Today we followed the exciting adventures of the Fantastic Four who had just been captured by the diabolical Dr. Doom.
Our job, as members of the Future Supervillains of America club, was to devise a room that could hold all members of the Fantastic Four simultaneously, while keeping them alive to serve our nefarious schemes.
We came up with some good stuff, like locking them in an Adaminium cage (to keep The Thing from breaking out), suspended over a very deep canyon by magnets (so that Mr. Fantastic couldn't stretch himself to saftey. The cage would be alloyed with napalm so that if the Human Torch combusted and tried to fly out he would sizzle all his friends.
We then looked at what the real Dr. Doom did in issue 5 of the Fantastic Four comic book. He threw a net over the Fantastic Four's building. The net was made of asbestos so that the Human Torch could not burn through it. It was also electrified so that the Thing couldn't rip it apart. (We're not sure why Mr. Fantastic couldn't stretch himself thin and get through the holes, though.) In this way Dr. Doom captured the Fantastic Four.
Which leads us to the first thing Dr. Doom can teach us about writing an essay:
You must capture your audience at the very beginning.
Dr. Doom then took Susan Storm hostage and sent the rest of the Four on a mission to steal Blackbeard the Pirate's treasure. When the Four returned with the treasure, Dr. Doom locked them in an airless chamber. Thus, the Human Torch could not ignite, not to mention the fact that none of them could breathe.
However, Dr. Doom was not keeping a good eye on Susan Storm, who managed to short circuit Dr. Doom's machine and save her compadres.
Dr. Doom did not take every one of the Fantastic Four into account. Otherwise he would have won, and Marvel Comics would not have made millions of dollars on the Fantastic Four franchise.
Thus we come to the second thing we can learn from Dr. Doom about writing essays:
You must take every single member of your audience into account, otherwise, one of them will find a way to blow up your essay and set the other people you have captured free.
And you wouldn't want that.
