Grrl Power #236 – Recon
I’m rather fond of this page. I think it’s a pacing thing, especially that middle panel where the two of them are just watching. I also like how the guy in the fedora is totally nonplussed by Sydney standing next to him. I mean the more recent North American definition of nonplussed, which is to say he is unsurprised or unperturbed by it, and not the original meaning, which is so surprised or perturbed that you don’t know how to react. So it’s a word that means the exact opposite of itself. I guess that qualifies it as a contronym, like oversight can mean oversee and also overlook, or left can mean depart or remain. (The artists have left, the writers are left.) So. Those are handy.
Maxima told Sydney that the yellow orb was to remain classified. Obviously Sydney took that to mean the truesight function of the orb and not the illusion function. If she’s wrong about that there may be a lot of pushups in her future. There are anyway, but you know, extra.
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Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots fame will be stopping by Zeus Comics in Dallas this Saturday, (Aug 2) which is my regular comic shop BTW. From the looks of it on her website, it’ll be from 4-8pm, and Randy Milholland from Something*Positive will be there as well since he’s a Dallasite and they’re buds and all that. I will definitely stop by and hang out for a bit since I need to pick up my comics anyway.
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An interesting thought occurs. Based on what we saw in the ballroom scene when the Comm-Ball was introduced, Holo!Sydney can’t move or speak independently from Real!Sydney; the hologram just mirrors the speech and actions of the real thing. Which means that Real!Sydney is off somewhere in the midst of the battle, saying all these same things…to thin air. Everyone around her is probably staring at her and wondering who the hell she’s talking to.
Unleeeeeeeess…maybe the skill point she (unwillingly) spent on the Comm-Ball allowed her to control the hologram independently of herself?
I don’t think her brain would be capable of independently controlling both ‘bodys’ yet
She might learn to, with practice though
Harem could probably help her with that, but only if she’s not too busy playing both sides against themselves… but I suppose Harem could play a pentagon against itself!
You can’t help someone train that. The brain just needs to try until the correct connections have formed
True, but you can guide them, provide tips/suggestions when things seem to be stalled
Harem could do more than that if no more than two of her had to be in the same room at the same time to pull things off. Her only limitation is the fact that she can’t shape change and is limited to general mundane cosmetic alterations. Although considering what non-super spies can do….
It would also help if she were playing different groups in different time zones.
But… we want a full Harem pulling things off, each other, with plenty of oils and giggling and moaning
I’m reaching for a firehose.
Mmm, spray them down nice and wet ;)
(turns it on Guesticus) chill dude.
Some people with ADHD, myself included, can actually think of two things at the same time, not just quickly switching back and forth between a couple of things. I did not realize that other people do not think this way until I was watching a lecture on PBS about how people think and the presenter mentioned that people can only think of one thing at a time and that multitasking is done by switching between the tasks quickly, sort of like a Linux kernel running on a single core system. They think with a literal one-track mind, even if they switch tracks rapidly.
For people with my style of ADHD, think of it more like a Linux kernel running on a multi-core processor or a multi-processor system, with multiple processes running in parallel. Instead of having a one-track mind, our minds are more like a switching yard, with multiple tracks being used at once.
I have used this ability many times. When I was at the house of one of my cousins, he had the sheet music for a song I liked (One Tin Soldier), so I typed it into his email program to email me. At the same time as I was typing the song, I was singing another song to him. Afterwards, I found out he was watching to see when I would start singing the song I was typing or start typing the song I was singing, but I kept the two songs independent. While at work, more than once, I have been typing a computer program while carrying on an independent conversation with one of my co-workers. Now it helps that I am a touch-typist, but apparently this is still something most people find difficult to do.
I have tutored three people on three different subjects at the same time. I can carry on a conversation while writing down things which have nothing to do with the conversation. The list goes on.
The downside to this is that when people say I should concentrate on one thing at a time, I have to ask them how to do that. Usually the answers I get are useless to me, (I can not implement “Just make up your mind and do it.” without extra information), so I usually do not bother asking anymore. This can confuse the people I am with, but it works for me most of the time. Mind you I can still get distracted pretty easily, like reading web comics when I should be programming.
I find white noise such as music I listen to a lot helps me to work on a single task, other option which is a lot harder to get into the practice of and doesn’t work for all tasks is treat it like a RAID0 hard-drive array, work 2 parts of the problem simultaneously, essentially treating the single task like 2
Yup that’s true multitasking.
I can do the same thing to a limited degree. People that don’t know me usually asume I’m not paying attention to them, which makes things a little difficult sometimes. It was always funny when some smug teacher asked me to repeat because he knew I wasn’t paying attention, and than I reveal I did though. Like when I’m reading something during a conversation
The thing about multitasking for ‘normals’, is that most tasks don’t actually require people to pay attention.
Such as listning to music, cycling, walking, stuf like that. The normal brain is perfectly capable of combining 1 difficult task with a multitude of automated tasks, and alot of people confuse that for multitasking
Good suggestion
adhd. But her tactical awareness of things that are going on seems to be decent. It helps that she was told to stand around in a forcefield instead of be in active combat
Those particular orders were superseded. She’s now “running interference,” and she’s actually doing a damn good job at it.
I was wondering why Mr. Trenchcoat was phasing through Sydney’s shield, but now that I read it’s Sydney’s projection, I have a bit less to worry about.
Suit, not a trenchcoat
Whoever Fedorka is, he has done his Sydney Homework :D
That sounds like a “Leon” codename if I’ve ever heard one. =)
Supervillians generally have one or both of two goals, steal money, take over the world. They often combine this with a third goal of becoming famous. Regular villians, just want money. What we are seeing here is everyone who wants to become famous. I’m betting there is a whole bunch of other super-villians who are just to smart to stick their heads up.
For anyone interested in taking over the world, Read GRUNTS by Mary Gentle.
I know some people who post here read Girl Genius, so I hope you’ll forgive me for borrowing a joke from Phil Foglio, when I say that Dabbler should be a precog. Forewarned is forearmed, so shouldn’t four-armed be forwarned?
“Taking over the world is possible but it would be impossible to run it afterward.” – Jo in Shinobi Queen.
I’m paraphrasing not quoting here.
Also: ‘You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright.
Pretty much why Evil Inc. don’t want to rule the world, renting it is better: let the landlord/owner deal with the costs of repairs :P
I’ve read that a few years back, I think it’s about a of orc’s/ogre’s who have an encounter with a dragon who gives them a load of US marine gear, after a lot of training became a highly trained and disciplined unit.
They arrived at one battle against the forces of light, who dismissed them as the standard “sword fodder”
The standard “sword fodder”, who just kicked their butt big time.
Wouldn’t be too surprised if that isn’t pretty much a trope right there.
Just think of an AD&D troll with enough brains to realize the usefulness of a Ring of Fire Resistance…
Actually forearmed is half an octopus!
The whole “villains stealing money” thing make little sense to me. What are they going to spend it on? If a villain can bust into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and steal all the gold, why doesn’t this guy just steal whatever it is he intends to buy with it?
Less effort basically, enough cash can buy EVERYTHING you want without pesky do-gooders getting in the way. One big effort and you are set for life. There are plenty of Banks who turn a blind eye to where large amounts of money come from. Once it’s in the system you become legit.
Well, everything that you can actually buy anyway. Doomsday device parts you need to get on you’re own.
Not really with the banks. Good luck finding anyone to accept such a huge volume of cash. Thats sets off all kinds of red flags. Plus, if you stole that kind of cash, and it’s gonna be a huge deal given how little physical cash is concentrated in any one place these days, good luck getting to a bank, let alone anyone to accept it.
You’d get a bank in N. Korea to take it, but they’re stuck in a similar situation since that institution is cut off from foreign exchange markets. Unless your goal is to run off to Africa and live as a warlord in Congo, might as well just skip the money part and go directly for what you want.
That’s why there is such a thing called ‘laundering’, or simply, buy smaller things, then sell those off and have the proceeds sent directly to your bank account (the big plus, is you have the receipts for the items you have bought, and sold)
Well the Drug-lords seem to have no problems not to mention various terrorist groups. Several banks have been fined piddling sums for doing that very thing. Where do you think all that drug money goes? Not to mention what various dictators and “rebel” leaders do with their ill-gotten gains. I think the Swiss banks still have Nazi gold stored in their vaults.
Well…
This would be one explanation for a start https://xkcd.com/1400/
Michael Bay as a supervillain? Hmmm…
Considering what he has done to pretty much every franchise he has been involved in/with (Transformers, Alien Turtles)…
Don’t forget about villains with vendettas, or those that want to change the world, or just flat out destroy it. Those are even worse to deal with.
“Some people can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some people just want to watch the world burn.” -Alfred Pennyworth
…Nero & his fiddle, for one famous example…
I have a feeling that Fedorka, is actually a hero of heroes type of thing.
I think he’s still a bad-guy, just not related to the current mess. He was probably going about it smartly, passively gathering surveillance and reconnaissance, when this giant gaggle-o-villains appeared.
Cataclysm, gaggle is the word for a mass of geese, when it’s super-villains the word is cataclysm. ^_~
no, that’s the term for a bunch of angry fanatics at Comicon. for Villains it’s a Horde.
horde
Noun
1) chiefly derogatory A large group of people:
EX. a horde of beery rugby fans
1.1) An army or tribe of nomadic warriors:
Ex. Tartar hordes
2) Anthropology A small loosely knit social group typically consisting of about five families.
Origin
mid 16th century (originally denoting a tribe or troop of Tartar or other nomads): from Polish horda, from Turkish ordu ‘(royal) camp’.
Fair enough – I just have a hard time thinking of a group of 30 as a horde
Try substitute teaching for a middle school class that has poor classroom discipline. Horde would be an appropriate term, so would cataclysm. And usually from 25 to 35 ‘teenagers’, not even full grown adults with super powers.
[shudder]
I think gaggle would be an appropriate word to describe this group of villains…quite a few of them are getting their geese cooked, figuratively speaking.
Literal for Glow Bug and her partner.
/huge grin activated
Somehow Sydney’s hairstyle always evaded my attention: Anyone got a good picture of a real life example?
Pretty much no comic hair style (especially female) exists in the real world, not without enough hair spray to destroy the ozone of a hundred Earths
so basically any hairstyle from the ’80s
Dagwood Bumstead? Oh! You said real life.
But Dagwood IS real life! I’ve even duplicated some of his sandwiches & even managed to eat them!
:o
I’m gonna guess he’s the one who organized this little clam bake. Remember the flash of all the villains that occurred between Arianna and Maxima (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1189)? He’s the first person we see, and none too nice looking, followed by a bunch of people who look like main boss material. Could the author have given spoilers as to the story layout of the comic arcs?
Oh yeah. I tought he looked familiar ^_^
There seems to be a few differences between this guy (1422) and the guy on the older page (1189).
* 1422 seems to have solid black eyebrows whereas 1189 has more grey
* 1422’s stripes are brighter than 1189’s and has a bit of an outline vs 1189’s solid dull
* 1422 has more of a slope on the nose vs 1189’s is more vertical
* 1422 has a different ear shape than 1189, with 1422’s being a bit smaller and a little more rounded
* 1422 and 1189 seem to have a bit of a difference in cheekbone shape
* 1422 seems to have a bit of a healthier skin tone and 1189 seems to be a little bit more grey, though that could also be from lighting
If I had to guess one of them is a clone or they’re siblings/twins. Unless it gets confirmed otherwise, I’m going with they are two separate people, though 1422 being either hero or villain can still go one way or the other.
DaveB‘s art has progressed a lot since then
Maxima is a completely different color than when the comic started and Dabbler now has half an many boobs as she started with. It’s almost certainly art progression
She also used to have a tail
that too
Actually, Ariana only mentioned them as members of the “super community” rather than as “super villains”. Thus, if he is the same guy, his comment could be interpreted in several ways.
Calling it, fedora guy is actually cloaked/phased/whathaveyou and only sidney see him, there goes truesight being useful! Maybe he’s even that arc-dark guy mentioned way back
X? Nah, they were inside the restaurant
Ya’know, cape guy could just be a bad decision maker…
I think Fedorka, to use the name someone suggested above, is actually surprised when Sydney talks to him. His mental comment about Sydney surviving makes me think he’s not in the Bad camp, but we will have to wait and see at this point.
I think we will need to refer to his headgear as ‘Schrodinger’s Hat’ because he is both good AND Evil until the question is asked and we find out one way or another.
+1
His mental comment about Sydney surviving makes me think that he is expecting multiple deaths. Which to me puts him firmly in the Bad camp.
I keep thinking that RedCapeGuy is there just to ask Maxima out on a date….
Bice Hat’s reference to multitasking might mean he is observing and reporting at the same time. Telepathy perhaps, along with the possibility of advising/controlling just a few key players, he’s sending an on-the-scene report to his boss.
Nice Hat
But Sydney isn’t holding the comm ball.
She was, look at the back-shot, when she let go of it, she disappeared with a ‘PWIP’.
Yes she is. Panel 5, right hand. She breaks communication and lets go of the comm-ball by the time she uses her empty right hand to point in panel 9.
Look closer at panel 5.
OH, he said he hopes she doesn’t get killed tonight! I wonder if that means this attack isn’t the main event of the day (in the comic)? Maybe the real fight and /or attack is yet to come. :D Or maybe he just means the current fight, but I think my first idea is more mysterious. :)
He’s probably part of a different group, and only professional villian, not actually evil.
He has nothing personal against Halo, so he hopes she survives until the time comes that she does need to die (maybe even hopes that time wouldn’t come)
Sigh dude one way ticket to the “List”.
Yes, but at the back of the “List”, not the front
From a storytelling point of view this is a damn near perfect page. You’re showing quite a bit of charter development for both of them. We’ve seen a lot of spastic and hyper Sydney, this page is a prelude to how she’s really going to be dangerous in the future, analytical and strategic Sydney.
Not only did she notice this guy hanging back but investigated him from a safe distance using a hologram. And it wasn’t blatantly obvious that it was a hologram, and the guy coming through the shield made their interaction very curious and put a bit of suspense into the page until the reveal at the end.
The quite moment in the middle was a wonderful touch. Please ignore the people pushing you to advance the story faster, your pacing is great and this page is proof of it.
Exactly what Tempest_D said. This is progressing beautifully, and this page is a great look into Sydney and this new as-so-far-unnamed character. It’s good to see her learning and wising up (even if only a bit). And in regards to him, from this page alone, I get the sense that he is going to be an excellent and recurring character.
As was said above, your pacing is spot on. I’m really looking forward to how the story grows and evolves. I’m stoked to see it become more complex, and learn how “deep” the characters’ own stories are :)
I wonder how much ArcDark has budgeted for tracking tailors? These costumes don’t grow on trees, and for example, that suit Fedorka is wearing is definitely bespoke.
You can hire someone to make a custom suit like that in half the world from the streets actually.
That’s going to impossible to track
well i think we know what he is wearing under that trench coat.
What trenchcoat? That’s a suit, not a trenchcoat
Dear Dave,
Now that we have a slight pause to reflect on things, I would like to add my two quatloos to the events of last comic’s radiation scare. You draw a great comic with inventive storylines and believable characters. However, I suggest using things like your squeakus-ex-machina tactic to resolve serious problems to a minimum. We had a huge surge of comments analyzing the situation and looking for a workable fix using the (normally adhered to) laws of physics. Turning it into a goofy sight gag makes it feel like you ‘cheated’ somehow. It reduces the sense of real peril the characters are in. The readers might start to think, ‘Well, that ticking bomb under the table is no threat. Someone will just teleport it, or deactivate it, or turn it into chocolate and eat it.” If you start randomly changing the rules in the middle of the game, the fans are less likely to stick around to see how it ends.
It HAS been mentioned that Dabbler is an alien with access to “borderline magic” technology at points as well as having access to actual magic.
So a radiation absorbing plushy isn’t all that farfetched to me. She probably cobbled it together either out of boredom/foresight, or needed to absorb radiation before.
The thing is, a ticking bomb really isn’t a threat to half the team
While it is still ticking, nobody on the team is actually in danger. When it stops ticking, that is when a few of the members are likely to get hurt, depending on why it stopped ticking.
Kinda agree with this, but my main beef is with Dabbler. While the other supers have quite defined abilities (although we do not know the upper limit to most of them yet) Dabbler seems to be able to do anything. I know that is supposed to be her quirk, the “jack of all trades” but I am starting to get batman utility belt vibes from her (grappling hooks. smoke bombs. trackers and gps. x-ray googles. shark repellent! And that’s from the guy without access to hammerspace)
That is part of the point of Dabbler, she is good, but not great, at a whole bunch of stuff. She is almost as powerful as Max and almost able to beat Math in hand-to-hand (to-hand-to-hand) combat. She is super-human (as well as non-human) in many ways, just not at a top level for any of it.
Super-creature?
The simplest answer, in my mind, is that Dabbler is an adventurer. Where as batman has a list of all the super villians in known space and a database of weaknesses/ psyche profiles and such; Dabbler has monster manuals, which may or may not be monsters themselves.
She probably has her own armory; as big as Archon’s official one (because of COURSE they have an off the books one) full of odds and ends that help out in situations. If you had the means, why WOULDN’T you be prepared.
Given that she is ALSO an alien, from space, radiation is a MAJOR problem to deal with, one flicker in your magnetic shielding, one seam in your insulating armor and enough rads to melt your brain can get right into your face.
So the plushie just might be something invented to give to kids on spaceships. It’s cute, and it keeps them safe from radiation.
As for her power, Dimensional Anchor keeps people from teleporting? Bet there’s a version that keeps you from summoning stuff.
No who’s who for this big fellow? Myst-eeerr-ious!
(You gots to wiggle your fingers when ya says it!)
Fedorka may have finally spoken, but he has still not been formally introduced yet
Anyone else notice this guy is going RIGHT through her forcefield? Look at his shoulder/hand in the panel where he points to the guy in the cape. That’s… troublesome.
Others have already pointed it out, but I will here as well!
That’s not Sydney’s forcefield. That’s the telepresence hologram of Sydney’s forcefield. It is much more permeable that the real thing ^_^
This must be regional; I’ve never heard it used in any way other than ‘surprised, not sure how to react’. Also, his reaction in panel 2 is plausibly nonplussed by that definition.
Source
I always thought a nonplussed number would be negative?
I’m going to bypass my regular Saturday RPG night to be able to get to Zeus to meet Dave and Danielle and see Randy again. I hope you know what a sacrifice this means to me. :)
I’m North American and I’ve never heard of this “modern” definition of nonplussed. I can find no trace of it in Webster’s or Dictionary.com, either. It may be more regional than you think, or just a case of Alanis Irony Syndrome.
I had an odd thought after reading this on my phone at work last night: What if he IS watching them to learn about them? But not for the purpose she thinks. What if he is with organized crime & they are simply watching them so as to know how to set the odds when they fight? Think about it, this is a world with Supers in it, but otherwise pretty much normal. People will bet on ANYTHING. Stands to reason people would want to bet on battles involving Supers. & Illegal & legal betting is a major way OC makes money so stands to reason they would have bookies accepting bets.
Thoughts or rebuttals anyone?
While I do not think that this guy is just there for gambling purposes, I DO love your idea! That WOULD actually make sense! :)
I like panel 2, the expression change from the “‘sup?” is great.
I like the touch of Sydney holding her orbs behind her back. True, what each does was basically told to the press (with 2 exceptions) but it’s still a nice tactic to prevent opponents from figuring out what she’s doing (which is probably one of the biggest weak spots of using the orbs at this point, along with only being able to use 2 at once).
…except that the 5 orbs she is NOT holding are orbiting above her head. By process of elimination, it is easy to tell which ones she IS holding.
Not many people (villains or otherwise) are likely to think of that *in the middle of a frickin’ combat situation!*
However, Mr. Fedora *isn’t* in combat & he’s probably already figured out that the Sydney-standing next-to-him is a hologram of some kind, because of the way he was able to lean *into* her shield while he pointed out Von Doomcape.
I get the feeling that the guy with the Fedora are gonna wind up joining ArcSwat, same with Mr Hairdresser
*Ahem* The Barberian
Fedorka is not going to join Archon, neither is Zeb the Barberian (just look at panel 5)
The flyer in panel 5 has a full head blonde hair and is wearing a shirt. Another mook entirely.
Can’t zoom in on this browser, that ‘blonde hair’ looks like his head, and that sure looks like a naked chest and bare feet to me
it’s random flying mooks that make my villain tally so bloody difficult
The mooks would apologize. But hey, they’re mooks. Faceless, numberless and mostly useless unless blocking a hallway.
Is…is fedora guy casually passing through Sydney’s bubble?
Please to be reading comments, it has already been explained numerous times: Sydney is using her Telepresence Orb to have a save chat with the stranger
That’s not Sydney, that’s just her hologram created by the telepresence orb.
You did not notice her vanishing in thin air in panel 8?
BTW Dave love the Batman sound effects (the TV show) nice use of empty space.
Yeah, but did you notice who was sent flying? Guess someone decided not to accept Zeb’s surrender
Unless he dressed first not him. That guy has a shirt on.
Here’s to hoping that this is Sydney’s morally grey almost villain. I don’t know why, but I already like him. He seems fun.
Hi. I wanted to thank you for fixing your RSS Feed. I hadn’t noticed the comic missing yet but I appreciate it when creators support RSS. Several sites I followed regularly have recently removed RSS and it has been depressing. So thank you! Also I think this has been my favorite scene of the fight so far.
So, Dave, are you a TeamFourStar fan? Because I couldn’t stop the scene between Vegeta and Gohan from playing in my head: “S’up guys? Thwartin’ ma plans?” “Thwartin’ your plans?” “Well, are you?”
Am i the only one here who are hoping at least some of these people are actual superheroes?
People who only want to use their powers for good, but at the same time dislike the thought of a Super powered military, or want to remain independent?
If they are trying to prove Archon is not a good idea, this is the worst possible way to do so. Major riot with property damage, hanging with killers and otherwise looking totally out of control.
See https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/955
‘Using one’s powers for good’ is a very subjective thing. A guy who (whether via superpowers or hardware) goes around vapourizing every shop-lifter, illegal parker and litterbug he spots might insist that he is ‘using his powers for good’. But many would disagree with that mindset – and not just the aforementioned targets..
Archon offers training and support to anyone who wants to make themselves useful. There is no need to let the world know your personal life while you work for them. Sounds ideal unless someone is really just a sociopath forcing their “justice” on others. I’m lookin’ at you Wayne…
I finally have a gravatar and this webcomic’s awesomeness is what made me make one because it’s that awesome. the cloak guy could be doing a “on-the-field” version of what fedorka is doing
There probably is more than one organization that employes powered individuals for less savory tasks than law enforcement. And one is running the attack while at least one other is merely observing.
I wonder if Max faced any super mercenaries in the sandbox?
During the press conference she implied heavily that she had met Iraqi supers, and that not all of them had survived the encounters.
Well The guy in the cape qualifies as “Something Shiny” I suppose…
Now that Syd is getting better with the remote control function she can start popping over to the other side of the street and give interviews on how the battle is going to the waiting reporters.
I have a feeling that doing so would not go over well with Maxima.
I don’t think the flying person in panel 5 is Barbarian. I think that’s some other random villain. I zoomed in, and the guy looks like he has a shirt, and not the same hair.
OH crap ITS THE FIRST GUY FROM EVIL DUDES PAGE
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1189
look at evildoer #1. Totally him
We could try naming him “The Acceptor”.
His name is ‘Roger Fedorka’, in his spare time he plays tennis
I’m not wholly convinced he is a bad guy, although I do admit that the evidence is pretty substantial. However, Ariana’s comments mentioned the super community which would include heroes as well as villains and his words could be interpreted in various ways. What exactly does he see as the “challenge” and just how does he plan to “accept” it?
I’m wondering if perhaps he runs or is the chief agent of an organization that provides powered mercenaries for legal or almost-legal security operations. Think Blackwater with powered dudes. Up to now they have been under the table. But with Archon officially announcing the presence of powered individuals, their cover is gone or about to go. Fedorka and his bosses are going to have to make major changes to stay in business. Or say the heck with legit, take over a small country and run operations from there. Becoming a thorn in Archon’s side long-term.
Interesting options, but my point was that we shouldn’t go drawing conclusions based on insufficient data. First, we don’t know whether both appearances are, in fact, one and the same guy. Second, Ariana never identified the people on the page as necessarily being villains (both may be likely, but that isn’t the same as being definite). Third, his thoughts in the last panel don’t seem to correspond to those of a villain’s.