Feb. 9, 2005

Science Fiction Villains!

We might wince at their methods. We may be appalled by their morals, or rather, their lack of morals. But villains in any story serve a vital role: Without one, what's there for a hero to do?

Science fiction has its villains. Sometimes they can be more interesting and, well, fun to watch than the heroes fighting against them. They certainly get the best lines in movies. And the way they twist science into their evil plans?? It's a good thing they don't win.

Here's a quiz to test your knowledge of some science fiction villains. Match the villain with the evil plan.

Evil Plan

1. Control the distribution of news and information around the world by causing disasters, then reporting on them.
2. Use a nuclear bomb to make the gold in Fort Knox radioactive, making it too dangerous to touch.
3. Replace the children of politicians with android duplicates.
4. Turn non-mutants into mutants.
5. Go back in time to stop Earth from developing warp drive and meeting aliens.
6. Threaten to detonate a nuclear bomb inside Earth's core.
7. Create a series of monsters to attack a town.
8. Steal a weather machine and attempt to flood Canada.
9. Implant slug-like creatures in human hosts to create a hidden invasion force.
10. Use a machine to drive everyone mad so the villain can take over a city.
11. Rebuild a dangerous machine to prove theory, no matter what may happen.
12. Same thing that villains do every day . . . try to take over the world!
13. Send advanced robot assassins back in time to kill the future leader of humanity.
14. Use a magnet to open a portal to a supercomputer known as Mainframe, then infect the computer.
15. Put toxic chemicals into water and cosmetics to infect the population.

Villain

Auric Goldfinger	Borg Queen	Casanova Frankenstein
Dr. Drakken	Dr. Evil	Elliott Carver
Lord Zedd	Magneto	Megabyte
Minion	Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus	Skynet
The Brain	The Joker	Visser Three

Wait! There's more!

Just like a villain who won't stay defeated, here's another question for you.

A villain or evil mastermind (in a sci-fi movie) most often fails not because the hero is so great, but because:

• a. A villain picks only the best henchmen to do the important part of his evil plan.
• b. If a villain captures a hero (or a friend of the hero), a villain can’t resist gloating about his evil plan.
• c. A villain takes bad advice from a stranger.
• d. A villain has a sudden change of heart.

Answers

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