I grew up watching creative geniuses like Joplin, Hendrix, and Morrison blaze brilliantly, then die of overdoses. And I idolized writers like Hemingway, Poe, Kerouac, O. Henry, and Thompson, who all viewed drugs and alcohol as necessary ingredients for their creative genius—or at least helpful to medicate the issues preventing them from achieving it. The Flash (2014) has Eobard Thawne and Clifford DeVoe. They create the most elaborate and complex plans against Barry and his team, so it's no wonder, that despite their ultimate failure they do deal a lot of damage.

And despair because the euphoria of the high (which gets less euphoric every time) was replaced by the exhaustion, nausea, and depression of the crash. Among meth addicts, these days are called “suicide Tuesdays” for reasons you can probably imagine. In Superman comics, Lex Luthor was originally this trope with shades of Big Bad. Post-Crisis the roles were inverted: Luthor was a Big Bad with shades of Evil Genius. He also has some other more conventional Evil Geniuses on his payroll, e.g. Dr. Teng, Sydney Happersen, Dabney Donovan, and occasionally the Toyman. Brainiac Also fits this as well being a 12th level intellect. The Hunger Games: The unnamed male tribute from District 3 to the the Career Tributes' group, as he figures out how to reactivate the mines from each Tribute’s pad. It's not just the minor errors that ring alarm bells – blues musician Alexis Korner becomes Alex Korner, late guitarist Brian Jones's girlfriend Anna Wohlin turns into Anna Wholin – but the selection of material. Andersen takes a line from Richards's Life seemingly to support his retelling of the old myth about Marianne Faithfull and the Mars Bar but ignores Richards's insistence that it never happened. The author also argues that the song Angie is about Bowie despite Richards's own account of how he, not Jagger, wrote most of it. But then Andersen concedes nothing to doubt. You wouldn't think the subject of Carly Simon's You're So Vain was one of pop's most famous mysteries from the way Andersen bluntly states (despite Simon's own denials) that it's Jagger. Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger has Quval, who prefers psychological tactics in contrast to the brutish ones his fellow Team Leader Azald likes to employ.Darth Maladi from Star Wars: Legacy is both a Sith alchemist and the head of Sith Intelligence. She's generally portrayed as one of the most cunning Sith characters in the comic, but seems to enjoy her schemes and experiments more for their own sake than from the hope of doing anything constructive with them.

December 20 - MORE Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius: 40 NEW Build-it-Yourself Projects by Robert Iannini Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb. A Ditzy Genius to be sure, but like the title characters, he's nevertheless smart enough to invent anything in only a few hours, even to the point of flagrantly defying the laws of physics. Captain Marvel a.k.a. SHAZAM's enemy Dr Sivana is another early textbook example of this. He's the guy in the picture above. When he's in teams, he finds himself here. After reading Mad Genius, I filled half a journal with insights and ideas,but here are a couple of areas of critical thinking which I believeevery entrepreneur would be wise to attend to— instead of risking seeing the next 10 years become more than “cataclysmic”— in fact downright disasterous.” From Russia with Love: Kronsteen is a literal chessmaster who acts as The Strategist for SPECTRE and whose duty is to create plans for various operations. While Rosa Klebb is effectively the main antagonist, it's Kronsteen who helped devise the plan and ensure all the pieces were in place.Mystery Men's Casanova Frankenstein is an evil Disco genius. Even his archnemesis asks him for help with his quips. He wears a set of golden finger cuffs that carry sonic rays and hyper-lasers, and a pair of slippers that emit poison gas. And that's just what his enemy knows he's wearing while he just sits around in his dressing gown. Several members of the Forsaken in The Wheel of Time, including Ishamael (specializes in philosophy, theology, and metaphysics), Graendal (specializes in personal manipulation) and Demandred (specializes in millitary strategy).