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[ Megamind is on the camera! He's looking...just a little bit bashful. ONLY SLIGHTLY ]

Hello, citizens of Thesity! I have slowly come to the realization that the money on these [ Yes, there is a dramatic jutting of his arm out, and those dogtags from the porter are swinging in his fist. He might have etched giant laserbolts on the sides of his name, if you have really really good vision ] simply aren't enough to fund a campaign against the forces of evil!

Therefore I! Megamind, the greatest genius of all time, am bringing you an offer, Thesity!

I will build you things! Great things! All you need to do is ask, [ A pauuuse ] and pay me, and I shall create for you great works of genius! I can create anything you could possibly imagine! Great wonders are in store for you, future consumer [long u] if you will simply step into my mystical shop. Of genius! [ By the end, he's a little worked up, with a finger in the air, and his eyes are wide. He's even breathing a little heavy! ]

Now! To work!

[ And... then a quiet hiss of background noise is quickly being turned up to the dulcet tunes of Rush's Tom Sawyer being turned up right on that wicked electronic intro, pretty much to deafening levels, and then the camera shuts off.

MAC residents who may be living within his proximity will probably be able to hear him still. Pretty much all night long, actually. ]

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So you'd be just as satisfied with an order for a super-weapon as you would be with one for a triple-layered cake?

Well I couldn't be expected to bake a cake!

Besides, if they want me to build a super-weapon for evil, then they may as well just turn it back over, because I'll simply defeat them before they're given a chance to use it!

That's why you have to be specific when you advertise. _{( 8| )}

But you see how you could turn a profit that way. If you were competent enough to really defeat them.

Of course I could defeat them! I'm the hero, that's what I do.

Being in a certain occupation doesn't guarantee success.

When you're the hero it does! Heroes win, villains lose. That's the way it goes.

Ideally. But anyone who thinks that happens all of the time is deluded.

Deluded? That's not right! That's how it goes, that's how it always goes!

Yes, deluded. If heroes always won, the villains would just give up eventually. They're not all that stupid.

[.....HEY! He sounds so insulted 8( ]

There's nothing stupid about it! Sometimes it's destiny!

_{( Damian is hideous and I apologize. )}

Destiny?

[ It's beautiful. And sad when a kid is more grounded in reality than him. ]

Destiny! You don't think bad guys pick their occupation because they want to be evil, do you?

Some of them do. Others just want money, or power, or are insane.

Well of course! That's part of being evil!

So you're saying all those desires and inclinations and mental illnesses all just happened because they were conveniently meant to be villains?

Destiny has a way of messing up lives, you know. Nobody starts out wanting to be a villain.

...you really think so?

_{( he is thinking about this very hard now. )}

[ For all his bluster, he actually gets a little serious for a moment. ]

I know so.

Tt. I have trouble believing that.

And are you an expert on villains?

_{( > looks at his life
> looks at his choices
> looks at his family )}

Yes.

Oh.

[ PAUUUSE. ]

Well. I am the authority on them!

Really.

[ So full of himself! ]

Yes, really!

So if villains are meant to be villains, are all heroes meant to be heroes?

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