Initiation Ceremonies: The Satan Seller pp. 22-28
One movie/television trope that I despise is when the villain in the story is needlessly evil. I don’t mean that they torture someone for the sake of torturing, but when they are over the top evil to the point where they use “evil” synonyms or they only eat “devilled eggs.” Dean Anderson, Mike’s recruiter is an example of this: “ You’ve been a good slave, Mike .” Warnke isn’t a slave and nothing that Warnke has told us should lead us to think that he even thought that. Warnke has been getting paid for his services, sometimes in cash and other times in drugs; but he’s not a slave by any means. Warnke just adds this bit because Anderson is evil so he can’t just say “you’ve been doing good Mike.” Anderson reveals that he’s a “Master Counselor,” which is sounds like some assistant regional manager type bullshit. Anderson tells him he’s about to get into the inner circle. The real inner circle, not the fake one that he was inducted into last week. He gets a robe (we’re slowly wading int...