When your name is too big for your britches…
A key factor to being a supervillain is having a grand persona. This can be easy or hard, depending on how grand, and how well-defined your persona is. For example, This so-called “Barefoot Bandit” will have it rough. Stealing planes is hard, and I can only assume that doing it barefoot is much more difficult. The Press has given this man a persona that will be tough to live up to.
But fear not, if you are similarly saddled with a persona larger than you can live up to, you can always blame the Press for giving you the name, or fall back on technicalities. For example, imagine my chagrin the first time someone called me out when I was having issues with my programs. “LOL, aren’t you the Computer King?” the cretin basically said. My current defense to this is that a computer is specifically the hardware of a machine, whereas its software can have problems and issues that are beyond my normal purview. Now I can deflect such sophomoric attempts to lower my status without having to stoop to satellite-guided laser arrays, as I had to back then. LOL, indeed.
Tags: barefiit bandit, Persona, Pride, WAGIYAN
