The World's Most Secret Supervillain

I waited until the fighting was done. Until the heroes were victorious and the villains carted away. I waited until the rabble had died away and the inevitable repairs began. It was always in these moments that people paid the least attention to the scene of the battle. The perfect time for me to scour the wreckage for my needs.

Who am I, you might ask? I call myself Mr. Abeyance. And I am the greatest supervillian that you've never heard of.

I've built entire criminal empires, robbed countless billions, and eliminated dozens upon dozens of my rivals. And all without the world even knowing that I existed. It was my superpower I supposed, my ability to remain anonymous no matter what I did. It had its limits of course, but so long as I didn't go out of my way to draw attention to myself, no one notices me.

I searched the wreckage, the aftermath of another battle between the Justice League and the space-faring monster Starro. The League had emerged victorious in the end of course, but over the course of the battle, I spotted a piece of the alien falling off and-

Ah, there it was. I picked up the slimy, wriggling appendage and placed it carefully into a metallic storage cylinder I was keeping handy for just this occasion.

Smiling to myself, I made my way back towards my lair. With this sample of Starro, I possessed all that I would need to undertake my most ambitious project yet. One that, if discovered, would rock the superhuman community to its very core. Not that I had much to worry about of course, even after my plans had already been carried out.

After all, no one would notice a thing.