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Where did the supervillains go?


When the government demanded that all superheroes retire, why did the bad guys disappear too?

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The main reason that Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

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Interesting observation. You'd think the villains would have a pretty strong hold on the world by the time the film takes place.

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there were none. If you don't have supervillans, you don't need superheroes!

"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"

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I used to wonder that myself. I don't know. Maybe the villains got bored with no real resistance. Or maybe they didn't want to get sued as well?

It would be cool if they wrote that into the sequel where maybe they were all collectively planning something big.

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That would be interesting. Maybe the villains decided to operate behind the scenes, manipulating industries and governments. Now that the heroes return, someone uncovers these plots, bringing the villains back out into the light.

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The main reason that Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

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That would be interesting. Maybe the villains decided to operate behind the scenes, manipulating industries and governments. Now that the heroes return, someone uncovers these plots, bringing the villains back out into the light.


I hope so. Looking back, it seems kind of plot convenient that the Underminer shows up out of nowhere at the end of the movie. Maybe he watched the news and said "Hey, I wanna get noticed!"

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Wouldn't having the superheroes round be more likely to cause them to operate behind the scenes. If anything, banning superheroes should have allowed the villains to take over and then start a war with each other.

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They didn't.

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While it would make sense to have them, we actually never saw and true supervillains nor were any mentioned. The closest we had was Bomb Voyage, but there's no indication he had powers. In fact, there's no indication there were any Badass Normal heroes, either.

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They may have created a Shield type organization to battle them.


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