Electro

The figure that stepped forward was instantly recognizable by his garish green costume, festooned by yellow lightning bolts. Once, Doctor Doom knew, Maxwell Dillon had favored a different costume, but now he had reverted to his older apparel—and the villain known as Electro strode toward the Latverian monarch with undisguised arrogance.

Within his mask, files arose to Doom's vision. Electro's powers were, simply enough, electrokinesis. Lightning bolts, manipulation of electricity, some enhancement of his physical form when fully charged. Most interestingly, however, was a note in one file about an encounter he had with the Invisible Woman. Doom replayed the clip.

"I'm the man for the job," Electro declared, jerking a thumb at his own chest. "I'll turn the Invisible Bint inside out for you!"

Doctor Doom stared into Electro's eyes. The man was not unintelligent, but whatever guile and bravado he had as a career criminal, there was nothing but utter machismo in his manner. No subtlety, no hint of the planner. Yet Doctor Doom, who possessed subtlety in abundance, knew his own plans had failed time and again. No, not failed—had merely been foiled by incompetence and unexpected circumstance. So too, no doubt, would Electro. And yet...

"You have a plan, then, for overcoming the Invisible Woman?" Doom's raspy voice echoed within his helmet. "A method to corrupt her away from her husband and family? To succeed where I and so many others have failed?"

"Hell yeah," Electro said, small arcs of electricity running up and down her body as he neared Doom's holographic display. "All you guys think too hard about this. She's a blonde bimbo. Treat her like the walking womb she is, and she'll fall in line for the biggest dick there is. And nobody's a bigger dick than me!"

Dillon spoke without any self-consciousness. Some of the assembled villains snickered at his unintentional self-insult. Yet Doom considered him seriously. While he would never characterize Susan Storm-Richards as a bimbo, perhaps there was something in this approach. It was, at the very least, different from anything Doom himself had tried.

The Latverian monarch decided, then, to give the misogynist electrically-powered asshole a chance.

"Very well," Doctor Doom said. "I will give you an opportunity to prove your claim. Break the Invisible Woman's bonds of matrimony, and I will in turn destroy one of your own enemies!"

Electro grinned. He imagined a steel-clad gauntlet around a certain Spider-Man's throat.

"But tell me...how shall you do it?"