Just like in movies and TV dramas, villains were always impeccably dressed, elegant in demeanor, absurdly stylish, and willing to stop at nothing to achieve their goals. They acted decisively and planned meticulously; as long as they did not run into an opponent with cheat codes, they were bound to win in the end.
Superheroes, on the other hand, were always slow to catch on, struggling to protect the world and ordinary people while somehow getting dumber in the process. After endless hardship and emotional turmoil, they would then choose to turn on the cheat codes and solve the problem.
That was right—cheat codes. Whether it was a breakthrough in their state of mind, talking the enemy into surrendering and saving the world, reinforcements descending from the sky, or even activating an intelligence-reducing aura that forced villains to die from talking too much, they always turned defeat into victory when victory should have been impossible.
None of those rules seemed to apply to Vandal Savage. He was indeed an elegant villain, but he had no ambitions of destroying the world. All he wanted was immortality, and throughout his life, there had only ever been two people he needed to deal with.
Compared to the lunatics who wanted to destroy the world at the drop of a hat, he was actually someone who rarely caused trouble. At most, he would commit a massacre or two while hunting his targets, seize the elderly, the weak, women, and children to force his enemies to come die for them. Other than that, he truly did very few bad things.
More importantly, Vandal Savage always won.
By now, he had won more than two hundred times. From ancient Egypt to the present day, he had killed his old enemies again and again, extending his life