who is the most well-known villain that could be described as "The Accountant"? in a sort of archetypal sense. like the Joker might be The Fool, The Jester, etc. Thanos might be The Warlord. (I suppose there's a Malthusian character to it...) But who's ~realllly~... account-y
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Replying to @visakanv
Most of the ones who probably fit are described as businessmen / capitalists rather than accountants, and they're usually written by people who have no useful understanding of business for an audience which rounds to the same.
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(A giveaway is that they appear to have no organization other than maybe a trusted lieutenant in the actual text as opposed to the flavor text about their backstory. The villain never says "Ugh the hero is spoiling my plan PERHAPS I SHOULD DEDICATE A SUBORG TO FINDING THEM.")
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Lex Luthor, connected billionaire, never once calls up McKinsey and says "There are X0 million people in Metropolis. One of them is Superman. You have 20,000 billable hours; go."
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My brother, who is dangerous levels of genre savvy, said he'd have the stat from the FBI that there are less than 20 people in the United States who've been kidnapped 3+ times by day two and have Louis Lane's social network on a corkboard by day 3. The glasses will not hold up.
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and let's not get started about how quickly the batcave would be found...
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The best realized character in this archetype may be Xanatos from the Gargoyles series, and he succeeds because of brilliance and insanely convoluted gambits. That isn't how capitalists routinely achieve their preferences! They organize, architect, deploy, and scale!
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