I hadn't heard about this guy before, but this Cédric Villani fellow seems like an upstanding citizen who could be a valuable addition to our organization. He's a mathematician who won the Fields medal in 2010, and he seems to have impeccable taste in attire.

And with a name like Villani, I'm sure no one would ever suspect a thing.

5153590 Interesting. I just sent him an email:

Dear Dr. Villani,

Are you a superhero, or a supervillain?

Respectfully,

Bad Horse

I might as well point out the obvious: He may very well already be taken. I can't help but notice the spider pin that he's wearing in every single picture.

Clearly the solution is a hostile takeover of his parent crime (-fighting?) team.

5153807 Cmon, whoever heard of a crime-fighting organization that uses spider pins? Clearly he's already working for the League of Calamitous Intent or the Fraternity of Torment.

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Maybe he's a hero who believes in spider-based labor organization to reappropriate power to the common man from greedy industrialist villains?

You know, an arachno-syndicalist.

5155451 Like this guy?

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Clearly a plot to ensure that no one else gets him.

Or a clever ploy to throw people off his true trail.