- "He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city."
- ― Sherlock Holmes describing Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes novels)
- "The Kingpin! I've heard tales of this man...this near-legend in the history of crime...Of how he gathered the hundreds of disorganized, distrustful gang leaders...of how he ended their territorial battles and taught them to work in tandem...Of how he forged a structured, multi-billion-dollar criminal empire...an empire he ruled with a tyrant's discipline and a bookkeeper's precision."
- ― Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- "You've got to stop looking at things through the suffocating prism of laws and justice, Randell."
- ― Gooseman (Greasy Moose)
- "People from your world have so *much* to lose. Now, you think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate."
- ― Carmine Falcon (Batman Begins)
The power to be a criminal mastermind. Sub-power of Crime Manipulation. Opposite to Crimefighting Mastery. Variation of Complete Mastery.
Also Called[]
- Criminal Expertise/Intuition
- Crime Boss/Lord
- Criminal Mastermind
Capabilities[]
The user, either innately or through training, is a master of crime. The user can intuitively understand the mechanics behind any crime, criminal organization, criminal scheme and criminal system, and understand how to manipulate it. Users have an intuitive mastery of the associated criminal skills, speech and body language, expertly sending all the right signals, granting them major leverage in any criminal situation and allowing the user to easily to be successful in any crime, leaving no evidence of committing crime, and making themselves untouchable.
Users can commit crimes by any means and in the most effective ways possible, use anything at hand to do so and, have no mental/emotional issues or moral dilemmas either before, during or after the deed. The user is a criminal mastermind who is masterful on all sorts of crimes from theft, bootlegging, murder, racketeering, terrorism, extortion, smuggling, money laundering, and so on and so forth. The user can orchestrate any crime, without leaving any evidence of user's involvement.
Users can perfectly and without a single flaw or mistake, know how to commit any crime, with zero effort. They expertly know how to do anything that's illegal and what to do in order to successfully and safely get away with it. They can easily and flawlessly get away with any and every crime or illegal thing and not get caught.
This is the ultimate crime mechanism, since the user will automatically commit crimes with perfect skill, technique, and timing. The user's full and complete mastery in crime and anything related to crime makes the user the ultimate criminal.
Using this ability, the user can become criminally successful quickly and easily, and perform feats such as always developing criminal ideas to dominate the criminal underworld, win any type of crime war, never get caught, making the right choice when it comes to advancing their criminal objective, increasing their criminal power, predicting sources of crises, etc.
Applications[]
- Apathy
- Arms Industry Mastery
- Arson Mastery
- Assassination Mastery
- Business Mastery
- Charisma Mastery
- Cheating Mastery
- Crime Detection
- Crime Erasure
- Deception Mastery
- Disguise Mastery
- Drug Mastery
- Economics Mastery
- Escapology Mastery
- Forgery Mastery
- Gambling Mastery
- Hacking Mastery
- Interrogation Mastery
- Intimidation Mastery
- Killing Instinct
- Killing Intent
- Killing Mastery
- Law Mastery
- Leadership Mastery
- Medical Mastery
- Negotiation Mastery
- Piracy Mastery
- Police Mastery
- Political Mastery
- Psychological Mastery
- Sabotage Mastery
- Scam Artistry
- Security Mastery
- Seduction Mastery
- Sexual Mastery
- Social Cloaking
- Stealth Mastery
- Surveillance Mastery
- Tactical Analysis/Genius
- Thievery Mastery
- Torture Mastery
- War Crime Mastery
- Weapon Proficiency
Variation[]
Associations[]
- Golden Luck; make a great deal of money and profit from the crimes committed.
Limitations[]
- Must beware of the law and the authorities to avoid apprehension.
Known users[]
See Also: Diabolical Mastermind and The Don.
- Tobias Church/Charon (Arrowverse)
- Arturo Viera (Assassin's Creed)
- Crawford Starrick (Assassin's Creed)
- Maxwell Roth (Assassin's Creed)
- Thomas Wayne (Batman: The Telltale Series)
- Julian Dawes (Battlefield Hardline)
- Frank Fontaine (BioShock)
- Kane (Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
- Lady Arkham (Batman: The Telltale Series)
- Homelander (The Boys)
- Stormfront (The Boys)
- Soldier Boy (The Boys)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Mori Ougai (Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Osamu Dazai (Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Bane (Nolanverse)
- Carmine "The Roman" Falcone (DC Comics)
- Egghead (DC Comics)
- Joker (DC Comics)
- Krush (DC Comics)
- Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
- Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin (DC Comics)
- Rex Calabrese (DC Comics)
- Roman Sionis/Black Mask (DC Comics)
- Salvatore Maroni (DC Comics)
- Selina Kyle (DC Comics); in the Calabrese Crime Family
- Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
- Chrysoprase (Discworld)
- "Gentleman" Johnny Marcone (The Dresden Files)
- Christie (Dead or Alive)
- Crooked Man (Fables)
- Robert Edwin House (Fallout)
- Various Characters (Game of Thrones)
- Petyr Baelish/Littlefinger
- Housen (Gintama)
- Yomi (Kenichi, History's Greatest Disciple)
- Gao the Greater (Jade Empire)
- Kai Lan the Serpent (Jade Empire)
- Rezkin (King's Dark Tidings)
- O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill Vol.1)
- Eric Slaughter (Marvel Comics)
- Norman Osborn (Marvel Comics)
- Roderick Kingsley/Hobgoblin (Marvel Comics)
- Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Marvel Comics)
- Aria T'Loak (Mass Effect)
- Shadow Broker (Mass Effect)
- Dogen (Mirror's Edge Catalyst)
- Johan Liebert (Monster)
- Giovanni (Pokémon)
- Fagin (Starcraft)
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure/the Hutt (Star Wars)
- G0-T0 (Star Wars Legends)
- Underlords (Star Wars Legends)
- Supreme Monguls (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
- James Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes novels)
- Uncle Enzo (Snow Crash)
- M. Bison (Street Fighter)
- Dermot "Lucky" Quinn (Watch_Dogs)
- The Akatsuki (Naruto)
- Obito Uchiha
- PandaBubba (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Bill Sykes (Oliver & Company)
- The C.R.O.O.K.S. (C.O.P.S.)
- Brandon Babel/Big Boss
- Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
- Passione (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
- Sicks (Neuro: Supernatural Detective)
- Yonko/Four Emperors (One Piece)
- Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
- Gooseman (Greasy Moose)
- Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective)
- All For One (My Hero Academia)
- The League of Villains (My Hero Academia)
- Oroku Saki/Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Mr. Big (Zootopia)
- Miles Axlerod (Cars 2)
- Giovanni (Pokémon)
- D.A.V.E. (The Batman)
- Lobelia Carlini (Sakura Wars)
- Tommy Vercetti (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
- Alejandro Sosa (Scarface)