Building a criminal empire isn’t all fun and games, you know. In Evil Genius 2, the sequel/reboot of the 2004 cult classic strategy game, running a casino and super-secret volcano lair with a doomsday device takes vision… and the ability to manage an army of minions. It’s a management sim that requires careful planning and timing; you need to build a base that runs like a well-oiled machine that can mint the resources you’ll need to conquer the globe. To succeed where every Bond villain has failed, the base needs to double as a labyrinth of wild traps like shark pits and laser walls that can keep nosy secret agents from bringing too much heat down on you. Though aspects of the game can feel like they’re at cross-purposes from time to time, Evil Genius 2’s goofy, lighthearted vision perfectly captures a cartoony retro spy vibe that lets you revel in pretending you’re the ultimate evil boss.

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Echo, the limited series focused on Kingpin’s badass deaf lieutenant Maya Lopez–who ended up shooting the big bad in the face in the Hawkeye finale–brought back Vincent D’Onofrio’s villain once again. But by the end of this story, the Kingpin might be a very different person than he was before. What that means, essentially, is that his future appearances, whether on a Disney+ series or in an MCU movie, could basically deliver a new version of this character.

For that to happen, though, Marvel will need to follow through on something it has set up, which the MCU hasn’t done much of lately. Even worse, though, is that the franchise is undergoing some kind of major retooling at the moment after a year of disappointments and the career implosion of newly exiled franchise centerpiece Jonathan Majors. In that context, Echo feels like an afterthought that Marvel dumped on Disney+ and Hulu with little fanfare just because it was a thing they’d made and so they mi…