NERD PROCESSOR

How Supervillains Could Help Save the Planet

Doomsday devices might prove surprisingly useful in the event of the end of the world

Rob Bricken
OneZero
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7 min readAug 23, 2019

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Credit: starwars.com

AAlthough some of us try to ignore it, the Earth is in seriously rough shape nowadays, and it’s only going to get rougher. There are plenty of plans and treaties and scientific research being done in hopes of keeping humanity from wrecking the planet completely, but we may need to think outside the box if we want to fix things. We need to think… evilly. Which means we need to take inspiration from the worst of the worst.

Here are just some of the ways various supervillains and mad scientists of comics, cartoons, and movies could really help the Earth — if they would just stop trying to take it over.

Cobra’s M.A.S.S. Device (G.I.Joe)

The snake-themed terrorist organization Cobra spent almost the entirety of the G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon trying to get their hands on some kind of doomsday device to hold the…

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Published in OneZero

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Rob Bricken
Rob Bricken

Written by Rob Bricken

The former editor of io9.com, Rob Bricken has been a professional nerd since 2001. He also often cries at children's cartoons.