A scene from Mystery Men 1999
Vic the publicist

I think right now we should focus on the positive. Tonight was good.

Yeah - you think so? 'Cause I was worried it was, um, I don't know... PATHETIC! "Amazing triumphs at a nursing home"? That's great copy, Vic.

Vic

Look, I'm a publicist, not a magician. You want big news, you have to have big fights. A superhero needs a supervillain. And thanks to you, we've got none left.

Then get... the... Death Man!

Vic

Death Man is dead.

Okay — Father Doom.

Vic

Life without parole. Apocalypta's doing fifty years. Armagezzmo's in exile. Baron von Chaos got the chair —

Really?

Vic

Casanova Frankenstein is locked up in a nut-house.

Casanova Frankenstein - now there was a supervillain! You know, he just... he's got those eyes, you know? I can't do it, but... and that voice! Such pure evil! The battles we used to have — extraordinary!

Vic

"Used to." That's the problem, Captain. "Used to."

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