I was going over some old notes about supervillains and I remembered something I didn't have time to ask way back when. How many gadgets have supervillains used that looked like they had great potential but were never used more than once. In Ms. Marvel 7, 1977 Modok used a mind-ripper brainwashing machine against Ms. Marvel, it scrambled her brain so that she loved him and was completely loyal. It didn't work because of the characters own mental problems, but Modok mentioned that she had held out longer than others. As far as I know he never used it again. Why do supervillains have this habbit of using something only once when the potential for it working on someone else or being modified is so high?
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I always figured that, especially in the case of someone like Dr. Doom or Lex Luthor, the villains are so arrogant that when one of their inventions is only 95% effective, they deem it an utter failure, and an embarrassment to their genius, never to be spoken of again.
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I always figured that, especially in the case of someone like Dr. Doom or Lex Luthor, the villains are so arrogant that when one of their inventions is only 95% effective, they deem it an utter failure, and an embarrassment to their genius, never to be spoken of again.