Post by shadowpanther on Apr 7, 2010 5:59:03 GMT -5
Here's a character I made a few years ago when I was trying to revise for my English GCSE.
Frederick Blimp-Worthington is a villain. More specifically, he is what other villains regard as the worst kind of villain. An anti-hero. Anti-heroes are the ones who hardly ever get invited to villains’ parties and just generally give them a bad name. To be fair to him, he is incredibly evil, thus earning him borderline anti-hero/proper villain status. Unfortunately, that is mired by his anti-hero tendencies to do noble things, like having a change of heart and giving an evil ransom to charity. One recent example is when he blew up a chemical facility in China to prove a point, then promptly donated a good quarter of the gargantuan ransom garnered from the US government to the victims’ fund. God knows what would posses him to that. It is not even quasi-evil charities like “Free the mad bears from captivity” for Christ’s sake.
Aside from his sickeningly moral outlook, Mr Blimp-Worthington is a quintessential evil genius and is remarkably successful. His anti-hero ness might be the main reason the authorities never seem to devote to much energy to capturing him; they are always waiting for the next pointlessly moral donation. Always looking at the mistakes of other villains, Blimp-Worthington has learned the follies of using old cut off Nazi uniforms, and prefers to wear smart suits. Ever careful to keep his budgets related to valid expenditure, he does not try to flaunt himself by choosing massively expensive designer clothes, he prefers to buy suits that look exactly the same but cost a fraction of the price. Stitch that, you fashion obsessed cretins. An admirer of quaint Britishness (being that he is British); Frederick Blimp-Worthington has grown a rather corking walrus moustache, wears a monocle and smokes a pipe. This has a dual role as a smoking implement and something he can use to assert dominance over prisoners by using it in the “And another thing” pointing role where the stem of the pipe is pointed at the other person. He also speaks like a member of the gentry circa 1900 thus referring to everyone as “Old bean/chap/fruit/boy/stick.” This quaintness is suspected as where he got his morale code. It at least explains the idea of fair play that is the donating to charities to help civilians affected by his nefarious schemes. That and his love of cricket. Not to mention the hatred of the French.
When it comes to devising master plans, much to the frustration of many self-respecting villains, he has won the “Cunning Planning” award for three consecutive years and a “Lifetime Achievements Recognition Award” at the Evil Genius awards. His most dastardly and ironic work to date was the infamous incident when a genetically modified army of baby seals started clubbing Greenpeace members to death. The Americans needed it explaining to them a few times before they got the joke. Irony is indeed pleasant. Other past works include his Seismic Quanducer, with which he held the US government to ransom. It was with this he destroyed the Chinese chemical facility to demonstrate the ability of it to America. He then promptly told the Chinese that it was an American prototype that had destroyed the facility and China proceeded to attack America. Cue maniacal laughter. Another past scheme did manage to incur the wrath of the Western World who sent an army to attack his main fortress. The attack lasted all of half an hour, which was the time it took to charge up the unstoppable super weapon that had caused the crisis and was used to destroy the entire force with one shot. Unfortunately, he was forced to scrap this weapon when it transpired the resulting recoil destroyed the section of the base it was kept in. Not content with theses evil schemes, Blimp-Worthington also has legitimate business ventures. Well…legitimate to a certain degree at any rate. Thanks to his ingenious Stock Market Master Ticker, his companies’ share prices rarely fall below the £100 a share mark on the FTSE 100. As a result of this machine’s capabilities, his best friend is a certain Mr Bill Gates.
A few words should be mentioned about Frederick Blimp-Worthington’s array of bases of evil. The three main ones consist of a clichéd but highly effective hollowed out volcano, a meticulously designed bunker built under the Swiss Alps and his pride and joy, a Cloud Base. The Cloud Base is basically a flying airport on the scale of Heathrow. It is here that Blimp-Worthington’s air force of evil is based. The whole thing was inspired when Blimp-Worthington happened to notice Skybase on Captain Scarlet and the Valiant on Doctor Who and thought, “Now there’s ruddy good idea” and is basically a giant version of them. The rather obvious problem of keeping the whole thing in the air is addressed by two prototype generators designed by Blimp-Worthington’s R&D team. A “Big Words” generator (Essentially a computerised version of Stephen Fry’s brain which, like the man himself, runs on Twinings tea) and a “Humongously Gigantic Numbers” producer. The designers theorise that the output of these disrupts the Laws of Physics to such a degree that they will probably formulate the basis of Blimp-Worthington’s next evil plan. The general populace should not worry though. If they are affected, they can expect to receive a healthy cash amount. Unless they are French. Rather strangely for an evil genius’s base, the Cloud Base has highly effective defences, the core being a shield powered by another implausible generator, the “Series of Startling Coincidences” generator. This does exactly what it says on the tin, therefore meaning it is impossible to destroy. The base is outfitted with no less than three of Blimp-Worthington’s greatest super weapon achievements. The Seismic Quanducer, the Gravitational Relaxer/Multiplier which as you can probably guess, messes up gravity and the attractively named Grahh Cannon. This is a one mile long super laser attached to the under side of the base. Due to the obvious deficiencies in aiming that this presents, plans are being drawn up to build a larger version in space, codenamed the“Zeus Cannon” for the reason that as well as a explosive fire mode with the equivalent power of a 10 megaton nuke, it also has an electromagnetic pulse setting hence the Zeus reference.
Overall, Frederick Blimp-Worthington is a credit to the community of villains, never afraid to push the boundaries of evilness. Especially when the plan involves large numbers of French people dying. All these qualities more than make up for his infrequent bouts of nobleness and cement him firmly into the Evil Genius Hall of Fame.
Frederick Blimp-Worthington is a villain. More specifically, he is what other villains regard as the worst kind of villain. An anti-hero. Anti-heroes are the ones who hardly ever get invited to villains’ parties and just generally give them a bad name. To be fair to him, he is incredibly evil, thus earning him borderline anti-hero/proper villain status. Unfortunately, that is mired by his anti-hero tendencies to do noble things, like having a change of heart and giving an evil ransom to charity. One recent example is when he blew up a chemical facility in China to prove a point, then promptly donated a good quarter of the gargantuan ransom garnered from the US government to the victims’ fund. God knows what would posses him to that. It is not even quasi-evil charities like “Free the mad bears from captivity” for Christ’s sake.
Aside from his sickeningly moral outlook, Mr Blimp-Worthington is a quintessential evil genius and is remarkably successful. His anti-hero ness might be the main reason the authorities never seem to devote to much energy to capturing him; they are always waiting for the next pointlessly moral donation. Always looking at the mistakes of other villains, Blimp-Worthington has learned the follies of using old cut off Nazi uniforms, and prefers to wear smart suits. Ever careful to keep his budgets related to valid expenditure, he does not try to flaunt himself by choosing massively expensive designer clothes, he prefers to buy suits that look exactly the same but cost a fraction of the price. Stitch that, you fashion obsessed cretins. An admirer of quaint Britishness (being that he is British); Frederick Blimp-Worthington has grown a rather corking walrus moustache, wears a monocle and smokes a pipe. This has a dual role as a smoking implement and something he can use to assert dominance over prisoners by using it in the “And another thing” pointing role where the stem of the pipe is pointed at the other person. He also speaks like a member of the gentry circa 1900 thus referring to everyone as “Old bean/chap/fruit/boy/stick.” This quaintness is suspected as where he got his morale code. It at least explains the idea of fair play that is the donating to charities to help civilians affected by his nefarious schemes. That and his love of cricket. Not to mention the hatred of the French.
When it comes to devising master plans, much to the frustration of many self-respecting villains, he has won the “Cunning Planning” award for three consecutive years and a “Lifetime Achievements Recognition Award” at the Evil Genius awards. His most dastardly and ironic work to date was the infamous incident when a genetically modified army of baby seals started clubbing Greenpeace members to death. The Americans needed it explaining to them a few times before they got the joke. Irony is indeed pleasant. Other past works include his Seismic Quanducer, with which he held the US government to ransom. It was with this he destroyed the Chinese chemical facility to demonstrate the ability of it to America. He then promptly told the Chinese that it was an American prototype that had destroyed the facility and China proceeded to attack America. Cue maniacal laughter. Another past scheme did manage to incur the wrath of the Western World who sent an army to attack his main fortress. The attack lasted all of half an hour, which was the time it took to charge up the unstoppable super weapon that had caused the crisis and was used to destroy the entire force with one shot. Unfortunately, he was forced to scrap this weapon when it transpired the resulting recoil destroyed the section of the base it was kept in. Not content with theses evil schemes, Blimp-Worthington also has legitimate business ventures. Well…legitimate to a certain degree at any rate. Thanks to his ingenious Stock Market Master Ticker, his companies’ share prices rarely fall below the £100 a share mark on the FTSE 100. As a result of this machine’s capabilities, his best friend is a certain Mr Bill Gates.
A few words should be mentioned about Frederick Blimp-Worthington’s array of bases of evil. The three main ones consist of a clichéd but highly effective hollowed out volcano, a meticulously designed bunker built under the Swiss Alps and his pride and joy, a Cloud Base. The Cloud Base is basically a flying airport on the scale of Heathrow. It is here that Blimp-Worthington’s air force of evil is based. The whole thing was inspired when Blimp-Worthington happened to notice Skybase on Captain Scarlet and the Valiant on Doctor Who and thought, “Now there’s ruddy good idea” and is basically a giant version of them. The rather obvious problem of keeping the whole thing in the air is addressed by two prototype generators designed by Blimp-Worthington’s R&D team. A “Big Words” generator (Essentially a computerised version of Stephen Fry’s brain which, like the man himself, runs on Twinings tea) and a “Humongously Gigantic Numbers” producer. The designers theorise that the output of these disrupts the Laws of Physics to such a degree that they will probably formulate the basis of Blimp-Worthington’s next evil plan. The general populace should not worry though. If they are affected, they can expect to receive a healthy cash amount. Unless they are French. Rather strangely for an evil genius’s base, the Cloud Base has highly effective defences, the core being a shield powered by another implausible generator, the “Series of Startling Coincidences” generator. This does exactly what it says on the tin, therefore meaning it is impossible to destroy. The base is outfitted with no less than three of Blimp-Worthington’s greatest super weapon achievements. The Seismic Quanducer, the Gravitational Relaxer/Multiplier which as you can probably guess, messes up gravity and the attractively named Grahh Cannon. This is a one mile long super laser attached to the under side of the base. Due to the obvious deficiencies in aiming that this presents, plans are being drawn up to build a larger version in space, codenamed the“Zeus Cannon” for the reason that as well as a explosive fire mode with the equivalent power of a 10 megaton nuke, it also has an electromagnetic pulse setting hence the Zeus reference.
Overall, Frederick Blimp-Worthington is a credit to the community of villains, never afraid to push the boundaries of evilness. Especially when the plan involves large numbers of French people dying. All these qualities more than make up for his infrequent bouts of nobleness and cement him firmly into the Evil Genius Hall of Fame.