The Bastard (anime)

**The Bastard** is the most feared villain of all time. With the ability to make people's heads explode, he is also the leader of The Network, the biggest supervillain crime organization, which takes commissions off every organized crime heist in the US.

## History

The Bastard is approached by The Salamander after Supermax and says that the party had gone great. Mr. Matts says that they need to look at things objectively and describes the Network as a natural order.

At Supermax, a guard is nervous that The Bastard would be visiting, but his coworker tells him it would be okay. The Bastard passes them and they are fine. As The Bastard gets out of the car, he says that Supermax is ugly. He is welcomed and taken to a party, which surprises him. He smiles and is allowed to move freely. He makes it to the microphone and tells them that the night would blow their minds. He says that he had two things to say. The first one was that he is retiring and tells them the story of when he decided to be a villain, when he killed his mother. He says that after he retired, The Network would be run by his suboordinates, who had shown him true loyalty so that The Network could run smoothly and prosper. When he leaves, he tells his suboordinates to let him know who in the audience stopped clapping first. When they gathered the people that stopped clapping first, The Bastard started killing them one by one.

The guards on the outside salute The Bastard on his way out, but the woman had her phone out. She quickly put it away, but her coworker shouted at her. When the Bastard leaves, he says that his head was hurting again. She tells him to stop messing with her, but all of a sudden, his head exploded.

After the attack on the Union of Justice, Kasey gets out of the tub, but is being watched by someone who likes her body. Kasey walks into the room, where she sees that everybody was already wasted. The doorbell rings and the Diesel Brothers get very excited about the pizza getting there. However, as Roddy opens the door, he gets punched in the face by Praetorian, who stops all of them from moving. He laughs and tells his boss everything was clear. The Bastard, his boss, walks in and wants to know if he had interrupted a celebration. He tells Carmine he could not believe his hideout and Praetorian says that they probably could not believe that a superhero like him was with a villain like him and reveals that he was a double agent.

The Bastard says that he would have never thought that The Heat would gang up with Count Orlok again and tells them that their behavior needs to be rectified. Praetorian says that they knew where they were because Carmine had shouted "The Rock" right before they disappeared. Praetorian is impressed with the power Count Orlok's helmet has, but The Bastard says it is not to be underestimated and adds that even if he was just about to retire, he needed to protect The Network. Praetorian tells them that they needed to give them more than the usual 30% because they could not operate from behind The Network's back.

The Bastard tells them that he would take everything and adds that betrayal also warranted paying extra in blood as well. He says that normally he would kill a family member, a friend, or a lover, but he was not in the mood. While, they were being watched, The Bastard makes the butler's head explode. The pizza makes its way to the front door and Orlok reveals himself, saying he had been hiding in the attic. He does not see The Bastard standing behind him and asks where his helmet is. He turns around and sees The Bastard, who tells him he hates surprises; he is in shock that The Bastard is there and starts yelling, but The Bastard makes his head explode as well. Praetorian and The Bastard walk away with all the money, but before he leaves Praetorian tells them to not tell anyone what happened or they would kill them.

### Five years later

The Bastard tells a monk that he came to a realization, that death was only a means to an end. He wonders why humans can perceive beauty and tells the monk that he could kill him whenever he wanted, which would inevitably change his vision of the world. However, The Bastard tells him that he had decided to never use his power again because he prefers creating fear rather than kill. The monk falls and The Bastard says that beauty cannot exist without fear.

Kasey and Roddy walk towards The Bastard's front door. Meanwhile, The Bastard meditates and realizes that he was being plotted against.

Roddy Diesel and Kasey walk into The Bastard's house, who wanted to invest. They introduce themselves as professors from Princeton to the butler, who could not stop eyeing Kasey's breasts. As they approach another door, they reach Praetorian, who asks who they are. The butler tells him that they are scientists and they walk right past him. They are told they have 20 minutes to make their pitch as The Bastard waits for them at his desk.

The Bastard is surprised that they want him to invest in a time machine, also mentioning that it sounds expensive. Kasey and Roddy Diesel agree that it will be expensive, but with their projections, he would be able to become the greatest supervillain of all time. However, The Bastard tells him that he already was the greatest supervillain ever. Praetorian tells them that their time is up, but Roddy wants to use the bathroom.

As The Bastard and Kasey walk, she sees that there was a corner set up for painting. She asks him if he does it, to which he replies that sometimes. He tells her that he appreciates that they wanted to investigate, but tells her that she was too late since he had no use for a time machine. He says he chose retirement because he had lost his hunger. The butler tries groping Kasey, but she removes his hand and asks The Bastard if he would prefer to invest in art, but he says that his new art was a method for expressing sensitivity that defies space and time. He shows her a Mondrian painting as Roddy Diesel joins them again. Roddy does not understand the painting, but Kasey is able to make The Bastard agree with what she says about it. The Bastard says that like Mondrian, he had moved from the US because it does not have a past or future that requires rewriting, which is why he does not need a time machine. Praetorian tells The Bastard that his guests from the Middle East would be there soon, so he suggests that they pitch the time machine to Salamander.

Kasey and the butler look out a window. Kasey asks him what there was at a building at the end of a pathway and is told that The Bastard meditated there. The butler offers to take her there, but Roddy Diesel says that he wants to leave, which Kasey agrees with.

At the casino, Carmine and Johnny walk in, with the former excited that all of it could be theirs. Ghost says that he did not know there were casinos like that in Japan. TK tries a game, but tries moving it when he lost. However Ghost stops him from using his powers. The Bastard looks out at the casino with Praetorian and both of them head to the VIP room to meet their guests from the middle east.

Kasey asks how much longer her flight would be delayed, but is told that it was unkown. Praetorian approaches her and tells her to not move a muscle or she would burn. The Bastard reaches her and says that he was disappointed because she was only there to make him look like a fool.

The Bastard, Praetorian and the butler Miguel have Kasey tied up, telling her they could not believe they thought they could outsmart him. He tells her that people with superpowers were not allowed on the island on purpose. Praetorian notices that Miguel liked Kasey and tells The Bastard to let him have Kasey when they were done, but he refuses because he would rather kill her right then and there. Miguel approaches Kasey and tells her that her body would still be beautiful even when she was dead.

Kasey is injected with sodium thiopental, which was a truth serum. The Bastard asks her what her superpower is, but Kasey simply asks him in return what he was so afraid of, telling him that he was surrounded by art in order to look sophisticated, but he is just a douchebag that is empty inside. The Bastard does not allow Praetorian to shut her up yet because he wants to know everything while the drug still worked. He asks her why she is there and she tells him that they are there to steal from him, which her friends were doing right at that moment. The Bastard gets angry and has Miguel bring up the cameras. There, they see that the superpower suppression unit was rebooting and all the guards were taken out. They look at the underground facility and see the villains with the briefcase, so The Bastard tells Praetorian to teleport down there.

TK tells Johnny that with the money he would take his family to Asia. The Diesel Brothers, Ghost, Carmine, Forecast, and Gladiator run with them as well when Praetorian shows up, telling them that they were as stupid as they looked. The Bastard talks through a PA system, asking if they really thought they could get away with it and asks why they would try to steal from him if they knew who he was. Johnny makes fun of him, telling him that was now too old to stop them. That makes The Bastard very angry, but the power suppression system reboots.

The Bastard tells Praetorian that he could now kill the group. Johnny tells Gladiator that it was now his turn to handle Praetorian. However, Gladiator takes his time while Praetorian punches Johnny in the face. Gladiator tells Johnny that he had been waiting to see him get hit. Even without powers, Praetorian seems to be taking his time defeating the villains.

Miguel hands The Bastard a sniper rifle. He says that they need to be reminded what true fear feels like and aims it, telling Miguel to turn off the suppression system. He aims it a Kasey, whose eyes begin to bleed. However, she uses her own powers to knock him back and fights against him.

The Bastard is wearing Kasey out and tells her that he was lonely and bored. He says that he believes his life was better before he was rich, but did not want a bunch of punks to steal from him. He tells her that he would use her corpse to taunt her boyfriend. Finally, Kasey is unable to keep The Bastard from inside her head and it explodes.

The Bastard asks Praetorian to bring him the villains, but gets no answer. Suddenly, he gets a call saying that Praetorian was down, as well as his mansion. He says that that was impossible, since he had been in his mansion the whole time. However, The Bastard turns around and sees that the brush strokes on his painting were different and sees that he had made Miguel's head explode.

The Bastard is in his meditation cave, where he realizes that if she had used her power in the mansion, she would have been detected and realizes that everything had been an illusion since the airport. His meditation guide approaches him and tells him that he looked as if he had been tricked. He gets angry at being surprised and makes his head explode as well.

### One year later

The Bastard walks into The Network, surprising the new heads there. He believed that the article Tom had written had been sent in by Salamander, but he did not know what The Bastard was talking about. The Bastard tells him that he wanted his 800 million dollars back and makes his head explode, saying that he would take one of Salamander's islands. After that, The Bastard made everybody's head explode, saying that he had missed that part of his life.