- TheUseless0ne
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- Elder Mythic Member
I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".
Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!
Henchmen are a highly trained professionals. They not only need to know how to fight better than your average joe, but also make use of any technical equipment a job requires. Many have engineering degrees, and belong to a hench-ing union. It's actually a very lucrative career.
However, the combat training is less than fantastic when compared against what your average local martial arts dojo might teach, so the more experienced or wealthy professional villains will either hire exclusively higher trained henchmen, hire average henchemen and pay for further training themselves, or will mix a number of higher trained henchmen into their mix of henchmen.
The most intelligent professional villains, however, will completely forego henchmen, and will build their own robotic servants, who, while costing more initially for materials, are actually a money saver due to their lack of needs or pay, on top of being much more physically durable than human counterparts, and easily programmed with advanced combat tactics, marksmanship abilities, and being capable of handling tasks as mundane as sweeping or as advanced as creating intelligently designed systems themselves.