Pride is a pretty bad thing, if you think about it. It's chalked up there with six other characteristics all grouped under "The Seven Deadly Sins." As Supreme Evil Overlord, I, Omega, will never be so proud as to not be able to delegate anything. Pride has been the downfall of many would-be overlords before me. Just watch any given movie.
Aw, you need proof?
Take, for instance, the world-renowned series of Harry Potter. Voldemort, the big bad guy up there. Oh, he looks scary enough, he wants to rule the world, he's talented and got some super power called magic. For an Evil Overlord, he's got the basics down pat. But the thing is, he could have been so much more successfully if and only if while he was defeated by the power of love, he could have sent somebody else to kill a baby in the hands of the Dursleys. They're magic; they could have made it look like a complete accident!
But no. Voldemort was too pridefully obsessed to allow anyone else to kill Harry Potter, and so dragged on his life for seven books until the consequences of his pride finally terminated him. And then, kaput. No more Tom Riddle.
Think about how much would have changed if Voldemort had just piped up to Wormtail once and said, "Hey, kill that Potter kid for me--do me a solid, bro." Of course, not exactly in that California surfer dude tone; more in a badass, lord of all evil and death and snakes way. Think! Wormtail says, "Oh, alright boss, sure thing." Goes. Kills Harry. His mother's dead and his foster family consisting of the less-than-hands-on-more-like-very-hands-off Dursleys doesn't love him--there's no "power of love" to kill Wormtail. Harry Potter, Quidditch hero, is dead, and Voldemort takes over the world.
"But Voldemort needed Harry's blood to rise again! So he needed to grow up!" Would it really have been hard for Wormtail to leech a vial of blood off of a baby boy, cork it up, put it in the freezer next to the peas and corn, and save Voldemort another day?
The bottom line is, Voldemort's pride, like the pride of so many other bad guys who could have been successful overlords, destroyed him.
I won't deny that as Omega, Evil Overlord Esquire, I'm pretty narcissistic. (Would you look at this? Come on. Who doesn't love this?) However, I would contain my narcissism and pride in lieu of my desire for survival. Also, I would mercilessly slay any and all rivals and all relatives and friends of rivals--but that's for another day and another post.
Conquer on, Caesar-style!
-OMEGA
Omega, Evil Overlord Esquire
Where I generally complain about the quality of "overlords" today, tell you the top 100 things I will never do as an Evil Overlord, and much more. Have fun.
Hello, mortal...
Ah, hello! *evil chuckle* This, is my blog... yes, they're really getting in fashion now with Dark Overlords everywhere. I know, I know, I should really have found out about this before Morgoth--tch!--told me when he was drunk over at The Supremacy Bar--which is for Dark and Evil Overlords only, pathetic mortal.... yes... hm... where was I? Ah!
Anyway, I mostly talk about my plans to take over every world there is, but I also like to talk about what I wouldn't do if I was one of those... cliche Overlords,
Before you get on my ass about how all the best Overlords are male, I'll tell you something! Not once, ever! has a male Overlord succeeded, because they were too... too flipping good to smite the hero/ine where s/he stands, sword upraised like a bloody fool!
I also like to rant about other failed Overlords: Sauron, Morgoth, Voldemort, Dee, the Elders, Nebuchadnezzar II, and so forth. *smile*
