[ WP ] The Hero arrives just in time to witness the villain put his finishing touches on his evil device that will cure all diseases .

`` You're too late, Captain Flint McCool'' cackled The Decimator, throwing down an empty can of spraypaint, `` not even you, Megatropolis' greatest hero, can stop me now''. With the kind of grandeur that comes only from three years at St. Satan's School for the Criminally Insane-to-be, he slammed one of his rubber-gloved fingers onto the enormous, cartoonish red button on a control pad labeled *cure all the diseases ever*. 
 
 Within seconds, an enormous white ray shot into the sky. It was brighter than the spotlights outside the Halls of Justice and All that is Pure, and twice as ostentatious. Captain Flint McCool stood, taken aback, unable to stomach the immensity of the evil act that had just been committed. 
 
 `` Gaze upon the city of Megatropolis, soon, hospitals will be devoid of patients, nurses and doctors will live without purpose, years of research and billions of dollars for university grants will have been wasted. Private health insurance companies will lack meaning and will collapse, leaving hundreds of wealthy executives' stock options without value.'' 
 
 `` This was classic, golden age Decimator, he was always trying to damage his ex-girlfriends' stock portfolios by rendering the companies in which they'd invested completely useless'' thought Captain McCool - only this time, he'd succeeded. 
 
 `` Fool'', said McCool, `` do n't you realise the long term socio-economic ramifications. Soon, every disease from AIDS to Zygomycosis will be cured, and the world will face a population crisis the likes of which has been previously unbeknownst to us. How do you expect to commit acts of villainy on such a minor scale when the Union of Villains of Greater Megotropolis will have you on full time'martial law duty'. You'll be arming rebels in Guatamala so much you wo n't have time to lower shares in whatever bullshit companies Carol or Susan or even Molly-Joe's been buying this week. You've gone too far, this time, Decimator''. 
 
 `` Fuck. I hate Martial Law Duty. I guess... I guess I always expected you to stop me...'' 
 
 `` So did I, D., So did I.''
