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Coming from the dark corners of every city, suburb and farm town lies a super-villain waiting to claim its next victim.
Zachary Ehren: Bondage, Banjos and Deepak Chopra: How to Fight Evil in San Franscisco Zachary Ehren 2011
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Powell's florid story and Makinen's elegant draftsmanship create a vision of Dracula more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies, and they give both him and Holmes a super-villain and - hero look, which seems appropriate.
3 books about Dracula Post 2010
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Times are hard in the super-villain world, and Gru finds it tough to get funding from the banks (there's a nice wisecrack about Lehman Brothers) for his various megalomaniac wheezes.
Despicable Me – review Peter Bradshaw 2010
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With each guitar strum, clasp of the cymbal, and octave change in the voice, musicians like Broken Social Scene, Hugh Laurie, Bright Eyes, and The Punch Brothers pummeled the super-villain into dismay.
Zachary Ehren: Bondage, Banjos and Deepak Chopra: How to Fight Evil in San Franscisco Zachary Ehren 2011
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And there's a thrusting new super-villain in town called Vector, voiced by Jason Segel, who is flavour of the month with the venture-capital community.
Despicable Me – review Peter Bradshaw 2010
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Steve Carell voices the character of Gru, a career super-villain who presides over a secret lair populated by hundreds of little yellow creatures who do his bidding.
Despicable Me – review Peter Bradshaw 2010
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The basic story here is: what if a super-villain actually defeated his heroic nemesis?
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•When it comes to super-villain sons, John Glover is on something of a roll.
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Red Mist surviving, becoming the super-villain was always planned, but the idea was that he was going to be a more minor character in the first film.
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Either way, he can run rings round the super-villain, save the planet, and get the copy in before the Globe's "star" reporter, Clark Parker has even finished his coffee.
The Legion of American Watchers Hal Duncan 2010
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