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So You Wanna Be A Batman Villain? (DEAD, will not continue)

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[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
[X] They're a private prison company. The state and the federal government pay them to lock people up. Many of these people are members of organised crime groups.
[X] They're a pharmaceutical company. They make all kinds of experimental drugs - and are currently fending off lawsuits, which is why Wayne Industries can go after them while they're weak.
-[X] rumors aboud of experimentation on human prisoners
 
[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.

I wonder if this'll get us timing/organizational skills on par with Clock King or would that be stepping on his thematic toes?
 
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[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.

I wonder if this'll get us timing/organizational skills on par with Clock King or would that be stepping on his thematic toes?
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No, the theme is butler-company. Totally different.
 
[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
I am now imagining a sort of uber sidekick. Our evil butler will be hired by small time crooks looking to go big time, and more or less set them up, make arrangements, organize things in the background, and act as an amazing backup minion . . . until the money runs out or some other violation of his contract comes up. It will always be the client that fucks up, fails to follow his advice, or otherwise stumbles and ruins things. Unlike Alfred, his loyalty is limited and strictly mercenary, which gives him a good reputation . . . for those that qualify/can afford him.

So, like, Batman goes on this amazing hunt during a caper, and only at the very last second realizes that the guy he caught doesn't even remotely have the capacity to have plotted out and pulled off the crimes he did . . . but the evil butler gets away scott free, even if Batsy knows there's more to the situation. The 'episode' could end on the client's phone call, calling the butler, expecting him to arrange an attorney, etc, but he's shut down because "As stipulated in the contract, my services end the moment you are taken into any sort of legal custody, and may not be resumed until and unless you are legally released from that custody. Also as stipulated, I do not work for convicted felons or the clinically insane, so I doubt you will qualify for my services once you are free. Good day, sir."

If he does get apprehended, Alfred will be the one who pulls it off.
 
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I am now imagining a sort of uber sidekick. Our evil butler will be hired by small time crooks looking to go big time, and more or less set them up, make arrangements, organize things in the background, and act as an amazing backup minion . . . until the money runs out or some other violation of his contract comes up. It will always be the client that fucks up, fails to follow his advice, or otherwise stumbles and ruins things. Unlike Alfred, his loyalty is limited and strictly mercenary, which gives him a good reputation . . . for those that qualify/can afford him.

So, like, Batman goes on this amazing hunt during a caper, and only at the very last second realizes that the guy he caught doesn't even remotely have the capacity to have plotted out and pulled off the crimes he did . . . but the evil butler gets away scott free, even if Batsy knows there's more to the situation. The 'episode' could end on the client's phone call, calling the butler, expecting him to arrange an attorney, etc, but he's shut down because "As stipulated in the contract, my services end the moment you are taken into any sort of legal custody, and may not be resumed until and unless you are legally released from that custody. Also as stipulated, I do not work for convicted felons or the clinically insane, so I doubt you will qualify for my services once you are free. Good day, sir."

If he does get apprehended, Alfred will be the one who pulls it off.
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All the while running his own plans in the background.
 
[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
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All the while running his own plans in the background.
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Only one small thing here and there. This client is robbing a tech firm, and will ruin their research, so we short the stock a long time before it happens . . . or we sell very good advice to persons that trust us when we say "Bad things will happen to Corp X in 3 months."

We are not Ra's Al Ghul. We don't have a huge network of pople and sub-organizations; we simply drift from opportunity to opportunity, and slowly nudge pieces in place over a decade for our Big Picture.

Hell, that could be our villain name. "Yeah, I wanted the best, so I hired Big Picture. He always sees all the angles. Brews a mean cup of tea, too."

Batman hears whispers of this guy while undercover as Matches Malone, and is certain he's some kind of hidden mob boss. Due to the Matches Malone identity having a criminal record, he probably can't try to hire the guy himself. He doesn't realize he's seen the guy in the flesh like 3 times already, always in the background when one of the clients is out in public acting normal.
 
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[X] They're a shipping and transport company that runs like clockwork, 24/7. Known for being able to get you anything, anywhere, anytime. You just tell them what you want, where you want, when you want and they will have it there on time, every time. No need to know who your getting your stuff from as they will handle that for you. Though one does have to wonder, if what is in those containers is really what is written on the shipping manifest.
 
Golden Lark said:
Only one small thing here and there. This client is robbing a tech firm, and will ruin their research, so we short the stock a long time before it happens . . . or we sell very good advice to persons that trust us when we say "Bad things will happen to Corp X in 3 months."

We are not Ra's Al Ghul. We don't have a huge network of pople and sub-organizations; we simply drift from opportunity to opportunity, and slowly nudge pieces in place over a decade for our Big Picture.

Hell, that could be our villain name. "Yeah, I wanted the best, so I hired Big Picture. He always sees all the angles. Brews a mean cup of tea, too."

Batman hears whispers of this guy while undercover as Matches Malone, and is certain he's some kind of hidden mob boss. Due to the Matches Malone identity having a criminal record, he probably can't try to hire the guy himself. He doesn't realize he's seen the guy in the flesh like 3 times already, always in the background when one of the clients is out in public acting normal.
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This has caused an idea in my head that seems to make too much sense. I think my logic is broken somewhere as I am not the biggest fan of batman lore but here is my idea.

You would think in Gotham that there wouldn't be any small time gang groups or if there were they wouldn't last very long as they would either be too scared to attract batman by forming and making a presence or simply be subsumed into one of the huge groups that have the backing of a supervillain.
Yet there seem to be all of these random robberies and stuff in Gotham that still happen to people on a large scale.
The random robberies wouldn't be the attacks of the supervillain groups as they have an agenda (maybe a twisted or incomprehensible one but still an agenda). The police department of Gotham would logically be well funded due to the supervillain groups and should be able to catch the crooks that operate by themselves rather quickly due to all the practice against the larger more experienced groups.
The logical explanation to this is that the small time groups are being supported not as a single group but played against each other by a supervillain aka "Big Picture" as only he can see the big picture.

Now that I written this out it seems to make both more and less sense (at the same time) than in my head.
 
Golden Lark said:
I am now imagining a sort of uber sidekick. Our evil butler will be hired by small time crooks looking to go big time, and more or less set them up, make arrangements, organize things in the background, and act as an amazing backup minion . . . until the money runs out or some other violation of his contract comes up. It will always be the client that fucks up, fails to follow his advice, or otherwise stumbles and ruins things. Unlike Alfred, his loyalty is limited and strictly mercenary, which gives him a good reputation . . . for those that qualify/can afford him.

So, like, Batman goes on this amazing hunt during a caper, and only at the very last second realizes that the guy he caught doesn't even remotely have the capacity to have plotted out and pulled off the crimes he did . . . but the evil butler gets away scott free, even if Batsy knows there's more to the situation. The 'episode' could end on the client's phone call, calling the butler, expecting him to arrange an attorney, etc, but he's shut down because "As stipulated in the contract, my services end the moment you are taken into any sort of legal custody, and may not be resumed until and unless you are legally released from that custody. Also as stipulated, I do not work for convicted felons or the clinically insane, so I doubt you will qualify for my services once you are free. Good day, sir."

If he does get apprehended, Alfred will be the one who pulls it off.
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So, basically Discworld Igor: stick with the client through thick and thin until the crowd with torches and pitchforks can be seen on the horizon, at which point it's time to quietly disappear and find a new Mafter.
 
Sorry guys, I'm just going to put this out of its misery now. It's just not clicking.

This is why you shouldn't start a quest with no planning immediately after watching a BTAS episode going "That'd be so cool!". Important lesson there. More planning and thought is required if you don't want things to wind up going "welp, I have no idea what I want to do with this" once you have time to think.
 
That's a shame. Still, I get it. 9/10 of my ideas end up stuck in development hell, so I'm sure as heck not gonna give you guff over not hitting 0/10.
 
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