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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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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You should read Worm. All the higher level super powers are not physical they are around this
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ah yes, the dreaded supervillain The Number Man, whose superpower is that he's really, really good at math he controls the entire economy and runs investments for lesser supervillains
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in case not clear to others. This is actually a person in Worm
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Sooooooooold.
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are you fine with some spoilers? if so will post some screenshots to sell you even more. If not, will not haha
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Depends; are they going to ruin my enjoyment of the story? I am less religious about spoilers than most people but there are some facts about some works which end up mattering, right.
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hmm, yeah won't post any of the ones that are more main plot spoiler-y
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