Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is ready with another installment of our (becoming) weekly feature, “Friday Villainy.” This week we will leave the realm of literature and move to the realm of campy Sci-Fi villains.

Yes, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was pondering which Sci-Fi villain would be the lucky first to appear in the Friday Villainy space. He decided you had to have a villain who had been around a while, but has been laying low of late. He needed to be feared by all. He needed to have a little libido action goin’ on. And he needed a real pimpin’ outfit.

Loyal minions, your Maximum Leader presents Ming the Merciless from the Flash Gordon movies.

If you prefer the Ming from the movies of the Buster Crabbe/Charles Middelton era you might prefer this image:

BTW, here is a wonderful site on 1980’s movie villains. NB to the Smallholder, click through and read the write-up on David Lo Pan from one of your favourite movies.

Your Maximum Leader also found this site while looking for Ming images. Smallholder, watch Bonnie closely. She may be a member.

Carry on.