Villains

When I was a little kid, I always wondered why Tom the cat never killed Jerry the mouse. Unlike Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, who were pretty evenly matched pound for pound, Tom was a HUGE cat compared to Jerry. Intricate schemes aside, there were plenty of times that Tom had Jerry under the claw, but that crafty mouse would always turn the tables around somehow. My advice has always been, to both Tom and Wile E., to look to Elmer Fudd, who never altered from plan A.: kill the wabbit....with a shot-gun. Although equally unsuccessful, Elmer NEVER tried anything different, he didn't set up traps with bowling balls or spring-loaded knives, and he didn't mail order anything from an unreliable resource like Acme. He knew that if he kept on doing plan A. over and over and over, eventually he would catch that God damn rabbit sleeping and blast him to Kingdom Come.

My advice to the super-villain would be the same. Yes, the hero is going to turn the tables on you 99.9% of the time: they are usually too well-trained, or they're part of a larger, well-organized team, or they just get flat out lucky every single time. As a villain, super or not, you're going to get busted...a lot. However, every now again, not very often, but sometimes...the good guy will slip. Remember when Bane broke the Batman? How about when Captain America was assassinated? Ahh, good times, am I right? But I would definitely compare Wile E. Coyote to the Joker and I would compare Tom the cat to the Marvel character Apocalypse: both of them may look and talk scary, and they might cause a lot of collateral damage, but they fail to achieve their ultimate goal because they both consistently stray from whatever their original plan of action was. While the Joker is at least evenly matched with the Bat, Apocalypse dominates the majority of his heroic foes and yet he, like Tom, has a zero in the kills category because his schemes are too sketchy and he is too proud to learn from his mistakes.

I would also compare Elmer Fudd to Galactus: sshhh, I'm eating pwanets. Works EVERY time.