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Mendoza! He was the arch enemy to the team in the original comics and I had to have him serve the same role here, but at the time his only character traits were 1. Speaking in the third person and 2. That mustache. He actually really only ran around saying his own name. So, I had to build him up considerably to serve as an antagonist in a project with a plot (as light as that is here) and decided to make him a wealthy business man who sees himself as above the law. If you think about the world when this was written, that shouldn’t be too surprising to you.