A page for describing Main Evil Overlord List. The infamous lists of Things Ill do if I ever become an Evil Overlord. Read them, and youll be Genre. As of 30 November 2015, the games. Net and the team would like to thank everyone who was involved in the community. Evil Overlord List TV Tropes. The infamous lists of Things Ill do if I ever become an Evil Overlord. Read them, and youll be Genre Savvy, able to avoid dooms of many villains. Fail to read them, and your Genre Blindness will condemn you to pick up any Villain Ball you see, perhaps even demoting you to the rank of Harmless Villain, and failure will be your only option. Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package. The original Evil Overlord List was compiled in 1. Fido. Net Science Fiction and Fandom email echo. The Fido. Net list originated with a 1. TowerHeart_Carry-1.jpg' alt='Overlord 2 Save Game File' title='Overlord 2 Save Game File' />Saturday Night Live skit featuring Bond Villains touting a book What Not To Do When You Capture James Bond. The Fido. Net list arose out of discussions regarding what sort of advice might be in that book, and was compiled and published by Jack Butler. The original version of the list can be found here while the list Peter Anspach later compiled can be found here. The version reproduced for TV Tropes is the more well known list that sprang out of discussions on the Star Trek mailing list around 1. Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Overlord 2 Save Game File' title='Overlord 2 Save Game File' />It started with 2. Cellblock A and Cellblock B. It is no longer updated, though it can still be found at this site. Both Peter Anspach and Jack Butler acknowledge the existence of each others lists, that both lists originated independently of each other, and state that their two lists have been so cross pollinated over the years as to become effectively identical. Since the version below and the appendices are reproduced directly from Anspachs site, the copyright notice has been maintained out of courtesy. See also Evil Overlord List Cellblock A and Evil Overlord List Cellblock B. If you wish to add points of your own, see the TV Tropes Additional Evil Overlord Vows. See also Evil Plan and Stock Evil Overlord Tactics for more general information. If you dont want, or are unable, to be an Evil Overlord, look up The Universal Genre Savvy Guide. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, notface concealing ones. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through. My noble half brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon. Shooting isnottoo good for my enemies. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness. I will not gloat over my enemies predicament before killing them. When Ive captured my adversary and he says, Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about Ill say, No. No, on second thought Ill shoot him then say No. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out. I will not include a self destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled Danger Do Not Push. The big red button marked Do Not Push will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ONOFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat. One of my advisors will be an average five year old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal. The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 1 1. I will never utter the sentence But before I kill you, theres just one thing I want to know. When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice. I will not have a son. Although his laughably under planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the heros rugged countenance and shed betray her own father. Despite its proven stress relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, its too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly. I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind set. No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head. I will keep a special cache of low tech weapons and train my troops in their use. That way even if the heroes manage to neutralize my power generator andor render the standard issue energy weapons useless my troops will not be overrun by a handful of savagesarmed with spears and rocks. I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line No, This Cannot BeI AM INVINCIBLE After that, death is usually instantaneous. No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot. No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are, there is probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to kill me. Therefore, I will think twice before ordering a prisoner sent to my bedchamber. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times. My pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble. I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief. All naive, busty tavern wenches in my realm will be replaced with surly, world weary waitresses who will provide no unexpected reinforcement andor romantic subplot for the hero or his sidekick. I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by. I wont require high ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress code.