I really want to have the typical mad scientist trying to take over the world and building armies of robots... you know, typical Pulp stuff.
However, I'm having trouble deciding what to have him threaten the world with. I don't want it as predictable as a nuclear warhead or something typical, I would love something off the wall and odd, much like the drill going to the center of the earth to detonate a warhead like in Austin Powers. So I'm hoping to get some advice from you guys if you have any ideas of how you would outlandishly destroy the world.
Thanks
Or some kind of magnetic ray with the power to pull the moon into the Earth.
-a machine that will increase the power of moon beams and thereby turn the entire world into "lunatics"
-a special chemical weapon that dissolves key components in cell phones, rendering them all dead
-a tone generator that drives all pets, all pets, into a blood-thirsty rage
-a retrovirus designed to flip the genetic sex of all humans from female to male and vice-versa
-an airborne solvent that affects only the ink on printed money
(you can adjust this one to include only your nation/region; blanking all Euros would be a fun threat)
With Pulp-style stories, you want to let your mind drift away from the logical/practical and towards the poetic/symbolic.
-a machine that will increase the power of moon beams and thereby turn the entire world into "lunatics"
-a special chemical weapon that dissolves key components in cell phones, rendering them all dead
-a tone generator that drives all pets, all pets, into a blood-thirsty rage
-a retrovirus designed to flip the genetic sex of all humans from female to male and vice-versa
-an airborne solvent that affects only the ink on printed money
(you can adjust this one to include only your nation/region; blanking all Euros would be a fun threat)
This is definitely the path type to explore. Using some current or past super-science theory which you morph into a horrendously diabolical weapon of world destroying power.
example:
Gravity Waves and Rayleigh–Taylor Instability used to create The Megatronic Gravitic Destabilizer Beam Generator of Doom
(edit:add) per suggestion below -- added "of Doom"
(edit:add) paratime.ca/d20/pulp/
- Mutant Voracious Tree Beetles (of doom)
that will defoliate the continent and expose folks to oxygen deprivation and mild co2 poisoning,
resulting in horrific birth defects and high infant mortality.
Yeah, any Mad Scientist can kill all the people with a WMD,
but it takes a Mean Scientist to kill only children with a WMD - Alchemic chain reaction to convert salt to gold
when released into the ocean
will destabilize the global economies backed by now-worthless gold. - A series of impostor minions are set to replace the top 6 global leaders,
bringing the world effectively under control of the Minion Master
PS: everything you create should have "of doom" at the end.
is an unfortunate downside,
but the E in BBEG is there for a reason.
You cant make an omelet without breakin a few eggs,
and I cant take over the world without killing a few (or most) people.
Again, I say it is a critical design flaw in the eccosystem
if changing one little thing like oceanic saltwater is an ELE.
Its like when the global forces tried to stop me from testing my Particle Stream canon,
even though the math showed it over 90% likely to not ignite the atmosphere.
What so bad with a 10% chance of a firey death ELE... 10% is like 1 in a million shot, lets roll them dice... but Noooooo, the SafetyScience Goody2Shooes slap me with the Mad label yet again and oppress my scientific advancements.
I tell ya, if the planet survives my prototypes we could have some awesome stuff.