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I think it's fairly obvious that Richard Asquith Dastardly, or "Dick" to his friends, is a hero of mine. I've been asked from time to time why it is I use a selection of pulp and comic villains as my LJ icons and I think that's something worth asnwering - it's because comic villains, as opposed to real villains, are aspirational.
Perhaps not in their objectives, but in their degreee of motivation. Dick Dastardly, for example, is utterly indefatigable. No matter how badly wrong things go for him, within thirty seconds he's back on his feet with another plan. He is a paragon of imagination and optimism - much more so than many other characters or real people one might meet. How might we all learn from that? Life throws him off cliffs, blows him up with dodgy ACME products or runs him flat with a steam engine, but Dastardly never stops trying. He's full of get up and go. This is true of all great cartoon vaillains. They are never at a loss for a plan or for optimism. They're proactive, inventive and constantly 'think outside the box' - all things which we're encouraged to do in our everyday lives.
Moreover, villains get all the girls, the best dialogue and they seem to have the most fun. After all, who seems to enjoy themselves more? Dick Dastardly or Peter Perfect?
With that in mind, I've given up on my ambition to own a Lotus, and I want one of these instead:
And as soon as I can find a girl who'll drive round in this, I'm sure we'll have a whale of a time together:
Perhaps not in their objectives, but in their degreee of motivation. Dick Dastardly, for example, is utterly indefatigable. No matter how badly wrong things go for him, within thirty seconds he's back on his feet with another plan. He is a paragon of imagination and optimism - much more so than many other characters or real people one might meet. How might we all learn from that? Life throws him off cliffs, blows him up with dodgy ACME products or runs him flat with a steam engine, but Dastardly never stops trying. He's full of get up and go. This is true of all great cartoon vaillains. They are never at a loss for a plan or for optimism. They're proactive, inventive and constantly 'think outside the box' - all things which we're encouraged to do in our everyday lives.
Moreover, villains get all the girls, the best dialogue and they seem to have the most fun. After all, who seems to enjoy themselves more? Dick Dastardly or Peter Perfect?
With that in mind, I've given up on my ambition to own a Lotus, and I want one of these instead:
And as soon as I can find a girl who'll drive round in this, I'm sure we'll have a whale of a time together:
