Assignment Two

Due Date: January 15th / June 15th

E-mail your work to professor.trevelyan@gmail.com with Villains - HW2 - HOL Name (e.g. Villains - HW2 - Maxim Trevelyan) in the subject line.

Attachments will NOT be opened. If you include any images in your assignment, please upload them to a site such as Imgur, Tinypic, Photobucket or other and send me the link.

Include your HOL name and House in the body of your email.

There are more than 60 points worth of options below. You can pick which ones you would like to complete. You will not be awarded more than 60 points for your work, even if you complete all parts of the assignment.

True or False: 10 points

If the statement is false, correct it.

Your plans will do just fine without an infrastructure.
The orbiting satellite is an old time classic lair.
Volcano lairs often tend to attract an infestation of European spies.
There are three possible techniques to lower the cost of the construction.
The Outcast is the lonely outsider that wants desperately to belong.

Mix-and-Match: 10 points

Connect the lair type with the characteristic.

1. Undersea Facility

2. The Orbiting Satellite

3. Abandoned Warehouse

4. Volcano Shaped Like Your Head

5. Castle

A. Basic astronaut training is a must.

B. Easy to heat in cold climates.

C. Not for those suffering from claustrophobia.

D. Easily defensible.

E. Incredibly well-documented.

This Is the Way: 15 points

Your secret lair has a lot of tricky hallways and is generally difficult to navigate. Solve the maze below to find your way around the first few weeks. Open the image in a new tab for a bigger version.

Maze

Make It Work: 20 points

The lesson presented several types of secret lairs that a budding villain such as yourself might use. Pick one of them (or make up your own) and describe it in 200 words or more. Be sure to answer the following questions:

What type of lair did you pick and why?
What are its advantages and drawbacks?
What other features does your lair have?

Media Lairs: 15 points

Pick a piece of media (movie, TV show, book, comic, video game, etc.) where a significant part of the story, or its climax, happened in a villain's lair. Write a review of 150 words or more. Include a short synopsis, description of the lair and how the environment of the lair impacted the story or a conflict. Please take note that you must choose a piece of media that is HOL, or at least teen, appropriate.

Which Is It?: 15 points

You have a meeting with several like-minded villains, but an accident in Shaft Three tore the paper apart! Put the jigsaw pieces together to reveal at which of the villain's lairs you have the evil meeting. Send me a screenshot of the solution and your time. The person who gets the best time will win 250 beans at the end of the term.

Battle of the Architects: 15 points

You are working incognito for a company that deals exclusively in selling lairs to budding villains. Pick one of the lair types mentioned in the lesson and make a poster advertising it, its positive, its negatives and why do you think this type of lair is the perfect fit for your average villain.

The Archetypes: 5-20 points

At the end of the lesson, I presented four villain archetypes to you. Your job is to find a villain in a piece of media that falls into one of these archetypes. Name them, the media from where he or she comes and why you think the villain fits this archetype. Your villain can be from any form of media (movie, TV show, book, comic, video game, etc.), as long as they are clearly defined as a villain and not an anti-hero, for example. If you did this option before, do not use the same villain as in previous assignments, whether they may fall into the archetype or not. You have to write 50 words or more on one villain to get full 5 points and you can do this four times for 20 points.