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[feotakahari]

Villains who meticulously plan out everything that’s going to happen are boring. I want to see some villains who improvise. Villains who set up a plan without knowing how it will end, because it looks promising and they might as well. Villains who don’t know how that fire got started, honest!

(This seems like it should be Loki, and yet I can’t think of a time I’ve seen Loki written like this.)

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[lb_lee]

I agree. I read a historical book about Adam Worth, the possible real-life inspiration for Professor Moriarty, and most of the fun wasn't seeing his plans go right, but seeing them go WRONG and how he adapted to them.

Like, his plans tended to be fairly simple and easy to explain, but they also went wrong. Sometimes the weather went bad on him. Sometimes his henchman backstabbed him, or got mugged by someone else, or got thrown in jail and he had to bail them out. HE ended up in jail at LEAST once, and had to escape. And sometimes, he just fucked up because he wasn't on his A game, because nobody always is.

A plan never survives first brush with reality, after all.