How to Be a Supervillain, Lesson 12: Perfecting Your Evil Laugh

Surprising as it may sound, the evil laugh can often be the most disarming tool in the evil villain’s arsenal. It can inspire minions to fanatical levels of devotion and also demoralize handsome enemy agents so that they accept the futility of their feeble attempts to thwart your plans. The proper evil laugh has many parts:

  • Laugh: Begin with an innocent chuckle, as if savoring a private joke. As the inevitability of victory becomes clear to you, build into a maniacal cackle.
  • Pose: During the cackle, lift the head up and gaze into the skies, as if challenging the very gods above. Avoid eye contact with insignificant mortals near you.
  • Lighting: An eerie glow from beneath will make you appear more terrifying. Possible sources: Flashlight, table lamp, nuclear reactor.
  • Special Effects: If you can manage to shoot lightning bolts from your cheeks and eyebrows, do it. Nobody will mess with you at that point, guaranteed.
kitten with light orange fur opens its mouth as if laughing maniacally
“Once my satellite unleashes the Hypno-Ray, the world’s tuna supply… WILL BE MINE! BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!”

cute kitty, by daniellekellogg, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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8 thoughts on “How to Be a Supervillain, Lesson 12: Perfecting Your Evil Laugh

  1. allein ๐Ÿพ December 20, 2024 / 2:35 pm

    Re: Special Effects

    I’d still try to pet him.

  2. 6rabbits December 20, 2024 / 2:48 pm

    Kitties are never evil. CATS howeverโ€ฆ

  3. Georgiana December 20, 2024 / 3:31 pm

    I would immediately surrender to this cute … sorry I mean scary supervillain.

  4. Dubravkamcvmd December 20, 2024 / 3:36 pm

    This post is genius, Mike, and reveals the TRUTH about our Kitteh Overlords.

  5. AJ December 20, 2024 / 3:55 pm

    Well, hate to spoil your plans lil guy but it’s hard to be an evil genius when you have eye boogers. Come over here and let me clean up your face. And then I’ll smooch it a gazillion times.

    • Duckie ๐Ÿฅ December 20, 2024 / 10:05 pm

      Thank you, AJ.

  6. debg December 20, 2024 / 4:22 pm

    I love a cute supervillain!

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