When many American citizens cast their vote this November , they ’ll be choosing between the lesser of two iniquity . But why prefer the lesser evil when you’re able to choose a supervillain as your chairman ? After all , supervillains can be effective leaders , provided you may get past the lying , one-sided decision - making , rearing murder , and dismantling of your integral rights . Spoilers for various political plot lines below .
In Impulse # 35 , Julian Tremain manages to retcon himself into the presidentship and comes up with a remarkably unselfish ( if windy ) plan for American mastery : give citizenry whatever they want . He ’s even pro - science ( or at least pro - mad science ) , appointing the malign hotshot Professor Zoom as his science adviser . It all goes remarkably well until Gorilla Grodd starts messing with the timeline .
They ’ll go to great lengths to rebuild the country . Victor Von Doom was already the political leader of his own country , Latveria , but in the Marvel 2099 creation , Doom manages to become prexy of the United States . It turn out that the supervillain may be just what the dystopian future America want . Granted , he takes the presidency by personnel , hacking and slashing his way through the White House until he can claim the Oval Office as his own . But he does doctor the constitutional powers of the presidential term , nationalize the megacorps ( a lowly - government proponent ’s nightmare , but in this compositor’s case , highly necessary ) , and uses their money to rebuild the crumbling United States . He even gets in a grand sacrifice , using his own death as a means of taking out the absorption - well-chosen Phalanx .
They wo n’t stand for ridiculous interview interrogation . While not actually a villain , the antiheroic Etrigan the Demon would have likely been a less than rule-governed good selection for president . ( Superman called him , “ One of the uncollectible prospect for public spot I ’ve ever seen . ” ) But his campaign for the Republican nomination for certain was entertaining ; when ABC News lynchpin Sam Donaldson tried to call Etrigan out on his swampy rhyming , the fiend reply with a stream of flaming breath . He was also the only candidate with the catgut to beat up member of the Ku Klux Klan , although in candour , they attacked him first . Genuine villains might be convert to come after Etrigan ’s principal , at least on the interview front .
They make our monuments far more interesting . The first affair many supervillains do when they lay title to the Oval Office is to chip at their face into Mount Rushmore . In fact , you ’d think that Mount Rushmore was the only reason to steal the administration . Sometimes the outcome is mundane ( Richard Nixon as the fourth case in the Watchmen film universe ) , but sometimes you get a insane creative person like Futurama ’s first supervillain President of the United States , who was obviously a mode ikon in those goggles .
They ’ll keep up morale ( to further their evil schemes ) . You know how Sylar ( masquerading as Nathan Petrelli ) managed to get himself elected president in the Heroes alternate hereafter ? He stood as an emotional beacon to a grieving land in the wake of the nuclear explosion in Manhattan . All that warmth and strength was just a gambit to get enough top executive to pass over out the rest of superpowered humanity — and he planned to do it again with his bogus , fateful “ cure . ” Richard Nixon ’s head found a less emotionally task route to voter beguilement in Futurama ; he gave every Earth citizen a $ 300 tax repayment . While everyone else was lead around drinking coffee and swim with whales , a deleted scene revealed the truth : each bill register a vote for Nixon , allowing him to steal the next election with little fuss .
They ’ll eliminate unemployment — albeit through slavery . When alien invaders like Day of the Tentacle ’s Purple Tentacle and The Simpsons ’ Kang become President of the US , they be given to reduce man to pets or striver labor . Do n’t care it ? You should have vote for Kodos .
They ’re already part of the faint confederacy that runs the planet . Do you want an unable puppet president who is helpless against the commonwealth ’s true ruler ? Or do you want a president who is actually pulling the cosmic string ? In 1973 , Captain America discovered that Richard Nixon was the head of the Secret Empire , a potent condemnable organization which had infiltrated and manipulated corporations , criminal enterprises , and the high offices of government . That particular revelation labor Tricky Dick to suicide , but the Secret Empire would continue to operate , even without a member in office .
They ’re astonishingly easy to depose : If you ’re a decayed Chief Executive , there are a passel of meeting and a lot of paperwork that have to happen before anyone can oust you from function . But if you ’re an outright iniquity , criminal President of the United States , thing become much leisurely . Gary Callahan , the insecure , murderous Smiler of Warren Ellis ’ Transmetropolitan is so insufferable that even the Secret Service abandons him in the end , and he ’s arrested within moment of rescue his malevolent monologue to Spider Jerusalem . Robert L. Booth , the last U.S. President of the Judge Dredd Universe and author of the nation ’s nuclear trailer truck - annihilation , kick upstairs a mutant army to endeavor to take back America . But as a warlord , he was a bit of cheapskate , and when Dredd decided to habituate Booth as a human shield , Booth ’s soldiers simply shot him . After all , you could always elect a new evil chairman . Granted , Red Skull proves hard to extinguish in Old Man Logan , but his inclination to make brawny enemy , and his desire to view the cadaver of his enemies ( in a elbow room filled with superhero weapons , no less ) ultimately prove his unfastening . Even President Rexall , the knock-down potentate of the Martha Washington comics is temporarily disable early in the series , with most of his replacement at the same time killed off . lamentably , the liberal Minister of Agriculture , who contain his place , is pretty useless .
It also appears that our governance has provisions for dealing with certain types of evil elected official . When , in Robert Sheckley ’s Alternate Presidents story “ Dukakis and the Aliens , ” Michael Dukakis is elected president and turns out to be a extremity of an evil alien race , the Men In Black step in , rewrite account so that Dukakis loses the election . Of naturally , there are some who might have opt the aliens to George H.W. Bush .
hazard are you wo n’t mark a dispute between them and your non - supervillain presidents . After all , the alien Cryptosporidium 137 managed to play president in the Destroy All human being ! franchise without anyone being the wiser , and we ’ll have to see how long it takes Americans to notice that the Cobra minion Zartan has replaced the Commander in Chief in the G.I. Joe movie . Even Captain America was shocked to discover that Nixon was a supervillain , and he ’s a trained to distinguish this sort of affair . How many other supervillains could have held political post , unbeknownst to the American people ?
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