Henchman

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[Lazamataz]

This is another opening to one of the great American novels:

It had seemed a good idea at the time, the first night of my two-week all-inclusive vacation, spent with an affable stranger in a tapas bar oiled by an excess of Corona Extra and tequila shots, but now, in fancy dress holding a red cape, under a pitiless noonday sun, while 1000 pounds of snorting horned beefsteak eyed me malevolently, hoofing a hole in the dirt, the packed spectators oléing for all their worth, I, a junior sales rep in kitchen utensils from Milwaukee, wasn’t so sure.

And another:

As Nils Nordgrund struggled mightily treading water to stay afloat, while grimly watching from a distance the Norwegian oil tanker he captained slowly sink in the treacherously dark and stormy seas off Murmansk—he gave no thought to whether the Giants had any chance at a pennant win this year.

And another:

It was a dark and stormy night, which makes perfect sense when you realize we’re on Neptune, with a mean distance from the Sun of 4.5 billion kilometers (or 30 astronomical units), and winds that howl at 100 meters per second, composed of mostly hydrogen and helium (and only trace amounts of methane), which is way better than Uranus, which stinks to high heaven.

[Moltke]

Yes! The Good Stuff™! More, send me MORE!

[Jan_Sobieski]

Can I be included in the guild?

[Big Red Badger]

C.S Lewis
The Screwtape Letters has a line—IIRC;
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“Why does the Enemy take such interest in this thing conceived in a bed?”
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My contribution.
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Correction appreciated.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Now, one “must be precise” about one’s role before serving as a Henchman. A Minion. The Sidekick. (Qualifications for a Comedic Sidekick are different.) And, highest of all, The Evil Assistant.

(Ref: John Moore, Heroics For Beginnners, pg 182.)

[Dr. Sivana]

The best example I have seen of the role of Henchmen was when the Penguin tricked his way into the Batcave in Batman 1966, and he reconstituted his dehydrated Henchmen using the special water Batman stored in his atomic pile.

They were chemically unstable, and just popped into nothingness. They were the only ones to lose their lives in the movie. Poor henchmen.

[OneVike]

"I like your twist — the cook is the best warrior — but highlighting it more prominently would help. I’ll help you there."

I don't remember the name of the movie, but Steven Seagal was a cook on a navy ship and he was the biggest bad ass who took out the bad guys who were trying to take over the naval ship.

I may be off on the exact reason for what the bad guys were trying to do, but I think I am close. I do know Steven Seagal's character was a demoted nay guy who was at the righ place at the wrong time for the bad guys.

Oh, by the way, while I liked some of his movies, I really never was a great fan of his. Yet as action movies go, they were never terrible.

[piytar]

The movie was “Under Siege.”

[OneVike]

That’s it.