Thread:AustinDR/@comment-1762629-20141228101559

I've been on a Nostalgia Critic marathon, and I found a villain who may be a candidate. He's only got a few actions of note, but it's a pretty far leap over the MEH: Sir August De Wynter, from the 1998 The Avengers (British spy show).

He's a billionare and the head of a secret organization tied to Wonderland Weather that leads the Prospero Project, an effort to control the world's weather. To this end, Wynter has a clone of the female protagonist, Emma Peel, enact misdeeds to frame the real Emma Peel. Wynter murders two of his henchmen once they step out of the Prospero Project. His ultimate goal is money, of course- if the world's leaders don't buy the world's weather from him by midnight, he'll use natural disasters to ravage the world and, by his own word, kill hundreds of millions of innocent lives.

Aside from his utterly heinous demands, Wynter's a fairly standard villain. He's a Bad Boss, he's rude, he traps and tries to kill the heroes a few times, but nothing terribly of note. However, his callous nature, and the fact he's willing to kill hundreds of millions to get more of something he already has plenty of, might just push him far enough over the MEH to make me actually consider him.

Your thoughts. 