What's the economics of being the average crook supervillain?How do you actually "clean" money once you rob a bank? I think that is why robbing priceless artifacts and fencing them off is more viable.
You put your ill-gotten gains into a laundromat.
>>152073034You ever watch Goodfellas? You be incredibly careful and try not to overspend. Or you be a massive snitch and get put on government watch for your own safety. Or you use it to buy more dangerous weapons and plan bigger heists
>>152073222Huh, that actually makes sense.
>>152073034Wizard or Vulture would have been incredibly fucking rich if they just decided to sell their amazing pocket sized devices that let people fly. Instead they decided to forego billions in marketing, or at least selling patents to Airline and oil industry giants, and went after hundreds by robbing banks.
>>152073034Supervillains aren't realistic, to be honest.
The Champions had something about this. A huge market fuckup ruined the scientist's company and his super suit got beat out by Stark tech. He robbed banks out of spite, and then ran into trouble when he almost killed people trying to escape. Guy tried to commit suicide by Iceman saved him.
>>152073523>I don't want to sell patents and cash royalty checks>I want to rob banks
>>152073034In Marvel, up until around 9/11, whenever that was, Latveria financed most technological villains to destabilize America. Modern comics also have the country Bagalia as kind of a supervillain safe haven.>>152073523I like how TAS and Spectacular made it so Norman Osborn fucked Toomes over, he couldn’t get rich off any of his work because he lost ownership of it.
>>152073034I was thinking about this exact scene yesterday.Many of them steal valuable items instead of paper money. I always assumed they go to a fence afterwards.
>>152074140>Latveria financed most technological villains to destabilize America. Modern comics also have the country Bagalia as kind of a supervillain safe haven.And yet Chirac still doesn't want us to defeat them
>>152073523Isn't Wizard already rich? Vulture got screwed over and is taking it into his own hands so the money itself probably isn't the biggest concern so much as the process.
>>152074140I don't get why Doom and Latveria are like the dumbest stuff ever and yet I still am way more of a fan of Doom shenanigans than anything Reed has ever done. I don't even hate Reed, I just find him a bit smarmy. It's too fun to be a Victor fan
>>152073034What's the issue number?
>>152075495He looks cool.
>>152074140That was a bullshit retcon.It was Justin Hammer not Latveria that financed tech for super villains and Tinkerer was just an off brand provider of tech.
>>152075495Doom was not the one Bendis had funding villains. It was a random chick Bendis created that was trying to overthrow Doom in the past, and became the US's installed puppet leader of Latveria after Waid had Doom trapped in Hell in #500. Even though said scenario couldn't have happened given the fall out of Doom's imprisonment was well documented in the Waid run.
>>152073548People who get superpowers one day becoming incredibly assholes that muscle everyone else around would be most common. This is why every superhero having 10+ supervillains makes sense. Most would just use their powers to their advantage and push people around.But the costumed non-powered guys that whip up weird gimmicks and then make colorful suits to go rob banks, that's not really a thing that would happen too much. Guys like Beetle, Stilt Man, Riddler, Ringer, Sports Master, Trickster, guys that have no business trying to be villains in the first place. It's kind of stupid to dress up in a VERY easily identifiable costume to go commit major felonies, much less go do it without even a gun, just with whatever weird gimmicky weaponized gadget they just invented.And they go try it in a world where there are a few dozen people who can toss mountains around effortlessly.
>>152073548>>152073523Captain Cold didn't even invent his Freeze Gun.He was trying to steal a cyclotron from a lab. Gardner Fox apparently thought a cyc was something you could pick up and carry off.Weather Wizard tried hiding in his genius brother's lab, found him dead, and studied his notes.But, yeah, NASA and/or Elon Musk would pay plenty for a giant boomerang which could leave Earth's gravity well.
