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[WHOS THIS DOUCHEB no who is this charming gentleman

Wily's well-groomed and wearing his best three piece grey suit THANK GOD that came with him in his locker yes. He's smiling serenely at the camera]

Well, well, well. Hello there! It's probably about time I did the whole introducing myself formally 'round these parts, isn't it?

Doctor Albert Wily, at your service. [jaunty bow]

Right, so, I've already gathered that we're in space on some sort of hyperadvanced non-euclidian space ship headed for god-knows-where with a bunch of people pulled from various alternate universes. No need to explain that part. I've also already gathered the whole "No, you can't go home" though I've heard some vague thing about how if this boat gets where it's going we'll be allowed to go home.

Forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical about that part. And even if it's true, I'm hardly patient, and I imagine most of you aren't either. So... I suppose my first question is, have any of you made a concerted effort to start figuring out how this bucket of bolts works, and if so, how might an enterprising engineer like myself go about doing the same?

Right, second question is who is in charge of this boat? I keep hearing about captain and crew and so on, but I've yet to see them posting around. Granted, you're all a chatty bunch, and it's hard to keep up with Wonder if I could program a simple content aggregator to filter relevant posts... hmm so I may have missed it.

Anyway.

Third question: what sort of music do you listen to, and can any of you play insturments or sing? Very important. It's far too quiet 'round these parts.

Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

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Yes. Yes, good. You have passed the test, and are a worthy individual.

Personally, I make a few exceptions for really good jazz and swing, but honestly you cannot beat good rock'n'roll.

Can't say I go in for much of post-90's rock or metal, but there are rare exceptions. Most of them. I prefer what I grew up with, honestly.

Are you from Earth, then?

No, I agree completely. I'm very much for the late 70s, early 80s. Especially Queen.

Yes, I am. I suppose a lot of people around here aren't, hmm.

I'm a great fan of things such as AC/DC, Gun n' Roses, Def Leppard, KISS, Alice Cooper, Megadeth-- early Metallica, nothing post Black Album--

[they're going to music hipster at aech other for hours now.]

And, of course, classics like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd.

YES. Good. All of this.

You have a name? And do you play. And please tell me your collection came with you, all I got was my vinyls of Night at the Opera, and my singles of Highway to the Danger Zone and Ballroom Blitz. Wait... no, looks like I have Led Zepplin's fourth album. Original pressing too. But nothing else. And nothing to play them on. It's criminal. I'm going to have to rig up a turntable somewhere.

Someone on this ship has to have Dark Side of the Moon. Someone.

Also, we can agree that while digital is fine for transport, vinyl is really the only way to go, yes?

I am called Megamind.

Agreed upon on all points, all points-- [supervillains with rock fetishes; the ship should tremble] I dabble a bit. Guitar, keyboards-- but nothing concrete. I had other work.

[and honestly, nobody would have put up with his ego in a band anyway, let's be honest.]

[The ship WILL tremble. Because they'll have turned the amps all the way up. TO ELEVEN. BEWARE THE SUBWOOFERS OF EVIL.]

Ah, yes, other work, don't we all? So did I, really. Guitar as well, vocals... ukulele, believe it or not. Don't knock it.

[Seriously. Insult the ukulele at your peril.]

But too busy for anything serious. The whole robotics thing takes up a lot of time.

Not my favorite [Goody Two-Shoes played the Ukulele. He's bitter, okay.]

Yes, robotics do tend to do that.

Fair enough. [You didn't actually make fun of it, so you get a pass]

Hah, is that what you do too, out of curiosity? Robotics? Or something else?

Oh, I've dabbled there. It's a favorite of mine. Engineering in general -- not that I haven't worked with other sciences. Face it-- if it invovles math on some level, I do it.

Naturally. The truly intelligent person diversifies.

If not, they're bored! [Boredom was a huge probably for Mr. Big Brain.]

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