Alias: John Smith
Powers: Extreme Competence
Usual Gig: Lawyer
John Smith does not use an alias. He doesn't do anything illegal. In many ways what he does isn't even immoral. He simply talks. He tells people the truth. He tells people lies. He says whatever he needs to for his client to go free.
What makes him a B-list villian is that he works pro-bono for every nutjob psycho caught by the heroes and gets them back on the street as fast as possible.
He does this for two reasons: The first is revenge. Not the personal sort of 'you killed my parents' revenge, but because he finds it completely insulting that the vigilantes who call themselves 'heroes' think themselves above the law. He won't defend criminals caught by police, but anyone who's found tied up and hanging from a lamppost? They walk out of the court the next day.
The other reason is because doing this means he can charge huge premiums in the various scumbag-defense cases he takes where he defends the most indefensible people on the planet - robbing them of their ill-gotten gains and doing his civic duty (after all, SOMEBODY has to defend them, and at least he's not a bad guy).
"Not this again!" Minerva said. "Albus, it was You-Know-Who, not you, who marked Harry as his equal. There is no possible way that the prophecy could be talking about you!" - Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality, Chapter 84
Powers: Extreme Competence
Usual Gig: Lawyer
John Smith does not use an alias. He doesn't do anything illegal. In many ways what he does isn't even immoral. He simply talks. He tells people the truth. He tells people lies. He says whatever he needs to for his client to go free.
What makes him a B-list villian is that he works pro-bono for every nutjob psycho caught by the heroes and gets them back on the street as fast as possible.
He does this for two reasons: The first is revenge. Not the personal sort of 'you killed my parents' revenge, but because he finds it completely insulting that the vigilantes who call themselves 'heroes' think themselves above the law. He won't defend criminals caught by police, but anyone who's found tied up and hanging from a lamppost? They walk out of the court the next day.
The other reason is because doing this means he can charge huge premiums in the various scumbag-defense cases he takes where he defends the most indefensible people on the planet - robbing them of their ill-gotten gains and doing his civic duty (after all, SOMEBODY has to defend them, and at least he's not a bad guy).
"Not this again!" Minerva said. "Albus, it was You-Know-Who, not you, who marked Harry as his equal. There is no possible way that the prophecy could be talking about you!" - Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality, Chapter 84