6 Supervillains From History That Make The Joker Look Subtle. Look, we're not so far gone that we can't tell the difference between comics and reality.
Fiction demands a certain suspension of disbelief, because real-life bad guys understand that dry, drawn-out political subterfuge is much cheaper and more effective than a clone army. Then, occasionally, some crackpot leaps straight off the pages into our world. These are men with brazen, insane and often ridiculous plans for world domination that grant him comic book supervillain status. Like ... First of all, look at him: Out of frame, he's cradling a white Persian cat. You could fill a whole article about real-life supervillains from Nazi Germany, but if we're to pick just one to fill our Nazi quota for this article, we're taking Otto Skorzeny, and not just because he looks like every single Bond villain who ever existed. Picture this guy goose-stepping out to "Horst Wessel Lied.
" But Skorzeny's career as a lone-gun supervillain didn't begin until after the war. Skorzeny didn't even stop there. The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived. Unlucky Because: He was struck by lightning.
Seven times. Statistically, getting hit by lightning is a three-thousand to one chance. Therefore getting hit seven times is about twenty-two septillion to one. That's 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Still not long enough odds for Roy Sullivan, who was a U.S. park ranger in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. Some "scientists" theorize that Sullivan's occupation as a park ranger in an area prone to thunderstorms might have something to do with his problem. Sullivan first got struck in 1942 while on a lookout tower. Even Sullivan's wife got in on the action while drying clothes outside. Lightning didn't do him in, though. Pretty much everything. Jeanne Rogers lives her life like a sitcom. Sure, she hasn't been struck by lightning as many times as Roy up there, but she has been struck.
Then, when she was 18, Rogers was with a friend on a cruise ship taking pictures. OK that's, like, the same plot as an episode of The Office. "Oh. " To Nagasaki. Www.facebook.com/l.php?u= Reminder: 5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't) We're using the broader definition of the word "genius" here, meaning anyone with an extraordinary talent or skill.
So for instance Dennis Rodman was a genius when it came to rebounding basketballs, but was probably not a genius in the way that Einstein was. Or was he? But as Dennis demonstrates, genius--whether it involves writing ground-breaking computer code, picking stocks or writing the dopest rhymes--means one thing above all else: You are forever granted an exception to society's rules. The fictional archetype for this these days is TV's Dr. House, whose being a genius means he gets a free pass to do drugs on the job, break hospital policy, insult his superiors and treat patients like shit. Who could turn that down? So What's the Problem? Want to know what it's like to live life as a genius? We can't imagine what it's like to make friends in that world. This is what they do at parties, right?
Wait, it Gets Worse... Eminem, prior to launching music career. After. Wait, it gets worse...