the bodies of a bunch of athletes does not grant Donaire the reflexes or fighting abilities of their original owners. Likewise, being able to mobilize four bodies for a melee doesn’t convey the ability to coordinate their attacks. The Angel is perfectly fine.<\/p>\n

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All good things come to an end, however, and Professor Donaire learns a bit too late the primary rule of having an disembodied brain: don’t just, like, put it on a shelf or other easily accessed location in a glass jar. In this particular case, Donaire ends up setting his own lab (and therefore brain) on fire but the Angel would have been completely justified in nailing it with a jump-kick.<\/p>\n

In conclusion: the Brain of Professor Donaire should absolutely be BRUNG BACK.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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