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Wait, so we have a supervillainess planning to kill the Pope and a serial killer who's his physical double?

Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

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Sep 23Liked by Strange Ian

"I had a strange dream the other night, I saw myself a hundred years from now, speaking to a man whose father has not yet been born, but who was already wearing a grey beard, and telling him that there are only two things that shall not die: God, who is Good, and I, who am Evil!"

Zenith's not wrong he was robbed, but Rocambole's definitely the only other possible winner--U and Fangora don't have the true scale required, Mabuse doesn't have the panache, Lupin's lacking both. The whole thing, though, does nicely as a symphony of crime.

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Lupin's phoning it in to be fair. Thinking about it now it's possible that Rocambole just bribed the guy holding the envelope.

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Oct 14Liked by Strange Ian

Mabuse was the standard villain of 1950s crime-movies that I watched reruns of as a child. Sad to see him miss out but you are right.

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