{"id":736,"date":"2023-06-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:50:19","slug":"minor-super-villain-306-the-fiddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 306: THE FIDDLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Captain America Comics 007, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Fiddler, being a man who can play his violin at special pitches in order to hypnotize or kill, has the dubious honour of being our first super-powered Nazi villain. <\/p>\n

The Fiddler is an overplanner, no bones about it. His mission in the US is to kill anti-Nazi politicians (specifically senators, or maybe he’s working up  to governors etc). Here’s his process for doing so:<\/p>\n

-become an acclaimed musician with regular radio gigs<\/p>\n

-establish an employment agency for butlers<\/p>\n

-have butlers placed in his victims’ homes<\/p>\n

-have the butlers install music-activated bombs in the victims’ radios while simultaneously fixing it so that the radio can only be tuned to the station that the Fiddler is going to be appearing on<\/p>\n

-hope that the victim will be listening to the radio at the right time<\/p>\n

-hypnotize the crowd at the performance for some reason, play the Melody of Death to trigger the bomb, et voila<\/i><\/p>\n

And it works three times<\/i>! He bumps off two senators, and would have gotten a third if Captain America hadn’t figured out his plan via one of the one million suspicious things about it.<\/p>\n

It’s frankly a mercy that the Fiddler ultimately melts his own brain while trying to kill an earplug-equipped Bucky via sonic attack, because this is the kind of thing that embarrasses you for life<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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