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Criminal Convention
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Fan Conventions are where fans flock to. Criminal Conventions attract criminals. Here you can find all that you need for your everyday criminal activities. Galleries presenting new top of the line stabbing knives, vendors selling fashionable leather lampshades, vivisection demonstrations, friends who understand just where you're coming from and guest starring Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer! Contestants of the Mad Science Fair and Arms Fair get a free admission. No cops are welcome (unless you're a Killer Cop). Supervillains, serial killers, Fantastic Terrorists, Black Market Dealers and so on usually come to these conventions and share with one another. They are usually kept in secret (unless "supervillain" has a different connotation in the world it is set in), requiring a special password or invite to be accessed. More often, the conventions usually go on without any sort of incident, anything explosive or disruptive would be fashionable and expected from such an establishment. It almost wouldn't be a convention without a casualty or two. See also Arms Dealer, Auction of Evil, Bad Guy Bar, Black Market, War for Fun and Profit and Welcome to Evil Mart. |
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The Sandman (2022): Several episodes in the latter half of the first season feature the "Cereal Convention", a trade fair that's actually a disguised gathering of serial killers. The whole thing is run very professionally, with strict rules about not doing any killing in the vicinity of the convention to avoid attracting notice (although the convention committee decide to stretch a point when they learn that one of the attendees is an undercover reporter). | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Discussed in the Spawn/Batman review when Linkara mocks the plot point that random low-level drug dealers are somehow doing business with agents of a foreign dictatorship: | |
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WordGirl: "Mousezilla" begins at a villain convention, where Tobey and Dr. Two-Brains compliment each other on their evil schemes. Other villains from the show's Rogues Gallery can be seen chatting amicably in the background. | |
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The ANNUAL TRANSYLVANIA CONVENTION from The Rocky Horror Picture Show might count, as the guests are all alien agents from the galaxy of Transylvania. The only one we see do anything bad is the host, Dr. Frank N. Furter, who murders out of jealousy and turns people into statues. | |
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The Derby in Batman Beyond is a high-stakes poker game played by the local crime lords, in a tradition that was old even in Bruce's time. | |
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The Punisher MAX: In order to draw Frank out of hiding, Barracuda secretly organizes a meeting of organized crime honchoes (or rather the promoted mooks after Frank's repeated hits) in a high-rise building. He even rigged three entire floors with explosives to make sure no one escaped. | |
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In Minions, villains, supervillains and petty criminals flock to Villain-Con where they can showcase their inventions and flaunt their bounty and it is where the minions go to so they could find a villain to work for. The minions learn of it from a secret television broadcast and are sent to Orlando, hitch a ride with a bank-robbing family and eventually meet with famed supervillainess Scarlet Overkill. | |
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In the Kim Possible episode "Bad Boy", there is the Annual Supervillain Tradeshow and Convention. They have henchmen seminars, doomsday demonstrations and an evil snack bar! Unlike most examples of this trope, the general public seems to be aware of this, the convention taking place at the Middleton Convention Center. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, the supervillains of Los Angeles shut down Chinatown every weekend to throw a party where they can also purchase whatever black market goods and services they need. | |
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In the Saturday Night Live sketch "World's Most Evil Invention", a convention is held for Mad Scientists to show off their most evil invention that they plan on terrorizing the world with. One such scientist — Roy (played by Dwayne Johnson) — invents Robochomo, a cheap and easy to manufacture robot designed to molest children. While the villains all agree that it is the evilest thing they have ever heard of, they are all more horrified and disgusted than impressed. | |
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Analyze This starts with a Distant Prologue involving the Real Life meeting of The Mafia mentioned below, and a new secret meeting is an important plot point and the setting of the film's climax. The comparison between the two meetings (as explicitly said by one character: on the '57 one, it was to see how the Mafia families would split the United States among them, while the new meeting is to discuss how the Mafia will survive in a world full of increasing disloyalties, Stupid Crooks amongst the "made man" ranks and Ruthless Foreign Gangsters) is also mentioned. | |
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One SpongeBob SquarePants episode features all of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's villains meeting in a hotel. It's a subversion, though — they aren't doing anything evil, it's actually a book club. | |
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The Punisher: While three different superheroes (Daredevil, Spider-Man and Wolverine) are after him, the Punisher massacres a meeting of just about every sample of American organized crime (biker gangs, triads, Russians, and Mafia) who are holding an auction of a captive Bruce Banner. Frank lures the heroes into a position where they're the first thing Bruce sees when he hulks out. | |
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Shaggy Dog Stories Episode 35: "An Apple a Day" has an evil princess attending the Notorious Villains' Ideas Extravaganza. | |
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While smaller in scale and more local, the New Day Co-Op in The Wire is a very formal gathering of major Baltimore drug dealers that meets in a rented hotel conference room and follows Roberts' Rules of Order, however not including taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy. | |
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In The Sandman (1989) #14: "The Collectors", a convention of serial killers and mass murderers congregate to share stories and conversation. Here, rogue nightmare and serial killer the Corinthian is found attending the convention, having been an inspiration to many of the serial killers attending. The various attendants go by code-names, the convention called a "Cereal Convention" as to not draw attention to themselves. The convention comes to an end when the eponymous sandman Dream is called there by one of their victims and then proceeds to destroy the Corinthian and show the conventioneers how petty and meaningless they truly are. | |
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In South Park, Butters visits a pimp convention when he accidentally becomes a pimp. | |
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One arc of Umlaut House has the main characters, half of them Mad Scientists and one of the others a secret agent, going to Evil Con 2021. | |
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The opening scene of Tomorrow Never Dies has James Bond infiltrating an Arms Fair run by terrorists. | |
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