Friday, July 07, 2006

VILLAIN OF THE DAY: GENERAL URSUS !

Today's "Villain of the Day" is
GENERAL URSUS !

General Ursus is very much the stereotyped "mad general", on top of being a brutish gorilla. He sees little past the end of his own nose, and is interested mainly in his own dreams of conquest, glory and power. Ursus uses recent crop failures, drought, and raids by wild humans as the basis for a call to invade the Forbidden Zone, where no ape has trodden since the beginning of their world. Suggesting that another tribe of humans lives there, Ursus stirs the apes up to want to destroy those humans, and claim their food source ("If they live, then they must eat!") for themselves.

Successfully declaring "a holy war" against the unknown, General Ursus assembles a gorilla army, and marches toward the Forbidden Zone. Leading the gorilla army into the heart of the mutant world Ursus encounters the mutant leader Méndez who declares, "This is the Instrument of my God!" pointing to the rising atomic bomb. Ursus draws a pistol and shoots Méndez, taunting "Your God didn't save you, did he?!" Ursus orders a block and tackle be set up, to pull the missile down.

Atomic Bomb - 0
General Ursus - 1

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